> Note that the --topics config item has been deprecated and support will be dropped in future releases. To configure support for multiple pubsub topics, use the new --topic parameter repeatedly.
## What's Changed
Release highlights:
* New REST API for Waku Store protocol.
* New Filter protocol implentation. See [12/WAKU2-FILTER](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/12/).
* Initial C bindings support.
* Support for Heaptrack to investigate memory utilization ([tutorial](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/blob/master/docs/tutorial/heaptrack.md)).
### Features
- **cbindings:** first commit - waku relay ([#1632](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1632)) ([#1714](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1714)) ([2defbd23](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/2defbd23))
- example using filter and lightpush ([#1720](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1720)) ([8987d4a3](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/8987d4a3))
- configure protected topics via cli ([#1696](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1696)) ([16b44523](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/16b44523))
- add metrics with msg size histogram ([#1697](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1697)) ([67e96ba8](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/67e96ba8))
- curate peers shared over px protocol ([#1671](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1671)) ([14305c61](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/14305c61))
- **enr:** added support for relay shards field ([96162536](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/96162536))
- add tools maket target and build tools in CI ([#1668](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1668)) ([d5979e94](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/d5979e94))
- integrate new filter protocol, other improvements ([#1637](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1637)) ([418efca2](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/418efca2))
- **rest-api-store:** new rest api to retrieve store waku messages ([#1611](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1611)) ([#1630](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1630)) ([b2acb54d](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/b2acb54d))
- **node:** added waku node builder type ([e931fa5d](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/e931fa5d))
- dos protected topic relay msgs based on meta field ([#1614](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1614)) ([c26dcb2b](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/c26dcb2b))
- further filter improvements ([#1617](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1617)) ([d920b973](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/d920b973))
- **common:** added extensible implementation of the enr typed record ([ac56e1dc](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/ac56e1dc))
- **rln-relay:** fetch release from zerokit ci, or build ([#1603](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1603)) ([179be681](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/179be681))
- **filter-v2:** new filter protocol increment - message handling and clients ([#1600](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1600)) ([be446b98](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/be446b98))
### Fixes
- **ci:** remove target flag from docker command ([#1725](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1725)) ([d822cdc5](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/d822cdc5))
- wakunode2 config. adding new 'topic' config parameter. ([#1727](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1727)) ([2ec9809c](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/2ec9809c))
- streams was used instead of connections ([#1722](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1722)) ([b9e0763e](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/b9e0763e))
- change filter request default behaviour to ping ([#1721](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1721)) ([7c39be9a](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/7c39be9a))
- move canBeConnected to PeerManager and check for potential overflow ([#1670](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1670)) ([d5c2770c](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/d5c2770c))
- **wakunode2:** made setup nat return errors ([1cfb251b](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/1cfb251b))
- fixed multiple bare except warnings ([caf78249](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/caf78249))
- bump libp2p with traffic metrics fix ([#1642](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1642)) ([0ef46673](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/0ef46673))
- **rln-relay:** buildscript bad cp ([#1636](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1636)) ([bd9857c1](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/bd9857c1))
- **wakunode2:** fix main warnings and drop swap support ([f95147f5](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/f95147f5))
- **rln-relay:** on chain registration ([#1627](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1627)) ([b1bafda2](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/b1bafda2))
- connect instead of dialing relay peers ([#1622](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1622)) ([85f33a8e](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/85f33a8e))
- fix hash size greater than 32 ([#1621](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1621)) ([c42ac16f](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/c42ac16f))
### Changes
- **ci:** cache all of submodules/deps to speed up build time ([#1731](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1731)) ([4394c69d](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/4394c69d))
- **rln-relay:** update args to contract ([#1724](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1724)) ([b277ce10](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/b277ce10))
- **rln-relay:** use new config for ffi ([#1718](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1718)) ([44c54312](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/44c54312))
