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v1.7.0 Changes
November 11, 2020
🚀 You can find the release notes at https://daml.com/release-notes/1.7.0/
v1.6.0 Changes
October 15, 2020
🚀 See https://daml.com/release-notes/1.6.0/ for the release notes.
v1.5.0 Changes
September 16, 2020
🚀 Take a look at the release notes for details.
v1.4.0 Changes
August 12, 2020
Highlights
- DAML on SQL is available as an Early Access standalone JAR, you can
  🚀 find it on the GH Release
  🚀 page
- 👌 Improvements to Ledger API and documentation for client application
  failover
  - This involves changes in the Ledger API in corner cases, but
    unless you are dealing with application failover, you are
    unlikely to be affected.
- DAML REPL is stable and has gained new features, including the
  ability to run without being connected to a ledger
  - Module imports now need to be made explicit when starting DAML
    REPL
- daml codegen js is significantly faster when generating
  Javascript/TypeScript code
- 🆕 New Previous/Next buttons on
  📄 docs.daml.com. Thanks to Alex Mason for
  the
  📚 suggestion!
Impact and Migration

Migration from SDK 1.3 to 1.4 should require no action for almost all
👉 users.
- If you were using the Early Access version of DAML REPL, you need to
  👉 make a minor adjustment to the CLI parameters to start it.
- If you are working on application failover, you need to incorporate
  some API improvements.
🚀 Standalone Early Access release of DAML on SQL

Background

The DAML Sandbox's primary purpose is to serve as an in-memory
👍 development tool, but has had support for SQL backing for a long time.
✅ This made it a popular choice as a prototyping ledger and test tool, but
lacking a separate distribution, required an entire SDK installation to
🚀 run. To add clarity and ease deployment, the developer tool "Sandbox",
and the Ledger "DAML on SQL" are now being separated. As a first step,
DAML on SQL is now available as a standalone JAR file on GitHub
🚀 releases. Some minor changes to functionality and CLI are planned for
🚀 upcoming releases to further differentiate developer tooling and actual
Ledger. The standalone JAR will remain in Early Access until those
🔄 changes have been made.

Specific Changes

🚀 DAML on SQL is now available with every release from the GitHub
🚀 Releases page.

Impact and Migration

For now, this is a purely additive change, but at the same time DAML on
🗄 SQL will become stable,, persistence mode in Sandbox will be deprecated,
👍 and after a transition period, both support for persistence in Sandbox,
🚚 and the already deprecated Sandbox-classic will be removed from the SDK.
👉 Users of Sandbox-classic or Sandbox with SQL backing are advised to
start migrating over to the new DAML on SQL distribution.

Client Application Failover

Background

Client applications have to be able to deal with the possibility that
participant nodes become unavailable, for example due to network or
hardware failure. For such cases, some DAML Ledgers offer the
possibility to run hot (or cold) standbys of participant nodes. When a
failover from a primary to a standby node occurs, the client application
🚤 has to handle the possibility that due to latency or initialization, the
standby is not yet fully caught up with the Ledger. Improvements to
📚 Ledger API and documentation makes this significantly easier.

Specific Changes
- The error code for requesting a transaction stream with an offset
  beyond the ledger end changed from INVALID_ARGUMENT to
  OUT_OF_RANGE.
- The command completion service now validates the offset and returns
  the OUT_OF_RANGE error if the request offset is beyond the ledger
  end.
- ➕ Added a documentation
  📄 section
  on how to write DAML applications that can fail over between
  eventually consistent Ledger API endpoints.
Impact and Migration

The behaviour of the transaction and command completion services have
🔄 changed in cases where an offset beyond ledger end are given. This
should only happen if a client application re-connects to a different
node which is not fully caught up, so you are only likely to be affected
if your application fails over.

If you were relying on the old behaviors (returning INVALID_ARGUMENT,
or accepting the argument, respectively), you now need to handle the
OUT_OF_RANGE error and implement retry logic.

REPL is now Stable

Background

DAML REPL, a developer tool to interactively evaluate DAML and interact
with DAML Ledgers has been in Early Access since SDK 0.13.55. With this
🚀 release, it becomes stable, meaning its developer facing APIs are final
and won't break outside of major SDK versions. In addition, it has
gained a number of new useful features including the ability to run
✅ without being connected to a DAML Ledger, allowing interactive testing
of pure functions, for example.

Specific Changes
- ⚙ Run DAML REPL without connecting to a ledger by omitting the
  --ledger-host and --ledger-port parameters.
- List the currently imported modules using the REPL command
  :show imports.
- 👀 Type :help at the REPL prompt to see a list of possible REPL
  commands.
- ➕ Add and remove module imports using :module [+-] Some.Module.
- 👉 Use let bindings to bind pure expressions
- The list of DARs passed to DAML REPL can now be empty.
- 👍 The REPL now supports loading multiple DARs specified at the command
  line. The DARs are loaded as data-dependencies.
- 0️⃣ The REPL no longer loads modules by default to avoid collisions when
  multiple DARs are loaded.
Impact and Migration

You now need to either explicitly import all modules of your DAR file
using the --import flag, or use :module + … inside the REPL. For
example, if you previously started the REPL with
```
daml repl .daml/dist/script-example-0.0.1.dar``
```
you now need to either run
```
daml repl .daml/dist/script-example-0.0.1.dar --import script-example``
```
or import modules individually with
```
:module + ScriptExample
```
Faster JavaScript codegen

Background

The TypeScript/JavaScript codegen daml codegen js used to generate
TypeScript files and then use yarn to compile these to JavaScript and
declaration files. The codegen now generates JavaScript and declarations
directly, significantly improving speed, and removing the dependency on
yarn.

Specific Changes
- daml codegen js no longer requires yarn and is significantly
  faster.
Impact and Migration

No action is required to consume this improvement.

