ARK Development Report — December 2019

2019 has come to an end and with it another very active and short month on the development front. This month was short due to holidays and time off. We would like to thank everyone that continues to be a part of our ecosystem through their contributions.

The ARK Monthly Development Report covers all pull requests (opened, closed, merged) as well as all issues opened and closed in every ARK Ecosystem public repository, the number of contributors during that month, the number of new stargazers and total lines of GitHub code added or deleted. This info is presented here in a concise one-page blog.

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Thanks to all who contribute each month and help out with development!

Here’s the Monthly Digest from Sun, Dec 1, 2019 12:00 AM to Tue, Dec 31, 2019 12:00 AM.

Throughout public repositories we had:

• 33,437 lines of code added.

• 14,731 lines of code deleted.

• 1,009 files changed.

Contributors

Last month there were 16 contributors.

air1one, alexbarnsley, dated, deanpress, Drakeler55, faustbrian, Highjhacker, ItsANameToo, KovacZan, Lemii, luciorubeens, Nigui, sleepdefic1t, supaiku0, vasild, zillionn

Thank you for your contributions! 🎉

Pull Requests

Last month we had 91 pull-requests. Of which:

• 7 Still Open.

• 77 Merged.

• 7 Closed.

Still Open

Last month, 7 pull-requests were opened.

— dated

• #1585 fix: re-render chart if currency changed while being inactive

• #1583 test: plugin manager unit tests

— Highjhacker

• #7 docs: update python crypto api documentation and examples

— ItsANameToo

• #800 feat: more tests

— luciorubeens

• #1589 feat: add advanced mode option to profile settings

— sleepdefic1t

• #53 refactor: unify ledger display flow

• #198 feat: implement AIP 11

Closed

Last month, 7 pull-requests were closed.

— alexbarnsley

• #1581 [WIP] fix: plugin destroy when not enabled

— dated

• #3314 [WIP] refactor(core-api): stricter validation of orderBy iteratees

— Highjhacker

• #1503 [WIP do not merge] refactor : Utils migration

— rainydio

• #3297 refactor(core-transactions): move expected negative balance checks out

— sleepdefic1t

• #31 [wip]chore: improve security

— vasild

• #61 Introduce Schnorr signatures

• #3326 feat(core-api): include the input on schema error

Merged

Last month, 77 pull-requests were merged.

— air1one

• #3287 refactor: align maxPayload / maxTransactionBytes values

• #3336 fix(core-state): use parent findByPublicKey method for temp-wallet-manager

• #3333 test(e2e): simplify e2e init & network launch

• #3350 fix(core magistrate): business/bridgechain update handlers — revertForSender

• #3331 feat(core-p2p): improve incoming WS message check + IP banning on worker

• #3359 fix(core-p2p): master merge fixes for core-p2p worker

• #3354 fix(core-p2p): handle disconnect packets

— alexbarnsley

• #1574 chore: update electron-builder

• #79 refactor: use ky instead of got

• #3 docs: update ts examples

• #1572 fix: ledger transaction amount on confirm modal

• #498 docs: update desktop wallet plugins

• #1573 refactor: remove wallet api and peer version

• #26 refactor: use ky instead of got

• #1575 chore: add test coverage reporters

• #1578 refactor: plugins allow sandbox destroy

• #1469 fix: network modal missing version

• #1551 fix: add network fails

• #1552 fix: hidden delegate dropdown on search

• #1562 fix: transaction amount on confirmation modal

• #1579 chore: bump version 2.7.0

• #1580 chore: bump workflow version 2.7.0

• #1584 release: 2.7.0

— dated

• #1582 fix: delete plugin path of installed plugin when updating and various tweaks

• #1501 feat: plugin manager

• #59 chore: update workflow config

• #791 fix: check that sender is requested address

• #793 chore: collect coverage from vue files

• #1568 chore: update status badge and other readme tweaks

• #3313 fix(core-api): businesses/bridgechains search by name

• #3320 fix(core-database): handle forgedTotal and voteBalance in orderBy query param

• #3310 refactor(core-api): accept address, publicKey, delegate name as business id

• #781 fix: build sum over payments to same address

• #785 fix: various & i18n of magistrate asset properties

• #3344 refactor(core-api): add shared username schema

• #784 feat: add blur to app when modal is open

• #3319 feat(core-api): stricter resource-based orderBy schema

• #3345 refactor(crypto): throw error if multi payment has less than two payments

