v1.6.1

**Key Updates**
 - Fork ScPrime Project at commit 0701afab960e8d6e565a8040aa53ea683aec4326 to pubaccess-node; the final commit before the pubaccess-module removal.
 - Updated README.md
 - Updated SECURITY.md
 - updated LICENSE
 - updated Makefile
 - updated install-dependencies.sh
 - updated check-builds.sh
 - updated CONTRIBUTING.md
 - updated "Running and Writing Tests for pubaccess-node.md"

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+Version Scheme
+--------------
+pubaccess-node uses the following versioning scheme, vX.X.X.X
+ - First Digit signifies a major (compatibility breaking) release
+ - Second Digit signifies a major (non compatibility breaking) release
+ - Third Digit signifies a minor release
+ - Fourth Digit signifies a patch release
+
+Version History
+---------------
+
+### v1.6.1
+**Key Updates**
+ - Fork ScPrime Project at commit 0701afab960e8d6e565a8040aa53ea683aec4326 to pubaccess-node; the final commit before the pubaccess-module removal.
+ - Updated README.md
+ - Updated SECURITY.md 
+ - updated LICENSE
+ - updated Makefile
+ - updated install-dependencies.sh
+ - updated check-builds.sh
+ - updated CONTRIBUTING.md
+ - updated "Running and Writing Tests for pubaccess-node.md"
+
+**Bugs Fixed**
+ - Nothing to report.
+
+**Other**
+ - Nothing to report.
+
+Latest:
+### v1.5.4
+- Remove NebulousLabs feemanager module
+
+
+### v1.5.0
+**Key Updates**
+- Add `zip` download format and set it as default format.
+- add support for write MDM programs to host
+- Added `defaultpath` - a new optional path parameter when creating Publinks. It
+  determines which is the default file to open in a multi-file pubfile.
+- Add `configModules` to the API so that the spd modules can be return in `/daemon/settings [GET]`
+- Allow the renew window to be larger than the period
+- Convert pubaccessblacklist from merkleroots to hashes of the merkleroots
+- split up the custom http status code returned by the API for unloaded modules into 2 distinct codes.
+- Add `daemon/stack` endpoint to get the current stack trace.
+- Add Pubaccesskey delete methods to API.
+- Add `disabledefaultpath` - a new optional path parameter when creating 
+Publinks. It disables the default path functionality, guaranteeing that the user
+will not be automatically redirected to `/index.html` if it exists in the 
+pubfile.
+- Add 'spc' commands for the FeeManager
+- Add `TypePrivateID` Pubaccesskeys with pubfile encryption support
+- Added available and priority memory output to `spc renter -v`
+
+**Bugs Fixed**
+- Set 'Content-Disposition' header for archives.
+- fixed bug in rotation of fingerprint buckets
+- fix issue where priority tasks could wait for low priority tasks to complete
+- Fix panic in backup code due to not using `newJobGeneric`
+- Public access filenames are now validated when uploading. Previously you could upload files called e.g. "../foo" which would be inaccessible.
+- The Pubaccesskey encryption API docs were updated to fix some discrepancies. In particular, the pubaccesskeyid section was removed.
+- The createpubaccesskey endpoint was fixed as it was not returning the full Pubaccesskey that was created.
+- integrade download cooldown system into download jobs
+- fix bug which could prevent downloads from making progress
+- Fix panic in the wal of the spdir and siafile if a delete update was
+  submitted as the last update in a set of updates.
+
+**Other**
+- Add `EphemeralAccountExpiry` and `MaxEphemeralAccountBalance` to the Host's ExternalSettings
+- Add testing infrastructure to validate the output of spc commands.
+- Add root spc Cobra command test with subtests.
+- Optimise writes when we execute an MDM program on the host to lower overall
+  (upload) bandwidth consumption.
+- Change status returned when module is not loaded from 404 to 490
+- Add `spc renter workers ea` command to spc
+- Add `spc renter workers pt` command to spc
+- Add `spc renter workers rj` command to spc
+- Add `spc renter workers hsj` command to spc
+- Add testing for blacklisting skylinks associated with siafile conversions
+- Rename `Gateway` `blacklist` to `blocklist`
+- Allow host netAddress and announcements with local network IP on dev builds.
+- Add default timeouts to opening a stream on the mux
+- Update to bolt version with upstream fixes. This enables builds with Go 1.16.
+
+### v1.4.4.0
+**Key Updates**
+- Merged Sia 1.4.11
+**Other**
+
+## May 29, 2020:
+### v1.4.3.1
+**Key Updates**
+- Add `FeeManager` to spd to allow for applications to charge a fee
+- Add start time for the API server for spd uptime
+- Add new `/consensus/subscribe/:id` endpoint to allow subscribing to consensus
+  change events
+- Add /pubaccesskeys endpoint and `spc pubaccesskey ls` command
+- Updated pubaccesskey encoding and format
+
+**Bugs Fixed**
+- fix call to expensive operation in tight loop
+- fix an infinite loop which would block uploads from progressing
+
+**Other**
+- Optimize bandwidth consumption for RPC write calls
+- Extend `/daemon/alerts` with `criticalalerts`, `erroralerts` and
+  `warningalerts` fields along with `alerts`.
