Changelog / Release Notes

v3.5.0
Unreleased
  • Tweak display of miner "notes" (disclaimer for Patoshi)
  • Updated miner IDs (including removal of 3 probably false positives from the "Patoshi" list)
  • Updated dependencies
v3.4.0
2023-06-14
  • Breaking changes to the API (see ./api/changelog)
  • Homepage
    • Show difficulty ATH comparison
    • Show "Next Block" fullness
    • Progress bar for difficulty adjustment estimate
    • Include median fee rate for next-block estimates (also on /next-block)
    • Show a banner if 'today' is a Groestlcoin 'Holiday' (see more below)
  • Minor fixes for running against Groestlcoin Core v23
  • Block Analysis: include top "days destroyed" transactions
  • URL change: /mining-template -> /next-block (redirect is included for compatibility)
  • On Extended PubKey pages, include balance data for various address (if Electrum server is configured)
  • Several new API actions/changes; see /api/changelog
  • New /holidays, a curated list of Groestlcoin 'Holidays'
  • Support for different view options on /fun
  • On /difficulty-history, make delta graph honor timespan filtering
  • Proper use of production-ready MemoryStore for session data
  • Support for serving static assets via a configurable CDN
  • Misc fixes for erroneous data display on non-mainnet nodes
  • Switch from fontawesome to bootstrap-icons v1.8.0
  • Refreshed miner-identification database
  • Refreshed "Dark" theme with blues toned down (legacy dark theme still available)
  • UI/UX tweaks
  • Misc minor fixes
  • Updated dependencies
v3.3.0
2021-12-07
  • New tool for viewing the UTXO Set: /utxo-set
  • New API actions:
  • Major fixes for data displayed in /tx-stats tool
  • Updated miners, including identification of "Patoshi"-pattern blocks
  • /node-details: Include coinstatsindex status
  • Support querying UTXO Set even with slowDeviceMode=true, iff coinstatsindex is available
  • Fix for difficulty adjustment estimate
  • /difficulty-history: Support for viewing different time ranges
  • When viewing unconfirmed transaction details, show an info dialog if the transaction is predicted to be confirmed in the next block
  • Performance improvements
    • Fix for performance degradation over time due to slow "estimatedSupply" function
    • Homepage speedup by making "Estimated Next Block" data load asynchonously
    • Caching for /difficulty-history data
  • Unicode formatting for OP_RETURN and other similar data (with ascii+hex accessible via toggle)
  • New .env options for setting defaults (see .env-sample for details):
    • BTCEXP_DISPLAY_CURRENCY (btc,sat,local)
    • BTCEXP_LOCAL_CURRENCY (usd,eur,gbp)
    • BTCEXP_UI_TIMEZONE (utc,local)
    • BTCEXP_UI_HIDE_INFO_PANELS (true,false)
  • Support for displaying timestamps in local timezone (by using browser default, or setting a manual offset)
  • Cleanup treatment of locktime on transaction details pages
  • Unique favicon color based on the active network (mainnet=orange, testnet=green, signet=magenta, regtest=gray)
  • Lots of minor styling improvements
  • Error handling improvements
  • Fix for /api/quotes/all
  • Fix for incorrect date on "Diario El Salvador..." fun item (thanks @Dirkson643)
  • New Fun items related to Taproot activation
  • Performance log admin page at /admin/perf-log
  • Updated dependencies
v3.2.0
2021-08-10
  • Public API! See the docs at /api/docs
  • XPUB pages: search for any xpub (ypub, zpub, etc) and see summary details and a list of associated addresses
  • Homepage: add "Predicted Next Block" section
  • Mempool Summary: add top-fee transactions table
  • Improvements to transaction details UI, especially on smaller screens
  • Cleanup support for Taproot/bech32m
  • New /mining-template tool, showing structured output of getblocktemplate command
  • Various improvements to charts and graphs throughout the tool (including lots of y-axis changes: linear->log)
  • Better support for BIP9 soft forks shown on /node-details (e.g. Taproot ST in 2.21.1)
  • New "Recent" and "Favorites" sections on /rpc-browser
  • Block lists: show (min, avg, max) fee rates instead of just avg
  • Random Groestlcoin-related quote shown in footer on each page load
  • New /quotes, curated list of Groestlcoin-related quotes (each quote also having its own page like this)
  • Preemptive support for upcoming format change to getrawtransaction output
  • Fix for incorrect homepage block count when using BTCEXP_UI_HOME_PAGE_LATEST_BLOCKS_COUNT
