Rise of the AEAs

• Improves contributor guide
• Enables additional pylint checks
• Adds configuration support on exception behaviour in ledger plugins
• Improves exception handling in aea-ledger-cosmos and aea-ledger-fetchai plugins
• Improves quickstart guide
• Fixes multiple flaky tests
• Fixes various outdated metadata
• Resolves a CVE (CVE-2021-27291) affecting development dependencies
• Adds end-to-end support and tests for simple oracle on Ethereum and Fetch.ai ledgers
• Multiple minor fixes
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

v1.0.0rc2: Merge pull request #2422 from fetchai/develop

• Extends CLI command aea fingerprint to allow fingerprinting of agents
• Improves deploy-image Docker example
• Fixes a bug in MultiAgentManager which leaves it in an unclean state when project adding fails
• Fixes dependencies of aea-legder-fetchai
• Improves guide on HTTP client and server connection
• Removes pickle library usage in the ML skills
• Adds various consistency checks in configurations
• Replaces usage of pyaes with pycryptodome in plugins
• Changes generator to avoid non-idiomatic usage of type checks
• Multiple minor fixes
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

v1.0.0rc1: Merge pull request #2406 from fetchai/develop

• Adds CLI command aea get-public-key
• Adds support for encrypting private keys at rest
• Adds support for configuration of decision maker and error handler instances from aea-config.yaml
• Adds support for explicitly marking behaviours and handlers as dynamic
• Adds support for fetchai ledger to oracle skills and contract
• Adds timeout support on multiplexer calls to connections
• Fixes bug in regex constrained string for id validation
• Adds docs section on how AEAs satisfy 12-factor methodology
• Adds docs section on tradeoffs made in v1
• Adds example for logs streaming to browser
• Removes multiple temporary hacks for backwards compatibility
• Adds skills tests coverage for echo and http_echo skills
• Adds required_ledgers field in aea-config.yaml
• Removes registry_path field in aea-config.yaml
• Adds message_format field to cert requests
• Removes requirement for exact protocol buffers compiler, prints version used in protocols
• Adds support to configure task manager mode via aea-config.yaml
• Fixed spelling across docstrings in code base
• Multiple minor fixes
• Multiple docs updates to fix order of CLI commands with respect to installing dependencies
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

v0.11.2: Merge pull request #2371 from fetchai/develop

• Adds latest benchmark data
• Fixes ACN envelope delivery issue where envelopes were delivered out of order
• Fixes a package import issue
• Fixes an issue where AgentLoop did not teardown properly under certain conditions
• Fixes a bug in testing tools
• Fixes a bug where plugins are not loaded after installation in MultiAgentManager
• Adds unit tests for weather, thermometer and car park skills
• Fixes a missing dependency in Windows
• Improves SOEF connections' error handling
• Fixes bug in ML skills and adds unit tests
• Adds script to bump plugin versions
• Adds gas price strategy support in aea-ledger-ethereum plugin
• Adds CLI plugin for IPFS interactions (add/get)
• Adds support for CLI plugins to framework
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

v0.11.1: Merge pull request #2346 from fetchai/develop

• Bumps aiohttp to >=3.7.4 to address a CVE affecting http_server, http_client and webhook connections
• Adds script to ensure Pipfile and tox.ini dependencies align
• Enforces presence of protocol_specification_id in protocol.yaml
• Adds support for installation of agent-level PyPI dependencies in AEABuilder
• Sets default ledger plugin during aea create
• Updates various agent packages with missing ledger plugin dependencies
• Bumps various development dependencies
• Renames coin_price skill to advanced_data_request skill and generalises it
• Updates fetch_beacon skill to use ledger connection
• Multiple docs updates to fix order of CLI commands with respect to installing dependencies
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

v0.11.0: Merge pull request #2332 from fetchai/develop

• Adds slots usage in frequently used framework objects, including Dialogue
• Fixes a bug in aea upgrade command where eject prompt was not offered
• Refactors skill component configurations to allow for skill components (Handler, Behaviour, Model) to be placed anywhere in a skill
• Extends skill component configuration to specify optional file_path field
• Extracts all ledger specific functionality in plugins
• Improves error logging in http server connection
• Updates Development - Use case documentation
• Adds restart support to p2p_libp2p connection on read/write failure
• Adds validation of default routing and default connection configuration
• Refactors and significantly simplifies routing between components
• Limits usage of EnvelopeContext
• Adds support for new CosmWasm message format in ledger plugins
• Adds project loading checks and optional auto removal in MultiAgentManager
• Adds support for reuse of threaded Multiplexer
• Fixes bug in TAC which caused agents to make suboptimal trades
• Adds support to specify dependencies on aea-config.yaml level
• Improves release scripts
• Adds lightweight Golang AEALite library
• Adds support for skill-to-skill messages
• Removes CLI GUI
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

v0.10.1: Merge pull request #2281 from fetchai/develop

• Changes default URL of soef connection to https
• Improves teardown, retry and edge case handling of p2p_libp2p and p2p_libp2p_client connections
• Adds auto-generation of private keys to MultiAgentManager
• Exposes address getters on MultiAgentManager
• Improves package validation error messages
• Simplifies default DecisionMakerHandler and extracts advanced features in separate class
• Fixes task manager and its usage in skills
• Adds support for multi-language protocol stub generation
• Adds data_dir usage to additional connections
• Adds IO helper function for consistent file usage
• Extends release helper scripts
• Removes stub connection as default connection
• Adds support for AEA usage without connections
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

v0.10.0: Merge pull request #2246 from fetchai/develop

• Removes error skill from agents which do not need it
• Adds support for relay connection reconnect in ACN
• Multiplexer refactoring for easier connection handling
• Fix erc1155 skill tests on CosmWasm chains
• Extends docs on usage of CosmWasm chains
• Adds version compatibility in aea upgrade command
• Introduces protocol specification id and related changes for better interoperability
• Adds synchronous connection base class
• Exposes state setter in connection base class
• Adds Yoti protocol and connection
• Multiple updates to generic buyer
• Adds additional automation to MultiAgentManager, including automated handling of certs, keys and other package specific data
• Multiple test improvements and fixes
• Add stricter typing and checks
• Fixes to MacOS install script
• Adds threading patch for web3
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

v0.9.2: Merge pull request #2188 from fetchai/develop

• Fixes CosmosApi, in particular for CosmWasm
• Fixes error output from add-key CLI command
• Update aea_version in non-vendor packages when calling upgrade CLI command
• Extend upgrade command to fetch newer agent if present on registry
• Add support for mixed fetch mode in MultiAgentManager
• Fixes logging overrides in MultiAgentManager
• Configuration overrides now properly handle None values
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes

v0.9.1: Merge pull request #2157 from fetchai/develop

• Fixes multiple issues with MultiAgentManager including overrides not being correctly applied
• Restructures docs navigation
• Updates MultiAgentManager documentation
• Extends functionality of aea upgrade command to cover more cases
• Fixes a bug in the aea upgrade command which prevented upgrading across version minors
• Fixes a bug in aea fetch where the console output was inconsistent with the actual error
• Fixes scaffold connection constructor
• Multiple additional tests to improve stability
• Multiple docs updates based on user feedback
• Multiple additional tests and test stability fixes