-New settings allow reading of the hash algorithm used to mine a particular block for coins that support this feature and have the algorithm data stored in the raw block data
-An "Algorithm" column has been added to the block page and main transaction homepage when multi-algo data is enabled
-The /ext/getlasttxs api will now return the hash algorithm if reading of the multi-algo data is enabled
-Changed sample crontab from 2 to 5 minute intervals for the market sync since the coingecko api will soon force free users to the keyed api which only allows making 1 api call every 5 minutes without running out of credits for the month
-Updated all links to the Exor crowfunding / task list page with newer urls
-The previous market price calculation setting was hardcoded to only display market and USD prices for a single exchange and trading pair which was not very accurate for coins listed on multiple exchanges or with multiple trading pairs. The new default is to average the market prices for all supported exchanges and trading pairs
-The coingecko market price option was added to allow fetching the market price directly from the coingecko api instead of calculating it via supported exchanges known to the explorer
-Added a new root setting option for default_coingecko_ids which allows presetting symbols to their associated internal coingecko id to help prevent matching to the wrong currency with same symbol via coingecko api calls
-Fixed an issue where the explorer would fail to start with an enabled exchange that had no defined trading pairs
-Added a crowdfunding section
-Split off the contact info into its own "Developer Contact" section and added a link to the "Premium Support" section
-Updated recommended versions for Node.js and MongoDB
-Updated the MongoDB install instructions for ubunutu 22.04 for the newest 7.x series of MongoDB
-Added some new options to the "Donations / Support Us" section
-jQuery has been updated to v3.7.1
-Luxon has been updated to v3.4.3. Also updated the link to the documentation showing how to format dates in the settings.json.template and settings.js
-Datatables has been updated to v1.13.6
-Font Awesome has been updated to v6.4.2 and all icons in the project have been updated to use the newest v6.x codes
-OverlayScrollbars has been updated to v2.3.2
-flag-icons (previously called flag-icon-css) has been updated to v6.11.1
-Updated the main style.scss file with better color support for the new datatable loading animation color
-Exor theme has been updated to v3.0.2 with a small fix to support the new datatable loading animation color
-jqPlot has been completely removed and replaced with chart.js on all remaining charts and graphs (richlist pie chart and market candlestick chart)
-chart.js has been updated to v4.4.0
-chartjs-plugin-crosshair has been updated to v2.0.0
-Added 2 new small libraries to enable the chart.js candlestick chart: chartjs-chart-financial v0.1.1 and chartjs-adapter-luxon v1.3.1
-Most modern browsers already have ECMAScript Internationalization API support built-in, but many older browsers do not. For these unsupported browsers, Luxon would fail to load the formatted dates on many of the explorer pages which would cause a cascading effect of not loading other data leading to a broken experience. A polyfilled version of Intl.js is now being loaded into the site which will only be downloaded when using a browser that does not already have Internationalization API support
-Version bumped to v1.102.0 in package.json
-Updated the UPGRADE file with details of changes in v1.102.0
-Updated the year in the LICENSE and README files
-Updated the recommended versions for Node.js and MongoDB
-Added text to the first paragrpah to make it more clear that EVM blockchains are not supported
-Added a step for exiting the mongo shell in the "Database Setup" section
-Removed the "Full Setup Guide" section
-Dropped the "Quick Install Instructions" section title and now all install instructions are under the main Installation section
-Added new steps to the "Pre-Install" section for installing node.js and mongodb
-Added a new entry to the "Known Issues" section to explain the "Callback was already called" error msg
-Added a new entry to the "Known Issues" section that better explains the padLevels warning msgs when using the forever module
-Added alternate instructions to the "Manually Link TLS/SSL Certificates to the Explorer" section which better explain which method should be used depending on whether the explorer is running on port 80 for http traffic or not
-The block sync will now remove orphaned block data from the txes collecton, address balances/sent/received data as well as addresstx data and now stores limited info in a new orphans collection
-Added a new optional page for viewing orphaned block data
-The coinbase address now updates sent totals from POS rewards and other transactions that have vout but no vin addresses
-Block and transaction pages now display a warning when viewing an orphaned block or tx
-Added a couple new fields to the coinstats collection for tracking orphaned blocks
-Added new locale strings for the orphaned block feature