Minor Improvements
- The DAML compiler will now compile type synonyms (type X = Y) into
  the DAR,whenever possible, and will expose these synonyms via
  0️⃣ data-dependencies. This works for DAML-LF 1.8 (the current default)
  and upwards.
- 🖨 DAML Ledgers now print detailed log messages whenever a request was
  rejected due to a failed JWT authentication/authorization, allowing
  for easier debugging.
- You can now use daml new project-name --template=template-name
  instead of daml new project-name template-name. The positional
  arguments led to confusion so the named version is now preferred,
  but both continue to work.
- 📦 Successful package uploads to the Sandbox are now logged on the
  👀 server. See #6144.
- Sandbox now allows the user to specify the participant ID with the
  --participant-id switch.
- ⏱ The daml ledger commands now accept a --timeout option which can
  0️⃣ be used to change the timeout for API requests from the default of
  30s.
- You can now specify the version of Sandbox and the JSON API
  independently of your SDK version by setting platform-version in
  🚀 your daml.yaml. This is useful if you are deploying to a ledger
  👀 that is running components from a different SDK version. See
  📄 https://docs.daml.com/1.4.0/tools/assistant.html#project-config-file-daml-yaml
  for details.
- daml new foobar --template=create-daml-app now properly respects
  the project name and creates a project called foobar in
  📦 daml.yaml and package.json instead of hardcoding the name to
  create-daml-app.
- 👀 Scala codegen has gained support for exercise-by-key commands. See
  Issue #6466.
🐛 Bug and Security fixes
- 🛠 Fix an issue in the JavaScript Client Libraries where some recursive
  types resulted in a stack overflow.
- The ActiveContractService now only sets the offset in the last
  response, as intended, instead of in every response element.
- A bug relating to how Fetch nodes are validated in some DAML ledgers
  🛠 was fixed.
Integration Kit
- 🐎 The performance test names have been changed. To learn more about
  📚 the available tests, consult the documentation for the Ledger API
  ✅ Test Tool and run it with --list. Docs:
  ✅ https://docs.daml.com/tools/ledger-api-test-tool/index.html
- 🛠 Fixed a bug in the Ledger API test tool that caused the full
  🐎 conformance test suite to be run when trying to run performance
  👀 tests but using a wrong name. See
  #6823
- Truncate GRPC error messages at 4 KB. This ensures that we won't
  trigger a protocol error when sending errors to the client.
- 🔄 Change the callback for contract keys from
  GlobalKey => Option[ContractId] to
  GlobalKeyWithMaintainers => Option[ContractId] in DAML Engine
- ✂ Removed Sandbox specific code from the API intended to be used by
  ledger integrations. Use the maven coordinates
  com.daml:participant-integration-api:VERSION instead of
  com.daml:ledger-api-server or com.daml:sandbox.
- StandaloneApiServer can now be run in a read-only mode
  - The type of the constructor parameter writeService of
    StandaloneApiServer changed to Option[WriteService]. Passing
    None will not start any of the admin services, the command
    service, and the command submission service.
  - The constructor parameter readService of StandaloneApiServer
    🚚 has been removed.
  - A new constructor parameter ledgerId has been added to
    StandaloneApiServer. It is used to verify that
    StandaloneApiServer is run against an index storage for the
    same ledgerId. Initialization is aborted if this is not the
    case.
- 🔧 The LedgerConfigurationService now properly streams configuration
  🔄 changes.
- 0️⃣ Default new Engine constructor to Engine.StableConfig so it does
  not need to be overridden unless you specifically want to run in
  Engine.DevConfig mode
- ✅ The LotsOfPartiesIT and TransactionScaleIT test suite have been
  🚦 deemed not providing relevant signal to DAML ledger implementers and
  ✅ have been retired. The tests will be nominally kept in but will be
  🗄 skipped while they are in a deprecation period. You are advised to
  ✂ remove explicit references to those tests before they are fully
  ✂ removed.
- ✅ All tests are now run by default. The --all-tests option is now
  🚚 ineffective and deprecated. You are advised to remove its usages
  🏗 from your build scripts. Non-isolated tests that could affect the
  ✅ global state of the ledger and interfere with other tests are now
  ⏱ automatically scheduled by the test tool to run sequentially at the
  end of the run.
- 🗄 The --load-scale-factor option is now unused and deprecated. You
  🏗 are advised to remove its usages from your build scripts.
v1.3.0 Changes
July 16, 2020
Summary
- The Websocket query and fetch APIs are now stable.
- 🚀 The JSON API Server is now released as a standalone JAR file to
  🚀 GitHub Releases.
- DAML Script and REPL now work in Static Time mode and can query
  parties.
- DAML Studio exposes more details on how contracts were disclosed.
- The Trigger Service, a solution to host and manage DAML Triggers is
  now available in Early Access.
Known Issues

The DAML Studio VSCode extension is affected by a known and recently
🛠 fixed bug in recent VSCode versions:
microsoft/vscode#89038

For some users this may lead to the Scenario View in VSCode not
⬆️ rendering correctly. If you are affected by this issue upgrading to
VSCode 1.47 should resolve it.

What's New

Websocket API is stable

Background

The JSON API Server exposes several Websocket endpoints which allow
clients to maintain a live view of contract data without polling. These
endpoints have been available since before SDK 1.0 in early access, and
are now considered stable.

Specific Changes
- The API specification for the /v1/stream/query and
  /v1/stream/fetch endpoints are finalized and fully implemented.
Impact and Migration

The final version of these endpoints is backwards compatible with SDK
1.0 in the sense that clients of these endpoints from SDK 1.0 work with
SDK 1.3. Thus no action needs to be taken.

Standalone JSON API Server

Background

The JSON API Server is a component intended to be run in production
environments to supplement the lower level Ledger API with an
easy-to-use queryable ledger state consumable by any HTTP 1.1 client,
💻 including web browsers. Despite this intended use case, the JSON API
Server was only distributed as part of the SDK, which meant that the
DAML SDK had to be installed on production servers in order to run the
JSON API Server. Providing a stand-alone JAR distribution gives
🚀 application operators a much leaner deployment option.

