HISTORY.md

Release History - open AEA

1.60.0 (2024-11-15)

Plugins:

• Fixes the handling of dropped ACN node connection #769
• Fixes an edge case in the gas estimation #770

1.59.0 (2024-10-29)

Plugins:

• Fixes the gas estimation #766

AEA

• Avoids validation failures with --help #764

1.58.0 (2024-10-03)

AEA:

• Adds support for dictionary overrides #750, #761

1.57.0 (2024-09-24)

AEA:

• Adds support for custom components in publish and eject commands. #758

Plugins:

• Improves the EIP1559 strategy #759

1.56.0 (2024-09-17)

Plugins:

• Fixes the pricing logic. #756

1.55.0 (2024-08-05)

Plugins:

• Adds support for polygon, fraxtal, base and mode. #746 && #747

1.54.0 (2024-07-27)

Plugins:

• Adds optimism config to the ledger connection. #744

Chore:

• Updates the release process document. #743

1.53.0 (2024-05-27)

AEA:

• Pins python-dotenv to >=0.14.0,<1.0.1

1.52.0 (2024-04-26)

AEA:

• Loosens up the version range for several dependencies to allow better integration with other frameworks

Plugins:

• Implements a custom filtering method to handle RPC timeouts and hanging.

Packages:

• Adds Celo to ledger connection configurations

Chore:

• Adds whitelist for component mint check

1.51.0 (2024-04-10)

AEA:

• Adds support for pushing custom components to the IPFS registry

Packages:

• Make timeout configurable on the http client connection
• Adds Celo to ledger connection configurations

1.50.0 (2024-03-13)

AEA:

• Fixes IPFS node address parsing on Git console
• Adds support for caching and reusing packages

1.49.0 (2024-03-06)

AEA:

• Pins python-dotenv>=0.14.0,<0.22.0

1.48.0.post1 (2024-02-27)

AEA:

• Fixes custom file references in the CLI commands

1.48.0 (2024-02-21)

AEA:

• Adds support for scaffolding and managing custom packages

1.47.0 (2024-02-13)

Plugins:

• Bumps cosmpy@0.9.2
• Fixes the _try_send_signed_transaction on the solana plugin to separate the transaction receipt retrieval

1.46.0 (2024-01-23)

AEA:

• Updates the generate-key command to include ledger specifier when writing keys in a JSON file

1.45.0 (2024-01-11)

Plugins:

• Fixes transaction deserialisation for adding nonce on the solana ledger
• Increases the number of retries for fetching transaction receipt

1.44.0 (2024-01-04)

Packages:

• Regenerates the protocols to update the copyright header
• Updates the date range for issuing the certificates
• Adds optional key word arguments to SEND_TRANSACTION messages

1.43.0.post2 (2023-12-26)

AEA:

• Fixes the default environment variable parsing for the base types

1.43.0.post1 (2023-12-19)

AEA:

• Fixes the default environment variable parsing for the list types

1.43.0 (2023-12-14)

AEA:

• Adds --timeout flag on aea install command
• Fixes circular import issues on package manager
• Fixes nested list environment variable parsing

Plugins:

• Adds support for versioned transactions on solana plugin

1.42.0 (2023-11-20)

AEA:

• Pins openapi-core==0.15.0, openapi-spec-validator<0.5.0,>=0.4.0 and jsonschema<4.4.0,>=4.3.0

Chore:

• Adds a script for managing dependencies across various project configurations

1.41.0.post1 (2023-10-23)

Packages:

• Use kwargs.pop instead of kwargs.get to avoid extra argument error on ledger connection

1.41.0 (2023-10-10)

AEA:

• Fixes the source repository validation regex
• Updates the generate-key command to prompt before overwriting the existing keys file
• Fixes the inconsistent hashing caused by the CRLF line endings
• Updates the component loader to ignore the test modules when loading the component
• Adds support for overriding dependencies
• Updates the sync command to download missing dependencies and update packages.json
• Updates the error messages for missing ledger plugins on generate-key command

Plugins:

• Adds missing py.typed markers
• Backports the changes from the agent-academy-2 repository on the ledger connection
• Ports http_server as a valory connection

1.40.0 (2023-09-26)

AEA:

• Adds support for specifying extra dependencies and overriding dependencies via -e flag on aea install
• Updates the selection of dependencies in aea install command to override the dependencies in the extra dependencies provided by flag > agent > skill > connection > contract > protocol order instead of merging them.

1.40.0 (2023-09-26)

AEA:

• Removes the web3py fork as a dependency
• Bumps the protobuf to protobuf>=4.21.6,<5.0.0
• Updates protocol buffers compiler to v24.3
• Updates the protocol generator
• Removes unused layers from the user image and uses minimal python image as base

1.39.0.post1 (2023-09-21)

AEA:

• Pins jsonschema<=4.19.0,>=4.16.0

1.39.0 (2023-09-07)

AEA:

• Removes the rust installation layer from the user image

1.38.0 (2023-08-09)

Framework:

• Deprecates the support for Python 3.7 and adds support for Python 3.11
• Adds support for multi platform docker images

Plugins:

• Replaces web3py==5.31.4 with open-aea-web3==6.0.1
• Replaces flashbots==1.1.1 with open-aea-flashbots==1.3.0
• Bumps open-aea-cosmpy to v0.6.5
• Deprecates the apduboy as a dependency
• Pins ledgerwallet==0.1.3

1.37.0 (2023-07-25)

Plugins:

• Replaces cosmpy with open-aea-cosmpy

1.36.0 (2023-07-19)

AEA:

• pyyaml updated, tomte updated

Plugins:

• cosmpy updated to 0.6.0

1.35.0 (2023-06-20)

Plugins:

• Adds support for multiple transaction builders on flashbots ledger plugin
• Pins
  • eth-accountto >=0.5.9,<0.6.0
  • protobuf to ==3.19.5
  • web3 to ==5.31.4
  • construct to <=2.10.61

1.34.0 (2023-05-15)

AEA:

• Fixes a bug on aea fetch command which caused issue when using the --alias flag if the package with original name already existed in the working directory #630
• Removes the need for intermediate agent for generating protocols #632
  • Adds -tlr flag on the aea generate command group
  • Adds support for registering packages to local registry on the package manager
  • Updates the ProtocolGenerator implementation to work with the local registry project structure
• Fixes IPFS local registry loader #634
• Updates the scaffold tool to register the newly scaffolded packages to packages.json to the local registry #635
• Sets the apply environment variables to true on aea build command #636

Plugins:

• Bumps solana and anchorpy to resolve dependency issues with the web3py library #637

1.33.0 (2023-05-02)

AEA:

• Updates package manager to add newly found packages to the packages.json instead of raising error #622
• Updates the package manager to add new packages to third party #627

Packages:

• Fixes ACN slow queue issue #624

Plugin:

• Attaches the plugin loggers to the correct namespace #620
• Adds logic on the flashbots plugin to check that we are simulating against the current block, and we are targeting a future block when sending a bundle #625
• Adds support for specifying base URI for the IPFS client on the IPFS cli plugin #628

Chores:

• Update release flow parameters to use kebab case to avoid deprecation warnings #623

1.32.0 (2023-04-10)

AEA:

• Updates the protocol generator to use protobuf double type to represent float values

Packages:

• Adds SEND_SIGNED_TRANSACTIONS to the initial states on the ledger connection

Plugins:

• Removes unused dependencies from solana plugin
• Adds the new plugin the the new_env target on the Makefile
• Adds support for raising on a simulation failure on the flashbots plugin
• Makes recursive and wrap_with_directory parameters configurable on the IPFS client
• Attaches the plugin loggers to the correct namespace

Chores:

• Bumps tomte to v0.2.4
• Fixes pyproject.toml syntax
• Fixes parsing issues on check_pipfile_and_toxini.py script

