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Joinmarket-clientserver 0.5.2:
https://github.com/joinmarket-org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases/tag/v0.5.2
This release contains a fix for IRC connection difficulties which should be installed as soon as possible. It also adds the ability to make payments with PayJoin (aka P2EP), a CoinJoin variant, including using bech32 wallets (for PayJoin but not Joinmarket coinjoin, at the moment), colored log formatting and a number of other minor improvements.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
https://github.com/joinmarket-org/joinmarket-clientserver/issues
Upgrading
To upgrade (but: read and follow instructions in 0.4.0 if from pre-0.4.0):
First run the install.sh script as mentioned in the README. When prompted to overwrite the directory jmvenv, accept.
To install using Python2, use ./install.sh -p python2 ; the default is now Python3.
Note that .install.sh -? will show the options for installation.
If you are running JoinmarketQt, note that Python2 is incompatible.
Notable changes
PayJoin feature (aka Pay-to-Endpoint/P2EP).
In short, this allows users of Joinmarket wallet to pay each other with a coinjoin.
This has a number of excellent properties in terms of improving privacy. To use, the
receiver runs the new script receive-payjoin.py and the sender runs sendpayment.py
with the option -T. See here
for more detailed instructions on how to use.
See here for conceptual explanation, which also links to other writeups about the concept.
This can be used with a BIP84 bech32 wallet, but the latter is not compatible with Joinmarket coinjoins.
28abddf Implement payjoin (p2ep) direct payment joins
`72b2014 add normal payment info to PAYJOIN doc
Fix IRC connection issues (startup and new server)
See #51 for background. While IRC server drops during operation were handled transparently, with communication continuing on the remaining message channels, the bots would, prior to this fix, not start up at all if all the configured message channels did not start up successfully. In recent days one of the two default pre-configured public IRC servers (agora/anarplex.net) stopped functioning/allowing bots to join. Hence many users on default setups would find their bots blocked from joining the joinmarket pit. Hence this fix (long overdue!) to continue/complete the startup process after a timeout of 60 seconds, if one of the configured message channels (there can be as many as you like) fails to complete its startup. In short, as long as one server is available, your bot will start up after at most 60 seconds. Shorter timeouts are probably undesirable, particularly Taker side, since you don't want to miss half the liquidity in the pit just because you were too impatient to wait for the server to fully connect. Additionally, a third default server (darkscience) has been added to the config, which supports connecting to a hidden service over Tor.
(Joinmarket's architecture in principle supports an arbitrary number of message channels, and they don't have to be IRC servers (as long as derived classes implement 4 key methods).)
Users should refresh/recreate a joinmarket.cfg (by setting their current one's name to joinmarket.cfg.bak for example) and then copy over the new default MESSAGING section settings, and then edit them as they prefer.
c6dabae Add startup redundancy to IRC servers.
7ee18af Add darkscience IRC to default configuration.
Colored terminal logging
We now use a python package chromalog to support colored logging
of Joinmarket bots on the terminal; this is due to the fact that logs are pretty noisy but also sometimes necessary
to look at (and this is particularly true of the new PayJoin feature, among some others). For those who find
the color scheme unreadable or undesirable on their chosen terminal setup, set color = false in the LOGGING
section of joinmarket.cfg and it will be switched off. Note of course that log files are unaffected by this.
c139067 Include chromalog package for colorized logs
bc6228f Fix "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'" when jmprint() called with None as msg
0ce9392 Allow user to switch off colored logging New config setting [LOGGING]color=true/false
Minor changes
Will probably not be of interest to non-developers (these are mostly changes to logging/documentation).
faee0eb Reset http connection on EPROTOTYPE errors.
1909656 Add hostid to "On disconnect fired, nicks_seen is now" log message
dbac8ed remove electrum references and add multiwallet ref to USAGE.md
2dda70a message_channel.py should not have execute permissions set
1e2154d python 3.4 byte string formatting fix for authorization header
8ca65a7 Log initial offerlist on startup for a Maker
8140543 demote nick drop to debug from warn
fc66381 show hostname in logs for signedOn and joined
a88cce4 We aren't Python2-only anymore
965d190 update stale help msg on utxo type in sendtomany.py
Credits
Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release -
And thanks also to those who submitted bug reports, tested and otherwise helped out.