livepeer/go-livepeer v0.5.15

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Summary

This release includes an important fix for a bug that could cause transcoding to become stuck for certain corrupt or unsupported source segments. As a result of this bug, some operators saw a high number of sessions in metrics reporting on their orchestrators or transcoders despite receiving a low amount of streams in practice. We strongly recommend that all orchestrator and transcoder operators upgrade to this version as soon as possible to access this bug fix.

Thanks everyone that submitted bug reports and assisted in testing!

Upcoming Changes

• The following flags are pending deprecation and will be removed in the next release:
  • -gasPrice
  • -s3bucket
  • -s3creds
  • -gsbucket
  • -gskey

Features ⚒

General

• #1759 Log non-nil error when webserver stops (@AlexMapley)
• #1773 Fix Windows build by downloading pre-configured nasm (@iameli)
• #1779 Fix "Build from Source" link in the README (@chrishobcroft)
• #1778 Add live mode to livepeer_bench and expose additional metrics (@jailuthra)
• #1785 Update the Windows build to be fully static and to use go1.15 (@iameli)
• #1727 Add a -maxGasPrice flag to set the maximum gas price to use for transactions (@kyriediculous)
• #1790 Add changelog process (@yondonfu)
• #1791 Switch to Github actions for Linux build and test (@yondonfu)

Broadcaster

• #1754 Count bytes of video data received/sent per stream and expose via the /status endpoint (@darkdragon)
• #1764 Mark all input errors in LPMS as non-retryable during transcoding (@jailuthra)

Orchestrator

• #1731 Add support for webhook to authenticate and set prices for broadcasters at the start of a session (@kyriediculous)
• #1761 Add a livepeer_router binary that can route broadcasters to different orchestrators (@yondonfu)

Bug Fixes 🐞

General

• #1729 Make sure the block watcher service can process multiple blocks in a single polling interval (@kyriediculous)
• #1795 Fix Darwin build by changing optimization flag used for gnutls dependency (@iameli)

Broadcaster

• #1766 Flush JSON playlist during recording after it is modified (@jailuthra)
• #1770 Fix parallel reading from object storage (@darkdragon)

Transcoder

• #1775 Fix transcoder load balancer race condition around session cleanup (@jailuthra)
• #1784 Use auth token sessionID to index into sessions map in transcoder load balancer (@jailuthra)

Full list of changes

Verifying Release

sha256 hashes for release archives:

• livepeer-darwin-amd64.tar.gz: 633e427d61a7f44d7c7613dc82843cdfdde2ff4f57285590e7245785e93f56b0
• livepeer-linux-amd64.tar.gz: 1c34bc5424cf9c7f5cf546068e9f79c76a8406262a7dc4898dd18aae5d471db3
• livepeer-windows-amd64.zip: e82ab83b238937129a6b70252d63aff720c4dabd8110d0d72632a0d012c2c7d5

Generate the sha256 hash:

shasum -a 256 livepeer-<PLATFORM>-amd64.<EXTENSION>