HISTORY.md

Release History

0.5.2 (2020-07-21)

• Transitions demos to agent-land test network, P2P and SOEF connections
• Adds full test coverage for helpers modules
• Adds full test coverage for core modules
• Adds CLI functionality to upload README.md files with packages
• Adds full test coverage for registries module
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.5.1 (2020-07-14)

• Adds support for agent name being appended to all log statements
• Adds redesigned GUI
• Extends dialogue api for easier dialogue maintenance
• Resolves blocking logic in oef and gym connections
• Adds full test coverage on aea modules configurations, components and mail
• Adds ping background task for soef connection
• Adds full test coverage for all connection packages
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

0.5.0 (2020-07-06)

• Refactors all connections to be fully async friendly
• Adds almost complete test coverage on connections
• Adds complete test coverage for cli and cli gui
• Fixes cli gui functionality and removes oef node dependency
• Refactors p2p go code and increases test coverage
• Refactors protocol generator for higher code reusability
• Adds option for skills to depend on other skills
• Adds abstract skills option
• Adds ledger connections to execute ledger related queries and transactions, removes ledger apis from skill context
• Adds contracts registry and removes them from skill context
• Rewrites all skills to be fully message based
• Replaces internal messages with protocols (signing and state update)
• Multiple refactoring to improve pylint adherence
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple test stability fixes

0.4.1 (2020-06-15)

• Updates component package module loading for skill and connection
• Unifies component package loading across package types
• Adds connections registry to resources
• Upgrades CLI commands for easier programmatic usage
• Adds AEARunner and AEALauncher for programmatic launch of multiple agents
• Refactors AEABuilder to support re-entrancy and resetting
• Fixes tac packages to work with erc1155 contract
• Multiple refactoring to improve public and private access patterns
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple test stability fixes

0.4.0 (2020-06-08)

• Updates message handling in skills
• Replaces serializer implementation; all serialization is now performed framework side
• Updates all skills for compatibility with new message handling
• Updates all protocols and protocol generator
• Updates package loading mechnanism
• Adds p2p_libp2p_client connection
• Fixes CLI bugs and refactors CLI
• Adds eject command to CLI
• Exposes identity and connection cryptos to all connections
• Updates connection loading mechanism
• Updates all connections for compatibility with new loading mechanism
• Extracts multiplexer into its own module
• Implements list all CLI command
• Updates wallet to split into several crypto stores
• Refactors component registry and resources
• Extends soef connection functionality
• Implements AEABuilder reentrancy
• Updates p2p_libp2p connection
• Adds support for configurable runtime
• Refactors documentation
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple test stability fixes

0.3.3 (2020-05-24)

• Adds option to pass ledger apis to aea builder
• Refactors decision maker: separates interface and implementation; adds loading mechanisms so framework users can provide their own implementation
• Adds async and sync agent loop implementations; agent can be run in both sync and async mode
• Completes transition to atomic cli commands (fetch, generate, scaffold)
• Refactors dialogue api: adds much simplified api; updates generator accordingly; updates skills
• Adds support for crypto module extensions: framework users can register their own crypto module
• Adds crypto module and ledger support for cosmos
• Adds simple-oef (soef) connection
• Adds p2p_libp2p connection for true p2p connectivity
• Adds pypi dependency consistency checks for aea projects
• Refactors cli for improved programmatic usage of components
• Adds skill exception handling policies and configuration options
• Adds comprehensive documentation of configuration files
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple test stability fixes

0.3.2 (2020-05-07)

• Adds dialogue generation functionality to protocol generator
• Fixes add CLI commands to be atomic
• Adds Windows platform support
• Stability improvements to test pipeline
• Improves test coverage of CLI
• Implements missing doc tests
• Implements end-to-end tests for all skills
• Adds missing agent projects to registry
• Improves AEABuilder class for programmatic usage
• Exposes missing AEA configs on agent config file
• Extends Aries demo
• Adds method to check sdtout for test cases
• Adds code of conduct and security guidelines to repo
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple additional unit tests
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.3.1 (2020-04-27)

