eos-voter 0.5.0 - Permission Management + Contacts (+0.4.0 feature overview)

Yesterday we released 0.5.0 of our eos-voter tool which is slowly reaching a fully featured wallet. This post will outline the changes in the last two versions, some brief information about what this application is, and then descriptions and screenshots of some of the more prominent features.

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Post Overview

1. Changes
2. What is eos-voter?
3. Where to download eos-voter
4. Feature Overview
5. Coming Soon
6. File Signatures

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1 - Changes

0.5.0 Changelog

The following features have been released as part of the 0.5.0 eos-voter release.

• Permission Management: A new simple permission management interface can now be found in the Tools section of the app.
• Contacts (Address Book): An contacts list for your own personal use is available in the Tools section of the app.
• New Setting: Resources Available vs Resources Used: Toggle the UI within the Wallet section to display CPU/Network and RAM as either "Available" or "Used".
• New Setting: Wallet Autolock: Change this setting to automatically lock your wallet after a set duration of inactivity.
• New Setting: Skip Link Warnings: Change this setting to remove the warning about external links.
• Improved Transfer Screen: When transferring tokens, you can now either manually input the account name, use a list of known exchanges, or use an account name from your contacts list.
• Improved Error Handling: Added some explanations on some of the more cryptic error messages. Let us know if you find any confusing errors you'd like improved.
• Bug Fixes: Fixed bugs preventing certain fields in contracts from being populated correctly within the Smart Contract Interface tool.

0.4.0 Changelog

Since we didn't release a blog post with the 0.4.0 changes a couple weeks back, briefly we will summarize them below:

• Account Creation: Allows the creation of new accounts using an existing imported account.
• Producer Information: Each producer in the voting interface now can display more information with the purple button next to their name.
• Smart Contract Interface Tool: A dynamic interface that allows the viewing and usage of any smart contract.
• ABI Bundling for Cold Storage Signing: v0.4.0 brings a change to the file format used for cold storage signing that now allows the signing of any transaction (custom tokens, referendums, etc) with a Cold Storage Wallet! Any unsigned tx created with 0.4.0+ will also require a cold storage wallet of v0.4.0+ to sign it, trying to sign with a lower version will not work.
• Tools - Default Page: The default page when you click Tools will now also be the home for all of your wallet application settings.
• A Choice in Block Explorers: A new application setting has been added that allows you to choose which block explorer you'd like all explorer links to open to. If you have an explorer you want added to the list, open a github issue requesting it!
• In-memory key obfuscation: Private keys that are stored in your devices RAM while the wallet is unlocked are now obfuscated using a light encryption pass to strengthen the security of your account. While this won't defend against all compromised systems, it will defend against basic memory scanners that are searching your computer for private keys sitting in RAM. Thanks to @nsjames (developer of Scatter) for the recommendation!
• More formatting for Action History items: A number of additional operation types have been added to the Action History section of the wallet and now have custom formatting (instead of large JSON displays).
• New Languages: Thanks to our small but growing community of contributors on the crowdin translation platform, Estonian and Spanish have been added, and a number of additional languages have improved coverage.
• No owner keys allows: We have explicitly disabled the usage of owner keys (except in instances of genesis accounts, where owner = active) in this build, since both the owner key should be kept offline and currently there are issues with signing while using the owner key. In one of the next builds, we will reintroduce owner key imports, but only for temporary usage when modifying active permissions.
• Bug Fix: A bug preventing the removal of custom tokens from the tools section has been corrected.

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2 - What is eos-voter?

eos-voter is a desktop wallet application build for the EOS blockchain, which can be downloaded and run on your computer. eos-voter is free to use and open-source, and is designed to be a way to help secure your account while using the EOS blockchain. When using eos-voter, your private keys never leave the application as transactions are signed locally.

To date the eos-voter tool has seen over 61,000 downloads in one of the largest efforts to help connect EOS stakeholders with the EOS mainnet!

(eos-voter is a temporary application name and we are in the process of rebranding to a much better name!)

