Autonity

Autonity is the reference implementation of the Autonity Protocol. The protocol provides an EVM-based blockchain that utilizes Tendermint BFT for delegated proof of stake consensus, has a dual native coin design for tokenomics, and provides liquid staking for capital efficiency. See [documentation](https://docs.autonity.org/).

The Autonity v0.7.1 contains below 3 corrections:

1. Upgrade golang to 1.15.5 to fix the potential panic issue of the upstream (GETH)
See - https://blog.ethereum.org/2020/11/12/geth_security_release
2. Fix nodejs console issue
See - https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/issues/728
3. Fix the network economic metric exporting issue.

Added
- ERC-20 Stake token implementation https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/699.
- Support for Autonity Contract RPC calls https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/706.
- Dump Tendermint core state RPC endpoint https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/688.


Changed
- Go-Ethereum 1.9.23 upgrade https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/703.
- Combine Autonity init and start https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/710.
- NodeJs console improvements https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/720 https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/726 .

Fixed
- Race conditions fix in the miner package https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/725.
- Consensus engine future proposal missing scenario https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/722.

Added
- Autonity Node.js Console https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/676

Changed
- Deploy Autonity Contract at genesis https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/611.
- Simplify DNS resolution https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/545 .

Fixed
- Fix Freezer DB issue https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/639 .
- Fixed memory leak issue https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/652 .
- Fixed Tendermint missing case
- Fixed multiple race conditions https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/670 https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/668 https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/669 https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/671 .
- Improved consensus backlog management .

Added
- Weighted random sampling by voting power for the consensus proposer selection mechanism https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/559 .
- Unique Autonity Contract address https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/552 .

Changed
- Merge Autonity to Go-ethereum 1.9.15 with integration of all the upstream features https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/386 .

Fixed
- Fixed consensus issues with block period greater than one second: https://github.com/clearmatics/autonity/pull/614 .

This is a bug fix release disabling the freezer feature.