Infura Endpoint Update

Please ignore this release if you are running your own Ethereum node.

Infura is sunsetting its old endpoint versions. This release updates the Infura provider endpoints to v3.

MVS Release (Test-Only. Not Compatible With Mainnet)

This is a test release that's only compatible with the pre-released Streamflow upgrade. It's for testing ONLY. If you would like to run Livepeer on the Ethereum mainnet, please download version 0.3.1.

Bug fix: EOF bug

This is a bug fix release for an issue caused by a heavy query to the Eth data provider (often times it's Infura).

We have received some bug reports that when starting a new node, they see a "EOF" error and stops. This release addresses that issue by skipping the heavy query when starting a brand new node.

Tributary Release

This release contains the following changes:

• Transcoders will register their service URI onchain
• Transcoders can partially unbond based on LIP-8
• Broadcasters connect directly to transcoders
• Broadcasters will receive transcoded segments and be responsible for serving the video
• Broadcasters will attempt to re-use old jobs when receiving a new stream to save on gas cost

Please visit the livepeer documentation for more information.

Bugfix minor release

This release fixes 3 issues:

1. Transcoder continues to issue reward transactions if the last transaction doesn't go through.
2. Concurrency issue that closes the go channel that monitors for Ethereum events.
3. Connection kept open when there is a video segmentation error.

Gas Price, Reward Call, Round Initialization, and Binary Size

This release contains changes that makes transcoder ops easier to manage.

• You can dynamically change the gas price from the cli.
• You can use the gas oracle by setting the gas price to 0, or omit the -gasPrice flag when starting the node. The gas oracle automatically sets the gas price based on gas price in previous blocks.
• Reward call monitoring changed to pull-based logic to improve stability.
• Round initialization is off by default. You can turn it on by using the -initializeRound flag.
• Changed to use .tgz files to lower the Livepeer binary size.

Job Restart and Transcoder Bug Fix

This release contains fixes for:

• Restarting jobs across transcoder restarts
• Job serialization in local db
• Preventing segment replay attacks

CLI Update, Local Database, Connection Update

This release contains changes in:

• Livepeer CLI - making the options more organized.
• Adding a local sqlite database. This is useful for many things - for example, restarting a transcoder in the middle of a job.
• Added a -initializeRound flag for transcoders.
• Updated connection methods to Ethereum - only use websocket connections when the node is running as a transcoder. This improves the connection stability of broadcasting nodes.

Mainnet Alpha Release

The first test release for the Ethereum mainnet. This release includes:

• Many networking bug fixes and networking protocol upgrade
• Changes in transcoder configuration (added a -publicIP flag requirement)
• Log cleanup
• Settling on a ffmpeg version
• Upgrading major dependencies like libp2p, go-ipfs and go-ethereum

Small World Network

This release attempts to scale the Livepeer video network by creating highly connected bootnodes, transcoding nodes, and gateway nodes.