-A new side menu option was added for displaying menu items vertically on the left-hand side of the page
-Added a new script called OverlayScrollbars v1.13.3 for displaying custom scrollbars on the mobile menu (both top and side menu) in the event that they extend beyond the visible screen
-Updated the market menu dropdown colors to better match the base menu colors (default, light and dark colors only)
-Updated the Exor theme to v3.0.1 with a few small fixes for displaying menu items in the side menu and updated market dropdown colors
-Updated how the richlist pie chart is sized to prevent it from creating unnecessary scrollbars because of the side menu
-Search field and button are now hidden in the top menu when the mobile menu is expanded to make it easier to scroll through menu items
-Added a tooltip title to the top menu search and menu toggler buttons
-Use the cmd `npm run update-explorer "explorer-only"` to update the explorer code only, without checking for out-of-date dependencies
-Use the cmd `npm run update-explorer "dependencies-only"` to update outdated dependencies only, without checking for explorer code updates
-Updated the README with the 2 new script arguments
-The custom.js file can be used to add custom javascript code without affecting the ability to do a git pull update
-Added a quick explanation of using the custom.js file in the "Configure Explorer Settings" section of the README
-The update_explorer.js script has been improved with better spacing and the ability to restart the explorer automatically to ensure new changes take effect immidiately (works with npm start, pm2 and forever)
-The code to compile scss to css has been moved from the prestart script into its own compile_css.js script which is now called from the update-explorer.js script to apply css changes after update
-The cluster code now handles a custom restart msg which is used to restart the explorer from the update explorer process
-Pm2 and Forever are now referenced by the name 'explorer' instead of ./bin/instance or ./bin/cluster [SEE IMPORTANT NOTE BELOW]
-Added reload/restart scripts to the package.json for pm2 and forever
-Pm2 and forever now write a pid file to the tmp directory when started. NOTE: Forever is now started from the prestart script due to a bug in forever that prevents the pid from being written to a different directory without the absolute path
-Fixed a bug which caused the prestart script to be run twice when starting the explorer with `npm start`
-The cluster code now accepts a numeric argument to force a specific number of instances to be loaded
-The `npm run start-instance` cmd now loads using the cluster code with a single instance
-The is_locked function now accepts an optional 'silent' argument to prevent displaying msgs while checking for pid/lock files
-Added some process.exit statements to the stop_explorer.js file
-Updated the README with cmd changes from package.json and updated description of the "Update Explorer Script"
IMPORTANT NOTE: It is strongly recommended to stop the explorer before performing this update. If the explorer is running while you perform this update, you will need to stop and restart the explorer for this update to fully take effect. Because of the changes in this commit, stopping the explorer using the built-in pm2 and/or forever stop cmds will not work and you will need to type out the full stop cmd this one time only, and going forward from now on you should no longer need to even stop the explorer for any update as it is now built into the update cmd.
If running using pm2 and you cannot stop the explorer, you can use stop using the following full cmd syntax:
Windows:
pm2 stop ./bin/instance
Linux and other OS's:
node node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 stop ./bin/instance
If running using forever and you cannot stop the explorer, you can use stop using the following full cmd syntax:
All OS's:
node node_modules/forever/bin/forever stop ./bin/cluster
-This exchange has 2 separate sites using the same api, so new functionality was added to the explorer to handle alt markets like this
-market files now allow for new field names: "market_name_alt" was added for the alternate market name, "market_logo_alt" was added for displaying an alternate logo, a "market_url" function was added that will return a url string to replace the {url_prefix} code in the market_url_template and an "isAlt" function was added to determine if the alt name/logo should be used
-A new freiexchange entry was added to the markets_page.exchanges setting
-Updated the README with the updated market info
-The custom.scss file can be used to add custom css changes without affecting the ability to do a git pull update
-Added a quick explanation of using the custom.scss file in the "Configure Explorer Settings" section of the README
-Added a few badges to the top of the README (version, release date, last commit, platform and license)
-Added a new svg image as a README badge for platform support
-Moved the "Special Thanks" section closer to the bottom of the README and added a link to it in the TOC
-Removed the "Open Bounty Program" section
