v0.8.md

date:
  created: 2020-10-18
authors:
  - moul
categories:
  - release

Silkaj v0.8.0 release

Introduction

The Silkaj team is pleased to announce the release of Silkaj 0.8.0. A new team member joined us at the beginning of this development cycle: Matograine. We highly appreciate his commitment, his improvements of the transaction code and his work on the checksum. This release comes along with a number of new features and improvements. The most important of them are highlighted in this article, if you are looking for a comprehensive list of changes, check out the changelog.

Version 0.8.0 was done in 145 commits, and features seven major improvements:

1. membership: We developed a command to allow users to send membership documents.
2. Identity choice: We can now manually choose the desired identity among other identities.
3. Multi-recipients transactions: Users can simultaneously send a different amount of Ğ1 to different recipients.
4. Display improvements for tx and balance: For a better overview, we modified the tx table and added a balance table.
5. Public key checksum display and verification: For security purposes, Silkaj displays and verifies the checksum.
6. verify: We set up a command to check whether a block is valid.
7. Dev Env: We set up a solid development environment for Poetry, CI/CD, and Tests.

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• A. Poetry: We migrated to Poetry.
• B. CI/CD: We set up a pipeline to run automatic jobs.
• C. Tests: We started to write tests.

1. Membership

After the transaction and the certification commands, the much awaited membership command is now available.