8.0.0-beta.1

Important changes

• Iris compatibility (compatible with nodes >= 5.2.0 < 7.0.0)
• initial TypeScript support (not enough type definitions yet)
• documentation is generated using MkDocs on Travis

BREAKING CHANGES

• Drop old aepp-wallet RPC interface (254f5a93)
• refactor: don't retrieve account from process.env (59e5c9b5)
• refactor(crypto): don't reexport RLP methods (c6004bc7)
• refactoring: remove legacy contractDecodeDataAPI compiler method (dfadac8d)
• refactor: rename forceCompatibility to more clear ignoreVersion (72f1d326)
• refactoring: require compiler above or equal to 4.1.0 (c9f48f91)
• RpcClient: Drop unnecessary action stuff (84545fd7)
• Combine RpcWallet and RpcClients (12892002)
• Drop old names support, split ensureNameValid and isNameValid (315a78a9)
• refactor(contract-aci): export single function instead of stamp (091b3282)
• Combine Accounts and Selector into AccountMultiple (0cacd3b3)
• Use swagger-client instead of a custom implementation (4b3260d5)
• Remove OracleNodeAPI wrapper (c6f9a76d)
• Flatten options of contractCallStatic, remove extra dryRunContractTx (f3ffb664)
• txDryRun: Simplify arguments, support txEvents option (401c53da)
• contracts: Mark handleCallError as private, simplify arguments (bdf76e24)
• import/no-named-as-default linter error (d63e1511)
• oracle: make pollForQueries a sync function (dc955e14)
• chore: drop aevm support and backend (compiler) option (6eb702dd)
• refactor(schema): export enum with consensus protocol versions (e92f187d)

Features

• swagger: allow to provide external specification (683082b3)
• swagger: make compatible with OpenAPI 3 (1d83f1a4)
• switch to v3 endpoints on Iris (eca6697b)
• traverse-keys: add keysOfValuesToIgnore option as a workaround (8ff5afe4)
• Use es modules version in browser if supported (b49c38f0)
• Add typescript support (abde033a)

Docs

• contract: fix default backend value (9fcbeb32)
• wallet-iframe: fix disconnect button (59014bd0)
• examples-browser: rearrange files and docs (985e3b96)
• use relative links between docs pages (d34d8181)
• remove outdated aecrypto example (7df05bfe)
• refactor node examples (e8c443cf)
• changelog: add missed single quote in example (45fd0002)
• resolveName: Document verify option (ca865596)
• Remove outdated docs (cf9c166f)
• decodeTx: Fix arg naming and annotation (883819c0)
• contract-events: Remove outdated contract, update links and markup (37d39d61)
• Update docs/guides/import-nodejs.md (9dc274ed)
• Update docs/guides/import-nodejs.md (93bfce11)
• break down json obj keys necessary for account initialization in nodejs docs (af5ee41d)
• Ignore pycache in the docs folder (9989e8e7)
• Specify the python version more precisely (d6204523)
• Add pycache to .gitignore (f0b7e1f1)
• Add navigation and update some titles (8ad15ced)
• docco template: Remove extra new lines around code, skip extra blocks (65ce3cf1)
• aecontract: Make a list out of a long sentence (8ff7839c)
• aens-usage: Use more semantic markup, compatible with mkdocs (de3d3cd5)
• docs readme: Fix typos and formatting (5b0c790d)
• Add initial mkdocs and readthedocs configuration (b688a96b)
• Extract quick-start to guides (28f7e6f7)
• Update testnet URL (7bb823f8)
• assertedType: Make the last parameter more obvious (50094d3a)
• travis: Build docs to gh-pages (7c935a2b)
• Docs root: Add link to API reference (4a36102d)
• Move outdated disclaimer to the root readme (80a6a663)
• Remove generated docs (fd802b00)
• Fix api docs generation (56e3aa9d)

Code Refactoring

• use BigNumber constructor instead of custom wrapper (4488b4d7)
• avoid extra object nesting (f99d3045)
• compiler: use swagger file (0d821614)
• semver-satisfies: remove extra splitting by dash (35d5c11a)
• remove extra char in regex (37eeefae)
• refactor wallet detector (1bc8d027)
• shareWalletInfo: Don't create unnecessary copy of info (3a4e50b9)
• Inline receive helper that is used once (a4a13889)
• rpc: Inline helpers used once (21903f4d)
• rpc: Prefer default export (70fc3f0f)
• rpc helpers: Remove unused getWindow function (c12b528f)
• don't use AsyncInit where it is not necessary (84373697)
• contract-aci: reuse defaults from Contract stamp (47013962)
• cleanup MIN_GAS_PRICE (a5b28842)
• remove unused option string (0e28af23)
• remove unused dryRunAccount default option (8c42b706)
• Consistent new on Error creation (39f93d3f)
• height: Use a shorter syntax (b013bf9d)
• height: Improve naming of internal promise (7915119a)
• Move source code to "src" folder (ddbce389)
• sign-using-ga: don't pass extra options (44bab6d0)

Bug Fixes

• traverse-keys: add missed null check (7b724b86)
• swagger: add workaround to get transaction details of GAAttachTx (bb7ec479)
• top-block: use getTopHeader on Iris, mark deprecated (2b410257)
• nonce-verification: add missed space (3f244dfb)
• missed aepp id in wallet connect handler (1ed9284a)
• get-node-info: bring url and internalUrl back (e984f3b3)
• contract error decoding (d56931ac)
• contract-aci: don't proxy prepareArgsForEncode from helpers (7e40eda0)
• Improve handling of call error (584eb5e4)

Maintenance

• Use ts-standard instead of standard (be5aece7)
• tsconfig: Set target version to es5 (ed131b1b)
• Fix eslint errors manually (dfe3a05e)
• require node below 7.0.0 (ae1a5ef5)
• require node above or equal to 5.2.0 (ebb36f06)
• update dependencies (d876cff7)
• deps: bump ssri from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 (e0dfb8c9)
• deps: bump y18n from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 (9e4acd61)
• deps: bump elliptic from 6.5.3 to 6.5.4 (feb3aa68)
• deps: bump axios from 0.19.2 to 0.21.1 (0f619f27)
• deps: bump ini from 1.3.5 to 1.3.7 (95580324)
• deps: bump highlight.js from 10.4.0 to 10.4.1 (9fcfadfe)
• deps: bump highlight.js from 10.1.1 to 10.4.0 (43aff25f)
• deps: bump node-fetch from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 (80ed6d70)
• Update node to 5.8.0 (b6ff3422)
• Update .gitignore (1f1563dc)
• add vscode .history folder to gitignore (f4d61df4)
• Update testnet URL in JS files (dc1b807a)
• add Iris consensus protocol (41fd4a13)
• add vsn 2 version of GA_META transaction (b5abe098)
• add new versions of CHANNEL, CHANNEL_CREATE transactions (366981a3)
• support compilers below 6.0.0 (876e5164)

Performance

• Optimize height queries (f74ca4cb)

Tests

• simplify GA tests (7b9628c2)
• oracle: avoid explicit waiting for 1 second (f81cd3a1)
• passing of forceCompatibility flag (6f900b98)
• contract: remove extra backend option (184566f9)
• update channel tests to fate (35a996d8)
• Faster tests (5d629103)
• Extract strings tests into separate file (f3c7d3fa)
• ga: Remove extra await (72bfc746)
• Make tests more precise (fe7a8567)