- adding new tutorial on how to handle heaptrack with nim waku ([#1719](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1719)) ([4b59e472](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/4b59e472))
- add timestamp and ephemeral for opt-in dos validator ([#1713](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1713)) ([3e0a693d](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/3e0a693d))
- add test vectors dos protection validator ([#1711](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1711)) ([eaa162ee](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/eaa162ee))
- add validator for dos protec metrics and move to app ([#1704](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1704)) ([3e146869](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/3e146869))
- use QUICK_AND_DIRTY_COMPILER flag for CI ([#1708](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1708)) ([21510425](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/21510425))
- move networkmonitor and wakucanary to apps directory ([209579b0](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/209579b0))
- **wakunode2:** flatten and simplify app setup ([#1705](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1705)) ([ce92fc1a](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/ce92fc1a))
- **wakunode2:** split setup logic into app module ([c8081c88](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/c8081c88))
- add payload bytes to trace log ([#1703](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1703)) ([c6d291d3](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/c6d291d3))
- refactor flaky test with while ([#1698](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1698)) ([dca0e9b2](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/dca0e9b2))
- **core:** move peers utils module to waku_core ([e041e043](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/e041e043))
- decouple test2 target from testcommon ([91baa232](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/91baa232))
- **core:** move utils time module to waku_core ([93b0c071](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/93b0c071))
- add deprecation notice to utils module. move heartbeat to common ([e8dceb2a](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/e8dceb2a))
- **core:** rename waku_message module to waku_core ([c9b6b230](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/c9b6b230))
- fix test failing intermittently ([#1679](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1679)) ([8d213e85](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/8d213e85))
- **networking:** get relay number of connections from protocol conns/streams ([#1609](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1609)) ([73cbafa6](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/73cbafa6))
- allow to call store api endpoints without a storenode ([#1575](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1575)) ([#1647](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1647)) ([0b4a2e68](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/0b4a2e68))
- bump container image versions to v0.16.0 in quickstart ([#1640](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1640)) ([5c33d9d1](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/5c33d9d1))
- **node:** remove deprecated constructor and extend testlib with builder ([9dadc1f5](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/9dadc1f5))
- do not mount relay more than once ([#1650](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1650)) ([5d853b86](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/5d853b86))
- pointed all waku node imports to the barrel import ([e8448dfd](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/e8448dfd))
- add dash between target and version ([#1613](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1613)) ([24d62791](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/24d62791))
- **release:** added regression checking and clarifications ([#1610](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1610)) ([b495dd7b](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/commit/b495dd7b))
This release supports the following [libp2p protocols](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/):
The Waku v1 implementation is stable but not under active development.
## Upgrade instructions
* The `--topics` config option has been deprecated to unify the configuration style. It still available in this and will be in next release, but will be removed after that. The new option `--topic` is introduced, which can be use repeatedly to achieve the same behaviour.
- a fix for an issue that prevented the node from generating high-resolution (up to nanosecond) timestamps
- introduction of an application-defined `meta` attribute to the Waku Message. This can be quite valuable for network-wide deduplication, deterministic hashing, validity checking and other planned improvements to the protocol
- many optimizations in RLN implementation and its underlying dependencies
### Features
- Integrated a new group manager for RLN-protected relay [1496](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1496)
- Added application-defined meta attribute to Waku Message according to RFC [14/WAKU2-MESSAGE](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/14/#message-attributes) [1581](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1581)
- Implemented deterministic hashing scheme for Waku Messages according to RFC [14/WAKU2-MESSAGE](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/14/#deterministic-message-hashing) [1586](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1586)
### Changes
- Upgraded nim-sqlite3-abi to the latest version [1565](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1565)
- Better validation of protocol buffers [1563](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1563)
- Improved underlying Zerokit performance and FFI [1571](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1571)
- Node peer ID now logged with relay trace logging [1574](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1574)
