v1.13.0

AEA:

• Add test to check package hash on signing protocol constant
• Adds support for CID v1 IPFS hashes

Plugins:

• Updates the IPFSDaemon to perform ipfs installation check only when initialised locally.

Packages:

• Upgrades certificate request dates on connection components
• Adds extra logging on internode communication

Docs:

• Adds a FAQ section

Release v1.12.0

AEA:

• Updated the default IPFS node multiaddr to the production one
• Fixes CSV io issues on windows
• Makes publish command patchable for open-autonomy

Plugins:

• Introduces the raise_on_retry parameter to the ledgers.

Docs:

• Updates the default font family
• Updates documentation to use IPFS hashes to work with the components

Chore:

• Fixes resolution issues for packaging dependency
• Introduces script to check IPFS hash consistency in the documentation

Release v1.11.0

AEA:

• Makes aea publish, aea fetch, aea push-all commands patchable to support service packages on open-autonomy

Plugins:

• Adds Proof Of Authority chain support on ethereum plugin
• Adds gas pricing mechanism for Polygon chain on ethereum plugin

Docs:

• Updates docs to use IPFS hashes to work with the packages
• Updates images are in .SVG

Chores:

• Updates the release guide
• Updates Dockerfiles to use Python 3.10
• Adds skaffold config to build and tag images

Release v1.10.0

AEA:

• Makes config loader patchable
• Adds support for Python 3.10 and removes support for Python 3.6
• Enables fingerprinting for files in Agent components
• Adds support for specifying vendors when generating hashes
• Enables the usage of environment variables on aea config command

Plugins:

• Introduces benchmark CLI plugin

Docs:

• Add docs for benchmark CLI plugin

Chore:

• Pins correct versions on CI workflow
• Bumps pywin32 version to 304
• Bumps black and click to stable versions
• Separates tox environments for python{3.7, 3.8, 3.9} and Python3.10

Release v1.9.0

AEA:

• Introduces check-packages command to check package integrity
• Introduces a new component type service
• Makes dialogues accessible via their respective handlers
• Fixes default remote registry setting bug
• Introduces push-all command to publish all available packages to a specific registry
• Updates aea hash all command to extend public ids when hashing

Docs:

• Adds docs on IPFS registry usage

Chores:

• Updates check_package_versions_in_docs.py to use new PublicId format

Release v1.8.0

AEA:

• Extends the run command to print all available addresses at the AEA start up.
• Introduces support for usage of hashes as a part of the PublicId
• Adds support for IPFS based registry
• Introduces dialogue cleanup
• Adds support for removing the temporal None values in the dialogue label
• Updated the profiler to
  • Removing the unwanted variables in profiling
  • Set counters also in the destructor
  • Only iterate the gc one
  • Use types blacklist
  • Get info from all objects
• Adds support for memray in the profiler
• Ports the generate_all_protocols.py and generate_ipfs_hashes.py to aea.cli as a command line tools.
• Adds support for the usage of environment variables in issue-certificates command.

Pluging:

• Updates IPFS cli plugin tool to support remote registry and extended PublicId

Packages:

• Updated tendermint protocol for config sharing

Chores:

• Adds support for IPFS in CI for windows based environments
• Profile parser checks for non empty data before plotting
• The paths to download the packages folder with svn are now pointing to the version tag rather than main.
• Adds the missing search plugin for mkdocs.
• Adds new functionality to the log parser to add an extra plot with common objects in the garbage collector.

Release v1.7.0

AEA:

• List all available packages at the AEA start up.
• Updates profiler module to use tracemalloc.
• Fixes dialogue cleanup.

Plugins:

• Fixes repricing bug on ethereum plugin.
• Adds support for lazy imports on cosmos plugin.

Packages:

• Adds protocol package for tendermint.

Docs:

• Adds docs for newly introduced ACN modules and packages.

Release v1.6.0

AEA:

• Adds support for packages hashing with IPFSHashOnly from aea.helpers.ipfs.base
• Updates the aea run command to print hash table for available packages in an agent project

Plugins:

• Makes error raising optional when sending transactions and adds error logging for the same

Docs:

• Adds documentation for the newly introduced profiling script
• Removes reference to docs.fetch.ai

Chores:

• Adds a script to analyze and visualize profiling data from agent runs
• Updates authors list

Release v1.5.0

AEA:

• Adds in null equivalents so that environment variables can default to a none value
• Adds support for remote IPFS registry usage in CLI tool
• Adds support to show IPFS hashes of each component yaml at start of aea run

Plugins:

• Adds support for remote IPFS registry usage in IPFS plugin
• Fixes gas price repricing strategy in ethereum ledger plugin

Packages:

• Ports acn packages from fetchai repo
• Bumps protobuf compiler version and updates protocols

Docs:

• Adds demo of http connections and skills
• Adds demo of environment variable usage
• Adds miscellaneous updates to documentation based on developer feedback

Chores:

• Updates copyright script to support all patterns
• Simplifies Dockerfiles and removes unneeded dependencies

Release v1.4.0

AEA:

• Exposes agent data directory on skill context.
• Adds support for environment variables loading from aea-config files.
• Extends contract base class to support new plugin functionality.

Plugins:

• Adds support for transaction preparation and log retrieval into the ethereum plugin.
• Adds support for retrieving the revert reason when transaction is not verified in ethereum plugin.

Docs:

• Simplifies documentation further and updates with latest features