+- Update pubaccesskey spc functions to accept httpClient and remove global httpClient
+  reference from spc testing
+- Pubaccesskeycmd test broken down to subtests.
+- Create spc testing helpers.
+- Add engineering guidelines to /doc
+- Introduce PaymentProvider interface on the renter.
+- Pubaccess persistence subsystems into shared system.
+- Update Cobra from v0.0.5 to v1.0.0.
+
+### v1.4.3.0
+**Key Updates**
+- Alerts returned by /daemon/alerts route are sorted by severity
+- Add `--fee-included` parameter to `spc wallet send scprimecoins` that allows
+   sending an exact wallet balance with the fees included.
+- Extend `spc hostdb view` to include all the fields returned from the API.
+- `spc renter delete` now accepts a list of files.
+- add pause and resume uploads to spc
+- Extended `spc renter` to include number of passive and disabled contracts
+- Add contract data to `spc renter`
+- Add getters and setter to `FileContract` and `FileContractRevision` types to prevent index-out-of-bounds panics after a `RenewAndClear`.
+- Add `--dry-run` parameter to Pubaccess upload
+- Set ratio for `MinBaseRPCPrice` and `MinSectorAccessPrice` with   `MinDownloadBandwidthPrice`
+
+**Bugs Fixed**
+- Fixed file health output of `spc renter -v` not adding to 100% by adding
+  parsePercentage function.
+- Fix `unlock of unlocked mutex` panic in the download destination writer.
+- Fix potential channel double closed panic in DownloadByRootProject 
+- Fix divide by zero panic in `renterFileHealthSummary` for `spc renter -v`
+- Fix negative currency panic in `spc renter contracts view`
+- Fix panic when metadata of pubfile upload exceeds modules.SectorSize
+- Fix curl example for `/pubaccess/pubfile/` post
+- Don't delete hosts the renter has a contract with from hostdb 
+- Initiate a hostdb rescan on startup if a host the renter has a contract with isn't in the host tree 
+- Increase max host downtime in hostbd from 10 days to 20 days.
+- Remove `build.Critical` and update to a metadata update
+
+**Other**
+- Add timeout parameter to Publink pin route - Also apply timeout when fetching the individual chunks
+- Add SiaMux stream handler to the host
+- Fix TestAccountExpiry NDF
+- Add benchmark test for bubble metadata
+- Add additional format instructions to the API docs and fix format errors
+- Created Minor Merge Request template.
+- Updated `Resources.md` with links to filled out README files
+- Add version information to the stats endpoint
+- Extract environment variables to constants and add to API docs.
+ - Add PaymentProcessor interface (host-side)
+- Move golangci-lint to `make lint` and remove `make lint-all`.
+- Add whitespace lint to catch extraneous whitespace and newlines.
+- Expand `SiaPath` unit testing to address more edge cases.
+
+**Key Updates**
+ - Introduced Pubaccess with initial feature set for portals, web portals, pubfiles,
+   publinks, uploads, downloads, and pinning
+ - Add `data-pieces` and `parity-pieces` flags to `spc renter upload`
+ - Integrate SiaMux
+ - Initialize defaults for the host's ephemeral account settings
+ - Add SCPRIME_DATA_DIR environment variable for setting the data directory for
+   spd/spc
+ - Made build process deterministic. Moved related scripts into `release-scripts`
+ - Add directory support to Publinks.
+ - Enabled Lockcheck code anaylzer
+ - Added Bandwidth monitoring to the host module
+
+- Add a delay when modifying large contracts on hosts to prevent hosts from
+  becoming unresponsive due to massive disk i/o.
+- Add `--root` parameter to `spc renter delete` that allows passing absolute
+  instead of relative file paths.
+- Add ability to blacklist publinks by merkleroot.
+- Uploading resumes more quickly after restart.
+- Add `HEAD` request for publink
+- Add ability to pack many files into the same or adjacent sectors while
+  producing unique publinks for each file.
+- Fix default expected upload/download values displaying 0 when setting an
+  initial allowance.
+- `spc pubaccess upload` now supports uploading directories. All files are
+  uploaded individually and result in separate publinks.
+- No user-agent needed for Publink downloads.
+- Add `go get` command to `make dependencies`.
+- Add flags for tag and targz for pubfile streaming.
+- Add new endpoint `/pubaccess/stats` that provides statistical information about
+  pubaccess, how many files were uploaded and the combined size of said files.
