v3.4.0

Summary

• Breaking changes to the API (see ./api/changelog)
• Homepage
  • New "Next Halving" widget in Network Summary
  • Show difficulty ATH comparison
  • Show "Next Block" fullness
  • Progress bar for difficulty adjustment estimate
  • Include median fee rate for next-block estimates (also on /next-block)
  • Show a banner if 'today' is a Bitcoin 'Holiday' (see more below)
• Minor fixes for running against Bitcoin Core v23
• Block Analysis: include top "days destroyed" transactions
• URL change: /mining-template -> /next-block (redirect is included for compatibility)
• On Extended PubKey pages, include balance data for various address (if Electrum server is configured)
• New /next-halving tool
• Several new API actions/changes; see /api/changelog
• New /holidays, a curated list of Bitcoin 'Holidays'
• Support for different view options on /fun
• On /difficulty-history, make delta graph honor timespan filtering
• Proper use of production-ready MemoryStore for session data
• Support for serving static assets via a configurable CDN
• Misc fixes for erroneous data display on non-mainnet nodes
• Switch from fontawesome to bootstrap-icons v1.8.0
• Refreshed miner-identification database
• Refreshed "Dark" theme with blues toned down (legacy dark theme still available)
• UI/UX tweaks
• Misc minor fixes
• Updated dependencies

Changes

• app/utils.js: minerInfo only on mainnet by @jsarenik in #407
• index-network-summary: Next Block not on signet by @jsarenik in #433
• tx api: add address, type, value to vin. add fee. by @pointbiz in #434
• new xyzpub API returns txids by @pointbiz in #436
• Feature api 24 hour volume in BTC by @pointbiz in #446
• Dockerfile: update node to v16 by @jsarenik in #450
• Fix /address/ API for testnet P2PKH addresses by @v0s in #453
• fix: stutter typo "for the the next block" by @chabroA in #468
• add block header API by @pointbiz in #471
• tx api: add mempool data for unconfirmed tx by @pointbiz in #479
• expose mempool size and total fees in api by @pointbiz in #490
• btcHolidays: Fix custory typo by @jsarenik in #497
• Update the 0xB10C pool URL by @ExperiBass in #514
• Don't strip trailing zeros from values by @ExperiBass in #504
• Improved xyzpub screen with some address details by @Thierry61 in #518
• Use new electrs error message when an address has a history longer than the configured lookup limit by @ExperiBass in #494
• Fix QR code not loading on address page by @ExperiBass in #523
• btcHolidays: fix the name by @jsarenik in #543
• Node details page improvements by @Thierry61 in #546
• added docker-compose.yml by @st3b1t in #549

New Contributors

• @jsarenik made their first contribution in #407
• @v0s made their first contribution in #453
• @chabroA made their first contribution in #468
• @ExperiBass made their first contribution in #514
• @Thierry61 made their first contribution in #518
• @st3b1t made their first contribution in #549

Full Changelog: v3.3.0...v3.4.0

v3.3.0

• New tool for viewing the UTXO Set: /utxo-set
• New API actions:
  • /api/blockchain/utxo-set
  • /api/address/yourAddress
  • /api/mining/next-block
  • /api/mining/next-block/txids
  • /api/mining/next-block/includes/:txid
  • /api/mining/miner-summary
• Major fixes for data displayed in /tx-stats tool
• Updated miners, including identification of "Patoshi"-pattern blocks
• /node-details: Include coinstatsindex status
• Support querying UTXO Set even with slowDeviceMode=true, iff coinstatsindex is available
• Fix for difficulty adjustment estimate
• /difficulty-history: Support for viewing different time ranges
• When viewing unconfirmed transaction details, show an info dialog if the transaction is predicted to be confirmed in the next block
• Performance improvements
  • Fix for performance degradation over time due to slow "estimatedSupply" function
  • Homepage speedup by making "Estimated Next Block" data load asynchonously
  • Caching for /difficulty-history data
• Unicode formatting for OP_RETURN and other similar data (with ascii+hex accessible via toggle)
• New .env options for setting defaults (see .env-sample for details):
  • BTCEXP_DISPLAY_CURRENCY (btc,sat,local)
  • BTCEXP_LOCAL_CURRENCY (usd,eur,gbp)
  • BTCEXP_UI_TIMEZONE (utc,local)
  • BTCEXP_UI_HIDE_INFO_PANELS (true,false)
• Support for displaying timestamps in local timezone (by using browser default, or setting a manual offset)
• Cleanup treatment of locktime on transaction details pages
• Unique favicon color based on the active network (mainnet=orange, testnet=green, signet=magenta, regtest=gray)
• Lots of minor styling improvements
• Error handling improvements
• Fix for /api/quotes/all
• Fix for incorrect date on "Diario El Salvador..." fun item (thanks @Dirkson643)
• New Fun items related to Taproot activation
• Performance log admin page at /admin/perf-log
• Updated dependencies

