livepeer/go-livepeer v0.5.8

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Summary

This release includes support for voting in governance polls. All orchestrators should upgrade to this version as soon as possible so they can use livepeer_cli to vote in the LIP-19 poll.

This release also includes a few minor new features and bug fixes - please refer to the "Features" and "Bug Fixes" sections for more details.

Thanks to everyone that submitted bug reports and assisted in testing!

Features

Broadcaster

• Propagate the last error when the max number of transcode attempts is hit (#1475)
  • If the max number of transcode attempts is consistently hit, there is likely a problem with the segment

Orchestrator

• Added support for voting in governance polls in livepeer_cli (#1461)
  • Check out the docs for more details on how to vote in polls

Bug Fixes

General

• Embed mime types for some video formats because the mime types are not always loaded from the host machine (#1465)

Orchestrator

• Fixed the GPU transcoding test on start up for Windows builds (#1471)
  • A Windows based orchestrator and/or transcoder does not need to be run with the -testTranscoder=false flag anymore

Full list of changes

Verifying Release

md5 hashes for release binaries:

• livepeer (Linux): d7cc8df1549888562f89150c7a205efc
• livepeer_cli (Linux): c7bea07ac4036a212add9ca4e1bb8daa
• livepeer (Darwin): e641b8067b31ca0907a0812a36197308
• livepeer_cli (Darwin): 2a5089a27a31ab57f5240210df012c30
• livepeer.exe (Windows): 7d03a677d8c37d0385ad8c4de54d28eb
• livepeer_cli.exe (Windows): b0d96268c4ace1d76684ec3710de93a8

Generate the md5 hash:

md5sum livepeer
md5sum livepeer_cli

sha256 hashes for release binaries:

• livepeer (Linux): 15faebb5703dd31d2b6353427190db30560b373410ebda2bf5a8aac376a72356
• livepeer_cli (Linux): 4d851104435811d1ded329035db55c42bb089875940024378a92302ce21dd9ff
• livepeer (Darwin): 1dcca18eb3f5e7481f345ffa91ec5a2c023254d9ad6c6139a8fbb1b639a951fd
• livepeer_cli (Darwin): 94738bdf8c4f716747127fa6ea08265480ad07f9f19e6b3c766c973694715cff
• livepeer.exe (Windows): 98001a865f0d95e76596dbe033b70e68882e4ac28686ac0057fd470c54480370
• livepeer_cli.exe (Windows): 0a57d96d65e68ea7675de46e9fb6d8f79bd0801283eb6bebaed1a287bf204b24

Generate the sha256 hash:

shasum -a 256 livepeer
shasum -a 256 livepeer_cli