js-waku/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

• waitForRemotePeer now accepts a timeoutMs parameter that rejects the promise if it is reached. By default, no timeout is applied.

Changed

• waitForRemotePeer waits for a Relay peer by default instead of Relay and Store.
• Breaking: Removed dupe secp256k1 code, removed some unused APIs.

0.23.0 - 2022-05-19

Added

• Some dependencies that were used but not declared (often transient).

Changed

• Replaced deprecated multihashes with multiformats.

Removed

• No more assert usage.

0.22.0 - 2022-05-10

Changed

• Replaced secp256k1 and hence elliptic dependencies with @noble/secp256k1, reducing package size, number of dependency and removing need for crypto-browserify polyfill.

0.21.0 - 2022-05-5

Added

• Support of the waku2 ENR key: When using DNS Discovery, wanted node capabilities (e.g. relay, store) must be passed.

Changed

• Prefer the use of BigInt over integer literal (n postfix) to facilitate the use of a polyfill.

Fixed

• Declare it-pipe dependency, import as per it-pipe@2.0.0 convention.

0.20.0 - 2022-03-29

Changed

• Examples: Add Relay JavaScript example.
• Breaking: Moved utf-8 conversion functions to utils.
• Froze libp2p-gossipsub to 0.13.0 as new patch version bring breaking changes.

Fixed

• Replace Base 64 buggy conversion functions with uint8arrays.

Removed

• Breaking: Removed equalByteArrays, use uint8arrays/equals instead. See changes in eth-pm example.
• Breaking: Removed deprecated utils functions.

0.19.2 - 2022-03-21

Fixed

• Enable usage in NodeJS by fixing exports field and usage of the crypto module.

0.19.1 - 2022-03-10

Added

• When using Waku.create, bootstrap.peers now accepts an array of Multiaddr.
• Exports Protocols for easy usage with waitForRemotePeer.

0.19.0 - 2022-03-09

Added

• New pubsub_topic field on the cursor of Waku Store queries (#585).

Changed

• Add exports to package.json for NodeJS usage (not officially supported but helpful for experiments).

Fixed

• Handle errors thrown by bytesToUtf8.
• WakuMessage.timestamp field must use nanoseconds (was using microseconds).

Removed

• Removed ecies-geth dependency.

0.18.0 - 2022-02-24

Changed

• Replaced rlp dependency with @ethersproject/rlp.
• Breaking: staticNoiseKey changed from Buffer to Uint8Array.
• Implement Waku Store 2.0.0-beta4. The WakuMessage.timestamp field now stores nanoseconds over the wire.
• Breaking: HistoryRPC.createQuery takes Date instead of number for startTime and endTime.

Removed

• base64url and bigint-buffer dependencies.

0.17.0 - 2022-02-16

Changed

• Breaking: Upgrade libp2p to 0.36.2 & libp2p-gossipsub to 0.13.0. Some APIs are now async.
• docs: Various improvements.
• Ran npm audit fix.
• Waku.dial accepts protocols expected from the peer. Defaults to Waku Relay only.
• Deprecated hexToBuf & bufToHex in favour of hexToBytes & bytesToHex to move towards removing the buffer polyfill.
• Breaking: Replaced getNodesFromHostedJson with getPredefinedBootstrapNodes. Now, it uses a hardcoded list of nodes.

Removed

• axios dependency in favour of fetch.

0.16.0 - 2022-01-31

Changed

• Test: Upgrade nim-waku node to v0.7.
• Doc: Renamed "DappConnect" to "Waku Connect".
• Docs: API Docs are now available at https://js-waku.wakuconnect.dev/.
• Breaking: Replace waitForConnectedPeer with waitForRemotePeer; the new method checks that the peer is ready before resolving the promise.

