Building with docker is arguably easier and more familiar to most people
than either kvm, or lxc.
This commit also relaxes the back compat requirement a bit. 32 bit linux
now uses glibc version 2.0. Also, the docker shell could not handle gcc arguments
containing spaces, so the explicit '-DFELT_TYPE' declaration was dropped.
Lastly, this removes some packages from the osx descriptor.
RPC connections now have optional tranparent SSL.
An optional private key and certificate file can be passed,
using the --{rpc,daemon}-ssl-private-key and
--{rpc,daemon}-ssl-certificate options. Those have as
argument a path to a PEM format private private key and
certificate, respectively.
If not given, a temporary self signed certificate will be used.
SSL can be enabled or disabled using --{rpc}-ssl, which
accepts autodetect (default), disabled or enabled.
Access can be restricted to particular certificates using the
--rpc-ssl-allowed-certificates, which takes a list of
paths to PEM encoded certificates. This can allow a wallet to
connect to only the daemon they think they're connected to,
by forcing SSL and listing the paths to the known good
certificates.
To generate long term certificates:
openssl genrsa -out /tmp/KEY 4096
openssl req -new -key /tmp/KEY -out /tmp/REQ
openssl x509 -req -days 999999 -sha256 -in /tmp/REQ -signkey /tmp/KEY -out /tmp/CERT
/tmp/KEY is the private key, and /tmp/CERT is the certificate,
both in PEM format. /tmp/REQ can be removed. Adjust the last
command to set expiration date, etc, as needed. It doesn't
make a whole lot of sense for monero anyway, since most servers
will run with one time temporary self signed certificates anyway.
SSL support is transparent, so all communication is done on the
existing ports, with SSL autodetection. This means you can start
using an SSL daemon now, but you should not enforce SSL yet or
nothing will talk to you.
The blockchain prunes seven eighths of prunable tx data.
This saves about two thirds of the blockchain size, while
keeping the node useful as a sync source for an eighth
of the blockchain.
No other data is currently pruned.
There are three ways to prune a blockchain:
- run monerod with --prune-blockchain
- run "prune_blockchain" in the monerod console
- run the monero-blockchain-prune utility
The first two will prune in place. Due to how LMDB works, this
will not reduce the blockchain size on disk. Instead, it will
mark parts of the file as free, so that future data will use
that free space, causing the file to not grow until free space
grows scarce.
The third way will create a second database, a pruned copy of
the original one. Since this is a new file, this one will be
smaller than the original one.
Once the database is pruned, it will stay pruned as it syncs.
That is, there is no need to use --prune-blockchain again, etc.
93c59b29 perf_timer: check allowed categories before logging (moneromooo-monero)
6a507dab perf_timer: add a way to get and reset the current time (moneromooo-monero)
c1581a5b perf_timer: only log to file (moneromooo-monero)
aee7a4e3 wallet_rpc_server: do not use RPC data if the call failed (moneromooo-monero)
1a0733e5 windows_service: fix memory leak (moneromooo-monero)
0dac3c64 unit_tests: do not rethrow a copy of an exception (moneromooo-monero)
5d9915ab cryptonote: fix get_unit for non default settings (moneromooo-monero)
d4f50cb1 remove some unused code (moneromooo-monero)
61163971 a few minor (but easy) performance tweaks (moneromooo-monero)
30023074 tests: slow_memmem now returns size_t (moneromooo-monero)
5808530f blockchain: remove unused output_scan_worker parameter (moneromooo-monero)
1426209a blockchain: don't run threads if we have just one function to run (moneromooo-monero)
6f7a5fd4 db_lmdb: slight speedup getting array data from the blockchain (moneromooo-monero)
99fbe100 db_lmdb: save some string copies for readonly db keys/values (moneromooo-monero)
bf31447e tx_pool: speed up take_tx for transactions from blocks (moneromooo-monero)
4f005a77 tx_pool: remove unnecessary get_transaction_hash (moneromooo-monero)
593ef598 perf_timer: call reserve on new timer array (moneromooo-monero)
6ecc99ad core: avoid unnecessary tx/blob conversions (moneromooo-monero)
00cc1a16 unit_tests: notify test special case for the usual weirdo (moneromooo-monero)
