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Sia v1.4.4 Release

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Key Updates

  • Add a delay when modifying large contracts on hosts to prevent hosts from becoming unresponsive due to massive disk i/o.
  • Add --root parameter to siac renter delete that allows passing absolute instead of relative file paths.
  • Add ability to blacklist skylinks by merkleroot.
  • Uploading resumes more quickly after restart.
  • Add HEAD request for skylink
  • Add ability to pack many files into the same or adjacent sectors while producing unique skylinks for each file.
  • Fix default expected upload/download values displaying 0 when setting an initial allowance.
  • siac skynet upload now supports uploading directories. All files are uploaded individually and result in separate skylinks.
  • No user-agent needed for Skylink downloads.
  • Add go get command to make dependencies.
  • Add flags faor tag and targz for skyfile streaming.
  • Add new endpoint /skynet/stats that provides statistical information about skynet, how many files were uploaded and the combined size of said files.
  • The siac renter setallowance UX is considerably improved.
  • Add XChaCha20 CipherKey.
  • Add Skykey Manager.
  • Add siac skynet unpin subcommand.
  • Extend siac renter -v to show breakdown of file health.
  • Add Skynet-Disable-Force header to allow disabling the force update feature on Skynet uploads
  • Add bandwidth usage to siac gateway

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed bug in startup where an error being returned by the renter’s blocking startup process was being missed
  • Fix repair bug where unused hosts were not being properly updated for a siafile
  • Fix threadgroup violation in the watchdog that allowed writing to the log file after a shutdown
  • Fix bug where siac renter -v wasn’t working due to the wrong flag being used.
  • Fixed bug in siafile snapshot code where the hostKey() method was not used to safely acquire the host pubkey.
  • Fixed siac skynet ls not working when files were passed as input. It is now able to access specific files in the Skynet folder.
  • Fixed a deadlock when performing a Skynet download with no workers
  • Fix a parsing bug for malformed skylinks
  • fix siac update for new release verification
  • Fix parameter delimiter for skylinks
  • Fixed race condition in host’s RPCLoopLock
  • Fixed a bug which caused a call to build.Critical in the case that a contract in the renew set was marked !GoodForRenew while the contractor lock was not held

Other

  • Split out renter siatests into 2 groups for faster pipelines.
  • Add README to the siatest package
  • Bump golangci-lint version to v1.23.8
  • Add timeout parameter to Skylink route – Add go get command to make dependencies.
  • Update repair loop to use uniqueRefreshPaths to reduce unnecessary bubble calls
  • Add Skynet-Disable-Force header to allow disabling the force update feature on Skynet uploads
  • Create generator for Changelog to improve changelog update process