1.31.0 (2023-03-21)

AEA:

• Updates the error messages on the package manager for misconfigured packages.json files
• Adds support for initialising empty local packages repository using aea packkages init command
• Fixes licence headers on the newly introduced plugins
• Adds two new performatives to the ledger api protocol
  • SEND_SIGNED_TRANSACTIONS to send multiple transactions at once
  • TRANSACTION_DIGESTS to retrieve transaction digests for the transactions sent using SEND_SIGNED_TRANSACTIONS

Plugin:

• Introduces Solana ledger plugin
• Introduces Ethereum Flashbots plugin

1.30.0 (2023-03-08)

AEA:

• Adds support for syncing third party package hashes from github repositories
• Adds support for custom union types on the protocol generator
• Fixes message formatting on the configuration validator

Packages:

• Adds pytest-asyncio as a dependency on the ledger connection

Plugin:

• Introduces the open-aea-ledger-ethereum-hwi plugin to support hardware wallet interactions

1.29.0 (2023-02-02)

AEA:

• Adds support for retries on the aea push-all command using --retries flag
• Updates the aea test command to load dependencies for an agent when running test for an agent package
• Updated the protocol generator to generate tests
• Fixes for process termination in the test tools on windows

Packages:

• Replaces the usage of time.sleep with asyncio.sleep in asynchronous functions

Test:

• Adds more tests for aea test command group

1.28.0.post1 (2023-01-16)

AEA:

• Fixes the module import issue on the aea test command by removing the usage of spawned process to run the pytest command

Plugins:

• Pins proper version for cosmos plugin on the ledger plugin
• Updates the LedgerApi.update_with_gas_estimation method to raise instead of logging the error if specified by the user

Chores:

• Pins pywin32 to >=304

1.28.0 (2023-01-11)

AEA:

• Adds checks to make sure the author name and the package name are in snake case only
• Adds tools for automating the protocol tests
• Updates the test command to spawn a process for running the pytest command to make sure there are no issues with the test coverage
• Fixes a race condition found in the AsyncMultiplexer

Plugins:

• Makes the fetchai ledger plugin dependent on the cosmos plugin to prevent code duplication

Tests:

• Adds a test to showcase a race condition in AsyncMultiplexer

1.27.0 (2022-12-27)

AEA:

• Adds auto-generated protobuf *_pb2.py and *_pb2_*.py files to coveragerc ignore template for aea test command.
• Fixes comparison operators __eq__, __ne__, __lt__, __le__, __gt__, __ge__ for multiple classes including PackageVersion.
• Adds support to test packages command for the --all flag and switches default behaviour to only run tests on dev packages.
• Fixes miscellaneous issues on base test classes and adds consistency checks via meta classes.

Plugins:

• Updates open-aea-cli-ipfs to retry in case an IPFS download fails

Tests:

• Fills coverage gaps on core aea
• Fills coverage gaps on multiple packages
• Fills coverage gaps on all plugins

Chores:

• Merges the coverage checks with unit tests and removes the extra test coverage CI run.
• Cleans up release flow.
• Adds workflow for image building.

1.26.0 (2022-12-15)

AEA:

• Adds support for hashing byte strings on IPFSHashOnly tool
• Introduces CliTest tool to help with the CLI testing
• Extends aea packages lock command to update fingerprints
• Adds support for appending test coverage with previous runs on aea test command and fixes the coverage on aea test packages command
• Updates the BasePackageManager.add_package to fetch packages recursively

Plugins:

• Updates the cosmos and fetchai ledger plugins to use PyCryptodome for ripemd160 hash generation
• Adds support for publishing byte strings directly to IPFS daemons without intermediate file storage on the IPFS plugin

Chores:

• Pins tox version using tomte in the CI to maintain version consistency
• Pins go version to v1.17.7 on the CI

1.25.0 (2022-12-01)

AEA:

• Fixes the mechanism to convert the json path to environment variable string
• Updates the process of agent subprocess termination to make sure we properly terminate agents across the various operating systems
• Introduces reraise_as_click_exception to re-raise exceptions as click.ClickExceptions on command definitions
• Extends CliRunner to allow usage of capfd to capture test output
• Introduces generate_env_vars_recursively method to auto generate the environment variable names for component overrides
• Extends aea generate-key to support creating multiple keys
• Extends the package manager API to
  • Update the hashes for third party packages with a warning
  • Update the dependency hashes when locking packages
  • Verifying the dependency hashes when verifying packages
• Adds deprecation warning for aea hash all command since the same functionality is now being provided by aea packages lock command

Tests:

• Updates libp2p tests to use capsys to read stdout instead of patching sys.stdout
• Re enables tests skipped with # need remote registry comment
• Adds tests for package manager API

Chores:

• Updates the tox environment setting for unit tests to report duration of tests
• Deprecates the usage of aea hash all command from the workflow

1.24.0 (2022-11-15)

AEA:

• Adds deprecation warning for --aev flag
• Makes the usage of environment variables default
• Extends push-all command to push only the development packages
• Adds support for generating environment variable names if not provided by default
• Changes log level from debug to error on Exception handling
• Updates the configuration loader classes to make sure path string serialization is deterministic across the various platforms

Test:

• Fixes the tests skipped because of the wrongly configures ledger ID
• Adds tests to check if path string serialization is deterministic across the various platforms

Chores:

• Updates scripts/check_ipfs_hashes_pushed.py to use new packages.json format

1.23.0 (2022-11-09)

AEA:

• Extracts package manager implementation into core module
• Extends the package manager implementation to introduce separation between development and third party packages
• Extends aea packages lock command to work with new packages.json format
• Extends aea packages sync command with --dev, --third-party, --all flags to specify what packages to sync avoid updating hashes for third party packages
• Updates the check-packages command to make sure we skip open-aea when generating list for third party packages in package dependency check
• Adds proper exception handling on aea fetch command for bad packages

Chores:

• Updates dependencies in Dockerfile for documentation

1.22.0 (2022-11-01)

AEA:

• Updates the cert request serialisation process to maintain consistency across different operating systems
• Updates the get_or_create_cli_config method to return default config instead of creating one
• Introduces the copy_class utility function for testing different setup configurations
• Updates the overridable policies for the configuration classes

Packages:

• Removes the unwanted autonomy dependency from the ledger connection

Tests:

• Updates the cli config fixture to retain user config
• Fixes outbox check test
• Adds test coverage for
  • aea/cli
  • aea/configurations
  • aea/helpers
  • aea/test_tools
  • aea/manager

Docs:

• Adds documentation on the usage of component overrides

Chores:

• Adds a script to automatically generate a package table for the docs
• Introduces the usage of tomte to maintain third party dependency version consistency
• Updates the script to check the broken links to use parallelization

1.21.0 (2022-09-28)

AEA:

• Updates aea scaffold contract to include contract ABIs

Packages:

• Adds support for running local ACN nodes
• Converts ledger and http_client connections and http, ledger_api and contract_api protocols to valory packages and syncs them with open-autonomy versions of the same packages
• Extends ledger connection to automatically handle contract calls to methods not implemented in the contract package, redirecting them to a default contract method.

