Hardfork is scheduled for 2016/11/08 16:00:00 UTC (11:00:00 EST)
This hardfork is entirely to fix bugs in preparation for the migration to shared memory implementation. The bugs that were fixed are not security sensitive and have no impact on existing users of Steem. We are simply adding some additional validation checks on account name length in authorities. After the switch to shared memory account names will be fixed length strings.
Documentation changes
- Change structure and update content of documentation / README.md #487
- Move list of seed nodes to its own file #487
- Update list of seed nodes #505
Functionality changes
- Add new API calls get_discussions_by_blog(), get_discussions_by_comments()
- Add first_reblogged_by field to get_state reply
- Record both SBD and STEEM post payouts in author_reward_operation
- Add ability to mine to debug_node #519
- Expose get_dev_key() function analogous to the get_dev_key binary in debug_node_api #519
Bugfixes
- Fix bug resulting in multicore mining attempting to mine the same nonces on each core #525
- Transactions downloaded from the network were not always verified when using checkpoints
- Hardfork to forbid long account names in authorities #465
- Hardfork to forbid using non-existing account names in authorities #465
- Update mining stats display to provide correct information for pow2 mining #282
- Fix bugs preventing creation of testnets #519
- Convert machine-length integer in chain state to fixed-length integer #485
Architecture changes
- Various changes to how Dockerfiles build and run the code
- Remove some unused code #511
- Remove unused ENABLE_CONTENT_PATCHING compile-time constant #510
- Update newplugin.py for new internal API #506