* Fixed issue in consensus contract output sorting.
* Improved load test script.
* Removed flatbuffer verifier restrictions to support large no. of users and inputs.
* Improved consensus proposal cleanup.
* Restored the earlier proposal cleanup logic.
* Minor fixes.
* const fix.
- Truncation is invoked by making truncate system call on /hpfs::index.<seq_no> file.
- Updating hpfs binary.
- Truncation waits until any active RW and RO sessions are finished.
* Return empty hash when set or vector is empty in crypto.
* Changing <operator in sequence_hash struct.
* Fixing vm script and allowing only single sync target per vpath.
* Making vm cluster log level to debug.
* Increasing hpws max message size and fixing lcl mode in vm cluster scripts.
* lcl block fix.
* Remove and request historical shards at the startup
* Shard history requesting only at the first consensus round
* Removed test log
* Skip max shard seq no file in removing loop
* Updated the code comments
* Persisting condition changed
* Fixed code comment typos
* Fixed code comment typos
* Resolved PR comments
* Halt consensus until completing only the latest shard sync
* Added meaningful comments
* Resolved PR comments and updated hpfs binary
* Logic enhancement and cleanup
* Cleanup the code comment
* Adding full history mode and max shard configs for primary and blob shards.
* Commenting validation checks for hpfs responses until bug is fixed.
* Comment update.
- Creating two separate hpfs folders for contract and ledger file systems (contract_fs and ledger_fs).
- Added separate mounts for contract and ledger file systems.
- Added separate instances for contract serving and ledger serving.
- Added separate instances for contract syncing and ledger syncing.
- Modified cluster creating script to accompany folder name changes in contract folder.
* Terminology changes from state to hpfs.
* Syncing hpfs parents in priority order.
* Changing how the hash is calculate in hpfs response validate check.
* Added contract id config.
* Verify contract id with user/peer challenge.
* Updated cluster scripts.
* Updated node client lib for contract id verification.
* Introduced self comm channel instead of loopback websocket.
* Introduced comm_session and comm_server inheritance hierarchy.
* Separated peer session and user session classes.
* Restored signal handlers upon fork().
* Improved error handling of hpfs process kill scenario.
* Set pgid for forked processes for graceful sending of SIGINT.
