-Suppress the "DeprecationWarning: Mongoose: the `strictQuery` option will be switched back to `false` by default in Mongoose 7" warning msg when starting the explorer and using any of the scripts that connect to mongo
-Chart.js numbers are rounded to 3 decimals by default. This fix uses the raw value instead of the formatted number for display on the network hashrate and difficulty charts so that low numbers like 0.00028363 are displayed properly instead of being rounded to 0
-jstransformer-markdown-it was barely being used and its use as a dependency just isn't justified, so it has been removed
-The network page was the only place where the markup plugin was used so the text was rewritten to no longer use the plugin
-Small change to help sort the peers list a bit better when filtering ports so that lower protocols drop off the list if there are multiple connections from the same ip with different protocols
-Moved the code around for filtering ports and protocols on the network page to prevent filtering too aggressively when there are multipl entries for an ip address in which the 1st record for a given ip happens to be on a protocol that will be filtered
-The port_filter settings for all 3 network page tables now support a -1 value which will completely hide the port from the associated table. If there are/were multiple ip addresses in the peers list with connections from different ports, this new option will consolidate those multiple records into a single entry since the port is no longer visible
-The footer was being resized at the wrong width breakpoints because of an issue with determining the current width of the screen. If you had previously fine-tuned your page_footer.footer_height_xxx and page_footer.social_link_percent_height_xxx options, they may need to be readjusted to account for the new proper width breakpoints after this fix is applied
-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
-Removed the check for country and country_code since not all ip addresses have country information and can cause a peer drop loop as a result
-Updated the error msg text when port data is not found for existing peers
-The SIGINT and SIGTERM signals are now being caught and handled in the sync.js file so that most options for syncing blocks, markets, peers, masternodes, etc. are now being gracefully shut down instead of killed in the middle of the process. This should help prevent data anomalies when you need to stop or kill a sync process
-The update_tx_db function was moved from the database.js file into the sync.js file so that block syncs can now be gracefully stopped. The update_tx_db function was also copied to the benchmark.js
-The save_tx function was moved into the module.exports for the database.js file so that it can now be called from outside the database.js file
-Some blockchains store certain vin or vout addresses within an array instead of as a simple string which would cause them to be read improperly by the explorer and result in transactions that were not attributed to the proper address. It also caused multiple inputs/outputs from the same address in a single transaction to not be grouped together like other transactions in the explorer
-Locale string tx_hash was changed from "Hash" to "Tx Hash" to be clearer about which Hash it refers to
-TXid was renamed to "Tx Hash" throughout the site
-Removed the coin name from the tx hash label on the transaction page
-Removed the coin name from the block hash label on the block page and changed the text "block" to "Block Hash"
-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
-If the explorer is installed to a directory that has a space character somewhere in the absolute path, the locking mechanism will not work correctly on non-windows computers and will cause undesired behavior without this fix
-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
-Added a new port_filter setting to the 3 network_page tables which allows showing only results from peers on the selected port
-Added a new hide_protocols setting to the 3 network_page tables which allows hiding results from peers on the selected protocols
-Added a Port column to the data table on the Network page Connections tab
-The data table on the Network page Connections tab is now sortable
-The peer sync now refreshes data for peers that existed since last sync
-Adding and updating peers now displays the port # in the log output
-The /ext/getnetworkpeers api is now sorted by ip4/ip6, address and port which also means all data on the Network page is sorted this way by default as well
-The /ext/getnetworkpeers api no longer requires the internal argument for calls originating from the Network page
-The Network page now only makes a single call to the /ext/getnetworkpeers api instead of 3 calls
-The find_peer and drop_peer functions now requiresa port to distinguish between multiple connections to the same peer on different ports
-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
-Difficulty chart would fail to populate if the shared_pages.difficulty setting was 'Hybrid' and is now handled properly. The chart now supports 2 datasets: POW and POS
-NetworkHistory.difficulty field was renamed to difficulty_pow and a new difficulty_pos field was added
-The shared_pages.page_header.network_charts.difficulty_chart.line_color setting was renamed to pow_line_color
-The shared_pages.page_header.network_charts.difficulty_chart.fill_color setting was renamed to pow_fill_color
NOTE: If you have existing NetworkHistory data from before this update, it will be automatically assumed to be POW. If it was actualy POS, you will need to either manually fix the data in mongo or simply wait a couple hours while syncing to eventually push the old data out of the chart
-Instead of using a single file for the favicon, there are now 4 size options for a more modern favicon experience as inspired by this article: https://www.emergeinteractive.com/insights/detail/The-Essentials-of-FavIcons/
-Old default favicon file has been replaced with 4 different sized pngs
-Not all sizes need to be set. If any of the new settings are left blank or the filename does not exist, that favicon size will be skipped
-Added pm2 and forever to the dev dependencies list to help prevent package.json from being automatically updated/changed in production which could make `git pull` fail due to the changes
-Both dependencies and dev dependencies sections have been sorted alphabetically to also help prevent auto package.json changes
-All dependency version numbers have been updated to the latest versions as of today
NOTE: You can run the following cmd if you are having troubles running `npm run update-explorer` or `git pull` due to uncommitted changes to package.json:
git restore package.json
-Chart data was pulling the last 100 trades within 15m intervals but was often returning data well beyond the 24h time period and could lead to some unreadable/unusable charts
-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
-freegeoip.app now requires an api key so the peer sync has been updated to use reallyfreegeoip.org instead
-Added extra error checking to the peer sync so that it will error out when the geolocation service does not return a proper object
-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
-Added new setting 'show_exchange_url' which hides/shows the exchange link
-Updated all exchanges with a trade url template which can be used to automatically determine the correct url for each trading pair
Joe Uhren