-`set_ca_cert`/`remove_ca_cert` proposals have been renamed `set_ca_cert_bundle`/`remove_ca_cert_bundle` and now also accept a bundle of certificates encoded as concatenated PEM string (#2221).
- Nodes' quotes format updated to Open Enclave's `SGX_ECDSA`. Quote endorsements are also stored in CCF and can be retrieved via the `quotes/self` and `quotes` endpoints (#2161).
-`get_quote_for_this_node_v1()` takes a `QuoteInfo` structure (containing the format, raw quote and corresponding endorsements) as out parameter instead of the distinct format and raw quote as two out paramters (#2161).
- Governance proposal ids are now digests of the proposal and store state observed during their creation, hex-encoded as strings. This makes votes entirely specific to an instance of a proposal without having to include a nonce. (#2104, #2135).
-`TxView`s have been renamed to `MapHandle`s, to clearly distinguish them from consensus views. Calls to `tx.get_view` must be replaced with `tx.rw`.
-`tx.rw` does not support retrieving multiple views in a single call. Instead of `auto [view1, view2] = tx.get_view(map1, map2);`, you must write `auto handle1 = tx.rw(map1); auto handle2 = tx.rw(map2);`.
- Added `get_version_of_previous_write(const K& k)` to `MapHandle`. If this entry was written to by a previous transaction, this returns the version at which that transaction was applied. See docs for more details.
- The `x-ccf-global-commit` header is no longer sent with responses (#1586, #2144). This was a hint of global commit progress, but was known to be imprecise and unrelated to the executed transaction. Instead, clients should call `/commit` to monitor commit progress or `/tx` for a specific transaction.
- JS endpoints now list their auth policies by name, similar to C++ endpoints. The fields `require_client_identity`, `require_client_signature`, and `require_jwt_authentication` are removed, and should be replaced by `authn_policies`. For example, the previous default `"require_client_identity": true` should be replaced with `"authn_policies": ["user_cert"]`, an endpoint which would like to handle a JWT but will also accept unauthenticated requests would be `"authn_policies": ["jwt", "no_auth"]`, and a fully unauthenticated endpoint would be `"authn_policies": []`. See [docs](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/build_apps/js_app_bundle.html#metadata) for further detail.
- Versioned APIs for common CCF functionality: `get_status_for_txid_v1`, `get_last_committed_txid_v1`, `generate_openapi_document_v1`, `get_receipt_for_seqno_v1`, `get_quote_for_this_node_v1`. We will aim to support these function signatures long-term, and provide similar functionality with incremental version bumps when this is no longer possible. In particular, this enables building an app which does not expose the [default endpoints](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/build_apps//logging_cpp.html#default-endpoints) but instead exposes similar functionality through its own API.
-`/network`, `/network_info`, `/node/ids`, `/primary_info` have been restructured into `/network`, `/network/nodes`, `/network/nodes/{id}`, `/network/nodes/self`, `/network/nodes/primary` while also changing the response schemas (#1954).
- To avoid accidentally unauthenticated endpoints, a vector of authentication policies must now be specified at construction (as a new argument to `make_endpoint`) rather than by calling `add_authentication`. The value `ccf::no_auth_required` must be used to explicitly indicate an unauthenticated endpoint.
- All `/gov` endpoints accept signature authentication alone correctly, regardless of session authentication.
-`ccf.CCFClient` now allows separate `session_auth` and `signing_auth` to be passed as construction time. `ccf.CCFClient.call()` no longer takes a `signed` argument, clients with a `signing_auth` always sign. Similarly, the `disable_session_auth` constructor argument is removed, the same effect can be achieved by setting `session_auth` to `None`.
- All `/gov` endpoints accept signature authentication again. Read-only `/gov` endpoints had been incorrectly changed in [0.16.1] to accept session certification authentication only (#2033).
- Code ids are now deleted rather than marked as `RETIRED`. `ACTIVE` is replaced with the more precise `ALLOWED_TO_JOIN` (#1996).
