KGI v0.1.17

This version brings:

• On the backend side, alignment with the latest version of Kaspad (v0.12.4).
• On the frontend side, many improvements in user experience, a new theme, a Kaspa logo binding visually the app to the Kaspa brand.
• An embryonic "about" functionality, emerging as a logo tooltip showing the app & node versions and the network.

Work in progress:

• As a first visual clue, in response to issue #41, logo do differ for mainnet and testnet.
• The web application is embeddable as a widget into a third-party site.

Changelog

Non-breaking changes:

• Modules security & upgrade maintenance (#28)
• Fix the last dependabot security alerts (#29)
• Enhance web tier with a logo and some transitions (#31)
• Enhance the DAG UX (#33)
• Align free space to the right of DAG head, issue #32 (#34)
• Add a mark to edges bound to selected block (#35)
• Use the new Kaspa logo (#37)
• Add support for SSL/https to API (#40)
• App as widget (#42 & #43)
• Align with kaspad v0.12.1 (#36)
• Align with kaspad v0.12.2 (#44)
• Align with kaspad v0.12.3 (#45)
• Align with kaspad v0.12.4 (#46)
• About feature (#47 & #48)

Full Changelog: v0.1.16...v0.1.17

KGI v0.1.16

This version enhances the DAG navigation thanks to the block inspector displaying now also the children of the inspected block. The navigation happens backwards by clicking a parent or merged block hash and forwards by clicking a child block hash. These commands are handled in-app so the user experience occurs smoothly (no page reload, block inspector remains opened).

On the backend side, the processing tier accepts new flags:

• --appdir defines the home directory for storing the node data and app logs
• --logdir defines the directory for storing the logs
• --resync forces to process all blocks from pruning point up to virtual, even the blocks already stored in the database
• --clear-db clears the PostgrSQL database and syncs from scratch
• --loglevel Logging level for all subsystems {trace, debug, info, warn, error, critical}

This version also features a robustified synchronizing engine that solves a rare issue of a missing parent when processing a block.

Changelog

Breaking changes:

• The default application directory is now ~/.kgi-processing/<network_name> instead of ~/.kaspa-graph-inspector. The database sub-directory remains database, located under the application directory. You can direct kgi-processing to the directory in use by previous versions using the appdir flag.
• The default log directory is now ~/.kgi-processing/<netword_name>/logs instead of ~/.kaspa-graph-inspector. You can direct kgi-processing to the directory in use by previous versions using the logdir flag.

Non-breaking changes:

• Handle hash navigation in-app (#25)
• Enhance the cache with LRU feature (#26)
• Navigate the DAG through block children (#27)

Full Changelog: v0.1.15...v0.1.16