Plugins:

• Introduces test tools module for IPFS cli plugin

Tests:

• Fixes flaky timeout tests
• Fixes flaky DHT (ACN/Libp2p) tests on windows
• Introduces test for assessing robustness of the ACN setup without agents

Docs:

• Adds a guide on implementing contract packages

1.20.0 (2022-09-20)

AEA:

• Ensures author and year in copyright headers are updated in scaffolded components
• Updates check-packages
  • to check the presence of the constant PUBLIC_ID for connections and skills.
  • to validate author
• Fixes CLI help message for aea config set command
• Extends test command to support consistency check skips and to run tests for a specific author
• Adds proper exception raising and error handling
  • Exception handling when downloading from IPFS nodes
  • Better error message when the --aev flag is not provided
• Fixes file sorting to maintain consistency of links on PBNode object on IPFSHashOnly tool

Plugins:

• Updates the IPFS plugin to make make sure we don't use the local IPFS node unless explicitly specified

Packages:

• Ports libp2p connection packages tests
  • Ports p2p_libp2p_mailbox tests
  • Ports p2p_libp2p_client tests
  • Ports p2p_libp2p tests
• Introduces test_libp2p connection package to test libp2p integration

Chores:

• Fixes docstring formatting to make sure doc generator works fine
• Updated check_ipfs_hashes.py script to use packages.json instead of hashes.csv
• Updates the command regex to align with the latest version

1.19.0 (2022-09-14)

AEA:

• Updates the aea init command to set the local as default registry and IPFS as default remote registry
• Updates the aea test packages to include the agent tests
• Introduces
  • aea packages command group to manage local packages repository
  • aea packages lock command to lock all available packages and create packages.json file
  • aea packages sync command to synchronize the local packages repository

Chores:

• Fix README header link
• Removes shebangs from non-script files
• Adds a command validator for docs and Makefile
• Deprecates the usage of hashes.csv to maintain packages consistency

Tests:

• Fixes test failures introduced on v1.18.0

1.18.0.post1 (2022-09-06)

AEA:

• Reverts a problematic package loading logic introduced in 1.18.0

Tests:

• Fixes flaky tests

Chores:

• Restructures CI to avoid environment cross-effects between the package and framework tests

1.18.0 (2022-09-04)

AEA:

• Fixes protocol header string regex.
• Adds FIELDS_WITH_NESTED_FIELDS and NESTED_FIELDS_ALLOWED_TO_UPDATE in the base config class.
• Introduces aea test command group:
  • aea test item_type public_id: Run all tests of the AEA package specified by item_type and public_id
  • aea test by-path package_dir: Run all the tests of the AEA package located at package_dir
  • aea test packages: Runs all tests in the packages (local registry) folder.
  • aea test: Runs tests in the tests folder, if present in the agent folder.

Tests:

• Ports tests for the following packages into their respective package folders
  • packages/valory/protocols/acn
  • packages/valory/protocols/tendermint
  • packages/valory/connections/p2p_libp2p/libp2p_node/dht/dhttests
  • packages/open_aea/protocols/signing
  • packages/fetchai/skills/generic_seller
  • packages/fetchai/skills/http_echo
  • packages/fetchai/skills/echo
  • packages/fetchai/skills/erc1155_client
  • packages/fetchai/skills/gym
  • packages/fetchai/skills/erc1155_deploy
  • packages/fetchai/skills/generic_buyer
  • packages/fetchai/protocols/http
  • packages/fetchai/protocols/fipa
  • packages/fetchai/protocols/default
  • packages/fetchai/protocols/state_update
  • packages/fetchai/protocols/ledger_api
  • packages/fetchai/protocols/oef_search
  • packages/fetchai/protocols/contract_api
  • packages/fetchai/protocols/gym
  • packages/fetchai/protocols/tac
  • packages/fetchai/connections/ledger
  • packages/fetchai/connections/http_server
  • packages/fetchai/connections/local
  • packages/fetchai/connections/stub
  • packages/fetchai/connections/gym
  • packages/fetchai/connections/http_client
  • packages/fetchai/contracts/erc1155

1.17.0 (2022-08-26)

AEA:

• Updates the deploy image Dockerfile to use Python 3.10
• Updates the deploy image Dockerfile to utilize remote registry when fetching components
• Improves handling for variables with potential none values

Chore:

• Bumps mistune to a secure version
• Bumps protobuf dependencies to address dependabot security warning
• Improves command regex on scripts/check_doc_ipfs_hashes.py
• Updates tox definitions and Makefile targets to align with the latest changes

1.16.0 (2022-08-18)

AEA:

• Adds schema validation for global CLI config file
• Improves the dependency resolver
• Provides more useful error messages when circular package dependencies are present
• Adds check to make sure all the packages referenced in an AEA package's config.yaml are being used as imports in the code, and vice versa that all imported packages are reference in the config.yaml
• Adds check to make sure all the packages in an AEA project are listed in the aea-config.yaml
• Fixes a bug related to async function call on TCPSocketProtocol
• Updates transaction building to handle gas estimation properly
• Update ContractConfig class to include contract dependencies in the dependency list

Docs:

• Adds missing command on the http-echo-demo.md doc.

Chore:

• Add the gitleaks scan job

1.15.0 (2022-08-01)

AEA:

• Updates the protocol generator to use protocol generator version as a header rather than using framework version

Chore:

• Cleans up remnants of py3.6
• Updated the release process
• Adds skaffold profiles for releases

1.14.0 (2022-07-29)

AEA:

• Adds property to determine if skill is abstract in context
• Fixes ACN process termination
• Refactors ACN tests and adds auto multiplex
• Randomizes libp2p test directories
• Resolves an SSL issue

Chore:

• Updates the consistency-check script to verify that packages have been pushed to IPFS

1.13.0 (2022-07-14)

AEA:

• Add test to check package hash on signing protocol constant
• Adds support for CID v1 IPFS hashes

Plugins:

• Updates the IPFSDaemon to perform ipfs installation check only when initialised locally.

Packages:

• Upgrades certificate request dates on connection components
• Adds extra logging on internode communication

Docs:

• Adds a FAQ section

1.12.0 (2022-07-06)

AEA:

• Updated the default IPFS node multiaddr to the production one
• Fixes CSV io issues on windows
• Makes publish command patchable for open-autonomy

Plugins:

• Introduces the raise_on_retry parameter to the ledgers.

Docs:

• Updates the default font family
• Updates documentation to use IPFS hashes to work with the components

Chore:

• Fixes resolution issues for packaging dependency
• Introduces script to check IPFS hash consistency in the documentation

1.11.0 (2022-06-22)

AEA:

• Makes aea publish, aea fetch, aea push-all commands patchable to support service packages on open-autonomy

Plugins:

• Adds Proof Of Authority chain support on ethereum plugin
• Adds gas pricing mechanism for Polygon chain on ethereum plugin

Docs:

• Updates docs to use IPFS hashes to work with the packages
• Updates images are in .SVG

Chores:

• Updates the release guide
• Updates Dockerfiles to use Python 3.10
• Adds skaffold config to build and tag images

1.10.0 (2022-06-09)

AEA:

• Makes config loader patchable
• Adds support for Python 3.10 and removes support for Python 3.6
• Enables fingerprinting for files in Agent components
• Adds support for specifying vendors when generating hashes
• Enables the usage of environment variables on aea config command

Plugins:

• Introduces benchmark CLI plugin

Docs:

• Add docs for benchmark CLI plugin

Chore:

• Pins correct versions on CI workflow
• Bumps pywin32 version to 304
• Bumps black and click to stable versions
• Separates tox environments for python{3.7, 3.8, 3.9} and Python3.10

1.9.0 (2022-05-25)

AEA:

• Introduces check-packages command to check package integrity
• Introduces a new component type service
• Makes dialogues accessible via their respective handlers
• Fixes default remote registry setting bug
• Introduces push-all command to publish all available packages to a specific registry
• Updates aea hash all command to extend public ids when hashing

Docs:

• Adds docs on IPFS registry usage

Chores:

• Updates check_package_versions_in_docs.py to use new PublicId format

1.8.0 (2022-05-12)

AEA:

• Extends the run command to print all available addresses at the AEA start up.
• Introduces support for usage of hashes as a part of the PublicId
• Adds support for IPFS based registry
• Introduces dialogue cleanup
• Adds support for removing the temporal None values in the dialogue label
• Updated the profiler to
  • Removing the unwanted variables in profiling
  • Set counters also in the destructor
  • Only iterate the gc one
  • Use types blacklist
  • Get info from all objects
• Adds support for memray in the profiler
• Ports the generate_all_protocols.py and generate_ipfs_hashes.py to aea.cli as a command line tools.
• Adds support for the usage of environment variables in issue-certificates command.