0.15.0 - 2022-01-17

Added

• Implement DNS Discovery as per EIP-1459, with ENR records as defined in 31/WAKU2-ENR; Available by passing { bootstrap: { enrUrl: enrtree://... } } to Waku.create.
• When using addDecryptionKey, it is now possible to specify the decryption method and the content topics of the messages to decrypt; this is to reduce the number of decryption attempt done and improve performance.

Changed

• Test: Upgrade nim-waku node to v0.6.
• Breaking: Renamed getBootstrapNodes to getNodesFromHostedJson.
• Minimum node version changed to 16.
• Breaking: Changed Waku.create bootstrap option from { bootstrap: boolean } to { bootstrap: BootstrapOptions }. Replace { boostrap: true } with { boostrap: { default: true } } to retain same behaviour.
• Breaking: WakuMessage.decode and WakuMessage.decodeProto now accepts method and content topics for the decryption key. WakuMessage.decode(bytes, [key]) becomes WakuMessage.decode(bytes, [{key: key}]).

Fixed

• Doc: Some broken links.

0.14.2 - 2021-11-30

Changed

• Examples: JS examples uses local ESM folder to replicate behaviour of js-waku publish package.

Fixed

• TypeError issue related to constructors using js-waku in a JS project (#323).

0.14.1 - 2021-10-22

Fixed

• Issue when importing the utils module.

0.14.0 - 2021-10-13

Added

• If the callback function passed toWakuStore.queryHistory returns true, then no further pages are retrieved from the store.
• Use webpack to build UMD bundle of the library, see README for usage.

Changed

• Breaking: Renamed WakuStore.QueryOptions's direction to pageDirection (and its type) as it only affects the page ordering, not the ordering of messages with the page.

Fixed

• Docs: Ensure that WakuStore's QueryOptions documentation is available online.

0.13.1 - 2021-09-21

Fixed

• Error: Bootstrap requires a list of peer addresses error when using bootstrap: true in Waku.create.

0.13.0 - 2021-09-16

Changed

• Upgrade libp2p libraries: @chainsafe/libp2p-noise@4.1.1, libp2p@0.32.4, libp2p-gossipsub@0.11.1.
• Connects to a limited number of bootstrap nodes, defaults to 1.

0.12.2 - 2021-09-21

Fixed

• hot fix: Error: Bootstrap requires a list of peer addresses error when using bootstrap: true in Waku.create.

0.12.1 - 2021-09-16

Changed

• hot fix: Connects to a limited number of bootstrap nodes, defaults to 1.

0.12.0 - 2021-09-2

Added

• Examples (eth-pm): Encrypt Public Key Messages using symmetric encryption.
• Guides: Encrypt messages using Waku Message Version 1.
• Allow passing decryption keys in hex string format.
• Allow passing decryption keys to WakuStore instance to avoid having to pass them at every queryHistory call.
• Allow passing decryption keys to Waku instance to avoid having to pass them to both WakuRelay and WakuStore.
• Waku.waitForConnectedPeer helper to ensure that we are connected to Waku peers when using the bootstrap option.

Changed

• Breaking: Moved startTime and endTime for history queries to a timeFilter property as both or neither must be passed; passing only one parameter is not supported.
• Renamed and promote the usage of generateSymmetricKey() to generate random symmetric keys.
• Improved errors thrown by WakuStore.queryHistory.

Fixed

• Buffer concat error when using symmetric encryption in the browser.

0.11.0 - 2021-08-20

Added

• Examples: New Ethereum Private Message Using Wallet Encryption Web App example that demonstrates the usage of eth_encrypt API (available on Metamask) and EIP-712 for typed structured data signing.
• New bootstrap option for Waku.create to easily connect to Waku nodes upon start up.
• Support for startTime and endTime in Store queries to filter by time window as per 21/WAKU2-FTSTORE.