- Authentication policies can be specified per-endpoint with `add_authentication`. Sample policies are implemented which check for a user TLS handshake, a member TLS handshake, a user HTTP signature, a member HTTP signature, and a valid JWT. This allows multiple policies per-endpoints, and decouples auth from frontends - apps can define member-only endpoints (#2010).
- By default, if no authentication policy is specified, endpoints are now unauthenticated and accessible to anyone (previously the default was user TLS handshakes, where the new default is equivalent to `set_require_client_identity(false)`).
- The methods `Endpoint::set_require_client_signature`, `Endpoint::set_require_client_identity` and `Endpoint::set_require_jwt_authentication` are removed, and should be replaced by calls to `add_authentication`. For unauthenticated endpoints, either add no policies, or add the built-in `empty_auth` policy which accepts all requests.
-`.set_require_client_signature(true)` must be replaced with `.add_authentication(user_signature_auth_policy)`
-`.set_require_client_identity(true)` must be replaced with `.add_authentication(user_cert_auth_policy)`
-`.set_require_jwt_authentication(true)` must be replaced with `.add_authentication(jwt_auth_policy)`
- C++ apps can be built using cmake's `find_package(ccf REQUIRED)` (see [cmake sample](https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/blob/main/samples/apps/logging/CMakeLists.txt)) (#1947).
- Snapshot evidence must be validated before joining/recovering from snapshot (see [doc](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/operations/ledger_snapshot.html#join-recover-from-snapshot)) (#1925).
- Auto-refresh is currently only supported for providers following the OpenID Connect standard where keys are published under the `/.well-known/openid-configuration` path of the issuer URL.
-`ca_cert_name` refers to a certificate stored with a `set_ca_cert` proposal and is used to validate the TLS connection to the provider endpoint.
-`set_js_app` proposal and `--js-app-script` argument are deprecated, and should be replaced by `deploy_js_app` and `--js-app-bundle`. See #1895 for an example of converting from the old style (JS embedded in a Lua script) to the new style (app bundle described by `app.json`).
- The `keyId` field in the Authorization header must now be set to the hex-encoded SHA-256 digest of the corresponding member certificate encoded in PEM format. The `scurl.sh` script and Python client have been modified accordingly. `scurl.sh` can be run with `DISABLE_CLIENT_AUTH=1` (equivalent `disable_client_auth=False` argument to Python client) to issue signed requests without session-level client authentication (#1870).
- Governance endpoints no longer require session-level client authentication matching a member identity, the request signature now serves as authentication. The purpose of this change is to facilitate member key storage in systems such as HSMs (#1870).
- Support for [hs2019 scheme](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures-12) for HTTP signatures (#1872).
-`ecdsa-sha256` scheme will be deprecated in the next release.
- Added support for storing JWT public signing keys (#1834).
- The new proposals `set_jwt_issuer`, `remove_jwt_issuer`, and `set_jwt_public_signing_keys` can be generated with the latest version of the ccf Python package.
-`sandbox.sh` has a new `--jwt-issuer <json-path>` argument to easily bootstrap with an initial set of signing keys using the `set_jwt_issuer` proposal.
- See [`tests/npm-app/src/endpoints/jwt.ts`](https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/blob/70b09e53cfdc8cee946193319446f1e22aed948f/tests/npm-app/src/endpoints/jwt.ts#L23) for validating tokens received in the `Authorization` HTTP header in TypeScript.
- Members' recovery shares are now encrypted using [RSA-OAEP-256](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/key-vault/keys/about-keys#wrapkeyunwrapkey-encryptdecrypt) (#1841). This has the following implications:
- Network's encryption key is no longer output by the first node of a CCF service is no longer required to decrypt recovery shares.
- The latest version of the `submit_recovery_share.sh` script should be used.
- The latest version of the `proposal_generator.py` should be used (please upgrade the [ccf Python package](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/quickstart/install.html#python-package)).
-`submit_recovery_share.sh` script's `--rpc-address` argument has been removed. The node's address (e.g. `https://127.0.0.1:8000`) should be used directly as the first argument instead (#1841).