v3.2.0

v3.2.0

2021-08-10

• Public API! See the docs at /api/docs (thanks @pointbiz)
• XPUB pages: search for any xpub (ypub, zpub, etc) and see summary details and a list of associated addresses (thanks @pointbiz)
• Homepage: add "Predicted Next Block" section
• Mempool Summary: add top-fee transactions table
• Improvements to transaction details UI, especially on smaller screens
• Cleanup support for Taproot/bech32m
• New /mining-template tool, showing structured output of getblocktemplate command
• Various improvements to charts and graphs throughout the tool (including lots of y-axis changes: linear->log)
• Better support for BIP9 soft forks shown on /node-details (e.g. Taproot ST in 0.21.1) (Thanks @Pantamis)
• New "Recent" and "Favorites" sections on /rpc-browser
• Block lists: show (min, avg, max) fee rates instead of just avg
• Random Bitcoin-related quote shown in footer on each page load
• New /quotes, curated list of Bitcoin-related quotes (each quote also having its own page like this)
• Preemptive support for upcoming format change to getrawtransaction output (thanks @xanoni)
• Fix for incorrect homepage block count when using BTCEXP_UI_HOME_PAGE_LATEST_BLOCKS_COUNT
• Fix for inaccurate difficulty adjustment estimates
• Link to Tor v3 Hidden Service in footer
• Fix for DEBUG environment variable being ignored
• Fix for /rpc-terminal not parsing non-int parameters properly
• Fix for edge case where txindex availability check fails at startup (add retries with exp. backoff)
• Fix for tiny-value display (i.e. 1e-8 -> 0.00000001)
• Misc UI/UX tweaks
• Cache busting for frontend resources
• Improved error handling in many places
• Updated dependencies

v3.1.1

• Fix SSO flow broken by v3.0.0 update
• Fix for regtest network errors on homepage
• Fix for server errors in Docker-based installs

v3.1.0

• Improvements to no-txindex support: now available for all versions of Bitcoin Core
• Move public sites to BitcoinExplorer.org (BIG thanks @SatoshisDomains)
• Add back the /peers tool in the "Tools" menu
  • Note: The map on the peers tool now requires users set their own BTCEXP_MAPBOX_APIKEY in .env
• Response compression
• Remove reference to unused fonts.css
• Increased static-files cache: 1hr -> 1mo
• Clearer UX around RPC connection failures (show the fact clearly, instead of flooding the log with cryptic errors)
• Fixed changelog for v3.0.0 release (added/clarified some issues)
• Updated favicons (Thanks realfavicongenerator.net)
• Fix for homepage error after failure to get AU exchange rate
• UX improvements on /peers page
• Graphs for top items in /admin/stats
• Optional support for plausible.io analytics
• Fix to avoid displaying empty "Summary" section when we fail to get address txid list
• UX improvement around electrs too-many-txs-for-address errors

v3.0.0

• Major visual refresh!
  • All new design (layout, fonts, colors, etc)
  • Redesigned Dark Mode (now the default)
  • New app icon
• Support for pruned nodes and nodes with disabled txindex! (HUGE Thanks to @shesek)
  • Note: Currently only Bitcoin Core versions 0.21+ are able to support this feature (a future improvement is planned to make it available to all versions)
• Mempool Summary improvements
  • Greatly improved performance for multiple loads via caching
  • Added: "Blocks Count" column by fee-rate bucket
  • Tool for estimating Block Depth of a transaction or a fee rate (Thanks @pointbiz)
• Mining Summary: added doughnut chart for rev. breakdown, simplified table data
• Upgraded to Bootstrap 5 (currently beta3...)
• Update mapbox API (Thanks @shesek)
  • Note: The map on the /peers page now requires that users set the env var BTCEXP_MAPBOX_APIKEY to their own API key
• Fix for 404 pages hanging (Thanks @shesek)
• Add convenience redirect for baseUrl (Thanks @shesek)
• Make url in logs clickable (Thanks @shesek)
• Caching for static files (maxAge=1hr)
• Frontend performance optimizations
• Smarter performance/memory defaults for slow devices
• Major refactoring, modernization, and code-reuse improvements
• UX improvements and polish throughout
• URL changes
  • /node-status -> /node-details
  • /unconfirmed-tx -> /mempool-transactions
• Environment variable changes
  • The below changes were made to more clearly acknowledge that multiple Electrum-protocol implementations (e.g. ElectrumX, Electrs) can be used for address queries:
  • BTCEXP_ADDRESS_API value electrumx -> electrum (electrumx should still works)
  • BTCEXP_ELECTRUMX_SERVERS -> BTCEXP_ELECTRUM_SERVERS (BTCEXP_ELECTRUMX_SERVERS should still work)
• Updated dependencies
  • jQuery: v3.4.1 -> v3.6.0
  • highlight.js: v9.14.2 -> v10.7.1
  • fontawesome: v5.7.1 -> v5.15.3