Pluging:

• Updates IPFS cli plugin tool to support remote registry and extended PublicId

Packages:

• Updated tendermint/protocol for config sharing

Chores:

• Adds support for IPFS in CI for windows based environments
• Profile parser checks for non empty data before plotting
• The paths to download the packages folder with svn are now pointing to the version tag rather than main.
• Adds the missing search plugin for mkdocs.
• Adds new functionality to the log parser to add an extra plot with common objects in the garbage collector.

1.7.0 (2022-04-15)

AEA:

• List all available packages at the AEA start up.
• Updates profiler module to use tracemalloc.
• Fixes dialogue cleanup.

Plugins:

• Fixes repricing bug on ethereum plugin.
• Adds support for lazy imports on cosmos plugin.

Packages:

• Adds protocol package for tendermint.

Docs:

• Adds docs for newly introduced ACN modules and packages.

1.6.0 (2022-03-17)

AEA:

• Adds support for packages hashing with IPFSHashOnly from aea.helpers.ipfs.base
• Updates the aea run command to print hash table for available packages in an agent project

Plugins:

• Makes error raising optional when sending transactions and adds error logging for the same

Docs:

• Adds documentation for the newly introduced profiling script
• Removes reference to docs.fetch.ai

Chores:

• Adds a script to analyze and visualize profiling data from agent runs
• Updates authors list

1.5.0 (2022-02-26)

AEA:

• Adds in null equivalents so that environment variables can default to a none value
• Adds support for remote IPFS registry usage in CLI tool
• Adds support to show IPFS hashes of each component yaml at start of aea run

Plugins:

• Adds support for remote IPFS registry usage in IPFS plugin
• Fixes gas price repricing strategy in ethereum ledger plugin

Packages:

• Ports acn packages from fetchai repo
• Bumps protobuf compiler version and updates protocols

Docs:

• Adds demo of http connections and skills
• Adds demo of environment variable usage
• Adds miscellaneous updates to documentation based on developer feedback

Chores:

• Updates copyright script to support all patterns
• Simplifies Dockerfiles and removes unneeded dependencies

Plugins patch (2022-01-27)

Plugins:

• Bumps open-aea-ethereum-ledger to 1.4.1 after fixing a bug in the log retrieval logic.

1.4.0 (2022-01-26)

AEA:

• Exposes agent data directory on skill context.
• Adds support for environment variables loading from aea-config files.
• Extends contract base class to support new plugin functionality.

Plugins:

• Adds support for transaction preparation and log retrieval into the ethereum plugin.
• Adds support for retrieving the revert reason when transaction is not verified in ethereum plugin.

Docs:

• Simplifies documentation further and updates with latest features

Plugins patch (2022-01-15)

Plugins:

• Bumps open-aea-ethereum-ledger to 1.3.2 after adding tip increase logic

Plugins patch (2022-01-05)

Plugins:

• Fixes dynamic gas pricing on open-aea-ethereum
• Improves daemon availability check in IPFSDaemon on open-aea-cli-ipfs
• Bumps open-aea-cli-ipfs and open-aea-ethereum-ledger to 1.3.1

Docs:

• Removes reference to fetch.ai.

1.3.0 (2021-12-31)

AEA:

• Adds support to scaffold packages outside an AEA project
• Adds support for IPFS package hashing and IPFS based registry.
• Allows contracts to depend on other contracts.

Plugins:

• Adds support for EIP1559 based gas estimation strategy on aea-ledger-ethereum.
• Adds support for package hashing and local IPFS registry on aea-cli-ipfs.
• Bumps aea-ledger-ethereum and aea-cli-ipfs to 1.3.0.

Docs:

• Applies new styling
• Simplifies documentation and updates with latest features

1.2.0 (2021-11-21)

AEA:

• Adds type hint for dialogue valid replies in protocol generator
• Adds generator fixes to pass darglint checks
• Adds various test fixes and fixes on MAM
• Allows additional entropy to be passed to key generation in plugins (including. via CLI)
• Fixes an issue with message key-value setter
• Fixes an issue with improper termination of subprocesses in the test tools
• Fixes typing issues
• Miscellaneous minor fixes

Plugins:

• Updates aea-ledger-ethereum for EIP1159 compatibility
• Bumps aea-ledger-ethereum dependencies

Packages:

• Miscellaneous minor fixes

Docs:

• Updates API documentation

Chores:

• Enables darglint for protocols

1.1.0 (2021-10-31)

AEA:

• Forks 1.1.0 of legacy AEA with the aim of maintaining backwards compatibility where possible
• Removes GOP decision maker handler to reduce dependencies
• Removes hard-coded registry API URL
• Changes default ledger to ethereum
• Removes dependency on fetchai packages
• Removes interact command

Plugins:

• Forks plugins, unfortunately cannot maintain plugin support for legacy aea plugins due to their dependency on legacy aea
• Fixes typing issues

Packages:

• Removes most fetchai packages apart from those currently used in tests
• Adds open_aea/signing:1.0.0 protocol

Docs:

• Removes most demos

Chores:

• Makes all necessary changes to move to open-aea

Release History - legacy AEA

1.1.0 (2021-10-13)

AEA:

• Adds public keys to agent identity and skill context
• Adds contract test tool
• Adds multiprocess support for task manager
• Adds multiprocess backed support to MultiAgentManager
• Adds support for excluding connection on aea run
• Adds support for adding a key that is being generated (—add-key option for generate-key command)
• Adds check for dependencies to be present in registry on a package push
• Makes more efficient installing of project dependencies on aea install
• Adds dependency conflict detection on aea install
• Improves pip install error details on aea install
• Adds validation of aea_version when loading configuration
• Adds a check for consistency of package versions in MultiAgent Manager
• Adds better error reporting for aea registry requests
• Fixes IPFS hash calculation for large files
• Fixes protobuf dictionary serializer's uncovered cases and makes it deterministic
• Fixes scaffolding of error and decision maker handlers
• Fixes pywin32 problem when checking dependency
• Improves existing testing tools

Benchmarks:

• Adds agents construction and decision maker benchmark cases

Plugins:

• Upgrades fetchai plugin to use CosmPy instead of CLI calls
• Upgrades cosmos plugin to use CosmPy instead of CLI calls
• Upgrades fetchai plugin to use StargateWorld
• Upgrades cosmos plugin to Stargate
• Sets the correct maximum Gas for fetch.ai plugin

Packages:

• Adds support for Tac to be run against fetchai StargateWorld test-net
• Adds more informative error messages to CosmWasm ERC1155 contract
• Adds support for atomic swap to CosmWasm ERC1155 contract
• Adds an ACN protocol that formalises ACN communication using the framework's protocol language
• Adds cosm_trade protocol for preparing atomic swap transactions for cosmos-based networks
• Adds https support for server connection
• Adds parametrising of http(s) in soef connection
• Fixes http server content length response problem
• Updates Oracle contract to 0.14
• Implements the full ACN spec throughout the ACN packages
• Implements correct error code usage in ACN packages
• Refactors ACN packages to unify reused logic
• Adds tests for gym skills
• Adds dockerised SOEF
• Adds libp2p mailbox connection
• Multiple fixes and stability improvements for p2p_libp2p connections

Docs:

• Adds ACN internals documentation
• Fixes tutorial for HTTP connection and skill
• Multiple additional docs updates
• Adds more context to private keys docs

Chores:

• Various development features bumped
• Bumped Mermaid-JS, for UML diagrams to major version 8
• Applies darglint to the code

Examples:

• Adds a unified script for running various versions/modes of Tac

1.0.2 (2021-06-03)