Changed

• Renamed discover.getStatusFleetNodes to discovery.getBootstrapNodes; Changed the API to allow retrieval of bootstrap nodes from other sources.
• Examples: Renamed eth-dm to eth-pm; "Direct Message" can lead to confusion with "Direct Connection" that refers to low latency network connections.
• Examples (eth-pm): Use sign typed data EIP-712 instead of personal sign.
• Upgraded dependencies to remove warning at installation.
• Breaking: Moved DefaultPubSubTopic to waku.ts and fixed the casing.
• Breaking: Rename all pubsubTopic occurrences to pubSubTopic, across all interfaces.

Removed

• Examples (cli-chat): The focus of this library is Web environment; Several examples now cover usage of Waku Relay and Waku Store making cli-chat example obsolete; web-chat POC should be preferred to use the TOY-CHAT protocol.
• ChatMessage has been moved from js-waku to web-chat example; it is a type used for the TOY-CHAT protocol; js-waku users should not build on top if this toy protocol and instead design message data structures appropriate to their use case.
• Unused dependencies & scripts.

0.10.0 - 2021-08-06

Added

• Relay and ReactJS guides and examples (#56).

Changed

• Breaking: The WakuMessage APIs have been changed to move contentTopic out of the optional parameters.
• Breaking: Move contentTopics out the WakuStore.queryHistory's optional parameters.
• Breaking: WakuStore.queryHistory throws when encountering an error instead of returning a null value.

Removed

• Examples (web-chat): Remove broken /fleet command.
• Breaking: Removed DefaultContentTopic as developers must choose a content topic for their app; recommendations for content topic can be found at https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/23/.

Fixed

• WakuMessage.payloadAsUtf8 returning garbage on utf-8 non-ascii characters.
• ChatMessage.payloadAsUtf8 returning garbage on utf-8 non-ascii characters.

0.9.0 - 2021-07-26

Changed

• Breaking: Store Response Protobuf changed to align with nim-waku v0.5 (nim-waku#676).

0.8.1 - 2021-07-16

Added

• Examples (web-chat): New /fleet command to switch connection between Status prod and test fleets.
• Export generatePrivateKey and getPublicKey directly from the root.
• Usage of the encryption and signature APIs to the readme.
• Support multiple protocol ids for Waku Relay, allowing interoperability with nim-waku v0.4 and latest master (#238).

Changed

• Breaking: Renamed WakuRelay.(add|delete)PrivateDecryptionKey to WakuRelay.(add|delete)DecryptionKey to make it clearer that it accepts both symmetric keys and asymmetric private keys.
• Upgrade libp2p to 0.32.0.
• Breaking: Rename keepAlive option to pingKeepAlive.
• Introduced new relayKeepAlive option on Waku with a default to 59s to send ping messages over relay to ensure the relay stream stays open. This is a workaround until js-libp2p#744 is done as there are issues when TCP(?) timeouts and the stream gets closed (#185, js-libp2p#939)

Fixed

• Align WakuMessage readme example with actual code behaviour.
• Remove infinite loop when an error with Waku Store is encountered.

0.8.0 - 2021-07-15

Added

• WakuRelay.deleteObserver to allow removal of observers, useful when a React component add observers when mounting and needs to delete it when unmounting.
• Keep alive feature that pings host regularly, reducing the chance of connections being dropped due to idle. Can be disabled or default frequency (10s) can be changed when calling Waku.create.
• New lib/utils module for easy, dependency-less hex/bytes conversions.
• New peers and randomPeer methods on WakuStore and WakuLightPush to have a better idea of available peers; Note that it does not check whether Waku node is currently connected to said peers.
• Enable passing decryption private keys to WakuStore.queryHistory.
• Test: Introduce testing in browser environment (Chrome) using Karma.
• Add support for Waku Message version 1: Asymmetric encryption, symmetric encryption, and signature of the data.

