nostr relay

1.13

• Dynamic Lists allow for flexible allow/deny lists
• Improved efficiency by keeping all client variables local
• Fixed real and potential memory leaks
• Updated Pydantic
• Fixed authentication bug

1.12.1

• Added a demo mode: nostr-relay --try-fast
• Validate that tags are strings

1.12

• Added full-text index, compatible with NIP-50
• Added the purple server – the fastest way to serve nostr websockets. See Performance
• Added validator to limit "hellthreads": is_not_hellthread. Configure hellthread_limit to number of tags
• Enabled NIP-05 identity provider for LMDB backend
• Made many micro-optimizations to the LMDB backend and json handling. See Performance
• Improve compatibility with python < 3.11
• Consolidated and improved query validation

1.11.6

• Protect against garbage data in queries

1.11.5

• Support prefix id and author searches
• Set max_limit to limit the number of events returned per REQ. (default: 6000)
• Several micro-optimizations in the LMDB backend
• Made Homeserver more reliable
• Simplified storage of verification status

1.11.4

• Fixed egregious bug in verification code

1.11.1

• Added ability to use uvicorn instead of gunicorn. nostr_relay serve --use-uvicorn
• Added ability to serve endpoint at a different path.

1.11

• Switched verification to using internal events. If you have NIP-05 verification enabled, run nostr_relay reverify after upgrading
• Added a recipe for creating a private relay

1.10.5

• Add a MultiIndex to chain index results, reducing query misses.
• Enable authentication when using the LMDB backend
• Prevent empty queries
• Added output validator feature
• Garbage collect expired events

1.10.2 - 4

• Improve index matches when there are few results

1.10.1

• Improve index matches when there are few results
• Fixed: mistakenly using the old version of msgpack

1.10

• Improved LMDB storage. Documentation
• Added output_validator feature
• Added purge CLI command, for deleting events based on a passed-in query

1.9.2

• Throttle clients that continuously receive authentication errors

1.9.1

• Batch queries for social network

1.9

• Added a validator that checks your social network for allowed pubkeys Documentation
• Added an experimental LMDB storage backend
• pypy compatibility
• Added a covering index

1.8

• Added configurable validators. See Storage
• Added ability to throttle users based on role. See Authentication
• Made some optimizations which increase event add throughput 15%
• Improved memory usage by using __slots__

1.7

• Add option to throttle unauthenticated connections throttle_unauthenticated
• Storage refactoring
• Enforce charset for NIP-05 ids
• Improve test coverage

1.6

• Improved scalability by controlling the number of concurrent requests. Default configuration should easily handle 1,000 clients
• Added notifier client/server to allow for multi-process event broadcasts. Enabled automatically if gunicorn workers > 1
• Required SQLAlchemy >= 2.0

1.5

• Add dependency on aionostr, for future flexibility
• Clarify that we support python 3.9+

1.4.11

• Really, actually fixed the broadcasting bug
• Order events by created_at (may revert this change if it affects performance)

1.4.10

• Fixed event broadcasting code, which was inadvertently broadcasting when there was an invalid query
• Added facility for logging long queries
• Removed limit on long queries

1.4.9

• Ensure that code is compatible with python 3.9+

1.4.8

• Support NIP-33 - parameterized replaceable events
• Fixed verification batch query to not reverify every time
• Allow for limit=0 queries
• Fixed json dump

1.4.7

• Added configurable limit for subscriptions per connection: subscription_limit (default 32)
• Added configurable timeout for idle connections: message_timeout (default 30minutes)
• Fixed verification task not running
• bugfixes for crazy queries

1.4.6

• use a better challenge for NIP-42 auth

1.4.1 - 1.4.5

• bugfixes for postgres compatibility

1.4.0

• See 140upgrade.md for upgrade instructions
• Switch to sqlalchemy for data access
• Refactor to allow pluggable storage backend
• Added nostr-relay load command

1.3.5

• Update authentication to reflect draft NIP-42
• Serve event json from /e/ instead of /event/
• Added nostr-relay dump command to dump all events as JSON

1.3.4

• Added command nostr-relay mirror to mirror requests between relays
• Reduce noisy logging

1.3.3

• bugfix for garbage collector deadlock

1.3.1

• Only advertise NIP-42 if authentication is enabled

1.3

• Added authentication according to NIP-42
• Allow per-ip rate limit rules
• Refactored to allow for :memory: sqlite databases (for testing or performance)

1.2.6

• bugfix: enable foreign keys on the garbage collector

1.2.5

• Using subselects for tag queries greatly increases performance

1.2.4

• bugfix: foreign keys were not enabled on the sqlite connection
• optimize db upon close

1.2.3

• Replace replaceable events if the created time is the same as the replaced event

1.2.2

• Reject events that are > 1 hour in the future
• Process tags for all events
• Added cli to reprocess event tags
• Added convenience functions to run the server programatically nostr_relay.web.run_with_gunicorn() nostr_relay.web.run_with_uvicorn()

1.2.1

• config file wasn't include in wheel

1.2

• Added rate limiter

1.1.8

• Support for NIP-40 -- event expiration tag