- The constitution's `pass` function now takes an extra argument: `proposer_id`, which contains the `member_id` of the member who submitted the proposal. To adjust for this change, replace `tables, calls, votes = ...` with `tables, calls, votes, proposer_id = ...` at the beginning of the `pass` definition.
- Bundled votes (ie. the `ballot` entry in `POST /proposals`) have been removed. Votes can either happen explicitly via `POST /proposals/{proposal_id}/votes`, or the constitution may choose to pass a proposal without separate votes by examining its contents and its proposer, as illustrated in the operating member constitution sample. The `--vote-against` flag in `proposal_generator.py`, has also been removed as a consequence.
-`kv::Store::create` is deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. It is no longer necessary to create a `kv::Map` from a `Store`, it can be constructed locally (`kv::Map<K,V> my_map("my_map_name");`) or accessed purely by name (`auto view = tx.get_view<K,V>("my_map_name");`) (#1847).
- The `start_test_network.sh` script has been replaced by [`sandbox.sh`](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/quickstart/test_network.html). Users wishing to override the default network config (a single node on '127.0.0.1:8000') must now explictly specify if they should be started locally (eg. `-n 'local://127.4.4.5:7000'`) or on remote machine via password-less ssh (eg. `-n 'ssh://10.0.0.1:6000'`).
- Calling `foreach` on a `TxView` now iterates over the entries which previously existed, ignoring any modifications made by the functor while iterating.
- JS: `ccf.kv.<map>.get(key)` returns `undefined` instead of throwing an exception if `key` does not exist.
- JS: `ccf.kv.<map>.delete(key)` returns `false` instead of throwing an exception if `key` does not exist, and `true` instead of `undefined` otherwise.
- JS: `ccf.kv.<map>.set(key, val)` returns the map object instead of `undefined`.
- Public tables in the KV must now indicate this in their name (with a `public:` prefix), and internal tables have been renamed. Any governance or auditing scripts which operate over internal tables must use the new names (eg - `ccf.members` is now `public:ccf.gov.members`).
- Passing the `SecurityDomain` when creating a KV map is deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. This should be encoded in the table's name, with a `public:` prefix for public tables.
- New CCF nodes can now join from a [snapshot](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/ccf-0.13.0/operators/start_network.html#resuming-from-existing-snapshot) (#1500, #1532)
- New KV maps can now be created dynamically in a transaction (#1507, #1528)
- Subject Name and Subject Alternative Names for the node certificates can now be passed to cchost using the --sn and --san CLI switches (#1537)
- Signature and ledger splitting [flags](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/ccf-0.13.0/operators/start_network.html#signature-interval) have been renamed more accurately (#1534)
-`user_data` can be set at user creation, as well as later (#1488)
- Javascript
-`js_generic` endpoints are now modules with a single default call. Their dependencies can be stored in a separate table and loaded with `import`. (#1469, #1472, #1481, #1484)
- New Python proposal and vote generator (#1370). See [docs](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/ccf-0.12.0/members/proposals.html#creating-a-proposal).
- New CCF tools Python package for client, ledger parsing and member proposal/vote generation (#1429, #1435). See [docs](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/ccf-0.12.0/users/python_tutorial.html).
- HTTP endpoints
- Templated URI for HTTP endpoints (#1384, #1393).
- New `remove_user` proposal (#1379).
- New node endpoints: `/node/state` and `/node/is_primary` (#1387, #1439)
- Updated version of Open Enclave (0.10) (#1424). Users should use the Intel PSW tested with Open Enclave 0.10, see Open Enclave releases notes: https://github.com/openenclave/openenclave/releases/tag/v0.10.0 for more details.
- CCF releases no longer include a build of Open Enclave, instead the upstream binary release should be used. Playbooks and containers have been updated accordingly (#1437).
- CCF is now built with LVI mitigations (#1427). CCF should now be built with a new LVI-enabled toolchain, available via CCF playbooks and containers.
- Updated version of `snmalloc` (#1391).