- Continued refactoring of several protocol implementations to improve maintainability and readability
- Refactored and cleaned up peer manager [1539](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1539)
- Removed unused and legacy websocket submodule [1580](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1580) [1582](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1582)
- Use base64 URL-safe encoding for noise [1569](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1569)
- Various general improvements to RLN implementation [1585](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1585) [1587](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1587)
- Started on implementation for new and improved filter protocol [1584](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1584)
- Updated pubsub and content topic namespacing to reflect latest changes in RFC [23/WAKU2-TOPICS](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/23/) [1589](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1589)
- Unified internal peer data models [1597](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1597)
- Improved internal implementation of Waku ENR encoding and decoding [1598](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1598) [1599](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1599)
- Underlying dependency for RLN implementation now loaded as a static library [1578](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1578)
### Fixes
- Fixed internally generated timestamps to allow higher resolution than seconds [1570](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1570)
- Fixed padded base64 usage for encoding and decoding payloads on the JSON RPC API [1572](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1572)
- Relay connectivity is now maintained by a management loop that selects from the peerstore
- Ability to manually specify `multiaddrs` for the nwaku node to advertise
- Two important fixes related to historical message queries:
- fixed archive bug that resulted in duplicate messages in store query response
- fixed query page size limit not being respected
### Features
- New connectivity loop to maintain relay connectivity from peerstore [1482](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1482) [1462](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1462)
- Support for manually specifying `multiaddrs` to advertise [1509](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1509) [1512](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1512)
- Added dynamic keystore for membership credential storage and management [1466](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1466)
### Changes
- Abstracted RLN relay group management into its own API [1465](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1465)
- Prune peers from peerstore when exceeding capacity [1513](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1513)
- Added better e2e trace logging for relay messages [1526](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1526)
- Relay RPC API now encodes message payloads in base64 [572](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/572) [1555](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1555)
### Fixes
- Fixed Waku archive queries returning duplicate messages due to incorrect reordering [1511](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1511)
- Fixed Admin RPC API crashing on returning peer with no multiaddresses [1507](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1507)
- Fixed page size limit not being respected in store query responses [1520](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1520)
- Fixed nwaku subscribing to default pubsub topic even if not configured [1548](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1548)
- An important fix for the Waku message archive returning inconsistent responses to history queries.
- Support for [AutoNAT](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/nat/autonat/) and [libp2p Circuit Relay](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/nat/circuit-relay/) that allows, among other things, for [NAT hole punching](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/nat/hole-punching/).
- Support for structured logging in JSON format.
- A fix for an underlying file descriptor leak that affected websocket connections.
### Features
- Support for [AutoNAT](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/nat/autonat/)
- Support for [libp2p Circuit Relay](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/nat/circuit-relay/) (server only)
- New Waku Archive implementation. This allows easy addition of drivers for different technologies to store historical messages.
- Support for structured logging and specifying log format.
- Node now keeps track of its external reachability.
### Changes
- Zerokit RLN library now statically linked.
- Use extended key generation in Zerokit API to comply with [32/RLN](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/32/).
- Re-enable root validation in [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/) implementation.
- [Network monitoring tool](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/tree/2336522d7f478337237a5a4ec8c5702fb4babc7d/tools#networkmonitor) now supports DNS discovery.
- Added [dashboard](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/blob/3e0e1cb2398297fca761aa74f52d32fa837d556c/metrics/waku-network-monitor-dashboard.json) for network monitoring.
- Continued refactoring of several protocol implementations to improve maintainability and readability.
- Removed swap integration from store protocol.
- Peerstore now consolidated with libp2p peerstore.
- Peerstore now also tracks peer direction.
- SIGSEGV signals are now handled and logged properly.
- Waku v2 no longer imports libraries from Waku v1.
- Improved build and CI processes:
- Added support for an `EXPERIMENTAL` compiler flag.
- Simplified project Makefile.
- Split Dockerfile into production and experimental stages.
- Removed obsolete simulation libraries from build.
- Improved parallellisation (and therefore processing time) when dialing several peers simultaneously.
- Waku Archive now responds with error to historical queries containing more than 10 content topics.