Specific Changes
- A stand-alone JAR distribution of the JSON API Server is available
  at
  🚀 https://github.com/digital-asset/daml/releases/download/v1.3.0/http-json-1.3.0.jar
Impact and Migration

This is purely additive to the distribution via the SDK so no action is
✅ needed. However, if you do run the JSON API Server in a test or
production environment, this gives you a leaner and more portable way of
doing so.

More functionality in DAML Script and REPL

Background

✅ DAML Script and REPL had some limitations in key test and production use
cases. Firstly, neither exposed the Time Service, which made them hard
to use in static time mode. Secondly, they only exposed functions to
allocate parties, not to query existing parties, which required existing
parties to be passed in via a file, or to be obtained using unsafe
functions like partyFromText. By exposing the relevant functions of
the Ledger API in DAML Script and REPL, Ledger Time can now be queried
and set in Static Time mode, and existing parties can be queried.

In addition, it is now possible to use DAML Script and REPL with
multiple JWTs, which in particular, means they can be used with multiple
parties on DABL.

Specific Changes
- DAML Script and REPL's getTime now correctly handles time changes
  in static time mode and returns the current time by querying the
  0️⃣ time service rather than defaulting to the Unix epoch. This only
  works in static time mode and via gRPC. In wallclock mode, getTime
  continues to return the system time in UTC. When run against the
  JSON API in static time mode, it continues returning Unix epoch.
- ➕ Add setTime to DAML Script and REPL which sets the ledger time via
  the Ledger API time service. This only works in static time mode and
  via gRPC.
- ➕ Add listKnownParties and listKnownPartiesOn to query the
  corresponding ListKnownParties endpoint in the Party Management
  service.
- The time mode for DAML REPL can now be specified using
  the--static-time and --wall-clock-time flags.
- You can now use DAML Script with multiple auth tokens. This is
  particularly useful if you are working with the JSON API where you
  can only have one party per token or with an IAM that only provides
  single-party tokens. The tokens are specified in the participant
  🔧 configuration passed via --participant-config in a new
  access_token field. The existing --access-token-file flag is
  👍 still supported if you want to use the same token for all
  connections. Take a look at the
  📚 documentation
  for more details.
Impact and Migration

This functionality is purely additive so no action needs to be taken.

More Privacy Information in DAML Studio

Background

DAML Studio's Scenario view allows developers to explore the
transactions resulting from their DAML models in real time. One of the
main uses of doing so is to verify that privacy is preserved as
expected. Until now, the available views only gave information on who
👀 got to see a contract and through which transaction. SDK 1.3 adds
information on the mechanism through which a party learned about a
contract. This saves the developer the work of inferring this from the
detailed transaction view.

Specific Changes
- When displaying scenario results in table view in DAML Studio,
  there's now a new checkbox "Show Detailed Disclosure" which shows
  indications why a party knows about the existence of a contract:
  - S means the party is a signatory.
  - O means the party is an observer.
  - W means the party has witnessed the creation of the contract.
  - D means the party has learned about the contract via
    divulgence.
Impact and Migration

This functionality is purely additive so no action needs to be taken.

Early Access Trigger Service

Background

DAML Triggers give developers the ability to write automation of DAML
💅 applications in the style of database triggers using the DAML language
itself, aiding code reuse and allowing contract definitions and basic
📦 automation to be packaged and shipped together. These triggers need to
be managed at runtime, which until now required developers to manage
🚀 individual JVM processes, raising the bar to actually deploying DAML
Triggers in production. The Trigger Service provides a way to manage
DAML Triggers via a simple REST API.

The Trigger Service is currently in Alpha, meaning API changes are still
👍 likely, and it notably doesn't support authentication yet.

Specific Changes
- ➕ Added the daml trigger-service command to the SDK to start the
  Trigger Service. More information in the
  📚 documentation.
Impact and Migration

This functionality is purely additive so no action needs to be taken. If
you are already evaluating Triggers for your application, we highly
recommend trying out the Trigger Service as it should ease their use
considerably. We welcome your feedback.

