The DEDIS team is very happy to announce the v1 release of the Cothority project.

Changes from v0 to v1:

• Extraction of the cothority network layer into its own library called ONet. Besides better maintainability, it allows projects that only require network handling to get rid of the cothority dependencies.
• Countless bug fixes and general code clean up.
• Improved documentation.
• Release of the cothority_template showing how to implement new cothority protocols, services and (client) applications.

Our next steps include:

• Cleanup of the DEDIS crypto library.
• Cleanup of the threshold Schnorr signature scheme implementation.
• Enable decentralized randomness-as-a-service through RandHound.
• Setup a status website for the DEDIS cothority.
• Write a conode-membership management tool.

If you have questions on the new release or otherwise, feel free to reach out to us through our new email address dedis@epfl.ch or as usual through the cothority mailing list.