Previous updates for more information:

• 2018/07/07 - eos-voter 0.3.0 - Multiple Accounts, RAM, Account History and Proxy Voting
• 2018/06/25 - eos-voter 0.2.1 - Custom Tokens + Cold/Watch Wallets
• 2018/06/17 - eos-voter 0.1.6 - A better welcome experience + tutorial
• 2018/06/02 - Annoucing eos-voter, a block producer voting tool and light wallet

Greymass Initiative

eos-voter is an application being developed and led by members of the @greymass team. Greymass is an EOS block producer candidate (teamgreymass) on the EOS blockchain. For more information about Greymass, please visit our website (greymass.com) or read our Steemit Blog.

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3 - Download eos-voter by Greymass

As of 2018/08/17, v0.5.0 is the most recent release.

The most recent version can always be downloaded from our GitHub releases page:

https://github.com/greymass/eos-voter/releases

• MacOS User: Download either the DMG (mac-eos-voter-***.dmg) or ZIP (mac-eos-voter-***.zip) file.
• Windows User: Download the EXE (windows-eos-voter-***.exe) file.
• Linux User: Download either the SNAP (linux-eos-voter-***-_amd64.snap), DEB (linux-eos-voter-***-_amd64.deb), or AppImage (linux-eos-voter-***-x86_64.AppImage) file.
• Linux (ARM/Raspberry Pi): Download the DEB (linux-eos-voter-***-armv7l.deb) file.

Further useful links:

• eos-voter (Telegram): https://t.me/eoswalletgreymass
• Bug Reports (GitHub): https://github.com/greymass/eos-voter/issues
• Source Code (GitHub): https://github.com/greymass/eos-voter
• Greymass Website: https://greymass.com
• Greymass Twitter: https://twitter.com/@greymass

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4 - Features

Permission Management

A new permissions section has been added to the Tools area of the application. Within this new tool, you can:

• View your existing permissions
• View which key is currently loaded into the wallet
• Update an active key using your owner or active key.
• Update an owner/active key with your owner key.
• Advanced permission management will be added to this section as certain improvements to EOS are made.

Contacts

A customizable contact list has been added to the Tools area of the application. Within this section you can manage a list of frequently used account names.

• Maintain a list of account names, with custom labels, and default MEMO fields.
• A search interface for your contacts.
• These contacts can be selected from the "Transfer" screen.
• This information is stored locally in your wallet and is not broadcast to the blockchain.

Account Creation

From within the Tools section, you can now create (and pay for) additional accounts to be created, either for yourself or for those you know in need of an account. This initial release of account creation is very minimal and expects you to understand how to generate key pairs, how staking works, and how RAM impacts the new account. Future versions will improve to make this interface and user flow more friendly.

Producer Information

In the Producers Voting section, a new button has been added to each producer which can be used to view further information about them. When the button is colored purple, it means there's information available to view about this producer. The grey buttons are producers who have not yet published their information on-chain. The information itself is retrieved from a smart contract (producerjson) on-chain (no external connections for your wallet).

Smart Contract Interface

Added to the Tools section of the app, this tool allows you to view and interact with any smart contract deployed on the EOS blockchain. Enter the contract address to load the ABI, and from there you can perform any actions, view any table/scope, and view the raw ABI of the contract. A warning will be displayed the first time you attempt to access this tool - since if used improperly, could do any number of potentially damaging things to an account.

New Customizable Settings

The main section of the Tools section now contains additional configurable options, which can be seen below:

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5 - On the horizon...

Greymass has a number of additional features planned to build a modern wallet experience. A rough roadmap of the upcoming features includes:

• 0.6.0: Multisig
• 1.0.0: Rebrand + Website + New User Interface

As an open source project, we encourage all others to help in these efforts!

Supporting Greymass

Greymass is a self-funded organization that accepts no outside funding. There are currently three ways you can help support Greymass in an effort to bring tools like eos-voter to life:

• Contribute to the code - https://github.com/greymass/eos-voter
• Contribute to the translations - https://crowdin.com/project/eos-voter
• Vote for teamgreymass as in your Block Producer selections.

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6 - Download Signatures

With each release we will be publishing shasum (512) signatures so you can ensure the integrity of the files you are downloading. This footer on the post serves as immutable reference to the shasum data to validate these files, which key be validated as signed by jesta on keybase.

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