Bugfix, Duplicate Nonce

Bug fix release -

• Duplicate nonce when submitting consecutive Eth transactions
• Divide by zero

Better CLI, Video Cache, Protocol Update

0.1.8 is an action-packed update.

We created a better CLI tool with nicer layouts and options. Still looking to improve this in the near future.

The video cache lowers the memory footprint of the software. Look for more improvements for memory usage in the next release.

We have updated the protocol to use Eth as payment method (instead of LPT). This allows anyone who holds Eth to be able to use Livepeer.

New Testnet

This is a breaking change

We upgraded the protocol to the latest version. As a result, the protocol address has changed and everyone on the testnet should upgrade to the latest version.

This release also includes changes that will enable the viewer to get the ABS manifest from the original streamID.

From now on, we are no longer publishing releases as pre-releases.

Bugfix Release

We fixed a few bugs in the past week

• Evicting unused manifests
• Remember peers during restart
• Fixed passphrase bug

Networking Update

This updated Livepeer node is more stable when a lot of messages are going through the same node. We added msgio in the libp2p networking layer so messages will less likely be lost. We also changed to a uni-directional stream approach so messages will incoming and outgoing messages will be on different streams.

We also made some improvements to the command line interface, so now all you have to do is ./livepeer -testnet to join the test network. See the documentation page for more info.

Testnet Update

This release enables onchain mode by default, this means it will connect to the testnet and go through the verification process.

We've also made significant changes to the networking library.

Network Update

We've made some networking changes in this minor release to improve the stability of the peer-to-peer network.

This is a breaking change. If you are running an older version, your node will not be able to function correctly in the new network

Hotfix

This is a hotfix release with some bug fixes

Livepeer Soft Launch

This release enables the Livepeer node to interact with the protocol onchain. We've also added livepeer_cli for ease of use.

There are a lot of changes in this release, refer to the new Readme for more information.

Network Visualization

This release allows Livepeer nodes to connect to the visualization server. It's the beginning of us being able to visualize the network topology and streams.

To give it a try, start your node with livepeer -monitor=true -monitorhost=http://viz.livepeer.org:8081/metrics

The visualization is available @ http://viz.livepeer.org:8081