AEA:

• Bounds versions of dependencies by next major
• Fixes incoherent warning message during package loading
• Improves various incomprehensible error messages
• Adds debug log message when abstract components are loaded
• Adds tests and minor fixes for password related CLI commands and password usage in MultiAgentManager
• Adds default error handler in MultiAgentManager
• Ensures private key checks are performed after override setting in MultiAgentManager
• Applies docstring fixes suggested by darglint
• Fixes aea push --local command to use correct author
• Fixes aea get-multiaddress command to consider overrides

Plugins:

• Bounds versions of dependencies by next major

Packages:

• Updates p2p_libp2p connection to use TCP sockets for all platforms
• Multiple fixes on libp2p_node including better error handling and stream creation
• Adds sending queue in p2p_libp2p connection to handle sending failures
• Adds unit tests for libp2p_node utils
• Adds additional tests for p2p_libp2p connection
• Fixes location bug in AW5
• Improves connection check handling in soef connection
• Updates oracle and oracle client contracts for better access control
• Adds skill tests for erc1155 skills
• Adds skill tests for aries skills
• Fixes minor bug in ML skills
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

Docs:

• Extends demo docs to include guidance of usage in AEA Manager
• Adds short guide on Kubernetes deployment
• Multiple additional docs updates

Chores:

• Adds --no-bump option to generate_all_protocols script
• Adds script to detect if aea or plugins need bumping
• Bumps various development dependencies
• Adds Golang and GCC in Windows install script
• Adds darglint to CI

Examples:

• Updates TAC deployment scripts and images

- (2021-05-05)

Packages:

• Adds node watcher to p2p_libp2p connection
• Improves logging and error handling in p2p_libp2p node
• Addresses potential overflow issue in p2p_libp2p node
• Fixes concurrency issue in p2p_libp2p node which could lead to wrongly ordered envelopes
• Improves logging in TAC skills
• Fixes Exception handling in connect/disconnect calls of soef connection
• Extends public DHT tests to include staging
• Adds tests for envelope ordering for all routes
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

1.0.1 (2021-04-30)

AEA:

• Fixes wheels issue for Windows
• Fixes password propagation for certificate issuance in MultiAgentManager
• Improves error message when local registry not present

AEALite:

• Adds full protocol support
• Adds end-to-end interaction example with AEA (based on fetchai/fipa protocol)
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

Packages:

• Fixes multiple bugs in ERC1155 version of TAC
• Refactors p2p connections for better separation of concerns and maintainability
• Integrates aggregation with simple oracle skill
• Ensures genus and classifications are used in all skills using SOEF
• Extends SOEF connection to implement oef_search protocol fully
• Handles SOEF failures in skills
• Adds simple aggregation skills including tests and docs
• Adds tests for registration AW agents
• Adds tests for reconnection logic in p2p connections
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

Docs:

• Extends car park demo with usage guide for AEA manager
• Multiple additional docs updates

Examples:

• Adds TAC deployment example

1.0.0 (2021-03-30)

• Improves contributor guide
• Enables additional pylint checks
• Adds configuration support on exception behaviour in ledger plugins
• Improves exception handling in aea-ledger-cosmos and aea-ledger-fetchai plugins
• Improves quickstart guide
• Fixes multiple flaky tests
• Fixes various outdated metadata
• Resolves a CVE (CVE-2021-27291) affecting development dependencies
• Adds end-to-end support and tests for simple oracle on Ethereum and Fetch.ai ledgers
• Multiple minor fixes
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

1.0.0rc2 (2021-03-28)

• Extends CLI command aea fingerprint to allow fingerprinting of agents
• Improves deploy-image Docker example
• Fixes a bug in MultiAgentManager which leaves it in an unclean state when project adding fails
• Fixes dependencies of aea-legder-fetchai
• Improves guide on HTTP client and server connection
• Removes pickle library usage in the ML skills
• Adds various consistency checks in configurations
• Replaces usage of pyaes with pycryptodome in plugins
• Changes generator to avoid non-idiomatic usage of type checks
• Multiple minor fixes
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

1.0.0rc1 (2021-03-24)

• Adds CLI command aea get-public-key
• Adds support for encrypting private keys at rest
• Adds support for configuration of decision maker and error handler instances from aea-config.yaml
• Adds support for explicitly marking behaviours and handlers as dynamic
• Adds support for fetchai ledger to oracle skills and contract
• Adds timeout support on multiplexer calls to connections
• Fixes bug in regex constrained string for id validation
• Adds docs section on how AEAs satisfy 12-factor methodology
• Adds docs section on tradeoffs made in v1
• Adds example for logs streaming to browser
• Removes multiple temporary hacks for backwards compatibility
• Adds skills tests coverage for echo and http_echo skills
• Adds required_ledgers field in aea-config.yaml
• Removes registry_path field in aea-config.yaml
• Adds message_format field to cert requests
• Removes requirement for exact protocol buffers compiler, prints version used in protocols
• Adds support to configure task manager mode via aea-config.yaml
• Fixed spelling across docstrings in code base
• Multiple minor fixes
• Multiple docs updates to fix order of CLI commands with respect to installing dependencies
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.11.2 (2021-03-17)

• Fixes a package import issue
• Fixes an issue where AgentLoop did not teardown properly under certain conditions
• Fixes a bug in testing tools
• Fixes a bug where plugins are not loaded after installation in MultiAgentManager
• Adds unit tests for weather, thermometer and car park skills
• Fixes a missing dependency in Windows
• Improves SOEF connections' error handling
• Fixes bug in ML skills and adds unit tests
• Adds script to bump plugin versions
• Adds gas price strategy support in aea-ledger-ethereum plugin
• Adds CLI plugin for IPFS interactions (add/get)
• Adds support for CLI plugins to framework
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.11.1 (2021-03-06)

• Bumps aiohttp to >=3.7.4 to address a CVE affecting http_server, http_client and webhook connections
• Adds script to ensure Pipfile and tox.ini dependencies align
• Enforces presence of protocol_specification_id in protocol.yaml
• Adds support for installation of agent-level PyPI dependencies in AEABuilder
• Sets default ledger plugin during aea create
• Updates various agent packages with missing ledger plugin dependencies
• Bumps various development dependencies
• Renames coin_price skill to advanced_data_request skill and generalises it
• Updates fetch_beacon skill to use ledger connection
• Multiple docs updates to fix order of CLI commands with respect to installing dependencies
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.11.0 (2021-03-04)

• Adds slots usage in frequently used framework objects, including Dialogue
• Fixes a bug in aea upgrade command where eject prompt was not offered
• Refactors skill component configurations to allow for skill components (Handler, Behaviour, Model) to be placed anywhere in a skill
• Extends skill component configuration to specify optional file_path field
• Extracts all ledger specific functionality in plugins
• Improves error logging in http server connection
• Updates Development - Use case documentation
• Adds restart support to p2p_libp2p connection on read/write failure
• Adds validation of default routing and default connection configuration
• Refactors and significantly simplifies routing between components
• Limits usage of EnvelopeContext
• Adds support for new CosmWasm message format in ledger plugins
• Adds project loading checks and optional auto removal in MultiAgentManager
• Adds support for reuse of threaded Multiplexer
• Fixes bug in TAC which caused agents to make suboptimal trades
• Adds support to specify dependencies on aea-config.yaml level
• Improves release scripts
• Adds lightweight Golang AEALite library
• Adds support for skill-to-skill messages
• Removes CLI GUI
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.10.1 (2021-02-21)

