Aea

AEA:
- Adds public keys to agent identity and skill context
- Adds contract test tool
- Adds multiprocess support for task manager
- Adds multiprocess backed support to `MultiAgentManager`
- Adds support for excluding connection on `aea run`
- Adds support for adding a key that is being generated (`—add-key` option for `generate-key` command)
- Adds check for dependencies to be present in registry on a package push
- Makes more efficient installing of project dependencies on `aea install`
- Adds dependency conflict detection on `aea install`
- Improves pip install error details on `aea install`
- Adds validation of `aea_version` when loading configuration
- Adds a check for consistency of package versions in `MultiAgent Manager`
- Adds better error reporting for aea registry requests
- Fixes IPFS hash calculation for large files
- Fixes protobuf dictionary serializer's uncovered cases and makes it deterministic
- Fixes scaffolding of error and decision maker handlers
- Fixes pywin32 problem when checking dependency
- Improves existing testing tools

Benchmarks:
- Adds agents construction and decision maker benchmark cases

Plugins:
- Upgrades fetchai plugin to use CosmPy instead of CLI calls
- Upgrades cosmos plugin to use CosmPy instead of CLI calls
- Upgrades fetchai plugin to use StargateWorld
- Upgrades cosmos plugin to Stargate
- Sets the correct maximum Gas for fetch.ai plugin

Packages:
- Adds support for Tac to be run against fetchai StargateWorld test-net
- Adds more informative error messages to CosmWasm ERC1155 contract
- Adds support for atomic swap to CosmWasm ERC1155 contract
- Adds an ACN protocol that formalises ACN communication using the framework's protocol language
- Adds `cosm_trade` protocol for preparing atomic swap transactions for cosmos-based networks
- Adds https support for server connection
- Adds parametrising of http(s) in soef connection
- Fixes http server content length response problem
- Updates Oracle contract to 0.14
- Implements the full ACN spec throughout the ACN packages
- Implements correct error code usage in ACN packages
- Refactors ACN packages to unify reused logic
- Adds tests for gym skills
- Adds dockerised SOEF
- Adds libp2p mailbox connection
- Multiple fixes and stability improvements for `p2p_libp2p` connections

Docs:
- Adds ACN internals documentation
- Fixes tutorial for HTTP connection and skill
- Multiple additional docs updates
- Adds more context to private keys docs

Chores:
- Various development features bumped
- Bumped Mermaid-JS, for UML diagrams to major version 8
- Applies darglint to the code

Examples:
- Adds a unified script for running various versions/modes of Tac

AEA:
- Bounds versions of dependencies by next major
- Fixes incoherent warning message during package loading
- Improves various incomprehensible error messages
- Adds debug log message when abstract components are loaded
- Adds tests and minor fixes for password related CLI commands and password usage in `MultiAgentManager`
- Adds default error handler in `MultiAgentManager`
- Ensures private key checks are performed after override setting in `MultiAgentManager`
- Applies docstring fixes suggested by `darglint`
- Fixes `aea push --local` command to use correct author
- Fixes `aea get-multiaddress` command to consider overrides

Plugins:
- Bounds versions of dependencies by next major

Packages:
- Updates `p2p_libp2p` connection to use TCP sockets for all platforms
- Multiple fixes on `libp2p_node` including better error handling and stream creation
- Adds sending queue in `p2p_libp2p` connection to handle sending failures
- Adds unit tests for `libp2p_node` utils
- Adds additional tests for `p2p_libp2p` connection
- Fixes location bug in AW5
- Improves connection check handling in soef connection
- Updates oracle and oracle client contracts for better access control
- Adds skill tests for `erc1155` skills
- Adds skill tests for `aries` skills
- Fixes minor bug in ML skills
- Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

Docs:
- Extends demo docs to include guidance of usage in AEA Manager
- Adds short guide on Kubernetes deployment
- Multiple additional docs updates