Changed

• Breaking: Auto select peer if none provided for store and light push protocols.
• Upgrade to libp2p@0.31.7 and libp2p-gossipsub@0.10.0 to avoid TextEncoder errors in ReactJS tests.
• Disable keep alive by default as latest nim-waku release does not support ping protocol.
• Breaking: Optional parameters for WakuMessage.fromBytes and WakuMessage.fromUtf8String are now passed in a single Options object.
• Breaking: WakuMessage static functions are now async to allow for encryption and decryption.
• Breaking: WakuMessage constructor is now private, from* and decode* function should be used.
• WakuMessage version 1 is partially supported, enabling asymmetrical encryption and signature of messages; this can be done by passing keys to WakuMessage.from* and WakuMessage.decode* methods.
• Examples (eth-dm): Use Waku Message version 1 encryption scheme instead of eth-crypto.
• Examples (eth-dm): Use Protobuf for direct messages instead of JSON (#214).

Fixed

• Disable keepAlive if set to 0.

0.7.0 - 2021-06-15

Changed

• Test: Upgrade nim-waku node to v0.4.
• Waku Light Push upgraded to 2.0.0-beta1.
• Examples (web chat): Catch error if chat message decoding fails.
• Examples (web chat): Do not send message if shift/alt/ctrl is pressed, enabling multiline messages.

0.6.0 - 2021-06-09

Changed

• Breaking: Websocket protocol is not automatically added anymore if the user specifies a protocol in libp2p.modules when using Waku.create.
• Breaking: Options passed to Waku.create used to be passed to Libp2p.create; Now, only the libp2p property is passed to Libp2p.create, allowing for a cleaner interface.
• Examples (cli chat): Use tcp protocol instead of websocket.

Added

• Enable access to WakuMessage.timestamp.
• Examples (web chat): Use WakuMessage.timestamp as unique key for list items.
• Doc: Link to new topic guidelines in README.
• Doc: Link to Waku v2 Toy Chat specs in README.
• Examples (web chat): Persist nick.
• Support for custom PubSub Topics to Waku, WakuRelay, WakuStore and WakuLightPush; Passing a PubSub Topic is optional and still defaults to /waku/2/default-waku/proto; JS-Waku currently supports one, and only, PubSub topic per instance.

0.5.0 - 2021-05-21

Added

• Implement Waku v2 Light Push protocol.
• Expose Direction enum from js-waku root (it was only accessible via the proto module).
• Examples (cli chat): Use light push to send messages if --lightPush is passed.
• Examples (cli chat): Print usage if --help is passed.

0.4.0 - 2021-05-18

Added

• callback argument to WakuStore.queryHistory(), called as messages are retrieved ; Messages are retrieved using pagination, and it may take some time to retrieve all messages, with the callback function, messages are processed as soon as they are received.

Changed

• Testing: Upgrade nim-waku node to v0.3.
• Breaking: Modify WakuStore.queryHistory() to accept one Object instead of multiple individual arguments.
• getStatusFleetNodes return prod nodes by default, instead of test nodes.
• Examples (web chat): Connect to prod fleet by default, test fleet for local development.
• Examples (cli chat): Connect to test fleet by default, use --prod to connect to prod fleet.

Fixed

• Expose Enviroment and Protocol enums to pass to getStatusFleetNodes.

0.3.0 - 2021-05-15

Added

• getStatusFleetNodes to connect to Status' nim-waku nodes.

Changed

• Clarify content topic format in README.md.

Removed

• Unused dependencies.

0.2.0 - 2021-05-14

Added

• WakuRelay.getPeers method.
• Use WakuRelay.getPeers in web chat app example to disable send button.

Changed

• Enable passing strings to addPeerToAddressBook.
• Use addPeerToAddressBook in examples and usage doc.
• Settle on js-waku name across the board.
• Breaking: RelayDefaultTopic renamed to DefaultPubsubTopic.

0.1.0 - 2021-05-12

Added

• Add usage section to the README.
• Support of Waku v2 Relay.
• Support of Waku v2 Store.
• Node Chat App example.
• ReactJS Chat App example.
• Typedoc Documentation.