interface-spec-changelog

Changelog

0.40.0 (2025-05-30)

• Non-ASCII characters are allowed in the URL of canister http outcalls.
• The transformed response size of canister http outcalls must not exceeded max_response_bytes (if provided).

0.39.0 (2025-05-07)

• Threshold Schnorr API, composite query methods, and canister logs management canister API are considered stable.

0.38.0 (2025-04-18)

• Reverted a lower bound of one week on the canister's freezing threshold.

0.37.0 (2025-04-11)

• Introduced a lower bound of one week on the canister's freezing threshold.

0.36.0 (2025-03-31)

• Bounded-wait calls.

0.35.0 (2025-03-20)

• New system API ic0.canister_liquid_cycle_balance128 returning the current amount of cycles that is available for spending in calls and execution.
• A canister can have multiple snapshots.

0.34.0 (2025-03-07)

• New canister method canister_on_low_wasm_memory invoked when the canister is low on main memory according to a new wasm_memory_threshold in canister settings.
• New system APIs ic0.cost_call, ic0.cost_create_canister, ic0.cost_http_request, ic0.cost_sign_with_ecdsa, ic0.cost_sign_with_schnorr, and ic0.cost_vetkd_derive_encrypted_key for cycles cost calculation.
• New field memory_metrics providing detailed metrics on the memory consumption of a canister in the response of the management canister's canister_status endpoint.

0.33.0 (2025-02-12)

• New system API ic0.subnet_self_size and ic0.subnet_self_copy.

0.32.0 (2025-01-23)

• Allow accepting and burning cycles in replicated queries.

0.31.0 (2025-01-09)

• Add support for Schnorr auxiliary inputs

0.30.0 (2024-11-19)

• Add management canister endpoint subnet_info.
• Support for wasm64: 64-bit system API.

0.29.0 (2024-11-14)

• Allow anonymous query and read state requests with invalid ingress_expiry.
• Add allowed viewers variant to canister log visibility.
• Deprecate the Bitcoin API of the management canister.

0.28.0 (2024-10-11)

• Add new management canister methods for canister snapshot support.

0.27.0 (2024-09-20)

• EXPERIMENTAL: Management canister API to fetch Bitcoin block headers.
• Synchronous update call API at /api/v3/canister/.../call.

0.26.0 (2024-07-23)

• EXPERIMENTAL: Management canister API for threshold Schnorr signatures.

0.25.0 (2024-06-14)

• Query call statistics.
• New wasm_memory_persistence option for canister upgrades.
• Rename num_blocks_total to num_blocks_proposed_total in node metrics served by the management canister.
• Management canister query call to fetch canister logs.
• WASM heap memory limit in canisters settings.
• 32-bit stable memory System API is marked DEPRECATED.
• Remove the management canister query calls bitcoin_get_balance_query and bitcoin_get_utxos_query.

0.24.0 (2024-04-23)

• Wrap chunk hash for install chunked code in a record and rename storage_canister to store_canister.
• Update subnet read state request conditions on requested paths.
• Fix: allow inter-canister calls (requests) to be spontaneously rejected in the abstract spec.

0.23.0 (2024-03-06)

• The maximum length of a nonce in an ingress message is 32 bytes.
• Update specification of responses from the endpoint /api/v2/status.
• Stop canister calls might be rejected upon timeout.
• The IC sends a user-agent header with the value ic/1.0 in canister HTTPS outcalls if the canister does not provide one.
• Add a management canister method for retrieving node metrics.
• Specify the resource reservation mechanism.
• Allow in_replicated_execution system API method to be executed during canister_start.
• Set the maximum depth of a delegation in a read_state response/certified variable certificate to 1.
• Canister version is guaranteed to increase if the canister's running status changes.
• Calls to frozen canisters are rejected with SYS_TRANSIENT instead of CANISTER_ERROR.
• Add API boundary nodes information into the certified state tree.

0.22.0 (2023-11-15)

• Add metrics on subnet usage into the certified state tree and a new HTTP endpoint /api/v2/subnet/<subnet_id>/read_state for retrieving them.
• Add management canister methods to support installing large WebAssembly modules split into chunks.
• Add a system API method to determine if the canister is running in replicated or non-replicated mode.
• Add a system API method to burn cycles of the canister that calls this method.
• Add a check that a canister receiving an ingress message is Running before the ingress message is marked as Received.
• Increase the maximum number of globals in a canister's WASM.
• Add per-call context performance counter.
• Update the computation of the representation-independent hash for the case of maps with nested maps.
• Remove senders field from user delegations.

0.21.0 (2023-09-18)

• Canister cycle balance cannot decrease below the freezing limit after executing install_code on the management canister.
• System API calls ic0.msg_caller_size and ic0.msg_caller_copy can be called in all contexts except for (start) function.
• Added note on confidentiality of values in the certified state tree.
• Update algorithm computing the request and response hash in the HTTP Gateway including clarification of when the HTTP Gateway can allow for arbitrary certification version in the canister's response.
• Update conditions on requested paths in HTTP read state requests.
• Added new query methods in the Bitcoin API.
• Added node public keys to certified state and node signatures to query call responses.
• Added a new mode for canister upgrades skipping pre-upgrade method's execution.

0.20.0 (2023-07-11)

• IC Bitcoin API, ECDSA API, canister HTTPS outcalls API, and 128-bit cycles System API are considered stable.
• Add conditions on requested paths in read state requests.
• Add composite queries.
• Specify that the canister version is incremented upon every successful message execution except for successful message execution of a query method.

0.19.0 (2023-06-08)

• canister version can be specified in some management canister calls (canister creation, canister code changes, canister settings changes)
• IC records canister history (canister creation, canister code changes, and canister controllers changes)
• added a new canister_info management canister call returning current module hash, current controllers, and canister history
• added a new system API call ic0.is_controller (checking if a principal is a controller of the canister)
• stable memory System API calls can be invoked in the WebAssembly module (start) function
• the system API call ic0.global_timer_set can be invoked in canister pre-upgrade
• added modeling WASM start function in the concrete CanisterModule specification
• WebAssembly module requirements have been revised (relaxed max number of declared functions and globals, added conditions on exported functions)
• certified variables are cleared if a canister is reinstalled
• a canister having an open call context marked as deleted cannot reach Stopped state
• a desired canister ID of the canister created by provisional_create_canister_with_cycles (in testing environments) can be specified using specified_id
• conditions on envelope delegations have been revised (relaxed max number of delegations, restricted max number of targets per delegation, forbidden cycles in the delegation chain)
• added a new optional field senders in envelope delegations (restricting users to which a delegation applies)
• all /request_status/<request_id> paths must refer to the same request_id in a read_state request
• IC protocol execution error conditions (such as failing inspect_message method of a canister) are returned as 200 HTTP responses with a cbor body describing the error (instead of 4xx or 5xx HTTP responses)

0.18.9 (2022-12-06)

• Global timers
• Canister version
• Clarifications for HTTP requests & Bitcoin integration costs

0.18.8 (2022-11-09)

• Updated HTTP request API
• Canister status available to canister
• 64-bit stable memory is no longer experimental

0.18.7 (2022-09-27)

• HTTP request API
• Reserved principals

0.18.6 (2022-08-09)

• Canister access to performance metrics
• Query calls are rejected when the canister is frozen
• Support for implementation-specific error codes for requests
• Deleted call contexts do not prevent canister from reaching Stopped state
• Update effective canister id checks in certificate delegations
• Formal model in Isabelle

0.18.5 (2022-07-08)

• Idle consumption of resources in cycles per day can be obtain via canister_status method of the management canister
• Include the HTTP Gateway Protocol in this spec
• Clarifications in definition of cycles consumption

0.18.4 (2022-06-20)

• Canister cycle balances are represented by 128 bits, and no system-defined upper limit exists anymore
• Canister modules can be gzip-encoded
• Expose Wasm custom sections in the state tree
• EXPERIMENTAL: Canister API for accessing Bitcoin transactions
• EXPERIMENTAL: Canister API for threshold ECDSA signatures

0.18.3 (2022-01-10)

• New System API which uses 128-bit values to represent the amount of cycles
• Subnet delegations include a canister id scope

0.18.2 (2021-09-29)

• Canister heartbeat
• Terminology changes
• Support for 64-bit stable memory

0.18.1 (2021-08-04)

• Support RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures in web authentication
• Spec clarification: Fix various typos and improve textual clarity

0.18.0 (2021-05-18)