+- The `spc renter setallowance` UX is considerably improved.
+- Add XChaCha20 CipherKey.
+- Add Pubaccesskey Manager.
+- Add `spc pubaccess unpin` subcommand.
+- Extend `spc renter -v` to show breakdown of file health.
+- Add Pubaccess-Disable-Force header to allow disabling the force update feature
+  on Pubaccess uploads
+- Add bandwidth usage to `spc gateway`
+
+**Bugs Fixed**
+- Fixed bug in startup where an error being returned by the renter's blocking
+  startup process was being missed
+- Fix repair bug where unused hosts were not being properly updated for a
+  siafile
+- Fix threadgroup violation in the watchdog that allowed writing to the log
+  file after a shutdown
+- Fix bug where `spc renter -v` wasn't working due to the wrong flag being
+  used.
+- Fixed bug in siafile snapshot code where the `hostKey()` method was not used
+  to safely acquire the host pubkey.
+- Fixed `spc pubaccess ls` not working when files were passed as input. It is now
+  able to access specific files in the Pubaccess folder.
+- Fixed a deadlock when performing a Pubaccess download with no workers
+- Fix a parsing bug for malformed publinks
+- fix spc update for new release verification
+- Fix parameter delimiter for publinks
+- Fixed race condition in host's `RPCLoopLock`
+- Fixed a bug which caused a call to `build.Critical` in the case that a
+  contract in the renew set was marked `!GoodForRenew` while the contractor
+  lock was not held
+
+**Other**
+- Split out renter siatests into 2 groups for faster pipelines.
+- Add README to the `siatest` package 
+- Bump golangci-lint version to v1.23.8
+- Add timeout parameter to Publink route - Add `go get` command to `make
+  dependencies`.
+- Update repair loop to use `uniqueRefreshPaths` to reduce unnecessary bubble
+  calls
+- Add Pubaccess-Disable-Force header to allow disabling the force update feature
+  on Pubaccess uploads
+- Create generator for Changelog to improve changelog update process
+
+## Feb 2020:
+### v1.4.3
+**Key Updates**
+- Introduced Pubaccess with initial feature set for portals, web portals, pubfiles,
+  publinks, uploads, downloads, and pinning
+- Add `data-pieces` and `parity-pieces` flags to `spc renter upload`
+- Integrate SiaMux
+- Initialize defaults for the host's ephemeral account settings
+- Add SIA_DATA_DIR environment variable for setting the data directory for
+  spd/spc
+- Made build process deterministic. Moved related scripts into `release-scripts`
+- Add directory support to Publinks.
+- Enabled Lockcheck code anaylzer
+- Added Bandwidth monitoring to the host module
+
+**Bugs Fixed**
+- HostDB Data race fixed and documentation updated to explain the data race
+  concern
+- `Name` and `Dir` methods of the Siapath used the `filepath` package when they
+  should have used the `strings` package to avoid OS path separator bugs
+- Fixed panic where the Host's contractmanager `AddSectorBatch` allowed for
+  writing to a file after the contractmanager had shutdown
+- Fixed panic where the watchdog would try to write to the contractor's log
+  after the contractor had shutdown
+
+**Other**
+- Upgrade host metadata to v1.4.3
+- Removed stubs from testing
+
+
+### v1.4.2.0
+**Key Updates**
+
+ - Allowance in Backups
+ - Wallet Password Reset
+ - Bad Contract Utility Add
+ - FUSE
+ - Renter Watchdog
+ - Contract Churn Limiter
+ - Serving Downloads from Disk
+ - Verify Wallet Password Endpoint
+ - Siafilesystem
+ - ScPrime node scanner
+ - Gateway blacklisting
+ - Contract Extortion Checker
+ - "Instant" Boot
+ - Alert System
+ - Remove siafile chunks from memory
+ - Additional price change protection for the Renter
+ - spc Alerts command
+ - Critical alerts displayed on every spc call
+ - Single File Get in spc
+ - Gateway bandwidth monitoring
+ - Ability to pause uploads/repairs
+
+**Bugs Fixed**
+ - Repair operations would sometimes perform useless and redundant repairs
+ - Siafiles were not pruning hosts correctly
+ - Unable to upload a new file if 'force' is set and no file exists to delete
+ - Siac would not always delete a file or folder correctly
+ - Divide by zero error when setting the allowance with an empty period
+ - Host would sometimes deadlock upon shutdown due to thread group misuse
+ - Crash preventing host from starting up correctly after an unclean shutdown
+   while resizing a storage folder
+ - Missing return statements in API (http: superfluous response.WriteHeader call)
+ - Stuck Loop fixes (chunks not being added due to directory siapath never being set)
+ - Rapid Cycle repair loop on start up
+ - Wallet Init with force flag when no wallet exists previous would error
+...