Io

Injectable wire encoding and a protobuf wire encoder.

Added

• ✨ Injectable wire encoding #233: The encoding used for messages that are sent across the network is now injectable.
  • Add binary marshalling: #272, #284, #298.
  • Add serializer interface: #297, #325.
  • Change the mechanism for generating ProposalID: #300, #307.
  • Rename message types #305.
  • Extend and refactor message serialization tests: #316, #317.
• ✨ Protobuf wire encoder #311: A wire encoder based on protobuf has been added #318.
• Minor additions: Introduce Asset.Equal #279, export proposer index #313.

Changed

• 💥 Rename Address.Equals to Address.Equal #264.
• 💥 Revise Channel.Update and Channel.ForceUpdate: #289, #291, #306.
• 🚚 pkg/io migration: #256, #271, #285, #287.
• 📝 Update README to include references to existing backends #314.
• 🚸 Minor usability improvements: #268, #278, #315.
• 👷 CI updates: #260, #274, #276, #277.
• ⬆️ Use LatestSigner in Ethereum contract backend and don't set GasLimit by default, so that EIP1559 TXs are sent #322.

Fixed

• 🐛 Fix a bug causing Channel.Watch to not work correctly for sub-channels and virtual channels #251.
• 🐛 Fix bugs causing ContractBackend.confirmNTimes to block indefintely or fail in some rare cases: #254, #309.
• ✅ Improve test stability: #310, #319.

Security

• 🔒 It is now checked that assets are not changed during a state update, which could otherwise cause a channel to become unfunded #304.