— deanpress

• #3321 fix(core): fix “file path exists” error

• #3317 chore: add tmp-shm and tmp-wal to .gitignore

— Drakeler55

• #500 Devnet setup

— faustbrian

• #3355 release: 2.5.31

• #62 test: mock responses with nock

• #3356 release: 2.6.0-next.7

• #3332 release: 2.5.30

— Highjhacker

• #100 feat: AIP 11 & 18 implementation

— ItsANameToo

• #789 feat: add check for businesses / bridgechains being enabled

• #61 fix: node fees

• #796 feat: wrap locked balances

• #792 feat: delegate pagination

• #798 chore: update dependencies

• #504 chore: add devnet setup to navigation

• #797 feat: add changelog

— KovacZan

• #76 chore: spotless plugin can only run with java 8

• #79 style: rename AbstractTransaction to AbstractBuilder

• #78 chore: remove throw statement if spotless is not run on java 8

— Lemii

• #3338 fix(crypto): throw error instead of omitting long vendorField values

— luciorubeens

• #1571 fix: unknown typo

— Nigui

• #3311 feat(core-p2p): increase maximum token symbol length

• #3334 fix(core): network generate command

— sleepdefic1t

• #49 chore: remove unnecessary consts

• #48 chore: add ux headers

• #46 feat: support nanos-secure-sdk version 1.60

• #51 refactor(transactions): decouple ledger-sdk code

• #502 chore(desktop wallet): rm delegate reg. ledger task

• #50 chore: pass size_t for buffers

— supaiku0

• #3360 refactor: call checkNetworkHealth more deterministically

• #3353 refactor: enable htlc types via dedicated milestone

• #3358 refactor(core-p2p): discover peers when checking network health

— vasild

• #57 feat: Implement AIP11 transaction types

• #59 Use an external Base58 library instead of own one

• #3342 refactor: make the canEnterTransactionPool() interface more robust

• #62 feat: Implement AIP18 multi signature transfers and missing builders

• #3323 chore: document canEnterTransactionPool()

• #3352 core-p2p: relax postBlock rate limit

• #3341 fix(core-database): don’t assume blocksInCurrentRound is defined

— zillionn

• #1 docs(exchange-json-rpc): transactions typos

Issues

Last month we had 47 issues. Of which:

• 7 Still Open.

• 40 Closed.

Still Open

— alessiodf

• #3349 High incidence of forks on devnet (due to postBlock throttling?)

— dated

• #1567 market chart disappears when changing currency from settings page

— faustbrian

• #64 [3.0] Merge CLI and RPC

— fix

• #1570 Use TOR request to preserve privacy

— ItsANameToo

• #794 test: unit test vue component

• #787 feat: business / bridgechain details

— KovacZan

• #3364 Restrict length of a website

Closed

— air1one

• #3218 Align values “max block size”, “max transactions bytes”, “max payload”

— alexbarnsley

• #11 [desktop-wallet][2000 USD] Plugin Discovery

• #3200 Transactions endpoint is slow before being cached

— arkmoon

• #72 [request] arkecosystem/client “got” dependency breaks on the frontend with webpack

— aspiehler

• #426 iOS Wallet UI General Feedback

— biolypl

• #3267 Example forger configuration command from documentation fails

• #3269 Core unable to decrypt passphrase

— dated

• #3328 returned data of API with one direction is not reverse of data with other direction

• #3343 [2.6][T4] .username schema not enforced on all api endpoints

• #3308 [2.6][T4] businesses/{id} and businesses/{id}/bridgechains accepts only publicKey

• #3309 [2.6][T4] businesses/{id} endpoint always returns data regardless of business attribute

• #3315 [2.6][T4] orderBy not working with some camel cased iteratees

— deanpress

• #3301 Database issues cause non-descriptive process exit codes

• #3322 [2.6] Transaction API returns empty response when canEnterTransactionPool is false and no error is pushed by the transaction’s handler

• #3302 Wallet.assertKnownAttribute() causes unit test failure for custom wallet attributes inside core packages

— faustbrian

• #77 Implement AIP11

• #1424 Resolve Codacy issues

• #25 [python-crypto][1000 USD] Implement AIP11 & AIP18

• #78 Implement AIP18

• #5 Migrate to TypeScript

• #63 Disable network connection for nock

• #74 Add default amount of 0 to transactions (excluding type 0)

— galperins4

• #780 Explorer amount for multi payment incorrect if address has more than one tx in single multipament transaction

— ItsANameToo

• #776 feat: pagination for standy / resigned delegates

• #770 Refactor: locked balance

• #795 chore: update dependencies

• #788 feat: optional bridgechain / business pages

• #771 Docs: backwards compatibility

— kristjank

• #59 AIP59 — Generic Blockchain Development Kit

• #102 Hashed Time-Locked Contracts Discussion

• #103 BridgeChain Transaction Type Discussion

— Lemii

• #3339 Certain endpoints are queryable by both URI and query params

• #3335 [2.6][T3] Vendorfield value gets omitted when it exceeds maximum length

— mudlee

• #3329 Round saving error in 2.6.0-next.6

• #3340 Schema validation in custom transactions can easily be broken

— Pleiadien

• #427 Import desktop wallet into mobile change from watch only not retained when exit app

— rainydio

• #3277 Handling plugin require errors

— roccomuso

• #3325 Get unconfirmed balance given an address

• #3324 Getting Unprocessable Entity when calling transactions/unconfirmed

— zillionn

• #1459 Search delegate popup

Releases

Last month there were 3 releases.

Core

• 2.5.30 at Mon, Dec 9, 2019 12:27 PM

• 2.5.31 at Thu, Dec 19, 2019 7:08 AM

Explorer

• 2.5.0 at Fri, Dec 13, 2019 1:33 PM

Star Gazers

Last month there were 15 stargazers.

57-Wolve, ATField2501, Cactus-15–49, flavertonrr, HAOYUatHZ, kuaikeduo, laurentlourenco, lpfloyd, mikekosulin, rigwild, robmcguinness, SebastianElvis, tbergman, Toure2ray, ZHIMEISUI

You all are the stars! 🌟

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