- HTTP endpoints
- Pass PEM certificates rather than byte-arrays (#1374).
- Member `/ack` schema (#1395).
- Authorisation HTTP request header now accepts unquoted values (#1411).
- Fix double opening of `/app` on backups after recovery (#1445).
- Other
- Merkle tree deserialisation fix (#1363).
- Improve resilience of node-to-node channels (#1371).
- New standard endpoint `node/ids` for retrieving node ID from IP address (#1319).
- Support for read-only transactions. Use `tx.get_read_only_view` to retrieve read-only views, and install with `make_read_only_endpoint` if all operations are read-only.
- Support for distinct handlers on the same URI. Each installed handler/endpoint is now associated with a single HTTP method, so you can install different operations on `POST /foo` and `GET /foo`.
- The frontend names, used as a prefix on all URIs, have been changed. Calls to `/members/...` or `/users/...` should be replaced with `/gov/...` and `/app/...` respectively. The old paths will return HTTP redirects in this release, but may return 404 in a future release (#1325).
- App-handler installation API has changed. `install(URI, FN, READWRITE)` should be replaced with `make_endpoint(URI, VERB, FN).install()`. Existing apps should compile with deprecation warnings in this release, but the old API will be removed in a future release. See [this diff](https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/commit/7f131074027e3aeb5d469cf42e94acad5bf3e70a#diff-18609f46fab38755458a063d1079edaa) of logging.cpp for an example of the required changes.
- KV reorganisation to enable app-defined serialisation (#1179, #1216, #1234)
`kv.h` has been split into multiple headers so apps may need to add includes for `kv/store.h` and `kv/tx.h`. The typedefs `ccf::Store` and `ccf::Tx` have been removed; apps should now use `kv::Store` and `kv::Tx`.
CCF now deals internally only with serialised data in its tables, mapping byte-vectors to byte-vectors. By default all tables will convert their keys and values to msgpack, using the existing macros for user-defined types. Apps may define custom serialisers for their own types - see `kv/serialise_entry_json.h` for an example.
- Fixed issues that affected the accuracy of tx status reporting (#1157, #1150)
- All RPCs and external APIs now use `view` and `seqno` to describe the components of a transaction ID, regardless of the specific consensus implementation selected (#1187, #1227)
- Improved resiliency of recovery process (#1051)
-`foreach` early-exit semantics are now consistent (#1222)
- Third party dependency updates (#1144, #1148, #1149, #1151, #1155, #1255)
- All logging output now goes to stdout, and can be configured to be either JSON or plain text (#1258) [doc](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/operators/node_output.html#json-formatting)
- Initial support for historical query handlers (#1207) [sample](https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/blob/main/src/apps/logging/logging.cpp#L262)
- Implement the equivalent of "log rolling" for the ledger (#1135) [doc](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/operators/ledger.html)
- Internal RPCs renamed to follow more traditional REST conventions (#968) [doc](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/operators/operator_rpc_api.html)
- The `start_test_network.sh` script now supports recovering an old network with the `--recover` flag (#1095) [doc](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/users/deploy_app.html#recovering-a-service)
- New `/tx` endpoint to check that a transaction is committed (#1111). See [docs](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/users/issue_commands.html#checking-for-commit).
- Disaster recovery is now performed with members key shares (#1101). See [docs](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/members/accept_recovery.html).
-`cchost` now supports [file-based configuration](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/operators/start_network.html#using-a-configuration-file), as well as command-line switches (#1013, #1019)
- HTTP request and responses no longer need to contain JSON-RPC objects (#930, #977).
- Files and binaries have been renamed to use a consistent `lower_snake_case` (#989). Most app includes should be unaffected, but users of the `luageneric` app should now look for `lua_generic`.
- Threading support relies on fixes from a recent build of OE (#990). Existing machines should re-run the ansible playbooks to install the current dependencies.
- Consensus is chosen at run-time, rather than build-time (#922).
- API for installing handlers has changed (#960). See the logging app or [documentation](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/developers/logging_cpp.html#rpc-handler) for the current style.