• A canister has a set of controllers, instead of always one

0.17.0 (2021-04-22)

• Canister Signatures are introduced
• Spec clarification: the signature in the WebAuthn scheme is prefixed by the CBOR self-identifying tag
• Cycle-depleted canisters are forcibly uninstalled
• Canister settings in create_canister and update_settings. install_code no longer takes allocation settings.
• A freezing threshold can be configured via the canister settings

0.16.1 (2021-04-14)

• The cleanup callback is introduced

0.16.0 (2021-03-25)

• New http v2 API that allows for stateless boundary nodes

0.15.6 (2021-03-25)

• The system may impose limits on the number of globals and functions
• No ingress messages towards empty canisters are accepted
• No ingress messages towards raw_rand and deposit_cycles are accepted
• A memory allocation of 0 means “best effort”

0.15.5 (2021-03-11)

• deposit_cycles(): any caller allowed

0.15.4 (2021-03-04)

• Ingress message filtering
• Add ECDSA signatures on curve secp256k1
• Clarify that the ic0.data_certificate_present system function may be called in all contexts.

0.15.3 (2021-02-26)

• Expose module hash and controller via read_state

0.15.2 (2021-02-09)

• The document is renamed to “Internet Computer Interface Spec”

0.15.0 (2020-12-17)

• Support for raw Ed25519 keys is removed

0.14.1 (2020-12-08)

• The default memory_allocation becomes unspecified

0.14.0 (2020-11-18)

• Support for funds is scaled back to only support cycles
• The ic0.msg_cycles_accept system call now returns the actually accepted cycles
• The provisional_ management calls are introduced

0.13.2 (2020-11-12)

• The ic0.canister_status system call

0.13.1 (2020-11-06)

• Delegation between user public keys

0.13.0 (2020-10-19)

• Certification (also removes “request-status” request)

0.12.2 (2020-10-23)

• User authentication method based on WebAuthn is introduced
• User authentication can use ECDSA
• Public keys are DER-encoded

0.12.1 (2020-10-16)

• Return more information in the canister_status management call

0.12.0 (2020-10-13)

• Anonymous requests must have the sender field set

0.11.1 (2020-10-01)

• The deposit_funds call

0.11.0 (2020-09-23)

• Inter-canister calls are now performed using a builder-like API
• Support for funds (balances and transfers)

0.10.3 (2020-09-21)

• The anonymous user is introduced

0.10.1 (2020-09-01)

• Forward-port changes from 0.9.3

0.10.0 (2020-08-06)

• Users can set/update a memory allocation when installing/upgrading a canister.
• The expiry field is added to requests

0.9.3 (2020-09-01)

• The management canister supports the raw_rand method

0.9.2 (2020-08-05)

• Canister controllers can stop/start canisters and can query their status.
• Canister controllers can delete canisters

0.9.1 (2020-07-20)

• Forward-port changes from 0.8.2

0.9.0 (2020-07-15)

• Introduction of a domain separator (again)
• The calculation of “derived ids” has changed
• The self-authenticating and derived id forms use a truncated hash
• The textual representation of principals has changed

0.8.2 (2020-07-17)

• Installing code via reinstall works also on the empty canister

0.8.1 (2020-07-10)

• Reflect refined process in README and intro.
• ic0.time added

0.8.0 (2020-06-23)

• Revert the introduction of a domain separator

0.6.2 (2020-06-23)

• Fix meaning-changing typos in ic.did

0.6.0 (2020-06-08)

• Make all canister ids system-chosen
• HTTP requests for management features are removed

0.4.0 (2020-05-25)

• (editorial) the term “principal” is now used for the id of a canister or user, not the canister or user itself
• The signature of a request needs to be calculated using a domain separator
• Describe the controller attribute, add a request to change it
• The IC management canister is introduced

0.2.16 (2020-05-29)

• More tests about calls from query methods

0.2.14 (2020-05-14)

• Bugfix: Mode should be reinstall, not replace

0.2.8 (2020-04-23)

• Include section with CDDL description

0.2.4 (2020-03-23)

• simplify versioning (only three components), skip 0.2.2 to avoid confusion with 0.2.0.2
• Clarification: reply field is always present
• General cleanup based on front-to-back reading

0.2.0.0 (2020-03-11)

• This is the first release. Subsequent releases will include a changelog.