### Fixes
- Fixed support for optional fields in several protocol rpc codecs. [#1393](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1393) [#1395](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1395) [#1396](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1396)
- Fixed clients with `--store=false` not installing Store Client JSON-RPC API handlers. [#1382](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1382)
- Fixed SQLite driver returning inconsistent responses to store queries. [#1415](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1415)
- Fixed peer exchange discv5 loop starting before discv5 has started. [#1407](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1407)
- Fixed wakubridge test timing. [#1429](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1429)
- Fixed bug in Noise module types equating `T_ss` incorrectly to `"se"` and not `"ss"`. [#1432](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1432)
- Fixed Ctrl-C quitting resulting in unreleased resources and exit failures. [#1416](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1416)
- Fixed CI workflows not cloning repo on startup. [#1454](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1454) [#1455](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1455)
- Fixed Admin API peer connection not returning error response if peer can't be connected. [#1476](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1476)
- Added [instructions](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/blob/3e0e1cb2398297fca761aa74f52d32fa837d556c/docs/operators/quickstart.md) for running nwaku with docker compose.
This release supports the following [libp2p protocols](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/):
- A [Waku canary tool](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/tree/2336522d7f478337237a5a4ec8c5702fb4babc7d/tools#waku-canary-tool) to check if nodes are reachable and what protocols they support.
- Simplified configuration for store protocol. This [new guide](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/4e5318bfbb204bd1239c95472d7b84b6a326dd9d/docs/operators/how-to/configure-store.md) explains how to configure store from this release forward.
- Support for environment variables to configure a nwaku node. See our [configuration guide](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/384abed614050bf3aa90c901d7f5e8bc383e8b22/docs/operators/how-to/configure.md) for more.
- A Waku [network monitoring tool](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/tree/2336522d7f478337237a5a4ec8c5702fb4babc7d/tools#networkmonitor) to report network metrics, including network size, discoverable peer capabilities and more.
### Features
- Added Waku canary tool to check if i) a given node is reachable and ii) it supports a set of protocols.
- Simplified [Waku store configuration](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/4e5318bfbb204bd1239c95472d7b84b6a326dd9d/docs/operators/how-to/configure-store.md).
- Decoupled Waku peer persistence configuration from message store configuration.
- Added keyfile support for secure storage of RLN credentials.
- Added configurable libp2p agent string to nwaku switch.
- Support for [configuration with environment variables](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/384abed614050bf3aa90c901d7f5e8bc383e8b22/docs/operators/how-to/configure.md).
- Added [example module](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/tree/2336522d7f478337237a5a4ec8c5702fb4babc7d/examples/v2) to showcase basic nwaku relay usage.
- Added a nwaku [network monitoring tool](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/tree/2336522d7f478337237a5a4ec8c5702fb4babc7d/tools#networkmonitor) to provide metrics on peers, network size and more.
### Changes
- Removed support for Kilic's RLN library (obsolete).
- Improved logging for [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/) implementation.
- Connection to eth node for RLN now more stable, maintains state and logs failures.
- Waku apps and tools now moved to their own subdirectory.
- Continued refactoring of several protocol implementations to improve maintainability and readability.
- Periodically log metrics when running RLN spam protection.
- Added metrics dashboard for RLN spam protection.
- Github CI test workflows are now run selectively, based on the content of a PR.
- Improved reliability of CI runs and added email notifications.
- Discv5 discovery loop now triggered to fill a [34/WAKU2-PEER-EXCHANGE](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/34/) peer list cache asynchronously.
- Upgraded to Nim v1.6.6.
- Cleaned up compiler warnings on unused imports.
- Improved exception handling and annotation.
- [`13/WAKU2-STORE`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/13/) no longer enabled by default on nwaku nodes.
- Merkle tree roots for RLN membership changes now on a per-block basis to allow poorly connected peers to operate within a window of acceptable roots.
