Release 0.16 brings some improvements over 0.14.5. It does not break consensus; 0.14-0.14.5 nodes are compatible with 0.16 nodes.
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Support for Gaia Hub Storage Provider. This release adds support for connecting to our development gaia-hub.
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New API Endpoint for Getting Name Count. This release adds support scripts to the
API
directory for supporting faster search indexing for new names. This also includes support for indexing subdomains. -
Include support better Support for using Client Payment Keys This includes support for supplying a key to perform payment operations on behalf of a client, and a mock insight-api endpoint for obtaining balance for a particular address.
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Better Support for Configuring Bind Address/Port in Regtest This adds support for setting bind addresses and ports.
To better align blockstack-core versioning and blockstack-browser versioning,
we skipped 0.15
entirely.