v1.0.31

1.0.31: May 26th 2020

Announcements

• This version of the extension is a republish of our v1.0.30 release which didn't publish to the marketplace correctly.

• We’re still waiting for the gRPC v1.25.0 binaries to be published so you may be affected by this issue, where gRPC fails to rebuild when using VS Code >1.40.x.

Please see this comment for a workaround.

Features & Enhancements

• Updated gateway & wallet grouping - part of #2023.

Fixes

• Updated OpenSSL ‘info’ on PreReq view with required install locations #2298.

• Only show right-click ‘Start’ option on local environments #2285.

• Updated ‘Open Tutorial’ buttons #2275.

• Fixed webview on Windows #2233.

v1.0.30

1.0.30: May 22nd 2020

Announcements

• This version of the extension is a republish of our v1.0.29 release which didn't publish to the marketplace correctly.

• We’re still waiting for the gRPC v1.25.0 binaries to be published so you may be affected by this issue, where gRPC fails to rebuild when using VS Code >1.40.x.

 Please see this comment for a workaround. 

Features & Enhancements

• Updated gateway & wallet grouping - part of #2023.

Fixes

• Updated OpenSSL ‘info’ on PreReq view with required install locations #2298.

• Only show right-click ‘Start’ option on local environments #2285.

• Updated ‘Open Tutorial’ buttons #2275.

• Fixed webview on Windows #2233.

v1.0.29

1.0.29: May 21st 2020

Announcements

• We’re still waiting for the gRPC v1.25.0 binaries to be published so you may be affected by this issue, where gRPC fails to rebuild when using VS Code >1.40.x.

 Please see this comment for a workaround. 

Features & Enhancements

• Updated gateway & wallet grouping - part of #2023.

Fixes

• Updated OpenSSL ‘info’ on PreReq view with required install locations #2298.

• Only show right-click ‘Start’ option on local environments #2285.

• Updated ‘Open Tutorial’ buttons #2275.

v1.0.28

1.0.28: May 7th 2020

Announcements

• We’re still waiting for the gRPC v1.25.0 binaries to be published so you may be affected by this issue, where gRPC fails to rebuild when using VS Code >1.40.x.

 Please see this comment for a workaround. 

Features & Enhancements

• Add an environment by connecting to IBM Blockchain Platform Console for IBM Cloud #1333.

When adding an environment, selecting ‘Add an IBM Blockchain Platform network’ will now let you discover nodes from your IBM Blockchain Platform Console for IBM Cloud instance.

• New developer tutorials and updated tutorial view #1197.

There are 10 new tutorials (written by the team who run IBM’s developer labs and create official blockchain certifications) that will take you through core concepts, preparing you to take the IBM Blockchain Essentials and IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer courses and hopefully earn the badges!

These tutorials cover topics such as:

• Introduction to Blockchain
• Creating a smart contract
• Deploying a smart contract
• Invoking a smart contract from VS Code
• Invoking a smart contract from an external application
• Upgrading a smart contract
• Debugging a smart contract
• Testing a smart contract
• Publishing an event
• Recap and additional resources

Fixes

• Fixed ‘Webview is disposed’ when attempting to open a closed webview in VS Code 1.44.x #2234.

• Updated code-server support and instructions #2236.

v1.0.27

1.0.27: April 23rd 2020

Announcements

• We’re still waiting for the gRPC v1.25.0 binaries to be published so you may be affected by this issue, where gRPC fails to rebuild when using VS Code 1.40.x.

 Please see this comment for a workaround. 

Features & Enhancements

• Group gateways and wallets into folders based on the environment they're related to #1865.

Fixes

• Fixed JDK popup appearing on Mac when checking prerequisites #1657.

• Fixed "Cannot read property 'major' of null" error on activation #2200.

• Fixed TypeScript contract packaging failing on VS Code 1.44.x #2193.

v1.0.26

1.0.26: April 7th 2020

Announcements

• We’re still waiting for the gRPC v1.25.0 binaries to be published so you may be affected by this issue, where gRPC fails to rebuild when using VS Code 1.40.x.