### Fixes
- Fixed encoding of ID commitments for RLN from Big-Endian to Little-Endian. [#1256](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/pull/1256)
- Fixed maxEpochGap to be the maximum allowed epoch gap (RLN). [#1257](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/pull/1257)
- Fixed store cursors being retrieved incorrectly (truncated) from DB. [#1263](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/pull/1263)
- Fixed message indexed by store cursor being excluded from history query results. [#1263](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/pull/1263)
- Fixed log-level configuration being ignored by the nwaku node. [#1272](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/pull/1272)
- Fixed incorrect error message when failing to set [34/WAKU2-PEER-EXCHANGE](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/34/) peer. [#1298](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/pull/1298)
- Fixed and replaced deprecated `TaintedString` type. [#1326](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/pull/1326)
- Fixed and replaced unreliable regex library and usage. [#1327](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/pull/1327) [#1328](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/pull/1328)
- Fixed and replaced deprecated `ganache-cli` node package with `ganache` for RLN onchain tests. Added graceful daemon termination. [#1347](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/pull/1347)
- Fixed broken link to Kibana in [cluster documentation](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/5e90085242e9e4d6f3cf307e189efbf7e59da9f9/docs/contributors/cluster-logs.md).
- Added an improved [quickstart guide](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/8f5363ea8f5e95fc1104307aa0d2fc59fda13698/docs/operators/quickstart.md) for operators.
- Added a [Docker usage guide](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/8f5363ea8f5e95fc1104307aa0d2fc59fda13698/docs/operators/docker-quickstart.md#prerequisites) for operators.
- Added operator [guide on running RLN spam prevention](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/bd516788cb39132ccbf0a4dcf0880e9694beb233/docs/operators/how-to/run-with-rln.md) on nwaku nodes.
- Extended guidelines on nwaku [configuration methods](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/384abed614050bf3aa90c901d7f5e8bc383e8b22/docs/operators/how-to/configure.md) for operators.
- Added new [store configuration guide](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/4e5318bfbb204bd1239c95472d7b84b6a326dd9d/docs/operators/how-to/configure-store.md) to reflect simplified options.
This release supports the following [libp2p protocols](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/):
- The performance and stability of the message `store` has improved dramatically. Query durations, even for long-term stores, have improved by more than a factor of 10.
- Support for Waku Peer Exchange - a discovery method for resource-restricted nodes.
- Messages can now be marked as "ephemeral" to prevent them from being stored.
- [Zerokit](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit) is now the default implementation for spam-protected `relay` with RLN.
The full list of changes is below.
### Features
- Default support for [Zerokit](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit) version of [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/) implementation.
- Added Filter REST API OpenAPI specification.
- Added POC implementation for [43/WAKU2-DEVICE-PAIRING](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/43/).
- [14/WAKU2-MESSAGE](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/14/) can now be marked as `ephemeral` to prevent them from being stored.
- Support for [34/WAKU2-PEER-EXCHANGE](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/34/).
### Changes
- [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/) implementation now handles on-chain transaction errors.
- [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/) implementation now validates the Merkle tree root against a window of acceptable roots.
- Added metrics for [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/) implementation.
- Continued refactoring of several protocol implementations to improve maintainability and readability.
- Cleaned up nwaku imports and dependencies.
- Refactored and organised nwaku unit tests.
- Nwaku now periodically logs node metrics by default.
- Further improvements to the `store` implementation:
- Better logging and query traceability.
- More useful metrics to measure query and insertion time.
- Reworked indexing for faster inserts and queries.
- Reworked data model to use a simple, single timestamp for indexing, ordering and querying.
- Improved retention policy management with periodic execution.
- Run sqlite database vacuum at node start.
- Improved logging when migrating the database to a newer version.
-`relay` no longer auto-mounted on all nwaku nodes.
- The most complete node ENR now included in response to API requests for node `info()`.
- Updated Grafana dashboards included with nwaku.
- Github CI test execution now skipped for doc-only changes.
### Fixes
- Fixed nwaku unnecessary sleep when no dynamic bootstrap nodes retrieved.
- Fixed [`12/WAKU2-FILTER`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/12/) not working from browser-based clients due to nwaku peer manager failing to reuse existing connection.
- Waku Message payload now correctly encoded as base64 in the Relay REST API.