• Changes default URL of soef connection to https
• Improves teardown, retry and edge case handling of p2p_libp2p and p2p_libp2p_client connections
• Adds auto-generation of private keys to MultiAgentManager
• Exposes address getters on MultiAgentManager
• Improves package validation error messages
• Simplifies default DecisionMakerHandler and extracts advanced features in separate class
• Fixes task manager and its usage in skills
• Adds support for multi-language protocol stub generation
• Adds data_dir usage to additional connections
• Adds IO helper function for consistent file usage
• Extends release helper scripts
• Removes stub connection as default connection
• Adds support for AEA usage without connections
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.10.0 (2021-02-11)

• Removes error skill from agents which do not need it
• Adds support for relay connection reconnect in ACN
• Multiplexer refactoring for easier connection handling
• Fix erc1155 skill tests on CosmWasm chains
• Extends docs on usage of CosmWasm chains
• Adds version compatibility in aea upgrade command
• Introduces protocol specification id and related changes for better interoperability
• Adds synchronous connection base class
• Exposes state setter in connection base class
• Adds Yoti protocol and connection
• Multiple updates to generic buyer
• Adds additional automation to MultiAgentManager, including automated handling of certs, keys and other package specific data
• Multiple test improvements and fixes
• Add stricter typing and checks
• Fixes to MacOS install script
• Adds threading patch for web3
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.9.2 (2021-01-21)

• Fixes CosmosApi, in particular for CosmWasm
• Fixes error output from add-key CLI command
• Update aea_version in non-vendor packages when calling upgrade CLI command
• Extend upgrade command to fetch newer agent if present on registry
• Add support for mixed fetch mode in MultiAgentManager
• Fixes logging overrides in MultiAgentManager
• Configuration overrides now properly handle None values
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.9.1 (2021-01-14)

• Fixes multiple issues with MultiAgentManager including overrides not being correctly applied
• Restructures docs navigation
• Updates MultiAgentManager documentation
• Extends functionality of aea upgrade command to cover more cases
• Fixes a bug in the aea upgrade command which prevented upgrading across version minors
• Fixes a bug in aea fetch where the console output was inconsistent with the actual error
• Fixes scaffold connection constructor
• Multiple additional tests to improve stability
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.9.0 (2021-01-06)

• Adds multiple bug fixes on MultiAgentManager
• Adds AgentConfigManager for better programmatic configuration management
• Fixes auto-filling of aea_version field in AEA configuration
• Adds tests for confirmation skills AW2/3
• Extends MultiAgentManager to support proper configuration overriding
• Fixes ML skills demo
• Fixes environment variable resolution in configuration files
• Adds support to fingerprint packages by providing a path
• Adds local-registry-sync CLI command to sync local and remote registry
• Adds support to push vendorised packages to local registry
• Adds missing tests for code in documentation
• Adds prompt in scaffold protocol CLI command to hint at protocol generator
• Adds issue-certificates CLI command for Proof of Representation
• Adds cert_requests support in connections for Proof of Representation
• Adds support for Proof of Representation in ACN (p2p_libp2p* connections)
• Adds automated spell checking for all .md files and makes related fixes
• Multiple additional tests to improve stability
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.8.0 (2020-12-17)

• Adds support for protocol dialogue rules validation
• Fixes URL forwarding in http server connection
• Revises protocols to correctly define terminal states
• Adds a build command
• Adds build command support for libp2p connection
• Adds multiple fixes to libp2p connection
• Adds prometheus connection and protocol
• Adds tests for confirmation AW1 skill
• Adds oracle demo docs
• Replaces pickle with protobuf in all protocols
• Refactors OEF models to account for semantic irregularities
• Updates docs for demos relying on Ganache
• Adds generic storage support
• Adds configurable dialogue offloading
• Fixes transaction generation on confirmation bugs
• Fixes transaction processing order in all buyer skills
• Extends ledger API protocol to query ledger state
• Adds remove-key command in CLI
• Multiple tac stability fixes
• Adds support for configurable error handler
• Multiple additional tests to improve stability
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.7.5 (2020-11-25)

• Adds AW3 AEAs
• Adds basic oracle skills and contracts
• Replaces usage of Ropsten testnet with Ganache in packages
• Fixes multiplexer setup when used outside AEA
• Improves help command output of CLI
• Adds integration tests for simple skills
• Adds version check on CLI push
• Adds integration tests for tac negotiation skills
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.7.4 (2020-11-18)

• Replaces error skill handler usage with built in handler
• Extends MultiAgentManager to support persistence between runs
• Replaces usage of Ropsten testnet with Ganache
• Adds support for symlink creation during scaffold and add
• Makes contract interface loading extensible
• Adds support for PEP561
• Adds integration tests for launcher command
• Adds support for storage of unique page address in SOEF
• Fixes publish command bug on Windows
• Refactors constants usage throughout
• Adds support for profiling on aea run
• Multiple stability improvements to core asynchronous modules
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.7.3 (2020-11-12)

• Extends AW AEAs
• Fixes overwriting of private key files on startup
• Fixes behaviour bugs
• Adds tests for tac participation skill
• Adds development setup guide
• Improves exception logging for easier debugging
• Fixes mixed mode in upgrade command
• Reduces verbosity of some CLI commands
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.7.2 (2020-11-09)

• Fixes some AW2 AEAs
• Improves generic buyer AEA
• Fixes a few backwards incompatibilities on CLI (upgrade, add, fetch) introduced in 0.7.1
• Fixes geolocation in some tests
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.7.1 (2020-11-05)

• Adds two AEAs for Agent World 2
• Refactors dialogue class to optimize for memory
• Refactors message class to optimize for memory
• Adds mixed registry mode to CLI and makes it default
• Extends upgrade command to automatically update references of non-vendor packages
• Adds deployment scripts for kubernetes
• Extends configuration set/get support for lists and dictionaries
• Fixes location specifiers throughout code base
• Imposes limits on length of user defined strings like author and package name
• Relaxes version specifiers for some dependencies
• Adds support for skills to reference connections as dependencies
• Makes ledger and currency ids configurable
• Adds test coverage for the tac control skills
• Improves quick start guidance and adds docker images
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.7.0 (2020-10-22)

• Adds two AEAs for Agent World 1
• Adds support to apply configuration overrides to CLI calls transfer and get-wealth
• Adds install scripts to install AEA and dependencies on all major OS (Windows, MacOs, Ubuntu)
• Adds developer mailing list opt-in step to CLI init
• Modifies custom configurations in aea-config to use public id
• Adds all non-optional fields in aea-config by default
• Fixes upgrade command to properly handle dependencies of non-vendor packages
• Remove all distributed packages and add them to registry
• Adds public ids to all skill init files and makes it a requirement
• Adds primitive benchmarks for libp2p node
• Adds Prometheus monitoring to libp2p node
• Makes body a private attribute in message base class
• Renames bodyy to body in HTTP protocol
• Adds support for abstract connections
• Refactors protobuf schemas for protocols to avoid code duplication
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.6.3 (2020-10-16)

• Adds skill testing tools and documentation
• Adds human readable log output regarding configuration for p2p_libp2p connection
• Adds support to install PyPI dependencies from AEABuilder and MultiAgentManager
• Adds CLI upgrade command to upgrade entire agent project and components
• Extends CLI remove command to include option to remove dependencies
• Extends SOEF chain identifier support
• Adds CLI transfer command to transfer wealth
• Adds integration tests for skills generic buyer and seller using skill testing tool
• Adds validation of component configurations when setting component configuration overrides
• Multiple refactoring of internal configuration and helper objects and methods
• Fix a bug on CLI push local with latest rather than version specifier
• Adds README.md files in all agent projects
• Adds agent name in logger paths of runnable objects
• Fixes tac skills to work with and without ERC1155 contract
• Adds additional validations on message flow
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.6.2 (2020-10-01)

