v1.8

Tomasz Drwięga authored Jul 13, 2017 and Arkadiy Paronyan committed Jul 13, 2017

* Remove confusing gas_limit in the pool.

* Change defaults

* Limit transaction queue by memory usage.

* Change defaults to something lower.

* Fix rpc test.

* Fix js issues.

* Renamed block_gas_limit

* generate proofs on newly-created state

* report only missed steps after first block

* dont report skipped if not signer

* test

* finality tracing and passing valid header to `commit_block`

* avoid proposing multiple times on the same step when validator set changes

* limit benign reports

* Ordering -> AtomicOrdering

* reinstate warning now that spam is reduced

* flush pending transition changes when necessary

* ensure epochs aren't re-zoomed on every block

* split out types into separate crate

* split out evm into its own crate

* Fix status icon when zooming out.

* Fix health errors.

* Clarify function name

Function checks if sealing is currently underway, not to be confused
with checking whether the engine performs internal sealing.

* Error when work called on internal sealing engine

* Error submitting work for internal sealing engine

* Fix inverted bool and style grumbles

* Add can_produce_work_package to TestMinerService

* Error when setting engine signer on PoW chain

* Unit tests for engine signing

Setting engine signer should fail if chain does not seal internally
or client lacks account provider.

* Tweak TestMinerService

* Fix minor style grumbles

Add missing CSP for web3.site

Remove cargo install --git from README.md

* Health endpoint.

* Asynchronous health endpoint.

* Configure time api URL via CLI.

* Tests for TimeChecker.

* Health indication on Status page.

* Adding status indication to tab titles.

* Add status to ParityBar.

* Fixing lints.

* Add health status on SyncWarning.

* Fix health URL for embed.

* Nicer messages.

* Fix tests.

* Fixing JS tests.

* NTP time sync (#5956)

* use NTP to check time drift

* update time module documentation

* replace time_api flag with ntp_server

* fix TimeChecker tests

* fix ntp-server flag usage

* hide status tooltip if there's no message to show

* remove TimeProvider trait

* use Cell in FakeNtp test trait

* share fetch client and ntp client cpu pool

* Add documentation to public method.

* Removing peer count from status.

* Remove unknown upgrade status.

* Send two time requests at the time.

* Revert "Send two time requests at the time."

This reverts commit f7b754b1155076a5a5d8fdafa022801fae324452.

* Defer reporting time synchronization issues.

* Fix tests.

* Fix linting.

* RPC cpu pool.

* introduce optional thread pool when processing RPC requests.

* Bump jsonrpc.

* Removing boxes.

* Fix CLI tests.

* Add test for loading the json chain specs

* Remove test on Ethereum specs as it already exists

* Whitelisting generic pub-sub APIs.

* Clone enums instead of allocating a vec.

* lifetime issues

* refactor to new 'native env'

* descriptors and such

* wasm mvp continued

* finalized env/ext bindings

* descriptor -> call_args

* inject gas counter

* result processing and engine activation

* tabify some source files

* needs return new

* wasm tests initial

* erradicate warnings

* origin in the descriptor

* update test repo

* payload verification tests

* identity return payload test

* some test description

* dispersion test

* check length here

* suicidal contract

* engine params

* fix typo

* review fixes

* submodule update

* update - purge reserved space

* doc effort

* more review fixes

* fix error message

* fix dependency url

* reorg error handling

* update submodule

* update utils

* update to latest parity-wasm

* tabify

* fix wasm magic header

* update dependencies

* external create and tests

* update to latest tests

* extra trace info

* Update parity-wasm

* update wasm-utils also

* few traces and result handle change

* alter trace content

* fix issues with optimizer, update to latest parity with validator, etc

* static initialization

* license preamble

* update wasm crates and gas costs

* fix grumbles

* bring back lifetime

* fix compilation