dcrd v2.0.4 Release Notes

This is a patch release of dcrd which includes the following changes:

• Improved session formation for StakeShuffle mix transactions
• Support for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in hostnames
• StakeShuffle mixing performance enhancements

Changelog

This patch release consists of 14 commits from 3 contributors which total to 17 files changed, 201 additional lines of code, and 97 deleted lines of code.

All commits since the last release may be viewed on GitHub here.

Mixing message relay (mix pool):

• [release-v2.0] mixpool: Reject KEs submitted too early (decred/dcrd#3431)
• [release-v2.0] mixclient: Use newest (fewest-PR) KEs to form alt sessions (decred/dcrd#3431)

RPC / gencerts utility changes:

• [release-v2.0] certgen,gencerts: Punycode non-ASCII hostnames (decred/dcrd#3432)

Developer-related package and module changes:

• [release-v2.0] mixclient: Remove completely unused var (decred/dcrd#3431)
• [release-v2.0] mixpool: Remove error which is always returned nil (decred/dcrd#3431)
• [release-v2.0] mixclient: Dont append to slice with non-zero length (decred/dcrd#3431)
• [release-v2.0] mixing: Add missing copyright headers (decred/dcrd#3431)
• [release-v2.0] mixclient: Add missing copyright headers (decred/dcrd#3431)
• [release-v2.0] mixclient: Remove submit queue channel (decred/dcrd#3431)
• [release-v2.0] mixclient: Do not submit PRs holding client mutex (decred/dcrd#3431)

Developer-related module management:

• [release-v2.0] main: Use backported mixing updates (decred/dcrd#3431)
• [release-v2.0] main: Use backported certgen updates (decred/dcrd#3432)

Misc:

• [release-v2.0] mixing: Add missing periods to comments (decred/dcrd#3431)
• [release-v2.0] release: Bump for 2.0.4 (decred/dcrd#3433)

Code Contributors (alphabetical order):

• Dave Collins
• Jamie Holdstock
• Josh Rickmar