Brass Golem Alpha2 0.12.0

Core

Verification:

• Advance local verification for Blender task implemented
• Compositing turned off by default for images that are split into parts
• Verification queue added

Protocol:

• Anti-sybil mechanism based on required key difficulty introduced
• Requester now sends minimum from task deadline and subtask deadline as expected deadline
• Provider checks that parameters in CompTaskDef are same as declared in TaskHeader.

Monitoring:

• Optional collecting and sending requestor stats to golem monitor. This feature can be turned off by adding --nomonitor flag to golem core.
• Proper balances shown in monitor

Payments:

• GNTConverter for automatic conversion from GNT to GNTW
• Information about last successful update of GNT passed to UI
• Support for geth 1.8.x
• No more double GNT requested

Resources:

• Check size of resources that are downloaded via HyperG
• Timeouts for downloading resources are now proportional to resource size
• Attach hash to resources that are sent via network
• Files resources are now ziped to one file and package hash is saved in task state for further references
• Hyperg file cleanup fixed

Network:

• Explicit checking for existing UPnP port mapping

Concent:

• Support for SubtaskResultRejected message
• Pinging and receiving messages from concent
• Support for ForceReportComputedTask method
• Improvements in MessageHistoryService

Other:

• Removed support for Python 3.5
• Tools for database migration introduced
• Fixed problems with unclean golem turning off
• Set default datadir earlier in the flow
• Show more information about providers banned from task
• Generation of keys moved to separate thread

Electron

• Electron security update
• Task settings form issues are fixed; new rules applied, verification corrected
• Misleading currency names are fixed with “t” prefix
• Default parameters from the given file are suggested
• Stale balance information
• Informative local render errors
• App size increased vertically
• UX improvements