Storj core v7.0.0 released!

Storj Core v7.0.0 comes with a new proposal to change how to select farmers to store data. The new method of publishing storage contracts takes advantage of farmers' reliability and optional qualitative metrics while simultaneously ensuring that every farmer gets a chance to store files for the network.

Features:

• Implementation of SIP6
• Supports connecting to multiple bridges
• Uses proof-of-work challenges for farmer to join a bridge and receive data and contracts
• Adds a new method to protocol called ALLOC that combines the previousPUBLISH -> OFFER -> CONSIGNMENT flow to improve reliability and scalability when uploading to the network.

Deprecations:

• bridgeUri and renterWhitelist options for a farmer are deprecated in favor of using bridges config as an array of objects with url and extendedKey properties.
• The BridgeClient methods storeFileInBucket and resolveFileFromPointersare deprecated, please see node-libstorj and libstorj for file transfer, as well as the client libraries at awesome-storj