BitShares

<p>BitShares Blockchain community is happy to announce that <a href="https://bitshares.github.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">BitShares</a> Core software has been updated to the <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/milestone/40?closed=1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">7.0.0 Protocol Release</a>.</p>
<p>The codename of the 7.x releases is <em>"<strong>Suez</strong>"</em>. The BitShares Core software is used to build the validation nodes that perform consensus of all transactions on the BitShares blockchain. This release includes additions, improvements and <strong>changes to the consensus protocol</strong>.</p>
<p>The scheduled protocol upgrade (hard fork) time is <strong>Thursday, November 16, 2023 14:00:00 UTC (2023-11-16T14:00:00Z)</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>"Suez"</strong> is the Canal of the Pharaohs, also called the Ancient Suez Canal or Necho's Canal, is the forerunner of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Suez Canal</a>, constructed in ancient times and kept in use, with intermissions, it followed a different course from its modern counterpart, by linking the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Nile</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Red Sea</a> via the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_Tumilat" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Wadi Tumilat</a>. Work began under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pharaohs</a>. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_the_Great%27s_Suez_Inscriptions" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Herodotus</a>, the first opening of the canal was under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Persian</a> king <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_the_Great" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Darius the Great</a>.</p>
<p>BitShares Blockchain community is an international community carrying an open source work together in an agile style; the release was called <strong>"Suez"</strong> in order to represent the diversified community behind BitShares Blockchain and to connect with worldwide users as the rivers connecting world societies together.</p>
<h3 id="strong-the-changes-for-a-href-https-github-com-bitshares-bitshares-core-milestone-40-closed-1-rel-noopener-noreferrer-nofollow-7-0-0-protocol-release-a-are-summarized-below-strong"><strong>The changes for <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/milestone/40?closed=1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">7.0.0 Protocol Release</a> are summarized below:</strong></h3>
<h2 id="header-0">Protocol</h2>
<ul>
 <li>Add Order-Sends-Take-Profit-Order (OSO) feature for market making <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2535" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2535</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2749" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2749</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2759" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2759</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2762" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2762</a></li>
 <li>Add new operation to modify existing limit order (see <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2743" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">notes about breaking changes</a>) <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/1604" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">1604</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2743" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2743</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2776" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2776</a></li>
 <li>Add credit deal auto-repayment feature <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2595" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2595</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2735" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2735</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2755" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2755</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2757" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2757</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2760" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2760</a></li>
 <li>Add operation to update liquidity pools <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2604" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2604</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2720" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2720</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2754" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2754</a></li>
 <li>Tighter peg when collateral price rises and settlement fund is not empty or settlement order exists (see <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2721" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">notes about breaking changes</a>) <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2591" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2591</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2721" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2721</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2727" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2727</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2748" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2748</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2768" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2768</a></li>
 <li>Allow settling more than total debt amount in individual settlement fund when no sufficient price feeds <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2587" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2587</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2716" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2716</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2764" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2764</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="header-1">Node Functionality</h2>
<ul>
 <li>Add return value (what and how much is refunded) to virtual limit_order_cancel operation - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2729" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2729</a></li>
 <li>Update default values of market history plugin options - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2702" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2702</a></li>
 <li>Update seed nodes - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2769" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2769</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="header-2">Node Performance and Stability</h2>
<ul>
 <li>Improve node networking stability by better handling asio operation cancellation exceptions - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/249" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">FC-249</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2775" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2775</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="header-3">Node Plugins</h2>
<ul>
 <li>Support ElasticSearch 8 (see <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2707" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">notes about deployment</a>)</li>
 <li>ElasticSearch Operations, ElasticSearch Objects <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2706" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2706</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2707" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2707</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2709" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2709</a></li>
 <li>Add missing is_virtual field in account history in ES, and fix a related API ElasticSearch Operations - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2730" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2730</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="header-4">Command-Line Wallet (CLI)</h2>
<ul>
 <li>Improve performance of account history wallet APIs by using the block_time field in operation_history_object <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2643" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2643</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2644" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2644</a></li>
 <li>Fix "gethelp command in CLI wallet built with Ubuntu 20 lacks docs for command parameters" <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2770" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2770</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2771" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2771</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="header-5">Software Design</h2>
<ul>
 <li>Improve safe&lt;T&gt; <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2147" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2147</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/248" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">FC-248</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2739" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2739</a></li>
 <li>Fix Network Mapper Tool - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2718" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2718</a></li>
 <li>Fix code smells - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2703" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2703</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2705" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2705</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2745" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2745</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2747" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2747</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="header-6">Build Process and Continuous Integration (CI)</h2>
<ul>
 <li>Use gcovr to process code coverage data - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2739" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2739</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2742" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2742</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/248" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">FC-248</a></li>
 <li>Set a timeout for running unit tests in Github Actions - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2732" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2732</a></li>
 <li>Remove SonarCloud cache and threads configuration as it is now by default <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2738" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2738</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2736" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2736</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2737" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2737</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/248" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">FC-248</a></li>
 <li>Stop supporting Ubuntu 18.04 LTS <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/issues/2670" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2670</a> <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2707" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2707</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/248" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">FC-248</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-gitian/pull/72" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Gitian-72</a></li>
 <li>Update dependency versions used in Github Actions - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2724" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2724</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2752" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2752</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2775" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2775</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2779" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2779</a></li>
 <li>Bump docker/build-push-action from 3 to 4 - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2722" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2722</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2726" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2726</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="header-7">Documentation</h2>
<ul>
 <li>Fix Doxygen warnings - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2780" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2780</a></li>
 <li>Update project links, version and description in sonar-project.properties - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2714" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2714</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2715" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2715</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2740" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2740</a></li>
 <li>Update license year - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2731" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2731</a></li>
 <li>Update project brief and version in Doxyfile - <a href="https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/2767" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2767</a></li>
</ul>
<p></p>
<h2 id="header-8">For More Information</h2>
<ul>
 <li>Official GitHub Website: <a href="https://bitshares.github.io" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://bitshares.github.io</a></li>
 <li>Official GitHub Repositories: <a href="https://github.com/bitshares" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://github.com/bitshares</a></li>
 <li>Official Telegram Group: <a href="https://t.me/BitSharesGroup" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.me/BitSharesGroup</a></li>
 <li>Official Development Telegram Group: <a href="https://t.me/BitSharesDEV" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.me/BitSharesDEV</a></li>
 <li>BitShares Reference Wallet: <a href="https://bts.exchange" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://bts.exchange</a></li>
</ul>
<p></p>

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