Sovrin

Notices for Stewards

**There are possible OOM issues during 3+ hours of target load or large catch-ups at 8 GB RAM nodes pool so 32 GB is recommended.**

Component Version Information
| Components | Version Numbers |
| --- | --- |

Major Changes
- Stability fixes
- Endorser support fixes and improvements
- Improving GET_TXN to be able to query just one node the same way as for other GET requests

Major Fixes
| Description | Additional Information | Ticket Number |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New nodes added after last upgrade (1.9.1) are not in consensus | | [INDY-2211](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2211) |
| indy-node broken by indy-plenum and python-dateutil | | [INDY-2176](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2176) |
| Issue with non utf-8 decoding | | [INDY-2218](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2218) |
| Endorsers must be specified within the transaction | | [INDY-2199](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2199) |
| One node doesn't catch up | | [INDY-2215](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2215) |

Changes and Additions
| Description | Additional Information | Ticket Number |
| --- | --- | --- |
| As a user, I need to be able to know what was the last update time of the ledger when querying a txn via GET_TXN request | | [INDY-1954](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-1954) |
| Endorser field can contian a DID with a known role only | | [INDY-2198](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2198) |
| TokenAuthNr needs to extend LedgerBasedAuthNr, not CoreAuthNr | | [ST-618](https://sovrin.atlassian.net/browse/ST-618) |

Major Changes
- New DIDs can be created without endorsers
- Transaction authors don't need to be endorsers
- TAA acceptance should use date, not time
- Bug fixes

Major Fixes
| Description | Additional Information | Ticket Number |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Incorrect request validation | | [INDY-2164](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2164) |
| Need to make "reask_ledger_status" repeatable | | [INDY-2112](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2112) |
| When view change takes too long instance change should be sent periodically | | [INDY-2143](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2143) |
| Hotfix: Request GET_UTXO needs to take into account max limit for a message | | [ST-600](https://sovrin.atlassian.net/browse/ST-600) |

Changes and Additions
| Description | Additional Information | Ticket Number |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New DIDs can be created without endorsers | | [INDY-2171](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2171) |
| Transaction authors don't need to be endorsers | | [INDY-2173](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2173) |
| Grab pool data for failed system tests | | [INDY-2141](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2141) |
| Memory profiling needs to be removed from GET_VALIDATOR_INFO output | | [INDY-2182](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2182) |
| Implement PBFT viewchanger service with most basic functionality | | [INDY-2147](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2147) |
| Extract Orderer service from Replica | | [INDY-2136](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2136) |
| Extract and integrate ConsensusDataProvider from Replica | | [INDY-2139](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2139) |
| TAA acceptance should use date, not time | | [INDY-2157](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2157) |
| Clean-up Pluggable Request Handlers | | [INDY-2154](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2154) |
| GET_UTXO needs to use pagination to be able to return all unspent UTXOs regardless of max message size | | [ST-602](https://sovrin.atlassian.net/browse/ST-602) |


1.1.50-stable

Major Changes
- Pluggable Request Handlers have been implemented

Major Fixes
| Description | Additional Information | Ticket Number |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Propagates with invalid requests can lead to node crashes | | [INDY-2144](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2144) |
| There is no validation of the ISSUANCE_TYPE field for the transaction REVOC_REG_DEF | | [INDY-2142](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2142) |
| Reduce CONS_PROOF timeout to speed up catchup under the load | | [INDY-2083](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2083) |

Changes and Additions
| Description | Additional Information | Ticket Number |
| --- | --- | --- |
| As a Trustee(s), I need to have a way to set multiple AUTH_RULES by one command | | [INDY-2087](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2087) |
| Make more system tests to be ready for Indy Node CD pipeline | | [INDY-2127](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2127) |
| Integrate new handlers into the codebase | | [INDY-1861](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-1861) |
| Define Interfaces needed for View Change Service | | [INDY-1338](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-1338) |
| Rename TRUST_ANCHOR to ENDORSER | | [INDY-1950](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-1950) |
| Update PBFT view change plan of attack | | [INDY-2134](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2134) |
| Apply a new Docker-in-docker approach for system tests | | [INDY-2131](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2131) |
| More tests for pluggable request handlers | | [INDY-2108](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2108) |
| Remove ANYONE_CAN_WRITE | | [INDY-1956](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-1956) |
| [Design] ViewChange protocol must be as defined in PBFT | | [INDY-1290](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-1290) |
| Batch containing some already executed requests should be applied correctly | | [INDY-1405](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-1405) |
| Update Pluggable Req Handlers | | [INDY-2097](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2097) |
| As a Network Admin, I need to be able to forbid an action in AUTH_RULE, so that no changes in code are needed | | [INDY-2077](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2077) |
| Create Builders for handlers | | [INDY-1860](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-1860) |
| Apply new request handlers approach to Token Plugins | | [ST-523](https://sovrin.atlassian.net/browse/ST-523) |
| Implementation: Apply new request handlers approach to Token Req Handlers | | [ST-510](https://sovrin.atlassian.net/browse/ST-510) |
| Implementation: Apply new request handlers approach to sovtoken FEEs Handlers | | [ST-578](https://sovrin.atlassian.net/browse/ST-578) |

Known Issues
| Description | Additional Information | Ticket Number |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Incorrect request validation | | [INDY-2164](https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2164) |
| PoA: Request GET_UTXO needs to take into account max limit for a message | | [ST-575](https://sovrin.atlassian.net/browse/ST-575) |