• Adds MultiAgentManager to manage multiple agent projects programmatically
• Improves SOEF connection reliability on unregister
• Extends configuration classes to handle overriding configurations programmatically
• Improves configuration schemas and validations
• Fixes Multiplexer termination errors
• Allow finer-grained override of component configurations from aea-config
• Fixes tac controller to work with Ethereum contracts again
• Fixes multiple deploy and development scripts
• Introduces isort to development dependencies for automated import sorting
• Adds reset password command to CLI
• Adds support for abbreviated public ids (latest) to CLI and configurations
• Adds additional documentation string linters for improved API documentation checks
• Multiple docs updates including additional explanations of ACN architecture
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.6.1 (2020-09-17)

• Adds a standalone script to deploy an ACN node
• Adds filtering of out-dated addresses in DHT lookups
• Updates multiple developer scripts
• Increases code coverage of all protocols to 100%
• Fixes a disconnection issue of the multiplexer
• Extends soef connection to support additional registration commands and search responses
• Extends oef_search protocol to include success performative and agent info in search response
• Adds README.md files to all skills
• Adds configurable exception policy handling for multiplexer
• Fixes support for http headers in http server connection
• Adds additional consistency checks on addresses in dialogues
• Exposes decision maker address on skill context
• Adds comprehensive benchmark scripts
• Multiple docs updates including additional explanations of soef usage
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.6.0 (2020-09-01)

• Makes FetchAICrypto default again
• Bumps web3 dependencies
• Introduces support for arbitrary protocol handling by DM
• Removes custom fields in signing protocol
• Refactors and updates dialogue and dialogues models
• Moves dialogue module to protocols module
• Introduces MultiplexerStatus to collect aggregate connection status
• Moves Address types from mail to common
• Updates FetchAICrypto to work with Agentland
• Fixes circular dependencies in helpers and configurations
• Unifies contract loading with loading mechanism of other packages
• Adds get-multiaddress command to CLI
• Updates helpers scripts
• Introduces MultiInbox to unify internal message handling
• Adds additional linters (eradicate, more pylint options)
• Improves error reporting in libp2p connection
• Replaces all assert statements with proper exceptions
• Adds skill id to envelope context for improved routing
• Refactors IPC pipes
• Refactors core dependencies
• Adds support for multi-page agent configurations
• Adds type field to all package configurations
• Multiple docs updates including additional explanations of contracts usage
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.5.4 (2020-08-13)

• Adds support for Windows in P2P connections
• Makes all tests Windows compatible
• Adds integration tests for P2P public DHT
• Modifies contract base class to make it cross-ledger compatible
• Changes dialogue reference nonce generation
• Fixes tac skills (non-contract versions)
• Fixes Aries identity skills
• Extends cosmos crypto API to support cosmwasm
• Adds full test coverage for framework and connection packages
• Multiple docs updates including automated link integrity checks
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.5.3 (2020-08-05)

• Adds support for re-starting agent after stopping it
• Adds full test coverage for protocols generator
• Adds support for dynamically adding handlers
• Improves P2P connection startup reliability
• Addresses P2P connection race condition with long running processes
• Adds connection states in connections
• Applies consistent logger usage throughout
• Adds key rotation and randomised locations for integration tests
• Adds request delays in SOEF connection to avoid request limits
• Exposes runtime states on agent and removes agent liveness object
• Adds readme files in protocols and connections
• Improves edge case handling in dialogue models
• Adds support for cosmwasm message signing
• Adds test coverage for test tools
• Adds dialogues models in all connections where required
• Transitions ERC1155 skills and simple search to SOEF and P2P
• Adds full test coverage for skills modules
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.5.2 (2020-07-21)

• Transitions demos to agent-land test network, P2P and SOEF connections
• Adds full test coverage for helpers modules
• Adds full test coverage for core modules
• Adds CLI functionality to upload README.md files with packages
• Adds full test coverage for registries module
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.5.1 (2020-07-14)

• Adds support for agent name being appended to all log statements
• Adds redesigned GUI
• Extends dialogue API for easier dialogue maintenance
• Resolves blocking logic in OEF and gym connections
• Adds full test coverage on AEA modules configurations, components and mail
• Adds ping background task for soef connection
• Adds full test coverage for all connection packages
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.5.0 (2020-07-06)

• Refactors all connections to be fully asynchronous friendly
• Adds almost complete test coverage on connections
• Adds complete test coverage for CLI and CLI GUI
• Fixes CLI GUI functionality and removes OEF node dependency
• Refactors P2P go code and increases test coverage
• Refactors protocol generator for higher code reusability
• Adds option for skills to depend on other skills
• Adds abstract skills option
• Adds ledger connections to execute ledger related queries and transactions, removes ledger APIs from skill context
• Adds contracts registry and removes them from skill context
• Rewrites all skills to be fully message based
• Replaces internal messages with protocols (signing and state update)
• Multiple refactoring to improve pylint adherence
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple test stability fixes

0.4.1 (2020-06-15)

• Updates component package module loading for skill and connection
• Unifies component package loading across package types
• Adds connections registry to resources
• Upgrades CLI commands for easier programmatic usage
• Adds AEARunner and AEALauncher for programmatic launch of multiple agents
• Refactors AEABuilder to support reentrancy and resetting
• Fixes tac packages to work with ERC1155 contract
• Multiple refactoring to improve public and private access patterns
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple test stability fixes

0.4.0 (2020-06-08)

• Updates message handling in skills
• Replaces serialiser implementation; all serialization is now performed framework side
• Updates all skills for compatibility with new message handling
• Updates all protocols and protocol generator
• Updates package loading mechanism
• Adds p2p_libp2p_client connection
• Fixes CLI bugs and refactors CLI
• Adds eject command to CLI
• Exposes identity and connection cryptos to all connections
• Updates connection loading mechanism
• Updates all connections for compatibility with new loading mechanism
• Extracts multiplexer into its own module
• Implements list all CLI command
• Updates wallet to split into several crypto stores
• Refactors component registry and resources
• Extends soef connection functionality
• Implements AEABuilder reentrancy
• Updates p2p_libp2p connection
• Adds support for configurable runtime
• Refactors documentation
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple test stability fixes

0.3.3 (2020-05-24)

• Adds option to pass ledger APIs to AEABuilder
• Refactors decision maker: separates interface and implementation; adds loading mechanisms so framework users can provide their own implementation
• Adds asynchronous and synchronous agent loop implementations; agent can be run in both sync and async mode
• Completes transition to atomic CLI commands (fetch, generate, scaffold)
• Refactors dialogue API: adds much simplified API; updates generator accordingly; updates skills
• Adds support for crypto module extensions: framework users can register their own crypto module
• Adds crypto module and ledger support for cosmos
• Adds simple-oef (soef) connection
• Adds p2p_libp2p connection for true P2P connectivity
• Adds PyPI dependency consistency checks for AEA projects
• Refactors CLI for improved programmatic usage of components
• Adds skill exception handling policies and configuration options
• Adds comprehensive documentation of configuration files
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple test stability fixes

0.3.2 (2020-05-07)

• Adds dialogue generation functionality to protocol generator
• Fixes add CLI commands to be atomic
• Adds Windows platform support
• Stability improvements to test pipeline
• Improves test coverage of CLI
• Implements missing doc tests
• Implements end-to-end tests for all skills
• Adds missing agent projects to registry
• Improves AEABuilder class for programmatic usage
• Exposes missing AEA configurations on agent configuration file
• Extends Aries demo
• Adds method to check stdout for test cases
• Adds code of conduct and security guidelines to repo
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple additional unit tests
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.3.1 (2020-04-27)