Minor Improvements
- The Java Binding's Bot.wire and Bot.wireSimple now return a
  Disposable, which can be used to shut down the flows. You are
  encouraged to call .dispose() before terminating the client.
- ➕ Added a CLI option for specifying the initial skew parameter for the
  time model. You can control the allowed difference between the
  Ledger Effective Time and the Record time using the
  --max-ledger-time-skew flag.
- When run with persistence, the Sandbox used to crash if the database
  wasn't running during startup. It now instead waits for the database
  to start up.
- ➕ Additional CLI options to configure the write pipeline in Sandbox,
  👍 allowing operators to determine at what point back pressure is
  👀 applied. See daml sandbox --help for details.
- 🎉 Initialize the loading indicators in @daml/react of useQuery,
  useFetchByKey and their streaming variants with true. This
  ✂ removes a glitch where the loading indicator was false for a very
  brief moment when components using these hooks were mounted although
  no data had been loaded yet. Code using these hooks does not need to
  be adapted in response to this change.
- The create-daml-app example can now be run against a HTTP JSON API
  port specified in the environment variable
  REACT_APP_HTTP_JSON_PORT
- 👌 Improved error messages on unsuccessful key lookups.
🐛 Bug and Security Fixes
- ✅ damlc test --project-root now works with relative paths as well.
- 📦 The Package Management Service's ListKnownParties response's
  PartyDetails now properly reflects where a party is non-local on
  distributed, multi-participant ledgers that expose parties to remote
  participants.
- The application identifier in a command submission request is now
  👀 checked against the authorization token. See
  #4409.
- In scenarios, fetches and exercises of contract keys associated with
  contracts not visible to the submitter are now handled properly
  instead of showing a low-level error.
- ⚡️ Some libraries in the DAML Studio VS Code Extension were updated to
  🛠 fix security issues. DAML Studio now requires VSCode 1.39 or newer.
- 🛠 Fix an issue in DAML Script where the port was ignored for
  non-empty paths in the url when running DAML Script over the JSON
  API.
- 🛠 Fix an issue in the Ledger API indexer that could have caused a
  crash in the presence of divulged contracts. Exclusively affects
  DAML ledger implementations where distributed participants each only
  👀 see a portion of the ledger. The sandbox is not affected. See
  #6607.
Ledger Integration Kit
- ✅ The Ledger API Test Tool --exclude and --include flags now match
  ✅ the full test name as a prefix, rather than just suite names. Test
  ✅ name is built by combining the suite name with a test identifier, so
  this change should be fully backwards compatible. Run with
  ✅ --list-all to list all tests (as opposed to just the test suites
  with --list).
- 🌐 LfValueTranslation.Cache now requires separate configuration of
  🌐 lfValueTranslationEventCache and lfValueTranslationContractCache
- ⬆️ Upgrade auth0 jwks-rsa version to 0.11.0
- KVUtils does not commit output keys whose value is identical to
  input anymore
- The Ledger API Server + Sandbox now accepts a new time model if none
  is set. Previously, it would erroneously be rejected because the
  generation number submitted to was incorrectly set to 2 rather
  than 1. This would not affect most users of Sandbox or other
  🔧 kvutils-based ledgers, as if a configuration is set automatically on
  startup when creating a new ledger. This affects users who
  🔧 explicitly override the initial ledger configuration submit delay to
  something longer than a few milliseconds.
- ➕ Add 8 new timer metrics to track database performance when storing
  transactions. The overall time is measured by
  daml.index.db.store_ledger_entry.
  - Timer daml.index.db.store_ledger_entry.prepare_batches:
    measures the time for preparing batch insert/delete statements
  - Timer daml.index.db.store_ledger_entry.events_batch: measures
    the time for inserting events
  - Timer
    daml.index.db.store_ledger_entry.delete_contract_witnesses_batch:
    measures the time for deleting contract witnesses
  - Timer daml.index.db.store_ledger_entry.delete_contracts_batch:
    measures the time for deleting contracts
  - Timer daml.index.db.store_ledger_entry.insert_contracts_batch:
    measures the time for inserting contracts
  - Timer
    daml.index.db.store_ledger_entry.insert_contract_witnesses_batch:
    measures the time for inserting contract witnesses
  - Timer daml.index.db.store_ledger_entry.insert_completion:
    measures the time for inserting the completion
  - Timer daml.index.db.store_ledger_entry.update_ledger_end:
    ⚡️ measures the time for updating the ledger end
- ➕ Added 4 new timer metrics to track DAML execution performance The
  overall time is measured by daml.execution.total
  - Timer daml.execution.lookup_active_contract_per_execution:
    measures the accumulated time spent for looking up active
    contracts per execution
  - Histogram
    daml.execution.lookup_active_contract_count_per_execution:
    measures the number of active contract lookups per execution
  - Timer daml.execution.lookup_contract_key_per_execution:
    measures the accumulated time spent for looking up contract keys
    per execution
  - Histogram
    daml.execution.lookup_contract_key_count_per_execution:
    measures the number of contract key lookups per execution
v1.2.0 Changes
June 11, 2020
Summary
- 🛠 Module prefixes can now be stored in daml.yaml. This means that
  you can use multiple versions of libraries in the same project by
  specifying them in daml.yaml instead of with
  📦 the --package command line flag.
- 🌐 A new flag, --max-lf-value-translation-cache-entries, allows you
  to set a number of events for which DAML-LF values will be cached.
  🚤 This can help reduce latency when serving transactions.
What's New

🛠 Module Prefixes

Background

⬆️ When upgrading a package using a DAML upgrade workflow, one has to
📦 import both the old and new version of the package as dependencies. If
📦 both the package and module names are the same, this used to require
🛠 setting compiler flags. The new Module Prefixes feature gives an easier
📦 means of disambiguating the packages and modules.

Specific Changes

🛠 The compiler picks up a new block module-prefixes specified
🛠 in daml.yaml. module-prefixes takes entries of the form
📦 package: Prefix, and modules from the package are then accessible
using that prefix. For example, the below makes
module X from foo-1.0.0 available as Foo1.X,
and X from foo-2.0.0 as Foo2.X.
```
module-prefixes:
  foo-1.0.0: Foo1
  foo-2.0.0: Foo2
```
Refer to
📚 the documentation for
detailed information.

Impact and Migration

This is a purely additive feature, so no migration is necessary. If your
📦 project uses the old --package compiler flag to disambiguate packages,
you can switch to this simpler method.