• Adds p2p_stub connection
• Adds p2p_noise connection
• Adds webhook connection
• Upgrades error handling for error skill
• Fixes default timeout on main agent loop and provides setter in AEABuilder
• Adds multithreading support for launch command
• Provides support for kwargs to AEA constructor to be set on skill context
• Renames ConfigurationType with PackageType for consistency
• Provides a new AEATestCase class for improved testing
• Adds execution time limits for act/react calls
• TAC skills refactoring and contract integration
• Supports contract dependencies being added automatically
• Adds HTTP example skill
• Allows for skill inactivation during initialisation
• Improves error messages on skill loading errors
• Improves Readme, particularly for PyPI
• Adds support for Location based queries and descriptions
• Refactors skills tests to use AEATestCase
• Adds fingerprint and scaffold cli command for contract
• Adds multiple additional docs tests
• Makes task manager initialize pool lazily
• Multiple docs updates
• Multiple additional unit tests
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.3.0 (2020-04-02)

• Introduces IPFS based hashing of files to detect changes, ensure consistency and allow for content addressing
• Introduces aea fingerprint command to CLI
• Adds support for contract type packages which wrap smart contracts and their APIs
• Introduces AEABuilder class for much improved programmatic usage of the framework
• Moves protocol generator into alpha stage for light protocols
• Switches CLI to use remote registry by default
• Comprehensive documentation updates on new and existing features
• Additional demos to introduce the contracts functionality
• Protocol, Contract, Skill and Connection inherits from the same class, Component
• Improved APIs for Configuration classes
• All protocols now generated with protocol generator
• Multiple additional unit tests
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.2.4 (2020-03-25)

• Breaking change to all protocols as we transition to auto-generated protocols
• Fixes to protocol generator to move it to alpha status
• Updates to documentation on protocols and OEF search and communication nodes
• Improvements and fixes to AEA launch command
• Multiple docs updates and restructuring
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.2.3 (2020-03-19)

• Fixes stub connection file I/O
• Fixes OEF connection teardown
• Fixes CLI GUI subprocesses issues
• Adds support for URI based routing of envelopes
• Improves skill guide by adding a service provider agent
• Protocol generator bug fixes
• Add aea_version field to package yaml files for version management
• Multiple docs updates and restructuring
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.2.2 (2020-03-09)

• Fixes registry to only load registered packages
• Migrates default protocol to generator produced version
• Adds http connection and http protocol
• Adds cli init command for easier setting of author
• Refactoring and behind the scenes improvements to CLI
• Multiple docs updates
• Protocol generator improvements and fixes
• Adds cli launch command to launch multiple agents
• Increases test coverage for aea package and tests package
• Make project comply with PEP 518
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.2.1 (2020-02-21)

• Add minimal aea install
• Updates finite state machine behaviour to use any simple behaviour in states
• Adds example of programmatic and CLI based AEAs interacting
• Exposes the logger on the skill context
• Adds serialization (encoding/decoding) support to protocol generator
• Adds additional docs and videos
• Introduces test coverage to all code in docs
• Increases test coverage for aea package
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.2.0 (2020-02-07)

• Skills can now programmatically register behaviours
• Tasks are no longer a core component of the skill, the functor pattern is used
• Refactors the task manager
• Adds nonces to transaction data so transactions can be verified
• Adds documentation for the protocol generator
• Fixes several compatibility issues between CLI and registry
• Adds skills to connect a thermometer to an AEA
• Adds generic buyer and seller skills
• Adds much more documentation on AEA vs MVC frameworks, core components, new guides and more
• Removes the wallet from the agent constructor and moves it to the AEA constructor
• Allows behaviours to be initialized from a skill
• Adds multiple improvements to the protocol generator, including custom types and serialization
• Removes the default crypto object
• Replaces SharedClass with Model taxonomy for easier transition for web developers
• Adds bandit to CLI for security checks
• Makes private key paths in configs a dictionary so values can be set from CLI
• Introduces Identity object
• Increases test coverage
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.17 (2020-01-27)

