Release 1.0beta9 · Chia-Network/chia-blockchain

[1.0beta9] aka Beta 1.9 - 2020-07-27

See wallet balances in command line: chia show -w
Retry opening invalid plots every 20 minutes (so you can copy a large plot into a plot directory.)
We've added chia keys sign and chia keys verify to allow farmers to certify their ownership of keys.
Windows BLS Signature library now uses libsodium for additional security.
You can now backup and restore Smart Wallet metadata.
Binary wheels for ARM64/aarch64 also build for python 3.7.
See and remove plot directories from the UI and command line.
You can now specify the memory buffer in UI.
Optimized MPIR for Sandybridge and Ivybridge CPUs under Windows

chia start wallet-server changed to chia start wallet, for consistency.
All data size units are clarified to displayed in GiB instead of GB (powers of 1024 instead of 1000.)
Better error messages for restoring wallet from mnemonic.

Fixed open_connection not being cancelled when node exits.
Increase the robustness of node and wallet shutdown.
Handle disconnection and reconnection of hard drives properly.
Addressed pre-Haswell Windows signatures failing.
MacOS, Linux x64, and Linux aarch64 were not correctly compiling libsodium in
the blspy/bls-signatures library.
Removed outdated "200 plots" language from Plot tab.
Fixed spelling error for "folder" on Plot tab.
Various node dependency security vulnerabilities have been fixed.
Request peers was not returning currently connected peers older than 1 day.
Fixed timeout exception inheritance changes under python 3.8 (pull 13528)