- Fixed handling of bindParam(uint32) in sqlite.
-`chat2` application now correctly selects a random store node on startup.
- Fixed macos builds failing due to an unsupported dependency.
- Fixed nwaku not reconnecting to previously discovered nodes after losing connection.
- Fixed nwaku failing to start switch transports with external IP configuration.
- Fixed SIGSEGV crash when attempting to start nwaku store without `db-path` configuration.
- Added [tutorial](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/14abdef79677ddc828ff396ece321e05cedfca17/docs/operators/droplet-quickstart.md) on running nwaku from a DigitalOcean droplet.
- Added [guide](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/14abdef79677ddc828ff396ece321e05cedfca17/docs/operators/how-to/monitor.md) on how to monitor nwaku using Prometheus and Grafana.
This release supports the following [libp2p protocols](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/):
- Major improvements in the performance of historical message queries to longer-term, sqlite-only message stores.
- Introduction of an HTTP REST API with basic functionality
- On-chain RLN group management. This was also integrated into an [example spam-protected chat application](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/4f93510fc9a938954dd85593f8dc4135a1c367de/docs/tutorial/onchain-rln-relay-chat2.md).
The full list of changes is below.
### Features
- Support for on-chain group membership management in the [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/) implementation.
- Integrated HTTP REST API for external access to some `wakunode2` functionality:
- Debug REST API exposes debug information about a `wakunode2`.
- Relay REST API allows basic pub/sub functionality according to [`11/WAKU2-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/11/).
- [`35/WAKU2-NOISE`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/35/) implementation now adds padding to ChaChaPoly encryptions to increase security and reduce metadata leakage.
### Changes
- Significantly improved the SQLite-only historical message `store` query performance.
- Refactored several protocol implementations to improve maintainability and readability.
- Major code reorganization for the [`13/WAKU2-STORE`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/13/) implementation to improve maintainability. This will also make the `store` extensible to support multiple implementations.
- Refactored [`35/WAKU2-NOISE`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/35/) implementation into smaller submodules.
- [`11/WAKU2-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/11/) implementation can now optionally be compiled with [Zerokit RLN](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/tree/64f508363946b15ac6c52f8b59d8a739a33313ec/rln). Previously only [Kilic's RLN](https://github.com/kilic/rln/tree/7ac74183f8b69b399e3bc96c1ae8ab61c026dc43) was supported.
### Fixes
- Fixed wire encoding of protocol buffers to use proto3.
- Added [tutorial](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/4f93510fc9a938954dd85593f8dc4135a1c367de/docs/tutorial/onchain-rln-relay-chat2.md) on how to run a spam-protected chat2 application with on-chain group management.
This release supports the following [libp2p protocols](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/):
- Support for key exchange using Noise handshakes.
- Support for a SQLite-only historical message `store`. This allows for cheaper, longer-term historical message storage on disk rather than in memory.
- Several fixes for native WebSockets, including slow or hanging connections and connections dropping unexpectedly due to timeouts.
- A fix for a memory leak in nodes running a local SQLite database.
### Features
- Support for [`35/WAKU2-NOISE`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/35/) handshakes as key exchange protocols.
- Support for TOML config files via `--config-file=<path/to/config.toml>`.
- Support for `--version` command. This prints the current tagged version (or compiled commit hash, if not on a version).
- Support for running `store` protocol from a `filter` client, storing only the filtered messages.
- Start of an HTTP REST API implementation.
- Support for a memory-efficient SQLite-only `store` configuration.
### Changes
- Added index on `receiverTimestamp` in the SQLite `store` to improve query performance.
- GossipSub [Peer Exchange](https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/pubsub/gossipsub/gossipsub-v1.1.md#prune-backoff-and-peer-exchange) is now disabled by default. This is a more secure option.
- Progress towards dynamic group management for the [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/) implementation.
- Nodes with `--keep-alive` enabled now sends more regular pings to keep connections more reliably alive.
- Disabled `swap` protocol by default.