  Please see this comment for a workaround.

Fixes

• Fixed exported wallets containing unexpected additional content #2065.

• Reverted "Periodically refresh environment, gateway and wallet panels" #2159.

v1.0.25

1.0.25: April 2nd 2020

Announcements

• We’re still waiting for the gRPC v1.25.0 binaries to be published so you may be affected by this issue, where gRPC fails to rebuild when using VS Code 1.40.x.

  Please see this comment for a workaround.

Features & Enhancements

• Added Status Page #2029, #1975

  We’ve now added a status page https://ibm-blockchain.github.io/blockchain-vscode-extension which shows any known issues with the extension, as well as listing fixes and features for future releases!

• Subscribe to emitted smart contract events #2029.

  Call Subscribe to Events from the command palette, or right-click on a smart contract in the Fabric Gateways to subscribe to events emitted from your smart contract.

• Support adding IBM Blockchain Platform 2.1.3 environments #2073, #2078.

• Periodically refresh environment, gateway and wallet panels #1879.

Fixes

• Stop showing teardown message on generator update when there are no local environments #2069.

• Only show relevant right-click actions and command options on stopped/started local environments #1500.

• Updated Node & npm prerequisite download location #2101.

v1.0.24

1.0.24: March 19th 2020

Announcements

• We’re still waiting for the gRPC v1.25.0 binaries to be published so you may be affected by this issue, where gRPC fails to rebuild when using VS Code 1.40.x.

  Please see this comment for a workaround.

Features & Enhancements

• View files included in package #1960.

  Right-click on your package in the Smart Contracts panel and select View Package Information to see the files included in your package. The files will be logged out in the Output.

• Updated Home page design #1982.

• Add an IBM Blockchain Platform network using a username & password (in addition to API Key and Secret) #1979.

• Updated to use Fabric SDK 1.4.8 packages - this also fixes rebuild on VS Code 1.43.0 #2059

• Allow debugging of 2-organisation local environments #1995

  When you start the debugger it will ask you to select an organisation (and gateway) to debug for. To select another organisation, you must stop the debugger and start it again.

• Added "Create and use custom Fabric network" tutorial #1749

  This tutorial is accessible from the Tutorial Gallery and explains how to write and run Ansible playbooks, as well as import the network into the extension.

Fixes

• Remove trailing path from URL when adding an IBM Blockchain Platform network #1980.

• Force teardown local environments when generator has major version change #1880.

v1.0.23

1.0.23: March 10th 2020

Announcements

• This version was released to fix a bug found in v1.0.21.

• We’re still waiting for the gRPC v1.25.0 binaries to be published so you may be affected by this issue, where gRPC fails to rebuild when using VS Code >v1.4

  Please see this comment for a workaround.

• As part of our new feature for creating new 1-Organisation or 2-Organisation local Fabric environments locally, we have renamed the 'Local Fabric' environment to '1 Org Local Fabric'.

• If you have generated any functional tests for the old 'Local Fabric', you will need to change any paths to use the '1 Org Local Fabric' environment now.

Fixes

• Fixed environments failing to load when generator version updates #2048.

v1.0.22

1.0.22: March 10th 2020

Announcements

• This version was released to fix a bug found in v1.0.21.

• We’re still waiting for the gRPC v1.25.0 binaries to be published so you may be affected by this issue, where gRPC fails to rebuild when using VS Code >v1.4

  Please see this comment for a workaround.

• As part of our new feature for creating new 1-Organisation or 2-Organisation local Fabric environments locally, we have renamed the 'Local Fabric' environment to '1 Org Local Fabric'.

• If you have generated any functional tests for the old 'Local Fabric', you will need to change any paths to use the '1 Org Local Fabric' environment now.

Fixes

• Fixed "Failed to activate extension: TypeError: 'isExtensible' on proxy: trap result does not reflect extensibility of proxy target (which is 'true')." error #2040.