• Adds p2p_stub connection
• Adds p2p_noise connection
• Adds webhook connection
• Upgrades error handling for error skill
• Fixes default timeout on main agent loop and provides setter in AEABuilder
• Adds multithreading support for launch command
• Provides support for keyword arguments to AEA constructor to be set on skill context
• Renames ConfigurationType with PackageType for consistency
• Provides a new AEATestCase class for improved testing
• Adds execution time limits for act/react calls
• TAC skills refactoring and contract integration
• Supports contract dependencies being added automatically
• Adds HTTP example skill
• Allows for skill inactivation during initialisation
• Improves error messages on skill loading errors
• Improves README.md files, particularly for PyPI
• Adds support for Location based queries and descriptions
• Refactors skills tests to use AEATestCase
• Adds fingerprint and scaffold CLI command for contract
• Adds multiple additional docs tests
• Makes task manager initialize pool lazily
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple additional unit tests
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.3.0 (2020-04-02)

• Introduces IPFS based hashing of files to detect changes, ensure consistency and allow for content addressing
• Introduces aea fingerprint command to CLI
• Adds support for contract type packages which wrap smart contracts and their APIs
• Introduces AEABuilder class for much improved programmatic usage of the framework
• Moves protocol generator into alpha stage for light protocols
• Switches CLI to use remote registry by default
• Comprehensive documentation updates on new and existing features
• Additional demos to introduce the contracts functionality
• Protocol, Contract, Skill and Connection inherits from the same class, Component
• Improved APIs for Configuration classes
• All protocols now generated with protocol generator
• Multiple additional unit tests
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.2.4 (2020-03-25)

• Breaking change to all protocols as we transition to auto-generated protocols
• Fixes to protocol generator to move it to alpha status
• Updates to documentation on protocols and OEF search and communication nodes
• Improvements and fixes to AEA launch command
• Multiple docs updates and restructuring
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.2.3 (2020-03-19)

• Fixes stub connection file I/O
• Fixes OEF connection teardown
• Fixes CLI GUI subprocesses issues
• Adds support for URI based routing of envelopes
• Improves skill guide by adding a service provider agent
• Protocol generator bug fixes
• Add aea_version field to package YAML files for version management
• Multiple docs updates and restructuring
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.2.2 (2020-03-09)

• Fixes registry to only load registered packages
• Migrates default protocol to generator produced version
• Adds http connection and http protocol
• Adds CLI init command for easier setting of author
• Refactoring and behind the scenes improvements to CLI
• Multiple docs updates
• Protocol generator improvements and fixes
• Adds CLI launch command to launch multiple agents
• Increases test coverage for AEA package and tests package
• Make project comply with PEP 518
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.2.1 (2020-02-21)

• Add minimal aea install
• Updates finite state machine behaviour to use any simple behaviour in states
• Adds example of programmatic and CLI based AEAs interacting
• Exposes the logger on the skill context
• Adds serialization (encoding/decoding) support to protocol generator
• Adds additional docs and videos
• Introduces test coverage to all code in docs
• Increases test coverage for AEA package
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.2.0 (2020-02-07)

• Skills can now programmatically register behaviours
• Tasks are no longer a core component of the skill, the functor pattern is used
• Refactors the task manager
• Adds nonces to transaction data so transactions can be verified
• Adds documentation for the protocol generator
• Fixes several compatibility issues between CLI and registry
• Adds skills to connect a thermometer to an AEA
• Adds generic buyer and seller skills
• Adds much more documentation on AEA vs MVC frameworks, core components, new guides and more
• Removes the wallet from the agent constructor and moves it to the AEA constructor
• Allows behaviours to be initialized from a skill
• Adds multiple improvements to the protocol generator, including custom types and serialization
• Removes the default crypto object
• Replaces SharedClass with Model taxonomy for easier transition for web developers
• Adds bandit to CLI for security checks
• Makes private key paths in configurations a dictionary so values can be set from CLI
• Introduces Identity object
• Increases test coverage
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.17 (2020-01-27)

• Add programmatic mode flag to AEA
• Introduces vendorised project structure
• Adds further tests for decision maker
• Upgrades sign transaction function for Ethereum API proxy
• Adds black and bugbear to linters
• Applies public id usage throughout AEA business logic
• Adds guide on how to deploy an AEA on a raspberry pi
• Addresses multiple issues in the protocol generator
• Fixes aea-config
• Adds CLI commands to create wealth and get wealth and address
• Change default author and license
• Adds guide on agent vs AEAs
• Updates docs and improves guides
• Adds support for inactivating skills programmatically
• Makes decision maker run in separate thread
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.16 (2020-01-12)

• Completes tac skills implementation
• Adds default ledger field to agent configuration
• Converts ledger APIs to dictionary fields in agent configuration
• Introduces public ids to CLI and deprecate usage of package names only
• Adds local push and public commands to CLI
• Introduces ledger API abstract class
• Unifies import paths for static and dynamic imports
• Disambiguates import paths by introducing pattern of packages.author.package_type_pluralized.package_name
• Adds agent directory to packages with some samples
• Adds protocol generator and exposes on CLI
• Removes unused configuration fields
• Updates docs to align with recent changes
• Adds additional tests on CLI
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.15 (2019-12-19)

• Moves non-default packages from AEA to packages directory
• Supports get & set on package configurations
• Changes skill configuration resource types from lists to dictionaries
• Adds additional features to decision maker
• Refactors most protocols and improves their API
• Removes multiple unintended side-effects of the CLI
• Improves dependency referencing in configuration files
• Adds push and publish functionality to CLI
• Introduces simple and composite behaviours and applies them in skills
• Adds URI to envelopes
• Adds guide for programmatic assembly of an AEA
• Adds guide on agent-oriented development
• Multiple minor doc updates
• Adds additional tests
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.14 (2019-11-29)

• Removes dependency on OEF SDK's FIPA API
• Replaces dialogue id with dialogue references
• Improves CLI logging and list/search command output
• Introduces multiplexer and removes mailbox
• Adds much improved tac skills
• Adds support for CLI integration with registry
• Increases test coverage to 99%
• Introduces integration tests for skills and examples
• Adds support to run multiple connections from CLI
• Updates the docs and adds UML diagrams
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.13 (2019-11-08)

• Adds envelope serialiser
• Adds support for programmatically initializing an AEA
• Adds some tests for the GUI and other components
• Exposes connection status to skills
• Updates OEF connection to re-establish dropped connections
• Updates the car park agent
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.12 (2019-11-01)

• Adds TCP connection (server and client)
• Fixes some examples and docs
• Refactors crypto modules and adds additional tests
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.11 (2019-10-30)

• Adds Python 3.8 test coverage
• Adds almost complete test coverage on AEA package
• Adds filter concept for message routing
• Adds ledger integrations for Fetch.ai and Ethereum
• Adds car park examples and ledger examples
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.10 (2019-10-19)

• Compatibility fixes for Ubuntu and Windows platforms
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.9 (2019-10-18)

• Stability improvements
• Higher test coverage, including on Python 3.6
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.8 (2019-10-18)

• Multiple bug fixes and improvements to GUI of CLI
• Adds full test coverage on CLI
• Improves docs
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.7 (2019-10-14)

• Adds GUI to interact with CLI
• Adds new connection stub to read from/write to file
• Adds ledger entities (fetchai and Ethereum); creates wallet for ledger entities
• Adds more documentation and fixes old one
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.6 (2019-10-04)

• Adds several new skills
• Extended docs on framework and skills
• Introduces core framework components like decision maker and shared classes
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.5 (2019-09-26)

• Adds scaffolding command to the CLI tool
• Extended docs
• Increased test coverage
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.4 (2019-09-20)

• Adds CLI functionality to add connections
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.3 (2019-09-19)

• Adds Jenkins for CI
• Adds docker develop image
• Parses dependencies of connections/protocols/skills on the fly
• Adds validations of configuration files
• Adds first two working skills and fixes gym examples
• Adds docs
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.2 (2019-09-16)

• Adds AEA CLI tool.
• Adds AEA skills framework.
• Introduces static typing checks across AEA, using Mypy.
• Extends gym example

0.1.1 (2019-09-04)

• Provides examples and fixes.

0.1.0 (2019-08-21)

• Initial release of the package.