Minor Improvements
- 🌐 The Sandbox's --max-lf-value-translation-cache-entries option
  👍 allows you to set a number of events for which DAML-LF values are
  🚤 cached. This can reduce latency in serving transactions.
- daml damlc inspect-dar now has a --json flag to produce
  👀 machine-readable output. See
  📚 the documentation
  for more information.
- The Scala bindings have gained a method, LedgerClient#close, which
  will shut down the channel and await termination. This is optional;
  the channel will still be shut down on JVM exit if this method is
  not called.
- Record dot syntax like rec.field1.field2 is now handled in
  expressions entered into the REPL.
- 👍 daml trigger, daml script and daml repl now all support
  🔧 the --max-inbound-message-size command line flag, which configures
  the maximum size of transactions that can be handled.
- The createAndExerciseCmd command has been added to DAML Triggers.
🛠 Security and Bugfixes
- ⬆️ Dependencies have been upgraded to newer versions to avoid exposure
  🔒 to reported security vulnerabilities.
  - Upgrade jackson version to 2.11.0 from 2.9.9.3
  - Upgrade io.grpc:grpc-xxxxx and io.netty:netty-xxx version
    ✅ to latest
  - Upgrade protobuf and protobuf-java to 3.11.0
- A Sandbox Classic migration issue when used with postgres has been
  🛠 fixed.
  👀 See #6017
- A bug where large multi-command transactions would cause a stack
  🛠 overflow in DAML Script was fixed.
- The Standard Library's DA.Text.splitOn function will now correctly
  🖐 handle the case where the separator appears at the end but should
  not be matched, as in splitOn "aa" "aaa" == ["", "a"].
  👀 See #5786 for
  more details.
- 👕 The DAML linter, dlint, has been improved by removing some
  Haskell-based rules not currently applicable to DAML and by changing
  some function references.
Ledger Integration Kit
- The Ledger API Server emits new metrics for the LF Value Cache. If
  the --max-state-value-cache-size is greater than zero, the
  following additional metrics will be recorded under the
  daml.kvutils.submission.validator.state_value_cache namespace:
  - hits
  - misses
  - load_successes
  - load_failures
  - load_total_time
  - evictions
  - evicted_weight
- ➕ Added new Ledger API Server metrics
  🌐 for daml.index.db.*.translation to measure the time spent
  translating to and from the serialized DAML-LF values when fetched
  from the participant index.
- ➕ Added new Ledger API Server metrics
  for daml.index.db.*.deserialization to measure the duration of the
  🌐 translation of the serialized DAML-LF values when fetched from the
  participant index.
- ✅ The Ledger API Test Tool has gained
  🐎 the TransactionSize performance benchmark test.
v1.1.1 Changes
May 13, 2020
Summary
- 🆕 New package management endpoints on the JSON API
- 👍 Better TLS Support for the JSON API
  - Action required if you start the JSON API using daml json-api
    and do not run it behind a reverse proxy.
What's New

🆕 New Package Management Endpoints on the JSON API

Background

📦 The Ledger API's package management service allows uploading,
📦 downloading and listing of DAML packages available on a DAML Ledger. For
situations where connecting to the Ledger API is not possible or is
inconvenient, these services are now available through the JSON API as
well.

Specific Changes

The JSON API has three new endpoints
- 📦 GET /v1/packages -- returns all package IDs
- 📦 GET /v1/packages/<package ID> -- downloads a given DALF package
- 📦 POST /v1/packages -- uploads a DAR file to the ledger
Impact and Migration

This is a purely additive change. Users who connect to gRPC from their
📦 applications for the sole purpose of managing DAML packages may switch
over to the new endpoints to eliminate dependencies on gRPC or Ledger
API language bindings.

👍 Better TLS Support for the JSON API

Background

In addition to the numerous new TLS options introduced in SDK 1.0.0, the
JSON API can now also connect to the Ledger API via TLS. To protect
against insecure connections which may leak access tokens, it also adds
⚠ a warning if not run behind a reverse proxy that terminates TLS
🚀 connections. This warning will become an error in a future release.

Specific Changes
- 💻 The JSON API accepts new command line parameters --pem, --crt,
  🔧 --cacrt, and --tls, which configure it to connect to the Ledger
  API using TLS.
- 0️⃣ By default, the JSON API now checks that connections are made
  through a reverse-proxy providing HTTPS, ensuring that JWT tokens
  don't leak. To disable this check, such as for development, pass
  --allow-insecure-tokens. A failed check currently results in a
  ⚠ warning.
Impact and Migration

daml start automatically sets this flag so there is no migration
needed. If you are starting the JSON API manually, we advise you to add
the flag --allow-insecure-tokens for development environments, and to
⚙ run the JSON API behind a TLS-enabled reverse proxy in production.

Minor Improvements
- Faster Sandbox reset via the ResetService.
- 0️⃣ daml trigger and daml script now default to wall clock time if
  neither --wall-clock-time or --static-time is passed.
- daml script now has an --output-file option that can be used to
  specify a file the result of the script should be written to.
  Similar to --input-file the result will be output in the DAML-LF
  JSON encoding.
- You can now disable implicit party allocation of the Sandbox by
  passing the flag --implicit-party-allocation=false. This makes it
  ✅ easier to test as you would against another ledger which does not
  👌 support this feature.
- The daml ledger commands no longer require the Bearer prefix in
  the access token file. This matches the behavior of DAML Script and
  other SDK tools.
- ➕ Added --max-commands-in-flight to Sandbox CLI configs. This limits
  the maximum number of unconfirmed commands in flight in
  CommandService.
👌 Improvements to Early Access Features
- daml damlc visual now works properly in projects consisting of
  📦 multiple packages.
- 🛠 Fix a bug where exerciseByKey was not properly recognized by daml
  damlc visual.
- 👍 DAML REPL now produces better error messages on calls to error and
  abort.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- 🛠 Fix a bug where scenarios with names containing special characters
  resulted in a crash in the scenario service.
- 🌲 The Sandbox properly respects the --log-level CLI parameter
- The sandbox now properly delays command submissions using
  👀 minLedgerTimeAbs or minLedgerTimeRel. See issue
  #5480.
- Migrating from Sandbox 0.13.55 to Sandbox Classic 1.0.0 could have
  introduced contracts falsely reported as active when in fact they
  👀 are not. Migrating to Sandbox Classic 1.1.0 will fix the issue. See
  issue #5659.
🔄 Changes to Ledger Integration Kit

These changes only affect ledger integrators and operators that consume
the metrics emitted by the DAML Integration Kit. We have introduced new
metrics and adjusted the naming of existing metrics to be consolidated.
If you have built a dashboard for a ledger built using the integration
kit, then you will need to adapt that dashboard. The changes are as
follows.