• Add programmatic mode flag to AEA
• Introduces vendorized project structure
• Adds further tests for decision maker
• Upgrades sign transaction function for ethereum api proxy
• Adds black and bugbear to linters
• Applies public id usage throughout AEA business logic
• Adds guide on how to deploy an AEA on a raspberry pi
• Addresses multiple issues in the protocol generator
• Fixes aea config
• Adds CLI commands to create wealth and get wealth and address
• Change default author and license
• Adds guide on agent vs AEAs
• Updates docs and improves guides
• Adds support for inactivating skills programmatically
• Makes decision maker run in separate thread
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.16 (2020-01-12)

• Completes tac skills implementation
• Adds default ledger field to agent config
• Converts ledger apis to dictionary fields in agent config
• Introduces public ids to CLI and deprecate usage of package names only
• Adds local push and public commands to CLI
• Introduces ledger api abstract class
• Unifies import paths for static and dynamic imports
• Disambiguates import paths by introducing pattern of packages.author.package_type_pluralized.package_name
• Adds agent directory to packages with some samples
• Adds protocol generator and exposes on CLI
• Removes unused config fields
• Updates docs to align with recent changes
• Adds additional tests on CLI
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.15 (2019-12-19)

• Moves non-default packages from aea to packages directory
• Supports get & set on package configs
• Changes skill configuration resource types from lists to dictionaries
• Adds additional features to decision maker
• Refactors most protocols and improves their API
• Removes multiple unintended side-effects of the CLI
• Improves dependency referencing in config files
• Adds push and publish functionality to CLI
• Introduces simple and composite behaviours and applies them in skills
• Adds URI to envelopes
• Adds guide for programmatic assembly of an AEA
• Adds guide on agent-oriented development
• Multiple minor doc updates
• Adds additional tests
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.14 (2019-11-29)

• Removes dependency on OEF SDK's FIPA API
• Replaces dialogue id with dialogue references
• Improves CLI logging and list/search command output
• Introduces multiplexer and removes mailbox
• Adds much improved tac skills
• Adds support for CLI integration with registry
• Increases test coverage to 99%
• Introduces integration tests for skills and examples
• Adds support to run multiple connections from CLI
• Updates the docs and adds uml diagrams
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.13 (2019-11-08)

• Adds envelope serializer
• Adds support for programmatically initializing an AEA
• Adds some tests for the gui and other components
• Exposes connection status to skills
• Updates oef connection to re-establish dropped connections
• Updates the car park agent
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.12 (2019-11-01)

• Adds TCP connection (server and client)
• Fixes some examples and docs
• Refactors crypto modules and adds additional tests
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.11 (2019-10-30)

• Adds python3.8 test coverage
• Adds almost complete test coverage on aea package
• Adds filter concept for message routing
• Adds ledger integrations for fetch.ai and ethereum
• Adds carpark examples and ledger examples
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.10 (2019-10-19)

• Compatibility fixes for Ubuntu and Windows platforms
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.9 (2019-10-18)

• Stability improvements
• Higher test coverage, including on Python 3.6
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.8 (2019-10-18)

• Multiple bug fixes and improvements to gui of cli
• Adds full test coverage on cli
• Improves docs
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.7 (2019-10-14)

• Adds gui to interact with cli
• Adds new connection stub to read from/write to file
• Adds ledger entities (fetchai and ethereum); creates wallet for ledger entities
• Adds more documentation and fixes old one
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.6 (2019-10-04)

• Adds several new skills
• Extended docs on framework and skills
• Introduces core framework components like decision maker and shared classes
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.5 (2019-09-26)

• Adds scaffolding command to the CLI tool
• Extended docs
• Increased test coverage
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.4 (2019-09-20)

• Adds cli functionality to add connections
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.3 (2019-09-19)

• Adds Jenkins for CI
• Adds docker develop image
• Parses dependencies of connections/protocols/skills on the fly
• Adds validations of config files
• Adds first two working skills and fixes gym examples
• Adds docs
• Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

0.1.2 (2019-09-16)

• Adds aea cli tool.
• Adds aea skills framework.
• Introduces static typing checks across aea, using Mypy.
• Extends gym example

0.1.1 (2019-09-04)

• Provides examples and fixes.

0.1.0 (2019-08-21)

• Initial release of the package.