  • Fix for inaccurate difficulty adjustment estimates
  • Link to Tor v3 Hidden Service in footer
  • Fix for DEBUG environment variable being ignored
  • Fix for /rpc-terminal not parsing non-int parameters properly
  • Fix for edge case where txindex availability check fails at startup (add retries with exp. backoff)
  • Fix for tiny-value display (i.e. 1e-8 -> 0.00000001)
  • Misc UI/UX tweaks
  • Cache busting for frontend resources
  • Improved error handling in many places
  • Updated dependencies
  • Fix for regtest network errors on homepage
  • Fix for server errors in Docker-based installs
  • Improvements to no-txindex support: now available for all versions of Groestlcoin Core
  • Add back the /peers tool in the "Tools" menu
    • Note: The map on the peers tool now requires users set their own BTCEXP_MAPBOX_APIKEY in .env
  • Response compression
  • Remove reference to unused fonts.css
  • Increased static-files cache: 1hr -> 1mo
  • Clearer UX around RPC connection failures (show the fact clearly, instead of flooding the log with cryptic errors)
  • Fixed changelog for v3.0.0 release (added/clarified some issues)
  • Updated favicons
  • Fix for homepage error after failure to get AU exchange rate
  • UX improvements on /peers page
  • Graphs for top items in /admin/stats
  • Optional support for plausible.io analytics
  • Fix to avoid displaying empty "Summary" section when we fail to get address txid list
  • UX improvement around electrs too-many-txs-for-address errors
  • Major visual refresh!
    • All new design (layout, fonts, colors, etc)
    • Redesigned Dark Mode (now the default)
    • New app icon
  • Support for pruned nodes and nodes with disabled txindex!
    • Note: Currently only Groestlcoin Core versions 2.21+ are able to support this feature (a future improvement is planned to make it available to all versions)
  • Mempool Summary improvements
    • Greatly improved performance for multiple loads via caching
    • Added: "Blocks Count" column by fee-rate bucket
    • Tool for estimating Block Depth of a transaction or a fee rate
  • Mining Summary: added doughnut chart for rev. breakdown, simplified table data
  • Upgraded to Bootstrap 5 (currently beta3...)
  • Update mapbox API
    • Note: The map on the /peers page now requires that users set the env var BTCEXP_MAPBOX_APIKEY to their own API key
  • Fix for 404 pages hanging
  • Add convenience redirect for baseUrl
  • Make url in logs clickable
  • Caching for static files (maxAge=1hr)
  • Frontend performance optimizations
  • Smarter performance/memory defaults for slow devices
  • Major refactoring, modernization, and code-reuse improvements
  • UX improvements and polish throughout
  • URL changes
    • /node-status -> /node-details
    • /unconfirmed-tx -> /mempool-transactions
  • Environment variable changes
    • The below changes were made to more clearly acknowledge that multiple Electrum-protocol implementations (e.g. ElectrumX, Electrs) can be used for address queries:
    • BTCEXP_ADDRESS_API value electrumx -> electrum (electrumx should still works)
    • BTCEXP_ELECTRUMX_SERVERS -> BTCEXP_ELECTRUM_SERVERS (BTCEXP_ELECTRUMX_SERVERS should still work)
  • Updated dependencies
    • jQuery: v3.4.1 -> v3.6.0
    • highlight.js: v9.14.2 -> v10.7.1
    • fontawesome: v5.7.1 -> v5.15.3
  • New "Fun" item for the tx containing the whitepaper and new tool to extract the whitepaper and display it
  • New fee rate data on /block-analysis pages
  • New minor misc peer data available in Groestlcoin Core RPC v2.21+
  • New gold exchange rate on homepage
  • Fix for SSO token generation URL encoding
  • Fix for /peers map
  • Fix for README git clone
  • Support for running on a configurable BASEURL, e.g. "/explorer/"
  • Support for SSO
  • Support for signet and taproot
  • Support for listening on 0.0.0.0
  • Support for viewing list of block heights for each miner on /mining-summary
  • Sanitizing of environment variables
  • Fix for XSS vulnerabilities
  • Fix for low severity lodash dependency vulnerability
  • Fix for zero block reward (eventually on mainnet, now on regtest)
  • Fix for cryptic error when running regtest with no blocks
  • Fix for pagination errors on /blocks (not displaying genesis block on the last page; error on last page when sort=asc)
  • Electrum connect/disconnect stats on /admin
  • Add P2SH bounty address /fun items
  • Misc cleanup

v1.0.0

2020-10-30
  • Initial release