Release Notes (November 1-7, 2024)

🚀 New Features

Fungible Token Program (#395)

• Implemented complete fungible token standard
• Features include:
  • Token initialization and minting
  • Transfer functionality
  • Burn capability
  • Balance management
  • Price calculation mechanisms
• Comprehensive test suite for mint and transfer operations

RPC Enhancements

• Added get_peers endpoint for network monitoring (#390)
  • Returns JSON-serialized view of current network peers
  • Includes PeerID, connection state, and heartbeat timestamps
• Added get_current_state endpoint (#411)
  • Tracks validator state transitions
  • Provides timestamp of last state change

🏗️ Architecture Improvements

Network Refactoring (#410)

• Moved network operations to dedicated thread
• Implemented new event architecture
• Enhanced network swarm stability
• Optimized mutex usage in validator context
• Improved debug logging

SDK Restructuring (#389)

• Refactored common code from examples into SDK
• Consolidated helper functions and constants
• Removed deprecated liquiditypool example
• Improved build system configuration

🔧 Infrastructure Updates

• Enhanced installation script (#417)
  • Now automatically fetches latest release
  • Improved update process
• Added comprehensive release notes workflows (#407, #408, #409)
  • Automated release note generation
  • Improved JSON structure for API calls

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed typo in invoke context (#415)
• Resolved issue with test private key files in git (#371)
• Various stability improvements in network handling

📊 Statistics

• Total commits: 11
• Files changed: 209
• Contributors:
  • 0xfen
  • 0xfinetuned
  • Brian Hoffman
  • Deepanshu Hooda
  • Marouane

👥 Contributors

Special thanks to all contributors for this release, with major contributions in:

• Token standard implementation (Marouane)
• RPC enhancements (0xfen)
• Network architecture (0xfinetuned)
• Infrastructure improvements (Brian Hoffman)

For detailed information about each change, please refer to the linked pull request numbers.