Brass Golem Alpha2 0.12.0

Today, The Golem project is happy to announce the new release of Golem 0.12.0. This release focuses on local verification of tasks, protocol improvements (including anti-sybil based on key difficulty), UX/GUI refinement and general bug-fixing.

Following our successful February AmA and Julian’s statement, the project’s Kanban will be updated in the coming days. Stay tuned.

More detailed changelog:

Core

• Advanced local verification for Blender task implemented
• Compositing turned off by default for images that are split into parts
• Verification queue added
• Anti-sybil mechanism based on required key difficulty introduced
• Requester now sets the minimum from task deadline and subtask deadline as the expected deadline
• Provider checks that parameters in CompTaskDef match what is declared in TaskHeader.
• Information about last successful update of GNT passed to UI
• Support for geth 1.8.x
• Check size of resources that are downloaded via HyperG
• Timeouts for downloading resources are now proportional to resource size
• Attach hash to resources that are sent via the network
• Files resources are now zipped to one file and the package hash is saved in the task state for further references

Concent:

• Support for SubtaskResultRejected message
• Pinging and receiving messages from concent
• Support for ForceReportComputedTask method
• Improvements in MessageHistoryService

Monitoring:

• Optional collecting and sending requestor stats to golem monitor. This feature can be turned off by adding — nomonitor flag to golem core.
• Proper balances shown in monitor

Electron

• Electron security update
• Default parameters from the given file are suggested
• Informative local render errors
• Default App size increased vertically
• UX improvements

Upgrading to Brass Golem Alpha2 0.12.0

You can find detailed information here:

• macOS

brew update
brew upgrade golem
brew cask upgrade golem

sudo chown root:wheel $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/bin/docker-machine-driver-xhyve
sudo chmod u+s $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/bin/docker-machine-driver-xhyve

• Ubuntu
  Download the installation script from here. In terminal, run 
  chmod +x install.sh && ./install.sh.
• Windows
  Download and execute the installer from here.

If you encounter any errors please let us know on testers channel at chat.golem.network or write an email to contact@golem.network.