-Added a "Premium Support" section
-Updated the pre-install instructions
-Replaced the broken "Iquidus Block Explorer Setup Guide" link with another guide called "Beginners Guide for Iquidus Explorer Setup" and re-added "The Ultimate Iquidus Explorer Installation Guide" from WayBackMachine
-"How You Can Support Us" section renamed to "Donations / Support Us"
-Rewrote some of the text for the "Donations / Support Us" section
-Added new script to A) grab the latest code form github, B) update all dependencies, and C) run the database initialize function to ensure new changes take effect immidiately
-Updated README to explain the new explorer update function
-Added locks to all sync processes (blocks, markets, peers, masternodes) as well as "create backup", "restore backup" and "delete database" functions. This helps prevent problems with syncing data while a backup is in progress for example
-The code to initialize certain database collections on startup was moved into database.js and is now called from restore_backup.js and delete_database.js. This effectively allows the database to be deleted or restored to a completely different backup while the explorer is still running
-Lock functions (create_lock, remove_lock, is_locked) were moved into explorer.js for better reusability and rewriten to be synchronous
-is_locked function now accepts an array of lock files to be able to check for multiple locks in a single call
-remove_sync_message() function was moved into database.js so that restore_backup.js and delete_database.js can also check for and remove the sync msg if it exists
-Useful Scripts section updated in the README to make it clear that the explorer no longer needs to be stopped for these scripts to be run
-Most if not all log messages now start with a capitlal letter
-All shell scripts have been removed and replaced with javascript equivalents which allows for better platform independence
-All scripts have been improved over the older shell scripts to be more functional and dynamic
-Updated all applicable cmds in the package.json to target the new js scripts + added the backup, restore and delete database functions to the list
-Removed the json and strip-json-comments-cli packages as they are no longer needed
-Added a new package realine-sync
-Updated cluster code with better Windows support when shutting down the explorer
-Backup and Restore scripts now use mongo's own encryption instead of tar.gz by default. Older tar.gz backups can still be restored as long as the tar.gz suffix is explicitly added
-Backup and Restore scripts now support connecting to remote database based on the mongo details in settings.json
-Updated README to include a new line for the 'platform independence' feature, updated script cmds and notes about certain steps being Linux only
-Hashrate chart is populated from get_hashrate
-Difficulty chart is populated from get_difficulty
-Added a networkhistories collection to hold the new network data
-Index sync and resync functions now check for and update network history data at the end of the sync process
-restore_backup.sh and delete_database.sh scripts now drop the new networkhistories collection
-Added a new javascript library chartjs-plugin-crosshair which adds crosshair functionality to the new chart.js line charts
-Added new settings to settings.json for controlling things like collecting network_history data, independently enabling/disabling the network charts and changing colors of various aspects of the charts
-Updated README to introduce the network charts and added a line for the chartjs-plugin-crosshair library
-Bootstrap was upgraded to latest version (v5.1.3) which required tons of changes to the UI. Many little UI problems have been resolved
-Bootswatchs themes have all been upgraded to support bootstrap v5.1.3 + 4 new themes were added (Morph, Quartz, Vapor and Zephyr)
-Exor theme upgraded to v3.0.0 with support for bootstrap v5.1.3
-Many layout and UI improvements such as more consistent hover effects on most tables and more readable text across all themes
-jQuery updated to v3.6.0
-DataTables updated to v1.11.3
-FontAwesome updated to v5.15.4
-Luxon updated to v2.1.1 (Removed js file from project and added CDN url)
-jqPlot (No update in version but removed js/css files from project and added CDN urls)
-Chart.js updated to v3.6.1 (Removed js file from project and added CDN url + fixed breaking changes in Reward page)
-flag-icon-css updated to v4.1.4 (Removed source files from project and added CDN url)
-All node dependencies are up-to-date in package.json
-Updated semantic versioning of some node dependencies in package.json
-Applied fixes to necessary explorer files to fix breaking changes to mongoose dependency
-Update README with new Node.js and MongoDB version recommendations
NOTE: Node.js must be updated to at least v14.13.1 to fix breaking errors in a few of the updated dependencies
-New npm scripts make syncing and running other explorer tasks easier, without needing to remember longer command syntax
-Updated README to explain new npm scripts and give recommendations on their usage. Also update sample crontab section
Joe Uhren