We have introduced these new metrics:
- a timing metric for the commit at daml.kvutils.writer.commit.
- a metric for command validation upon submission,
  daml.commands.validation.
- daml.commands.submissions is a new timer that measures all
  submissions.
- daml.commands.valid_submissions is a new meter that counts valid
  (unique, interpretable) submissions.
- ⚡️ daml.kvutils.reader.parse_updates is a new timer that measures the
  ⚡️ translation time of ledger log entries when serving state updates to
  the indexer.
- daml.kvutils.reader.open_envelope is a new timer that measures the
  🌲 deserialization time of ledger log entries when serving state
  ⚡️ updates to the indexer.
- 🌲 daml.ledger.log.append is a new timer that measures the time for
  🌲 writing new log entries.
- daml.ledger.state.read is a new timer that measures reading from
  the ledger state.
- daml.ledger.state.write is a new timer that measures writing to
  the ledger state.
- We have renamed these metrics:
  - daml.lapi.command_submission_service.failed_command_interpretations
    has been renamed to
    daml.commands.failed_command_interpretations.
  - daml.lapi.command_submission_service.deduplicated_commands has
    been renamed to daml.commands.deduplicated_commands.
  - daml.lapi.command_submission_service.delayed_submissions has
    been renamed to daml.commands.delayed_submissions.
  - daml.lapi.command_submission_service.submitted_transactions
    has been renamed to daml.services.write.submit_transaction.
- The metrics registry should now be passed using the new
  com.daml.metrics.Metrics type, which wraps/replaces
  com.codahale.metrics.MetricsRegistry.
- 🔧 maxDeduplicationTime configuration (the maximum time window during
  🚚 which commands can be deduplicated) has moved from
  🔧 SubmissionConfiguration to the Configuration class.
- Engine is now mandatory in several participant api server related
  constructors to avoid running multiple interpretation engines.
v1.1.0
April 30, 2020
v1.0.1 Changes
April 27, 2020
🛠 This is a bugfix release for SDK 1.0.0. All users of SDK 1.0.0 are
🚀 encouraged to upgrade at their earliest convenience. This release fixes
3 issues:
🛠 Fix an issue with false negative contract key lookups by
👀 non-stakeholders (see
#5562 for details).

This issue affected the new Sandbox introduced in SDK 1.0.0 (but not
sandbox-classic) as well as the scenario service. Both Sandbox and
🛠 the scenario service are fixed.
🛠 Fix a crash in the scenario service.

SDK 1.0 introduced a bug where the scenario service would crash if a
failing transaction contained transient contracts. In DAML Studio
this was shown as the following error:
```
BErrorClient (ClientIOError (GRPCIOBadStatusCode StatusUnknown (StatusDetails {unStatusDetails = \“\”})))
```
1. Fix an issue where Sandbox incorrectly rejected certain commands
  👀 relying on getTime during validation (see
  #5662 for details).
  This was only an issue if you set either min_ledger_time_rel or
  min_ledger_time_abs.
v1.0.0 Changes
April 15, 2020
Summary
- 🆕 New JavaScript/TypeScript client-side tooling is now stable and the
  🏗 recommended way to build DAML applications. A new Getting Started
  📄 Guide based
  on these tools has replaced the Quickstart guide.
- The Time Model has been improved so that it works seamlessly without
  ⚡️ user input to the Ledger API. Action needed when you update to the
  ✅ latest version of API bindings or recompile gRPC clients.
- 🔧 More TLS configuration options for DAML Ledgers.
- 0️⃣ The next generation Sandbox is now the default, bringing an
  experience closer to a distributed ledger. Immediate action is
  needed if your project is relying on scenarios for ledger
  🎉 initialization.
- 🗄 Cleanup of names, deprecated features and language versions.
  Immediate action needed if you use any Java dependencies with
  📦 com.digitalasset packages or Maven coordinates.
Known issues
- The new Sandbox has a known issue where some false negative contract
  key lookups are only correctly validated on the read path, not on
  the write path. The net effect is that with carefully constructed
  DAML models, non-conformant transactions can be recorded in the
  underlying storage, which may lead to data continuity issues when
  🛠 this issue is fixed. Full details can be found on GitHub issue
  #5563.
What's New

🆕 New Client Tooling

Background

Distributed applications are much more than smart contracts running on a
distributed ledger, and in 2019 we set out to make it significantly
🏗 easier to build that part of applications which lives off-ledger:
Automations, Integrations, and UIs. The new tooling is focused on giving
application developers an easy-to-consume, real-time ledger state, which
🚚 moves the development experience away from event sourcing and makes it
similar to working with a database.
- The HTTP JSON API: giving a queryable view of the ledger state and
  endpoints to submit transactions, all using an easy-to-consume JSON
  format.
- 📦 A JavaScript/TypeScript code generator: turning a DAML package into
  a (typed) library to interact with the HTTP JSON API.
- A set of JavaScript/TypeScript client libraries: working hand in
  hand with the code generator to interact with the HTTP JSON API, and
  bind ledger data to React components.
- A new Getting Started Guide shows how all these pieces fit together
  🏗 to build a complete distributed end-to-end application with a custom
  💻 UI.
The HTTP JSON API is designed to be consumable from any language
ecosystem. The choice of JavaScript (and React) for the rest of the
tooling was driven by the desire to aid application development all the
way up to UIs, using the most widely adopted technologies.

Specific Changes
- 📚 The documentation has a new Getting Started
  📄 Guide. The
  🚚 previous Quickstart guide has moved under the Java Bindings section.
- There is a new SDK template with a skeleton for an end-to-end
  application using the new tooling. It's documented and used in the
  🆕 new Getting Started Guide. Use
  daml new create-daml-app create-daml-app to get started.
- The /v1 endpoints of the HTTP JSON API and the JavaScript Code
  👍 Generator and Support Libraries are now stable.
  - The JSON API has gained an endpoint to allocate parties:
    /v1/parties/allocate.
- 👌 Support for maps and lists has been removed from the query language.
- Note that the WebSockets streaming endpoint of the HTTP JSON API is
  still under development.
Impact and Migration

The new client tooling is almost purely additive so for most, no action
is needed. For new applications, we recommend this tooling as it makes a
lot of things quicker and easier. However, direct use of the Ledger API
and HTTP JSON API continues to be a good option for anyone needing
lower-level control or wanting to use a different language for their
applications.

