NEM Symbol 0.9.6.4 Release Announcement

[DaveH]

Mandarin: here thanks @Dtbychris

Hi All,

The development teams have been hard at work arranging the next release of Symbol, it has now been released, along with an upgraded Testnet and various other components, this release update is a bit longer than others as a result:

NEM Symbol 0.9.6.4

As per the announcement on Slack
https://nem2.slack.com/archives/C9E7N7H1N/p1597422656212800

The api nodes endpoints were not changed but have been upgraded:

api-01.us-east-1.096x.symboldev.network
api-01.eu-west-1.096x.symboldev.network
api-01.us-west-1.096x.symboldev.network
api-01.ap-southeast-1.096x.symboldev.network
api-01.eu-central-1.096x.symboldev.network
api-01.ap-northeast-1.096x.symboldev.network

The faucets can be found at:

http://faucet-96x-01.symboldev.network
http://faucet-96x-02.symboldev.network

Initial set up for explorer is here:

http://explorer-96x.symboldev.network

For those interested in testing out running a test network node you can find the latest at:

https://github.com/nemfoundation/symbol-testnet-bootstrap/releases/tag/0.9.6.4-beta1

NOTE: as usual with an update like this, it is recommended to wipe your development/test node environment if you have been working with versions less than 0.9.6.3 version

Delegated Harvesting transaction will need to be resubmitted since the encryption algorithm was updated (edited)

NEM Symbol Desktop Wallet

The wallet version 0.12.1 has been released here:
https://github.com/nemgrouplimited/symbol-desktop-wallet/releases/tag/v0.12.1

Updated to the work the various other releases in this group

TS-SDK v0.20.7 (for Symbol 0.9.6.4)

As per the announcement on Slack: https://nem2.slack.com/archives/CEZKUE4KB/p1597413601001100

Hi All, We have release TS-SDK v0.20.7 today. https://github.com/nemtech/symbol-sdk-typescript-javascript/releases/tag/v0.20.7please see the change log below:
[0.20.7] - 14-Aug-2020 Milestone : Gorilla.1(0.9.6.4)

Package	Version	Link
SDK Core	v0.20.7	symbol-sdk
Catbuffer	v0.0.21	catbuffer-typescript
Client Library	v0.9.6	symbol-openapi-typescript-fetch-client- [BREAKING CHANGE] Refactored Namespace, Receipt and Metadata endpoints. Added new search endpoint and removed old endpoints.

• [BREAKING CHANGE] Updated encryption / decryption algorithm from AES-CBC to AES-GCM to meet the security standard.
• [BREAKING CHANGE] Updated PersistentDelegatedHarvesting message marker. Also added VRF private key paramter in PersistentDelegatedHarvesting message & trsnaction creation.
• Added optional parameter TransactionHash in AggregateTransaction.signWith method.
• Updated encoding methods to support emoji in message payload.

Java SDK Version 0.20.3 (for Symbol 0.9.6.4)

As per the announcement on Slack: https://nem2.slack.com/archives/CEZKUE4KB/p1597423885001900

Hi team, we have released Java SDK version 0.20.3 targeting catapult-server 0.9.6.4. https://github.com/nemtech/symbol-sdk-java/releases/tag/v0.20.3

[0.20.3] - 14-Aug-2020 Milestone: Gorilla.1(0.9.6.4)

Package	Version	Link
SDK OkHttp	v0.20.3	https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/nem/symbol-sdk-okhttp-client
SDK Vertx	v0.20.3	https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/nem/symbol-sdk-vertx-client
Catbuffer Library	v0.0.22	https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/nem/catbuffer-java
Client OkHttp	v0.9.6	https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/nem/symbol-openapi-okhttp-gson-client
* Client Vertx	v0.9.6	https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/nem/symbol-openapi-vertx-client/

• [BREAKING CHANGE] Refactored Namespace, Receipt, Account and Metadata endpoints. Added new search endpoints and removed old endpoints.
• [BREAKING CHANGE] Updated encryption / decryption algorithm from AES-CBC to AES-GCM to meet the security standard.
• [BREAKING CHANGE] Updated PersistentDelegatedHarvesting message marker. Added VRF private key parameter in PersistentDelegatedHarvesting message & transaction creation.
• Improved negative validation on unsigned numbers.
• Allowing multiple recipient type on transaction statement searches.