See also this release or the latest version on site.

Table of Contents

• 1.7
• 1.6
• 1.5
• 1.4
• 1.3
• 1.2
• 1.1

1.7

1.7.6:

Changes in 1.7.6 (maintenance, lots of bug fixs):

• The cut&paste of payments should be much better now, eliminated the newlines bug (it was a Java "bug" that needed a workaround) and also reduced the length of lines in the payment. It took a concerted effort with 3 developers and a day to track it down :o Thanks guys!
• Fixed annoying amounts display in History -- without access to the contract, the History browser could not display the unit of account. Also displays contract name where possible.
• Abstract Payments "yet more complete" in WebFunds... Tokens still being worked on, 3rd generation of architecture is being compiled every idle sunday.
• Many internal changes due to continuing reorganisation of wallet into low level and high level interfaces, on demand from multitudes who are building applications upon SOX.
• Addition of the Hansa Bank US e-Tender dollar contract. See our Hansa Dollar Cheat Sheet for details.

Changes in 1.7.5 (minor bug fix release):

• "Stale Key" bug should be remedied, when spotted, issuer code asks for update to key. This bug struck anytime the server was restarted and recalculated the session key, and needed WebFunds to be restarted.
• Abstract Payments now "more complete" in WebFunds... Tokens still being worked on. Special Pay not as yet working, ignore please. See Token Notes for more details.
• Notes are now available on customisation such as how to modify the distribution for standard contracts.

Changes in 1.7.4 (mostly a checkpoint release):

• Added a new test contract called BeerVouchers.
• Fixed bug in Contracts to permit shares to be read and added as subaccounts.
• Abstract Payments now "complete" in WebFunds, Tokens can be sent, but server treats them as ordinary.
• Added new Pay box inside the SOXWallet, same as other one but adds some wallet specific things such as a Token Payment, and a Rollover (do not use this latter, completely untested :<).

Changes in 1.7.3:

• Added Nym requests so that SOX accounts can set names at server side. This is not used within standard WebFunds distribution as yet; get Trader to see what it does, it will be added to WebFunds when we can figure out a use (... coming soon!)
• More work on Abstract Payments. Next step is to move SimplePaymentFrame into SOX so that it can generate random payments.

Changes in 1.7.2:

• Fixed main values display for right number of decimal points (added support to Contract to return DecimalFactor objects).
• New -- real-early-alpha -- UpgradesManager can now place wallets in the right place, then ask for a reboot. Later on, this code will do more !
• Some debugging to work out why Macs cannot see the plugins.
• 30 seconds timout on sockets, not 10 seconds.

Changes in 1.7.1:

• Fixes to ClassLoader so that 3rd party wallet could see files.

Summary of changes since 1.5.

• New features:
  • Share contracts,
  • SignContractWizard
  • debugging output in stderr for DOS users.
  • Backup Recovery,
  • 3rd party wallets can now be added.
• All new contracts are based on OpenPGP signing (but old x509 contracts still supported).
• Now uses Cryptix JCE and OpenPGP instead of Cryptix 3 and x509.
• Works with JDK 1.1 through JDK 1.3.

1.6

Version 1.6 was not intended for public distribution, it was a trial version for 1.7, and should be quickly replaced as soon as possible...

1.6.6:

• Kludge Recovery button added. Use with care.
• Wallets can now be plugged in as 3rd party extensions by placing in plugins/wallets directory.
• Share contract has been added.
• All contracts now have decimal capability, as indicated by [issue] power number. Code looks for the old currency versions if power is not found. Factor might be deprecated, it depends on whether we ever find a non-decimal currency.

1.6.5:

• Old example.bat, is now runlocal_example.bat and should have DOS line-endings.
• Improvements in this README.html doco.
• Fixes in SOX protocol and Crypto code mean that 1.6.0-1.6.4 are now broken (will not work with OpenPGP issuer).
• Cryptix.jar is gone!
• JDK 1.3 is reported to work on DOS systems....
• This release completes the year-long migration out of x509 and into openPGP. New contracts are found within the download. Old x509 contracts are now firmly relegated to the slow lane.