The only non-backwards compatible change compared to previous versions
is the removal of queries on lists and maps in the HTTP JSON API. There
is no trivial migration for this. If you were relying on these
capabilities please get in touch with us via [email protected] or on
Slack. We'd like to hear how you were making use of the feature so that
👍 we can replace it with something better, and we will make some
↪ suggestions to work around the removal.

👌 Improved Time Model

Background

🚀 SDK Release 0.13.55 introduced a new method for command deduplication
and deprecated the command field maximum_record_time. SDK Release 1.0
further improves the Ledger Time model so that users no longer need to
pass in any time related information to the Ledger API. The new time
model is designed to work under almost all circumstances without user
intervention, making developing applications against DAML Ledgers easier
in practice.

Specific Changes
- The Sandbox no longer emits Checkpoints at regular intervals in wall
  clock mode.
- The ledger_effective_time and maximum_record_time fields have
  🚚 been removed from the Ledger API, and corresponding fields have been
  ✂ removed from the HTTP JSON API and Ledger API language bindings.
- 0️⃣ The --default-ttl command line argument of the HTTP JSON API is
  gone.
- Ledger Time is no longer strictly monotonically increasing, but only
  follows causal monotonicity: Ledger Time of transactions is greater
  than or equal to the Ledger Time of any input contract.
- The Command Service is no longer idempotent with respect to
  duplicate submissions. Duplicate submissions now instead return an
  ALREADY_EXISTS error, consistent with the new deduplication
  mechanism of the Command Submission Service.
Impact and Migration

Old applications will continue running against new ledgers, but ledger
effective time and maximum record time set on submissions will be
ignored. As soon as the client-side language bindings or compiled gRPC
⚡️ services are updated, the fields will need to be removed as they are no
longer part of the API specification.

👍 Better TLS Support

Background

👍 DAML Ledgers have always supported exposing the Ledger API via TLS, but
👌 support on consuming applications was inconsistent and often required
🚀 client certificates. From this release onward, more client components
👌 support consuming the Ledger API via TLS without client authentication.

Specific Changes
- 🔧 When Sandbox is run with TLS enabled, you can now configure the
  👀 requirement for client authentication via --client-auth. See the
  📚 documentation
  for more information.
- 🚀 The daml deploy and daml ledger commands now support connecting
  👀 to the Ledger API via TLS. See their
  📚 documentation
  for more information.
- 👍 DAML Script and DAML Triggers now support TLS by passing the --tls
  flag. You can set certificates for client authentication via --pem
  and --crt and a custom root CA for validating the server
  certificate via --cacrt.
- Navigator, DAML Script, DAML REPL, DAML Triggers, and Extractor can
  now run against a TLS-enabled ledger without client authentication.
  You can enable TLS without any special certificates by passing
  --tls.
- 🔧 DAML Script and DAML Triggers have the option to configure
  certificates for client authentication via --pem and --crt and a
  custom root CA for validating the server certificate via --cacrt.
Impact and Migration

This is a new capability, so no action is needed. These new features are
👉 useful in production environments where client to ledger connections may
need to be secured.

Next Generation Sandbox

Background

The DAML Sandbox has had a major architectural overhaul to bring it and
its user experience even closer in line with other DAML Ledgers. The new
0️⃣ Sandbox is now the default, but the "classic" Sandbox is included as a
🚀 deprecated version in this release. The classic Sandbox will be removed
🚀 from the SDK in a future release and will not be actively developed
further.

Specific Changes
- daml sandbox and daml start start the new Sandbox. The classic
  sandbox can be invoked via daml sandbox-classic and
  daml start --sandbox-classic.
- 0️⃣ Wall Clock Time mode (--wall-clock-time) is now the default.
- 👍 Scenarios are no longer supported for ledger initialization.
- Contract identifiers are hashes instead of longer sequence numbers.
  - A new static contract identifier seeding scheme has been added
    to enable reproducible contract identifiers in combination with
    👀 --static-time. Set flag --contract-id-seeding=static to use
    it.
- Ledger API Offsets are no longer guaranteed to be a parsable number.
  They are an opaque string that can be compared lexicographically.
- 💻 The command line flags --auth-jwt-ec256-crt and
  --auth-jwt-ec512-crt were renamed to --auth-jwt-es256-crt and
  --auth-jwt-es512-crt, respectively, to align them with the
  cryptographic algorithms used.
Impact and Migration

The impact is primarily on demo applications running in static time mode
and/or using scenarios for ledger initialization. Since both the
classic and new Sandbox are compliant DAML Ledgers, there is no
difference in behavior apart from these fringes.

If you rely on static time mode, set it explicitly using
--static-time.
- If you rely on reproducible contract identifiers, also set
  👀 --contract-id-seeding=static.
If you use a scenario for ledger initialization, migrate to DAML
📄 Script.
📜 If you were parsing ledger offsets, you need to find a way to stop doing
so. This is not guaranteed to be possible on DAML Ledgers other than the
classic Sandbox. If you were relying on doing so, get in touch with us
on [email protected]. We'd like to help with migration and want to
👍 understand how you were using this so we can better support your use
case. If you were using ES256 or ES512 signing for authentication,
💻 adjust your command line flags. If you were running the now classic
sandbox with persistence in a SQL database, you need to recreate
contracts in the ledger run with the new sandbox. There is no automatic
⏪ data migration available. To ease transition, you can revert back to the
classic Sandbox using daml sandbox-classic and
daml start --sandbox-classic=yes. Note that the classic Sandbox is
🚀 deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Cleanup for DAML SDK 1.0

Background

🚀 As we are moving into the 1.0 release line, we have done some cleanup
🗄 work, aligning names of artifacts, removing deprecated language
🔖 versions, streamlining the release process, and finishing a few language
⚠ tweaks by turning select warnings into errors.