Chores:
- Adds `--no-bump` option to `generate_all_protocols` script
- Adds script to detect if aea or plugins need bumping
- Bumps various development dependencies
- Adds Golang and GCC in Windows install script
- Adds `darglint` to CI

Examples:
- Updates TAC deployment scripts and images

- (2021-05-05)

Packages:
- Adds node watcher to `p2p_libp2p` connection
- Improves logging and error handling in `p2p_libp2p` node
- Addresses potential overflow issue in `p2p_libp2p` node
- Fixes concurrency issue in `p2p_libp2p` node which could lead to wrongly ordered envelopes
- Improves logging in TAC skills
- Fixes Exception handling in connect/disconnect calls of soef connection
- Extends public DHT tests to include staging
- Adds tests for envelope ordering for all routes
- Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

AEA:
- Fixes wheels issue for Windows
- Fixes password propagation for certificate issuance in `MultiAgentManager`
- Improves error message when local registry not present

AEALite:
- Adds full protocol support
- Adds end-to-end interaction example with AEA (based on `fetchai/fipa` protocol)
- Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

Packages:
- Fixes multiple bugs in `ERC1155` version of TAC
- Refactors p2p connections for better separation of concerns and maintainability
- Integrates aggregation with simple oracle skill
- Ensures genus and classifications are used in all skills using SOEF
- Extends SOEF connection to implement `oef_search` protocol fully
- Handles SOEF failures in skills
- Adds simple aggregation skills including tests and docs
- Adds tests for registration AW agents
- Adds tests for reconnection logic in p2p connections
- Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

Docs:
- Extends car park demo with usage guide for AEA manager
- Multiple additional docs updates

Examples:
- Adds TAC deployment example

- Improves contributor guide
- Enables additional pylint checks
- Adds configuration support on exception behaviour in ledger plugins
- Improves exception handling in `aea-ledger-cosmos` and `aea-ledger-fetchai` plugins
- Improves quickstart guide
- Fixes multiple flaky tests
- Fixes various outdated metadata
- Resolves a CVE (CVE-2021-27291) affecting development dependencies
- Adds end-to-end support and tests for simple oracle on Ethereum and Fetch.ai ledgers
- Multiple minor fixes
- Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

- Extends CLI command `aea fingerprint` to allow fingerprinting of agents
- Improves `deploy-image` Docker example
- Fixes a bug in `MultiAgentManager` which leaves it in an unclean state when project adding fails
- Fixes dependencies of `aea-legder-fetchai`
- Improves guide on HTTP client and server connection
- Removes pickle library usage in the ML skills
- Adds various consistency checks in configurations
- Replaces usage of `pyaes` with `pycryptodome` in plugins
- Changes generator to avoid non-idiomatic usage of type checks
- Multiple minor fixes
- Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

- Adds CLI command `aea get-public-key`
- Adds support for encrypting private keys at rest
- Adds support for configuration of decision maker and error handler instances from `aea-config.yaml`
- Adds support for explicitly marking behaviours and handlers as dynamic
- Adds support for fetchai ledger to oracle skills and contract
- Adds timeout support on multiplexer calls to connections
- Fixes bug in regex constrained string for id validation
- Adds docs section on how AEAs satisfy 12-factor methodology
- Adds docs section on tradeoffs made in `v1`
- Adds example for logs streaming to browser
- Removes multiple temporary hacks for backwards compatibility
- Adds skills tests coverage for `echo` and `http_echo` skills
- Adds `required_ledgers` field in `aea-config.yaml`
- Removes `registry_path` field in `aea-config.yaml`
- Adds `message_format` field to cert requests
- Removes requirement for exact protocol buffers compiler, prints version used in protocols
- Adds support to configure task manager mode via `aea-config.yaml`
- Fixed spelling across docstrings in code base
- Multiple minor fixes
- Multiple docs updates to fix order of CLI commands with respect to installing dependencies
- Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes