Update changelog for release

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Aaron
2017-07-21 13:43:54 -04:00
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@@ -8,16 +8,9 @@ This marks the beginning of a per-sprint release cycle. Release notes will be
shorter between releases, since new releases will be scheduled every two to
three weeks.
Release Highlights (Anticipated)
Release Highlights
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* **Multi-player Storage**. This release includes an improved release of Gaia,
which now allows multi-user applications to share state. Gaia was limited to
single-user applications in the previous release. With Gaia, one user can store
data to their storage providers, and other users can read it. This further
removes the need for developer-hosted data, and opens Blockstack up to a lot
more conventional types of applications.
* **Gaia Performance Improvements.** The read and write paths of Gaia have been
refactored to run many I/O operations in parallel. This leads to faster data
interaction times, even for indexed storage systems like Dropbox.
@@ -29,12 +22,6 @@ the blockstack transactions _preorder_, _register_, and _update_, with only 4,
of the safety checks, because our resolvers will not have processed the name
before the _update_ is issued.
* **Initial subdomain support.** This release allows users to register
subdomains of existing blockchain IDs, such that _subdomains are independently
owned_. A user Bob can register `bob.alice.id`, where `alice.id` is owned by
Alice. Queries on `bob.alice.id` resolve to Bob's signed profile and data, and
Alice cannot change Bob's public key.
* **Better Packaging for Test Mode.** This release makes it easier to get
started testing Blockstack Core and Blockstack Browser alongside a Bitcoin
node in `regtest` mode. Developers can register names and interact with storage
@@ -42,6 +29,13 @@ without having to spend Bitcoin or wait hours for names to be registered.
Selected Bugfixes and Fixes
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More information on bugfixes can be found in GitHub issues (#454-#488 span this release).
* Improved performance of price checks
* Added zero confirmation balance checks
* In regtest, core will rewrite testnet adddresses so that browser does not need to "understand" testnet addresses
* Fixed bad behavior of setting temporary wallet keys
* Support for logging in without blockchain ID
* Issue #469 : Blockstack Core used to die in error cases when it should be
able to fail more gracefully. This release fixes several such cases.