Specific Changes
📦 All Java and Scala packages starting with com.digitalasset.daml
and com.digitalasset are now consolidated under com.daml.
- Impact: Changing the version of some artifacts to 1.0 will
  cause a resolution error.
- Migration: Changing Maven coordinates and imports using a
  find and replace should be enough to migrate your code.
📦 Ledger API services are now under the com.daml package. A
compatibility layer has been added to also expose the services under
📦 the com.digitalasset package.
- Impact: grpcurl does not work with the compatibility layer.
- Migration: Scripts using grpcurl need to change the service
  name from com.digitalasset to com.daml.
< DAML SDK 1.0: com.digitalasset.ledger.api.v1.TransactionService

≥ DAML SDK 1.0: com.daml.ledger.api.v1.TransactionService)
0️⃣ The default DAML-LF target version is now 1.8.
- Impact: Projects will not run against old DAML Ledgers that
  👍 do not support DAML-LF 1.8.
- Migration: You can target 1.7 by specifying --target=1.7
  🏗 in the build-options field in your daml.yaml.
🗄 All DAML-LF versions <1.6 are deprecated and will not be supported
on DAML Ledgers.
- Impact: The new Sandbox will not run DAML code compiled to
  DAML-LF 1.5 or earlier.
- Migration : Use classic Sandbox to run older DAML models.

🚀 We no longer release the SDK to Bintray.
- Impact: If you were relying on artifacts on Bintray, you
  ⚡️ will not be able to update to version 1.0 without changing the
  repository.
- Migration: The new locations are as follows:
  - SDK Releases and Protobuf files are released to GitHub
    🚀 Releases.
  - Java/Scala artifacts are on Maven Central.
  - JavaScript artifacts are on NPM.
File names must now match up with module names. This already
🚀 produced a warning in previous releases
- Impact: Projects in which there are mismatches will no
  🏗 longer build.
- Migration: Change your .daml filenames to match module
  names.
It is now an error to define a record with a single constructor
where the constructor does not match the type name. This restriction
only applies to single-constructor records. Variants and enums are
⚠ not affected. This already produced a warning in SDK 0.13.55.
- Impact: Projects with now illegal type declarations will no
  🏗 longer build.
- Migration: In declarations of the type data X = Y with ..,
  you have to change the type name (X) to match data constructor
  name (Y) or vice versa.
The compiler name collision check has been extended to also count
the case as a collision where you have a type B in module A and
a module A.B.C (but no module A.B).
- Impact: Projects with such module names will produce
  🚀 warnings and stop compiling in a future release. The JavaScript
  📦 Code Generator is not usable on packages that don't uphold this
  restriction.
- Migration: You have to rename your modules to avoid such
  name clashes.
Impact and Migration

Impacts and migrations are covered item by item in Specific Changes
above.

Progress on Features Under Development

Background

Work is progressing on two features that are currently under active
development.
1. The DAML REPL, introduced with SDK 0.13.55 is becoming richer in its
  abilities, getting ever closer in capabilities to DAML Script.
2. Work on a Websockets streaming version of the HTTP JSON API's
  querying endpoints is progressing. The aim with this streaming
  service is to combine the ease of consumption of the HTTP JSON API
  with the liveness provided by a streaming API.
Specific Changes
- DAML REPL
  - You can now use import declarations at the REPL prompt to bring
    ➕ additional modules into scope.
  - You can now use more complex patterns in statements, e.g.,
    (x,y) <- pure (1,2).
  - You can now connect to a ledger with authentication using
    daml repl --access-token-file=path/to/tokenfile option.
- Websockets on the HTTP JSON API
  - The error format has changed to match the synchronous API:
    {"status": <400 \| 401 \| 404 \| 500>, "errors": <JSON array of strings> }.
  - The streaming version of the query and fetch-by-key endpoints
    👀 now emit the last seen ledger offset. These offsets can be fed
    back to new requests to start the stream at said offset. Such
    offset messages are also used for heartbeating instead of the
    previous explicit heartbeat messages.
Impact and Migration

The only impacts are on consumers of the Websocket streaming APIs. Those
consumers will have to make some minor adjustments to include the API
🔄 changes around error handling and ledger offsets.

🛠 Minor Changes and Fixes
- 🚀 Better support for snapshot releases in the DAML Assistant.
  - daml version can now list the available snapshot versions by
    passing the flag --snapshots=yes.
  - daml install latest can now include the latest snapshot
    🔖 version by passing the flag --snapshots=yes.
  - DAML Script can now be run over the HTTP JSON API, which means
    it now runs against project:DABL. Take a look at the
    📚 documentation
    for instructions and limitations.
- Party strings are now restricted to 255 characters.
  - Impact: If you used the Sandbox with very long Party strings
    they'll be rejected by the new Sandbox and other DAML Ledgers.
  - Migration: Shorten your Party strings. Note that in ledgers
    other than Sandbox, you may not be able to choose them entirely
    freely anyway.
- You can now disable starting Navigator as part of daml start in
  your daml.yaml file by adding start-navigator: false.
- Calls to the GetParties API function with an empty list of parties
  no longer results in an error, but in an empty response.

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Highlights

Impact and Migration

🚀 Standalone Early Access release of DAML on SQL

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

Client Application Failover

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

REPL is now Stable

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

Faster JavaScript codegen

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

Minor Improvements

🐛 Bug and Security fixes

Integration Kit

Summary

Known Issues

What's New

Websocket API is stable

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

Standalone JSON API Server

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

More functionality in DAML Script and REPL

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

More Privacy Information in DAML Studio

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

Early Access Trigger Service

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

Minor Improvements

🐛 Bug and Security Fixes

Ledger Integration Kit

Summary

What's New

🛠 Module Prefixes

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

Minor Improvements

🛠 Security and Bugfixes

Ledger Integration Kit

Summary

What's New

🆕 New Package Management Endpoints on the JSON API

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

👍 Better TLS Support for the JSON API

Background

Specific Changes

Impact and Migration

Minor Improvements

👌 Improvements to Early Access Features

🐛 Bug Fixes

🔄 Changes to Ledger Integration Kit

v1.1.0

Summary

Known issues

What's New

🆕 New Client Tooling

Background

Specific Changes

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