- Reduced unnecessary and confusing logging, especially during startup.
- Added discv5 UDP port to the node's main discoverable ENR.
### Fixes
- The in-memory `store` now checks the validity of message timestamps before storing.
- Fixed underlying bug that caused connection leaks in the HTTP client.
- Fixed Docker image compilation to use the correct external variable for compile-time flags (`NIMFLAGS` instead of `NIM_PARAMS`).
- Fixed issue where `--dns4-domain-name` caused an unhandled exception if no external port was available.
- Avoids unnecessarily calling DB migration if a `--db-path` is set but nothing is persisted in the DB. This led to a misleading warning log.
- Fixed underlying issues that caused WebSocket connections to hang.
- Fixed underlying issue that caused WebSocket connections to time out after 10 mins.
- Fixed memory leak in nodes that implements a SQLite database.
### Docs
- Added [tutorial](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/blob/16dd267bd9d25ff24c64fc5c92a20eb0d322217c/docs/operators/how-to/configure-key.md) on how to generate and configure a node key.
- Added first [guide](https://github.com/status-im/nwaku/tree/16dd267bd9d25ff24c64fc5c92a20eb0d322217c/docs/operators) for nwaku operators.
This release supports the following [libp2p protocols](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/):
- Support for Peer Exchange (PX) when a peer prunes a [`11/WAKU2-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/11/) mesh due to oversubscription. This can significantly increase mesh stability.
- Improved start-up times through managing the size of the underlying persistent message storage.
- New websocket connections are no longer blocked due to parsing failures in other connections.
- Support for GossipSub [Peer Exchange](https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/pubsub/gossipsub/gossipsub-v1.1.md#prune-backoff-and-peer-exchange)
- Added [RAM requirements](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/tree/ee96705c7fbe4063b780ac43b7edee2f6c4e351b/waku/v2#wakunode) to `wakunode2` build instructions
- Added [tutorial](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/ee96705c7fbe4063b780ac43b7edee2f6c4e351b/docs/tutorial/rln-chat2-live-testnet.md) on communicating with waku2 test fleets via the chat2 `toy-chat` application in spam-protected mode using [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/).
- Added a [section on bug reporting](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/ee96705c7fbe4063b780ac43b7edee2f6c4e351b/README.md#bugs-questions--features) to `wakunode2` README
- Fixed broken links in the [JSON-RPC API Tutorial](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/5ceef37e15a15c52cbc589f0b366018e81a958ef/docs/tutorial/jsonrpc-api.md)
This release supports the following [libp2p protocols](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/):
- [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/) implementation now supports spam-protection for a specific combination of `pubsubTopic` and `contentTopic` (available under the `rln` compiler flag).
- Documented [use of domain certificates](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/tree/2972a5003568848164033da3fe0d7f52a3d54824/waku/v2#enabling-websocket) for secure websockets
- Documented [how to configure a `dns4` domain name](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/tree/2972a5003568848164033da3fe0d7f52a3d54824/waku/v2#using-dns-discovery-to-connect-to-existing-nodes) for a node
- Clarified [use of DNS discovery](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/tree/2972a5003568848164033da3fe0d7f52a3d54824/waku/v2#using-dns-discovery-to-connect-to-existing-nodes) and provided current URLs for discoverable fleet nodes
- Added [tutorial](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/2972a5003568848164033da3fe0d7f52a3d54824/docs/tutorial/rln-chat2-local-test.md) on using [`17/WAKU-RLN-RELAY`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/17/) with the chat2 `toy-chat` application
- Added [tutorial](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/2972a5003568848164033da3fe0d7f52a3d54824/docs/tutorial/bridge.md) on how to configure and a use a [`15/WAKU-BRIDGE`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/15/)
This release supports the following [libp2p protocols](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/):
- resuming the history via `resume` now takes the answers of all peers in `peerList` into consideration and consolidates them into one deduplicated list
- Increased maximum length for reading from a libp2p input stream to allow largest possible protocol messages, including `HistoryResponse` messages at max size
- GossipSub [prune backoff period](https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/pubsub/gossipsub/gossipsub-v1.1.md#prune-backoff-and-peer-exchange) is now the recommended 1 minute
- Conversion between topics for the Waku v1 <-> v2 bridge now follows the [RFC recommendation](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/23/).