1.6.4:

• New run, run.bat, example.bat, and rewritten instructions below all aimed at describing how to get going with JDK 1.2 (Java 2).
• Rewrote biz logic in SignContractWizard to support reading of keys from a supplied contract, and the writing of unsigned contracts previous to signing attempt. Added sanity checking on keys on initial reading.
• Various signing and key bugs fixed in OpenPGP.
• Changed Ricardian tag [cert] to [certification] as cert is way too overloaded.
• updated run scripts and doco for jdk 1.2

1.6.3:

Minor series of changes to get OpenPGP contracts running on Issuer.

• Contract Browser now accepts [operator] instead of [server] in order to handle multi-level PKI.
• Series of improvements to SignContractWizard.

Ready to try some real live contract preparation and running.

1.6.2:

Minor series of changes to fix 1.6.1

• Contract Browse bug fixed, needed new files in SOX.jar in order to read the DigiGold x.509 contract.
• WebFunds may now run under some circumstances under JDK 1.2.
• Set CLASSPATH in run.bat, no clue as to whether this is right.

1.6.1:

Major series of changes designed to get OpenPGP contracts in.

• OpenPGP contracts now added:
  • New Jar to do OpenPGP stuff included.
  • Ricardian Contracts handle either the old x.509 contracts or the new OpenPGP contracts.
  • "SignContractWizard" is rewritten from scratch The new SWING library 1.1.1-RELEASE is needed for this, see notes below.
• New unused code includes PaymentFactory and Payment types to do tokens. Also, DepositRequest is modified to accept these new Payments and to handle additional protocol state and type information suitable for token methods. However, nothing in WebFunds uses this code as yet.
• Now uses the Cryptix JCE for much of the Crypto code. Not completely changed over as yet.
• x.509 is now moving to deprecated track. Current DigiGold contract will be supported as long as it is valuable, but no new x.509 contracts.
• There are probably other changes....
• Some old deprecated junk contracts have been removed,
  • "Digigold" Trial
  • "Glitter" play currency
  we don't believe they are in use and should be rolled over ASAP if they are found in existance. A play contract will be provided with the public releasable WebFunds.

1.6.0:

Major series of changes designed to assist new wallets in development.

• new debugging module places all STDERR and STDOUT output into files of those names (lowercase).
• Description written into payments now shown on history, and on request for confirmation.
• Wallet interface now has WalletContext providing special features needed by wallet, rather than clumsy Core.
• AppendFileStore used for some things, which provides for an append only db method on rotating files. Not in production use as yet for major things, but is used for new things.
• Start on payment state machine with StateReceipt returned instead of Receipt from that store. Not effective as yet, as it is made up on the spot, but object can be migrated into code, replacing Receipt and PendingReceipt.
• Lots of cleanup in sox stores side, but no change to data as yet. All client store stuff should now be in webfunds.store.*.

1.5

• 1.5.4:
  • Quick fix for the NPEx problem where the Java PrintWriter object blows up. Cause is unknown, backed out a change that seems to trigger it.
• 1.5.3:
  • Think I got it - the receipts were incorrectly updated, but advise below concerning uncancellable payments still holds in general!
  • Now checks for /dev/random for the good entropy. Faster on Unix, still boring on Windows.
• 1.5.2:
  • Slow, painful fix to mail signing problem - the mail code was completely rewritten to remove an "innovation" that broke all mail signing. You might have noticed that mail was clogging up...
  • There is still a bug in the mail code - receipts can be dropped but signed for. This is a hanging offence, if you see a Payment that you cannot cancel because it is already used (pid), do not restart, but copy the 'out' file and send it to the support team.
  • DROPPED support for old /data/ version 1 data formats. This is about a year old.... It will warn you of the dropped support and terminate if present.
• 1.5.1:
  • Quick fix, can accept bearer deposit from unknown account.
  • Improved Payment readale comment.
  • History browser now has more features. Still has the known bug of printing the unit of contract not account. This can't be fixed until the browser is changes to a plugin (which has access to the contracts).
• 1.5.0: Major cleanup release. Lots of detail changes
  • Under New, a Backups option that copies the entire directory as selected. Fairly primitive, the backup is only 99% runnable, but it has all the important data.
  • Some changes to requests to align them with replies.
  • Default expiry set to 5 days, was 1 day.
  • Contracts - New ContractChooser helps avoid the grams-of-gold selection blues.
  • There is a new "defaults" features so that suppliers can build a version that starts up with contracts already sucked in to the contract store. It takes contracts from "defaults/contracts" on first startup for new user.
  • A lot of source code has been moved around.
  • Menu Help/Help now says something

1.4