- Several standard endpoints are now GET-only, and must be passed a URL query (ie `GET /users/getCommit?id=42`).
- PBFT timers can be set from`cchost` CLI (#929). See [docs](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/developers/consensus.html#consensus-protocols).
- Nodes output their PID in a `cchost.pid` file on start-up (#927).
- (Experimental) Members can retrieve their decrypted recovery shares via `getEncryptedRecoveryShare` and submit the decrypted share via `submitRecoveryShare` (#932).
- App handlers should set HTTP response fields instead of custom error codes (#921). See [docs](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/developers/logging_cpp.html#rpc-handler).
- Single build for Raft and PBFT consensuses (#922, #929, #935).
- Members' proposals are forever rejected if they fail to execute (#930).
- Original consortium members can ACK (#933).
- PBFT performance improvements (#940, #942).
- PBFT ledger private tables are now encrypted (#939).
This pre-release enables experimental support for running CCF with the PBFT consensus protocol. In providing an experimental release of CCF with PBFT we hope to get feedback from early adopters.
- Members now need to provide two public keys, an identity to sign their proposals and votes as before, and public key with which their recovery key share will be encrypted. `--member_cert` cli argument replaced with `--member-info` when starting up a network to allow this [docs](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/operators/start_network.html)
- Member status is now a string, eg. `"ACTIVE"` rather than an integer (#827)
- User apps have access to standard user-cert lookup (#906)
-`get_rpc_handler()` now returns `UserRpcFrontend` instead of `RpcHandler` [docs](https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/developers/logging_cpp.html#rpc-handler) (#908)
- All governance RPC's must now be signed (#911)
- Test infra stores keys and certificates (e.g. `networkcert.pem`, `user0_privk.pem`) in new `workspace/<test_label>_common/` folder (#892)
This pre-release enables experimental support for Javascript as a CCF runtime, and switches the default transport to HTTP. FramedTCP is still supported in this release (`-DFTCP=ON`) but is deprecated and will be dropped in the next release.
- The [`keygenerator.sh`](https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/blob/v0.6/tests/keygenerator.sh) scripts replaces the `keygenerator` CLI utility to generate member and user identities.
- [Only when building with `-DHTTP=ON`] The new [`scurl.sh`](https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/blob/v0.6/tests/scurl.sh) script can be used to issue signed HTTP requests to CCF (e.g. for member votes). The script takes the same arguments as `curl`.
- Support for app-defined ACLs (https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/pull/590)
Binaries for `cchost` and `libluagenericenc.so` are attached to this release. Note that libluagenericenc.so should be signed before being deployed by CCF (see https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/developers/build_app.html#standalone-signing).
- The `new_user` function in constitution scripts (e.g. `gov.lua`) should be deleted as it is now directly implemented inside CCF (https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/pull/550).
-`cmake -DTARGET=all` replaced with `cmake -DTARGET=sgx;virtual`. See https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/quickstart/build.html#build-switches for new values (https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/pull/513).
- The members and users certificates can now be registered by the consortium using clients that are not the `memberclient` CLI (e.g. using the `tests/infra/jsonrpc.py` module) (https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/pull/550).
- Fix for Raft consensus to truncate the ledger whenever a rollback occurs and use `commit_idx` instead of `last_idx` in many places because of signatures (https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/pull/503).
- Join protocol over HTTP fix (https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/pull/550).
- Clearer error messages for when untrusted users/members issue transactions to CCF (https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/pull/530).
- Better descriptions for `cchost` command line options (e.g. `--raft-election-timeout`) (https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/pull/559).
The `cchost`, `libluagenericenc.so`, `keygenerator` and `memberclient` are also attached to this release to start a CCF network with lua application.
Note that `libluagenericenc.so` should be signed before being deployed by CCF (see https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/developers/build_app.html#standalone-signing).
This pre-release implements the genesis model described in the TR, with a distinct service opening phase. See https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/start_network.html for details.
Some discrepancies with the TR remain, and are being tracked under https://github.com/microsoft/CCF/milestone/2
