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Changelog

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v0.1.0-beta.7

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ark-lib

• BREAKING: Refactor GenesisItem::Arkoor to remove embedded policy. Removes the Policy from GenesisItem::Arkoor to allow adding new policies without introducing breaking changes to the protocol encoding. #1396
• Split VtxoPolicy into user-facing and server-internal types #1542
• Fix encoding for VTXOs with more than 256 genesis items #1550
• BREAKING: ProtocolEncoding for genesis length fields has changed
• Fix bug in signed tree encoding/decoding round-trip #1551
• BREAKING: Remove old pre-hark encoding of VtxoTreeSpec #1552
• BoardBuilder gains functionality to track ServerVtxos and provides methods to build internal unsigned VTXOs and transactions #1513

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bark

• BREAKING: Implement unified mailbox delivery. Bark now uses a unified mailbox system for receiving VTXOs, providing more reliable delivery across different sources. Addresses now use mailbox addresses. #1412
• Add environment variable support to Config #1558
• Add Wallet::next_round_start_time to ask server for next round start time #1559
• Add delegated maintenance and refresh APIs to Wallet that return immediately with a pending movement that can be tracked via sync() for completion status #1566
• Add --delegated flag to maintain and refresh commands for non-blocking operations #1566

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server

• Add NextRoundTime endpoint to expose next scheduled round start time #1559
• Migrate lightning invoice monitoring from polling to TrackAll stream with improved reliability and automatic stream recovery #1453
• Notify sender promptly on intra-ark lightning payment cancellation #1543
• Drop the board database table - board tracking is now handled through the virtual transaction tree #1513

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v0.1.0-beta.6

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ark-lib

• tree::signed module is refactored to add hArk protocol. For hArk details, see Evolving the Ark Protocol Using CTV and CSFS #1440
  • All leaves now have an unlock hash attached
  • Leaf txs are no longer signed during the interactive process
• Add BoardBuilder::new_from_vtxo to reconstruct a board from a VTXO #1472
• Changes to arkoor builder to support dust VTXOs #1440

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bark

• Round protocol changed to hArk protocol #1440
  • Offboards and onchain payments temporarily disabled
  • New round VTXOs are now not immediately spendable after interactive round part finished
• All BarkPersister API was made async, resulting in most of Bark’s API becoming async too #1485
• Support sending and receiving dust VTXOs #1440
• Re-enable send-to-onchain functionality - bark send-onchain command now returns offboard txid #1531
• BREAKING: Replace VtxoSeed by WalletSeed to allow deriving key dedicated to mailbox. Normal derivations were replaced by hardened ones. Any wallet created before this change won’t load successfully anymore #1452

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server

• Round protocol changed to hArk protocol #1440
  • New gRPC endpoints: SubmitRoundParticipation, RoundParticipationStatus, RequestLeafVtxoCosign, RequestForfeitNonces, ForfeitVtxos
  • gRPC SubmitPayment now returns an unlock_hash
• Introduce SyncManager and BlockIndex utilities for block-based sync #1471
• Rename hodl references to hold across configuration and code #1478
• Support dust VTXOs in arkoor and lightning #1440

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captaind

• Validate board server pubkey during registration to prevent potential double-spend attacks #1472
• Add FeeEstimator module for dynamic fee rate estimation #1496

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v0.1.0-beta.5

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All

• Change variants of the word “cancel” to US spelling. This affects REST endpoints, function names and RPC types/names. #1415

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ark-lib

• Add Vtxo::is_fully_signed to check whether a VTXO is fully signed #1293
• Added get_final_amount to lightning::Invoice #1331
• The notion of arkoor-depth has been removed #1342
• Make compatible with WASM for the web and ensure compatibility in CI #1363
• Created a new challenges module to centralize VTXO ownership challenge types #1368

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bark

• Bark will not consider arkoor-depth anymore #1342
• Bark’s pay_lightning_invoice is made non-blocking #1401
• Remove support for recovering round VTXOs from past rounds #1417
• Renamed Wallet::movements to Wallet::history #1455

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bark-json

• Movements are ordered by creation date followed by ID from newest to oldest #1354
• Movement::metadata is now JSON instead of a string
• Implement a strongly typed PaymentMethod #1362
• Rename MovementStatus::Finished to MovementStatus::Successful #1362

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server

• Deprecating PostArkoorPackageMailbox and EmptyArkoorMailbox gRPC methods #1292
• Creation of new gRPC methods PostVtxosMailbox, SubscribeMailbox and ReadMailbox with checkpoint system #1292
• initiate_lightning_payment doesn’t wait for payment settlement anymore #1401
• Added invoice_expiry and receive_htlc_forward_timeout config options #1419

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v0.1.0-beta.4

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barkwallet

• Fixed a bug in which HTLC vtxo’s weren’t properly marked as spent #1345

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v0.1.0-beta.3

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ark-lib

• Added offboard_feerate field to ArkInfo. The offboard feerate is now fixed and no longer specified JIT for each round. #1070
• Removed the RoundEvent::Start variant #1070
• A new field ln_receive_anti_dos_required has been added to the ArkInfo struct #1183

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bark-wallet

• A full rewrite occurred on how state is managed internally #1070
  • Increased stability
  • Can sign up to a round and make round progress asynchronously
  • Input VTXOs are locked at signup to the round
  • Output VTXOs are made available as soon as we have signed funding tx
• Rename some lightning methods to be more consistent #1279
• Big refactor of the movements API and related types #1275
• Add experimental Daemon to run background tasks #1297

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bark-cli

• Refresh, offboard and all other commands that participate in a round are now returning RoundStatus #1070
• The bark ln claim command now accepts an optional --token argument #1183
• Not all bark config variables are required anymore, default values will be filled for missing values #1254
• Add experimental barkd daemon with REST HTTP server and background process

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bark-server

• SubscribeRoundEvents gRPC no longer opens with the last happened event #1070
• A new configuration variable, ln_receive_anti_dos_required, was added #1183

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v0.1.0-beta.1