- Fixed field order of `HistoryResponse` protobuf message: the field numbers of the `HistoryResponse` are shifted up by one to match up the [13/WAKU2-STORE](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/13/) specs.
This release supports the following [libp2p protocols](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/):
- The [toy-chat application](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/master/docs/tutorial/chat2.md) can now perform `lightpush` and request content-filtered messages from remote peers.
- The [toy-chat application](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/master/docs/tutorial/chat2.md) now uses default content topic `/toy-chat/2/huilong/proto`
- Improve `toy-chat` [briding to matterbridge]((https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/master/docs/tutorial/chat2.md#bridge-messages-between-chat2-and-matterbridge))
- Improve [`swap`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/18/) logging and enable soft mode by default
- Content topics are no longer in a redundant nested structure
- A peer manager for `relay`, `filter`, `store` and `swap` peers
- Persistent storage for peers: A node with this feature enabled will now attempt to reconnect to `relay` peers after a restart. It will respect the gossipsub [PRUNE backoff](https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/pubsub/gossipsub/gossipsub-v1.1.md#prune-backoff-and-peer-exchange) period before attempting to do so.
-`--persist-peers` CLI option to persist peers in local storage
-`--persist-messages` CLI option to store historical messages locally
-`--keep-alive` CLI option to maintain a stable connection to `relay` peers on idle topics
- A CLI chat application ([`chat2`](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/master/docs/tutorial/chat2.md)) over Waku v2 with [bridging to matterbridge](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/master/docs/tutorial/chat2.md#bridge-messages-between-chat2-and-matterbridge)
- Split out `waku_types` types into the right place; create `utils` folder.
- Change type of `contentTopic` in [`ContentFilter`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/12/#protobuf) to `string`.
- Replace sequence of `contentTopics` in [`ContentFilter`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/12/#protobuf) with a single `contentTopic`.
- Add `timestamp` field to [`WakuMessage`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/14/#payloads).
- Ensure CLI config parameters use a consistent naming scheme. Summary of changes [here](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/pull/543).
#### Docs
Several clarifications and additions aimed at contributors, including
- information on [how to query Status test fleet](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/master/docs/faq.md) for node addresses,
- [how to view logs](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/master/docs/contributors/cluster-logs.md), and
- [how to update submodules](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/master/docs/contributors/git-submodules.md).
#### Schema
- Add `Message` table to the persistent message store. This table replaces the old `messages` table. It has two additional columns, namely
-`pubsubTopic`, and
-`version`.
- Add `Peer` table for persistent peer storage.
#### API
- [JSON-RPC Admin API](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/16): Added a [`post` method](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/16/#post_waku_v2_admin_v1_peers) to connect to peers on an ad-hoc basis.
- [Nim API](https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/blob/master/docs/api/v2/node.md): PubSub topic `subscribe` and `unsubscribe` no longer returns a future (removed `async` designation).
- [`HistoryQuery`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/13/#historyquery): Added `pubsubTopic` field. Message history can now be filtered and queried based on the `pubsubTopic`.
- [`HistoryQuery`](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/13/#historyquery): Added support for querying a time window by specifying start and end times.
### Fixes
- Running nodes can now be shut down gracefully
- Content filtering now works on any PubSub topic and not just the `waku` default.
- Nodes can now mount protocols without supporting `relay` as a capability
The [Waku v2 suite of protocols](https://rfc.vac.dev/) are still in a raw/draft state.
This release supports the following [libp2p protocols](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/):
- Calls to `publish` a message on `wakunode2` now `await` instead of `discard` dispatched [`WakuRelay`](https://github.com/vacp2p/specs/blob/master/specs/waku/v2/waku-relay.md) procedures.
