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Release History

Unreleased (see master)

  • Add a get_transaction() function to network services that returns an instance of a new Transaction class which contains some common details of the transaction.
  • Allow raw byte string to be used as transaction OP_RETURN message: automatic detection assumes a byte-like object when message does not have an encode() function. Increase message size to 220 bytes.
  • NetworkAPI.get_tx_amount() is now working and properly handles backends returning string or decimal values.

0.5.2 (2018-05-16)

  • bccblock.info is offline, replace with cashexplorer.bitcoin.com. Hard fork happened yesterday. Not sure if bccblock.info was even ready for that.

0.5.1 (2018-03-11)

  • Fix fee calculation with combined=False.
  • Also lower fees since we can. Couple little tweaks.
  • Delete a .orig file I had added before by mistake.

0.5.0 (2018-02-03)

  • Breaking change! Add cashaddr support, return .address as cashaddr. That hopefully is all that breaks.

0.4.3 (2017-12-20)

  • Switch from Bitpay to BCCBlock.info. Bitpay API is unusable with their address format, unless we switch over. Not interested in doing that in the near future so I found another block explorer.

0.4.2 (2017-12-20)

  • Raise exception when using pay2sh addresses.

0.4.1 (2017-11-01)

  • Removed blockr.io network backend as Coinbase has shut it down.

0.4.0 (2017-04-19)

  • Changed elliptic curve backend from OpenSSL to libsecp256k1. This results in an order of magnitude faster key creation and signing/verifying.
  • Improved performance of base58 encoding/decoding.
  • Breaking: Dropped support for Python 3.3 & 3.4.
  • Breaking: verify_sig() now returns False for invalid signatures instead of raising an exception. Also, strict is no longer a parameter as BIP-62 compliance is now required.

0.3.1 (2017-03-21)

  • Fixed cold storage workflow.
  • Improved performance of private key instantiation.

0.3.0 (2017-03-20)

  • Implemented a way to use private keys in cold storage.
  • Changed the default timeout of services from 5 to 10 seconds.
  • Fixed network service redundancy by failing if response code is not 200.

0.2.0 (2017-03-17)

  • Improved stability of network tests.
  • Added verify_sig().
  • Refactored crypto to yield over an order of magnitude faster hashing.

0.1.0 (2017-03-15)

  • Initial release.