Here is a link to the Agora post explaining the changes in more detail.
Additional Features:
- Payouts to Kt1 accounts with default entry points.
Important debugging advice:- Payouts will fail if the needed fees are too high
- The value is currently hard coded as a safety switch in order to protect bakers from being drained by too complex contracts
- The fee will be configurable in v9.0
- Investigate failed transactions with the baking bad explorer
- Check if the contract has a default entry point
- Individual fees for Dexter LPs
- Payout Ideal Rewards
- Admin messages in plugin system
Changes:
- Major: Removal of the (ocaml) tezos-client binary as a dependency
- Breaking: Aliases in the configuration are not supported anymore due to the removal of the tezos-client
- Breaking: Use the tezos-signer in http mode ./tezos-signer launch http signer
- Unit testing has been increased
- Improved logging
- Exception handling and robustness has been increased
- Ask user for permission to install dependencies
- Fixed bug leading to multiple transactions which should have been batched using redirect
- Fixed several bugs (see PR list)