0.6.1: Merge pull request #66 from rihardsgravis/gui-update

A patch of 0.6 with multiple bug fixes

• #66 various GUI fixes (thanks to @rihardsgravis)
• #67 fix memory issue
• #15 enable neighbor alias
• #40 opt-in certificate support
• #61 install IXIs which were added manually
• #45 don't uninstall IXIs on update if new version not available
• #69 fix bug when uninstalling multiple modules
• #70 fix more neighbors written to ict.cfg than allowed
• fix tons of log4j2 warnings on windows
• write logs to files
• more debug info when started with --debug
• timeout login attempts dynamically based on recent fails
• add module response mechanism to API & GUI for text based module interaction

0.6

• implement EEE (Environment Entity Effect) infrastructure to enable inter-ixi communication
• translate gossip listeners and gossip preprocessors to EEE to simplify IXI
• let modules offer their functionality through API (/getModuleResponse)
• allow module developers to add modules to Ict from loaded classes instead of having to load from a separate .jar file -> simplifies module development and testing
• increase efficiency by checking incoming bytes against known transactions to avoid decoding the same transaction multiple times (#51)
• hash gui_password before storing it in ict.cfg (#59)
• fix #53 (adding the same neighbor multiple times to ict.cfg)
• 5s timeout after submitting wrong password to GUI to prevent brute-force attacks

Note: Due to the new password mechanism, replace the old plain text password in your ict.cfg with LSKIEUUZDIRWLLTDLXEFWYSUSKKDIVDVKYUKFOCUVKLUCFTEGUBTTTYJKXFRFTPZNHLAPFMPJMNNTLRVU, this will reset it to change_me_now

0.5.1

minor bug fixes:

• #24 typo
• #25 gui stores config in wrong file
• #31 neighbor history is getting too large
• #33 vague error message on module installation
• #42 module not started after update

merges:

• #37 api documentation
• #39 versions file
• #41 typo

0.5

• Complete rework of the web GUI. Huge thanks for all the hard work by Andrew Brough (design) and Rihards Gravis (implementation). Check it out, it's freaking awesome! <3
• Massive memory reduction. With 0.4 many people had problems with tangle_capacity=10000. Running 0.5, my raspberry pi 3b+ can handle 100,000 transactions!
• Reliability and stability improvements. A few people have already complained about how boring it is to watch their 0.5-SNAPSHOT nodes run for days without crashing.
• Make IXI modules configurable from the web GUI. Really, who wants to manually modify files nowadays?
• The rest API and web GUI now include the Ict log and historical neighbor stats.
• Debug stats for the techies: memory consumption, tangle size, gossip event queue. Just set your log level to DEBUG by starting Ict with --debug.

0.4

• new IXI mechanism (class loading --> increased performance and convenience)
• first iteration of the Web GUI Control Panel
  • neighbor maintainence
  • convenient Ict configuration
  • intuitive ixi installation
• increased performance for less stress on the CPU
• new command line arguments when starting the .jar for different log levels
• implemented minor proof-of-work as temporary spam protection measure
• reduced log of invalid transactions to go easy on raspberry pis
• check for updates on start
• various bug fixes

0.3

• implement ring tangle with transaction pruning (configurable)
• add basic spam protection (configurable)
• enforce correct transaction timestamping
• add findTransactionsByAddress() and findTransactionsByTag() to IXI
• IXI modules now connect to Ict instead of the other way around
• various bug fixes

0.2.3

fix: event called multiple times for same transaction

0.2.2

minor fixes:

• fix: neighbor host resolving not working
• fix: receiver crashes
• do not print stack trace if connection to ixi module fails
• config: change default host to 0.0.0.0

0.2.1

fix issues identified by community:

• implement dynamic host resolving
• remove hard-coded neighbor on localhost:1338
• add spam option to properties

0.2

Still an early release. Reason for release: minor changes to IXI.

• integrate log4j2 for logging
• reduce bytes per transaction by 33% through compression
• implement transaction bundles
• implement value transfers (no signature verification yet)
• add GossipFilter to IXI
• write docs/CONTRIBUTE.md
• generate docs/CLASSES.md