v8.2.1

• Update contract count on ALLOC messages #739 @littleskunk

v8.2.0

• Additional round of fixes for disk over allocation #736

v8.1.0

• improve farmer logging, paid and unpaid downloads #734
• remove _pendingOffers #733

Thanks @littleskunk

v8.0.0

• Added persistent tokens for shard server for SIP6 #724
• Fix disk over allocation that leads to farmer crashes #730
• Bug fix for logging #728
• Deprecated BridgeClient and related: FileMuxer, FileDemuxer, DecryptStream, EncryptStream, DataCipherKeyIv, DeterministicKeyIv, KeyRing #731

v7.0.4

• Bug fix for logging #728

v7.0.3

• Fix issue with proof-of-work script running with electron #725
• Add protocol to contact updates #726

v7.0.2

• Adds methods to check disk usage #722

v7.0.1

• Bug fix for private length issue when signing with the secp256k1 library #721

v7.0.0

Features:

• Implementation of SIP6
• Supports connecting to multiple bridges
• Uses proof-of-work challenges for farmer to join a bridge and receive data and contracts
• Adds a new method to protocol called ALLOC that combines the previous PUBLISH -> OFFER -> CONSIGNMENT flow to improve reliability and scalability when uploading to the network.

Deprecations:

• bridgeUri and renterWhitelist options for a farmer are deprecated in favor of using bridges config as an array of objects with url and extendedKey properties.
• The BridgeClient methods storeFileInBucket and resolveFileFromPointers are deprecated, please see node-libstorj and libstorj for file transfer, as well as the client libraries at https://github.com/Storj/awesome-storj#client-libraries

v6.8.0

• remove depricated toNumberBytes
• log shard size and available bucket size

thanks @littleskunk