corda/docs/source/release-notes.rst

Release notes

Here are brief summaries of what's changed between each snapshot release.

Unreleased

Here are changes in git master that haven't yet made it to a snapshot release:

• The cash contract has moved from com.r3corda.contracts to com.r3corda.contracts.cash.
• Amount class is now generic, to support non-currency types (such as assets, or currency with additional information).
• Refactored the Cash contract to have a new FungibleAsset superclass, to model all countable assets that can be merged and split (currency, barrels of oil, etc.)
• Switched to the ed25519 elliptic curve from secp256r1. Note that this introduces a new external lib dependency.

Milestone 0

This is the first release, which includes:

• Some initial smart contracts: cash, commercial paper, interest rate swaps
• An interest rate oracle
• The first version of the protocol/orchestration framework
• Some initial support for pluggable consensus mechanisms
• Tutorials and documentation explaining how it works
• Much more ...