CasperLabs/CasperLabs v0.17.1

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Release 0.17.1

The release contains a patch that includes following features to stabilize the network:

1. Adds some configuration options to size the main thread pool:
   

• CL_SERVER_PARALLELISM_CPU_MULTIPLIER, default 1.0

• CL_SERVER_MIN_PARALLELISM, default 4

1. Changes Relaying and DownloadManager to shift calls to peers to the egress scheduler, to make sure they don't block the main thread pool.

2. Relays a block before attempting to finalize it. Before this patch, finalization was attempted before relaying.

3. Adds CL_EXPLORER_BACKEND_HOST to hack/docker so we can point it grpcwebproxy at a remote IP instead of node-0.

4. Skips trying to update the deploy buffer if the processed message is not a block.

5. Extends the /status endpoint with a checklist which has some yes/no flags about conditions we can check any time for anomalies. This should be a quick way for a validator to ascertain whether their node is healthy.

   $ curl -s http://localhost:40403/status | jq

   Validators can also query other nodes if they now the IP address by replacing localhost with ipaddress.