Updated changelog

Changelog.md

@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
+### 2023-09-19: RNS β 0.5.9
+
+This release brings major efficiency improvements to `Channel` and `Buffer` classes, adds a range of usability improvements to the included utilities and fixes a number of bugs.
+
+**Changes**
+- Improved `Channel` sequencing, retries and transfer efficiency
+- Added adaptive compression to `Buffer` class
+- Added `rnid` examples and documentation to manual
+- Added silent mode to `rncp`
+- Added remote fetch mode to `rncp`
+- Added allowed_identities file support to `rncp`
+- Added Transport Instance uptime to `rnstatus` output
+- Added channel CSMA parameter stats to RNode Interface `rnstatus` output
+
+**Bugfixes**
+- Fixed inadverdent AutoInterface multi-IF deque hit for resource transfer retries
+- Fixed invalid path for firmware hash generation while using extracted firmware to autoinstall in `rnodeconf`
+- Fixed various minor missing error checks
+- Fixed `rnid` status output bug
+
+**Release Hashes**
+```
+670bf8aec55a424001aa9ffc97648edf3db80c85b545aa372ab221fc3db26f1f rns-0.5.9-py3-none-any.whl
+7a9ef70b3843dff886bd8d8dcbc7ba4a34f4278d789ceef0b704397d6b6af1f6 rnspure-0.5.9-py3-none-any.whl
+```
+
 ### 2023-09-14: RNS β 0.5.8
 
 This maintenance release contains a number of usability improvements to Reticulum and related tools.

RNS/Channel.py

@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ class Channel(contextlib.AbstractContextManager):
     def _update_packet_timeouts(self):
         for envelope in self._tx_ring:
             updated_timeout = self._get_packet_timeout_time(envelope.tries)
-            if envelope.packet and envelope.packet.receipt and envelope.packet.receipt.timeout:
+            if envelope.packet and hasattr(envelope.packet, "receipt") and envelope.packet.receipt and envelope.packet.receipt.timeout:
                 if updated_timeout > envelope.packet.receipt.timeout:
                     envelope.packet.receipt.set_timeout(updated_timeout)
 

RNS/Destination.py

@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ class Destination:
         """
         if self.type != Destination.SINGLE:
             raise TypeError("Only SINGLE destination types can be announced")
+
+        if self.direction != Destination.IN:
+            raise TypeError("Only IN destination types can be announced")
         
         now = time.time()
         stale_responses = []

RNS/Transport.py

@@ -1806,8 +1806,7 @@ class Transport:
                 file.close()
 
             except Exception as e:
-                RNS.log("Error writing packet to cache", RNS.LOG_ERROR)
-                RNS.log("The contained exception was: "+str(e))
+                RNS.log("Error writing packet to cache. The contained exception was: "+str(e), RNS.LOG_ERROR)
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_cached_packet(packet_hash):

RNS/Utilities/rncp.py

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def listen(configdir, verbosity = 0, quietness = 0, allowed = [], display_identi
 
     if display_identity:
         print("Identity     : "+str(identity))
-        print("Receiving on : "+RNS.prettyhexrep(destination.hash))
+        print("Listening on : "+RNS.prettyhexrep(destination.hash))
         exit(0)
 
     if disable_auth: