* Adding in Mumbai/Mainnet precursor deb packaging for tests to use during upgrade(iterations to come)
* Added changes per discussion in PR, more changes may be necessary
* Adding prerelease true
* Disabling goreleaser
* Removing README swap file
* change bor_dir and add bor user for v0.3.0 release
* rollback bor user and use root
* metrics: handle equal to separated config flag (#596)
* metrics: handle based config path
* internal/cli/server: add more context to logs
* use space separated flag and value in bor.service
* fixed static-nodes related buf (os independent) (#598)
* fixed static-nodes related buf (os independent)
* taking static-nodes as input if default not present
* Update default flags (#600)
* internal/cli/server: use geth's default for txpool.pricelimit and add comments
* builder/files: update config.toml for mainnet
* packaging/templates: update defaults for mainnet and mumbai
* internal/cli/server: skip overriding cache
* packaging/templates: update cache value for mainnet
* packaging/templates: update gcmode for archive mumbai node
* metrics: handle nil telemetry config (#601)
* resolve merge conflicts
* update go version in release.yml
* update goversion in makefile
* update Docker login for goreleaser-cross v1.19
* Cleanup for the packager to use git tag in the package profile naming. Added conditional check for directory structure, this is in prep for v0.3.1, as this will create a failure on upgrade path in package due to file exist
* added a toml configuration file with comments describing each flag (#607)
* added a toml configuration file with comments describing each flag
* internal/cli/server: update flag description
* docs/cli: update example config and description of flags
* docs: update new-cli docs
Co-authored-by: Manav Darji <manavdarji.india@gmail.com>
* Adding of 0.3.0 package changes, control file updates, postinst changes, and packager update
* added ancient datadir flag and toml field, need to decide on default value and update the conversion script
* updated toml files with ancient field
* Add support for new flags in new config.toml, which were present in old config.toml (#612)
* added HTTPTimeouts, and TrieTimeout flag in new tol, from old toml
* added RAW fields for these time.Duration flags
* updated the conversion script to support these extra 4 flags
* removed hcl and json config tests as we are only supporting toml config files
* updated toml files with cache.timeout field
* updated toml files with jsonrpc.timeouts field
* tests/bor: expect a call for latest checkpoint
* tests/bor: expect a call for latest checkpoint
* packaging/templates: update cache values for archive nodes
Co-authored-by: Manav Darji <manavdarji.india@gmail.com>
* remove unwanted code
* Fix docker publish authentication issue
In gorelease-cross 1.19+, dockerhub authentication will require docker
logion action followed by mounting docker config file. See
https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser-cross#github-actions.
* Revert "update Docker login for goreleaser-cross v1.19"
This reverts commit 4d19cf5342.
* Bump version to stable
* Revert "Merge pull request #435 from maticnetwork/POS-553"
This reverts commit 657d262def, reversing
changes made to 88dbfa1c13.
* revert change for release for go1.19
* Add default values to CLI helper and docs
This commit adds default values to CLI helper and docs. When the default value of a string flag, slice string flag, or map string flag is empty, its helper message won't show any default value.
* Add a summary of new CLI in docs
* Updating packager as binutils changed version so that apt-get installs current versions
* Add state pruning to new CLI
* Minor wording fix in prune state description
* Bumping control file versions
* Mainnet Delhi fork
* Set version to stable
* change delhi hardfork block number
* handle future chain import and skip peer drop (#650)
* handle future chain import and skip peer drop
* add block import metric
* params: bump version to v0.3.3-stable
* Bump bor version in control files for v0.3.3 mainnet release
* Added checks to RPC requests and introduced new flags to customise the parameters (#657)
* added a check to reject rpc requests with batch size > the one set using a newly added flag (rpcbatchlimit)
* added a check to reject rpc requests whose result size > the one set using a newly added flag (rpcreturndatalimit)
* updated the config files and docs
* chg : trieTimeout from 60 to 10 mins (#692)
* chg : trieTimeout from 60 to 10 mins
* chg : cache.timout to 10m from 1h in configs
* internal/cli/server : fix : added triesInMemory in config (#691)
* changed version from 0.3.0 to 0.3.4-beta (#693)
* fix nil state-sync issue, increase grpc limit (#695)
* Increase grpc message size limit in pprof
* consensus/bor/bor.go : stateSyncs init fixed [Fix#686]
* eth/filters: handle nil state-sync before notify
* eth/filters: update check
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniil <daniil.melnik@chainstack.com>
* core, tests/bor: add more tests for state-sync validation (#710)
* core: add get state sync function for tests
* tests/bor: add validation for state sync events post consensus
* Arpit/temp bor sync (#701)
* Increase grpc message size limit in pprof
* ReadBorReceipts improvements
* use internal function
* fix tests
* fetch geth upstread for ReadBorReceiptRLP
* Only query bor receipt when the query index is equal to # tx in block body
This change reduces the frequency of calling ReadBorReceipt and
ReadBorTransaction, which are CPU and db intensive.
* Revert "fetch geth upstread for ReadBorReceiptRLP"
This reverts commit 2e838a6b1313d26674f3a8df4b044e35dcbf35a0.
* Restore ReadBorReceiptRLP
* fix bor receipts
* remove unused
* fix lints
---------
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Manav Darji <manavdarji.india@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
* Revert "chg : trieTimeout from 60 to 10 mins (#692)" (#720)
This reverts commit 241843c7e7.
* Arpit/add execution pool 2 (#719)
* initial
* linters
* linters
* remove timeout
* update pool
* change pool size function
* check nil
* check nil
* fix tests
* Use execution pool from server in all handlers
* simplify things
* test fix
* add support for cli, config
* add to cli and config
* merge base branch
* debug statements
* fix bug
* atomic pointer timeout
* add apis
* update workerpool
* fix issues
* change params
* fix issues
* fix ipc issue
* remove execution pool from IPC
* revert
* fix tests
* mutex
* refactor flag and value names
* ordering fix
* refactor flag and value names
* update default ep size to 40
* fix bor start issues
* revert file changes
* debug statements
* fix bug
* update workerpool
* atomic pointer timeout
* add apis
* Merge branch 'add-execution-pool' of github.com:maticnetwork/bor into arpit/add-execution-pool
* fix issues
* change params
* fix issues
* fix ipc issue
* remove execution pool from IPC
* revert
* merge base branch
* Merge branch 'add-execution-pool' of github.com:maticnetwork/bor into arpit/add-execution-pool
* mutex
* fix tests
* Merge branch 'arpit/add-execution-pool' of github.com:maticnetwork/bor into arpit/add-execution-pool
* Change default size of execution pool to 40
* refactor flag and value names
* fix merge conflicts
* ordering fix
* refactor flag and value names
* update default ep size to 40
* fix bor start issues
* revert file changes
* fix linters
* fix go.mod
* change sec to ms
* change default value for ep timeout
* fix node api calls
* comment setter for ep timeout
---------
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Manav Darji <manavdarji.india@gmail.com>
* version change (#721)
* Event based pprof (#732)
* feature
* Save pprof to /tmp
---------
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
* Cherry-pick changes from develop (#738)
* Check if block is nil to prevent panic (#736)
* miner: use env for tracing instead of block object (#728)
---------
Co-authored-by: Dmitry <46797839+dkeysil@users.noreply.github.com>
* add max code init size check in txpool (#739)
* Revert "Event based pprof" and update version (#742)
* Revert "Event based pprof (#732)"
This reverts commit 22fa4033e8.
* params: update version to 0.3.4-beta3
* packaging/templates: update bor version
* internal/ethapi :: Fix : newRPCTransactionFromBlockIndex
* Merge master to qa (#813)
* Merge qa to master (#750)
* Added checks to RPC requests and introduced new flags to customise the parameters (#657)
* added a check to reject rpc requests with batch size > the one set using a newly added flag (rpcbatchlimit)
* added a check to reject rpc requests whose result size > the one set using a newly added flag (rpcreturndatalimit)
* updated the config files and docs
* chg : trieTimeout from 60 to 10 mins (#692)
* chg : trieTimeout from 60 to 10 mins
* chg : cache.timout to 10m from 1h in configs
* internal/cli/server : fix : added triesInMemory in config (#691)
* changed version from 0.3.0 to 0.3.4-beta (#693)
* fix nil state-sync issue, increase grpc limit (#695)
* Increase grpc message size limit in pprof
* consensus/bor/bor.go : stateSyncs init fixed [Fix#686]
* eth/filters: handle nil state-sync before notify
* eth/filters: update check
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniil <daniil.melnik@chainstack.com>
* core, tests/bor: add more tests for state-sync validation (#710)
* core: add get state sync function for tests
* tests/bor: add validation for state sync events post consensus
* Arpit/temp bor sync (#701)
* Increase grpc message size limit in pprof
* ReadBorReceipts improvements
* use internal function
* fix tests
* fetch geth upstread for ReadBorReceiptRLP
* Only query bor receipt when the query index is equal to # tx in block body
This change reduces the frequency of calling ReadBorReceipt and
ReadBorTransaction, which are CPU and db intensive.
* Revert "fetch geth upstread for ReadBorReceiptRLP"
This reverts commit 2e838a6b1313d26674f3a8df4b044e35dcbf35a0.
* Restore ReadBorReceiptRLP
* fix bor receipts
* remove unused
* fix lints
---------
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Manav Darji <manavdarji.india@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
* Revert "chg : trieTimeout from 60 to 10 mins (#692)" (#720)
This reverts commit 241843c7e7.
* Arpit/add execution pool 2 (#719)
* initial
* linters
* linters
* remove timeout
* update pool
* change pool size function
* check nil
* check nil
* fix tests
* Use execution pool from server in all handlers
* simplify things
* test fix
* add support for cli, config
* add to cli and config
* merge base branch
* debug statements
* fix bug
* atomic pointer timeout
* add apis
* update workerpool
* fix issues
* change params
* fix issues
* fix ipc issue
* remove execution pool from IPC
* revert
* fix tests
* mutex
* refactor flag and value names
* ordering fix
* refactor flag and value names
* update default ep size to 40
* fix bor start issues
* revert file changes
* debug statements
* fix bug
* update workerpool
* atomic pointer timeout
* add apis
* Merge branch 'add-execution-pool' of github.com:maticnetwork/bor into arpit/add-execution-pool
* fix issues
* change params
* fix issues
* fix ipc issue
* remove execution pool from IPC
* revert
* merge base branch
* Merge branch 'add-execution-pool' of github.com:maticnetwork/bor into arpit/add-execution-pool
* mutex
* fix tests
* Merge branch 'arpit/add-execution-pool' of github.com:maticnetwork/bor into arpit/add-execution-pool
* Change default size of execution pool to 40
* refactor flag and value names
* fix merge conflicts
* ordering fix
* refactor flag and value names
* update default ep size to 40
* fix bor start issues
* revert file changes
* fix linters
* fix go.mod
* change sec to ms
* change default value for ep timeout
* fix node api calls
* comment setter for ep timeout
---------
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Manav Darji <manavdarji.india@gmail.com>
* version change (#721)
* Event based pprof (#732)
* feature
* Save pprof to /tmp
---------
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
* Cherry-pick changes from develop (#738)
* Check if block is nil to prevent panic (#736)
* miner: use env for tracing instead of block object (#728)
---------
Co-authored-by: Dmitry <46797839+dkeysil@users.noreply.github.com>
* add max code init size check in txpool (#739)
* Revert "Event based pprof" and update version (#742)
* Revert "Event based pprof (#732)"
This reverts commit 22fa4033e8.
* params: update version to 0.3.4-beta3
* packaging/templates: update bor version
* params, packaging/templates: update bor version
---------
Co-authored-by: SHIVAM SHARMA <shivam691999@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Pratik Patil <pratikspatil024@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniil <daniil.melnik@chainstack.com>
Co-authored-by: Arpit Temani <temaniarpit27@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
Co-authored-by: Dmitry <46797839+dkeysil@users.noreply.github.com>
* core, miner: add sub-spans for tracing (#753)
* core, miner: add sub-spans for tracing
* fix linters
* core: add logs for debugging
* core: add more logs to print tdd while reorg
* fix linters
* core: minor fix
* core: remove debug logs
* core: use different span for write block and set head
* core: use internal context for sending traces (#755)
* core: add : impossible reorg block dump (#754)
* add : impossible reorg block dump
* chg : 3 seperate files for impossoble reorg dump
* add : use exportBlocks method and RLP blocks before writing
* chg : small changes
* bump : go version from 1.19 to 1.20.1 (#761)
* Revert "bump : go version from 1.19 to 1.20.1 (#761)"
This reverts commit 4561012af9.
* core/vm: use optimized bigint (#26021)
* Add holiman/big
* Fix linter
* Bump version to v0.3.5
* fix lints from develop (few lints decided to appear from code that was untouched, weird)
* upgrade crypto lib version (#770)
* bump dep : github.com/Masterminds/goutils to v1.1.1 (#769)
* mardizzone/pos-1313: bump crypto dependency (#772)
* dev: chg: bumd net dependency
* dev: chg: bump crypto dependency
* dev: chg: bump crypto dependency
* bump dep : golang.org/x/net to v0.8.0 (#771)
* Verify validator set against local contract on receiving an end-of-sprint block (#768)
* Verify validator set against local contract on receiving an end-of-sprint block
* Fix tests
* Respect error returned by ParseValidators
* Keep going back until a parent block presents
* core/txpool: implement DoS defenses from geth (#778)
* Hotfixes and deps bump (#776)
* dev: chg: bump deps
* internal/cli/server, rpc: lower down http readtimeout to 10s
* dev: chg: get p2p adapter
* dev: chg: lower down jsonrpc readtimeout to 10s
* cherry-pick txpool optimisation changes
* add check for empty lists in txpool (#704)
* add check
* linters
* core, miner: add empty instrumentation name for tracing
---------
Co-authored-by: Raneet Debnath <raneetdebnath10@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: SHIVAM SHARMA <shivam691999@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danilenko <6655321@bk.ru>
Co-authored-by: Manav Darji <manavdarji.india@gmail.com>
* packaging,params: bump to v0.3.6 (#782)
* v0.3.6 fix (#787)
* Fix get validator set in header verifier
* chg : commit tx logs from info to debug (#673)
* chg : commit tx logs from info to debug
* fix : minor changes
* chg : miner : commitTransactions-stats moved from info to debug
* lint : fix linters
* refactor logging
* miner : chg : UnauthorizedSignerError to debug
* lint : fix lint
* fix : log.Logger interface compatibility
---------
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
* Remove unnecessary sorting of valset from header in verification
* dev: chg: version bump
---------
Co-authored-by: SHIVAM SHARMA <shivam691999@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
Co-authored-by: marcello33 <marcelloardizzone@hotmail.it>
* core: improve locks in txpool (#807)
* added a write lock to the txs.filter method and a read lock to the txs.reheap method - both of which are called by Filter during reorg adjustments to txpool
* txpool reorg locks
* more locks
* locks
* linters
* params, packaging: update version for v0.3.8-beta release
* core: add logs in reheap
---------
Co-authored-by: Alex <dalexwatts@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
* Merge qa to master (#808)
* Added checks to RPC requests and introduced new flags to customise the parameters (#657)
* added a check to reject rpc requests with batch size > the one set using a newly added flag (rpcbatchlimit)
* added a check to reject rpc requests whose result size > the one set using a newly added flag (rpcreturndatalimit)
* updated the config files and docs
* chg : trieTimeout from 60 to 10 mins (#692)
* chg : trieTimeout from 60 to 10 mins
* chg : cache.timout to 10m from 1h in configs
* internal/cli/server : fix : added triesInMemory in config (#691)
* changed version from 0.3.0 to 0.3.4-beta (#693)
* fix nil state-sync issue, increase grpc limit (#695)
* Increase grpc message size limit in pprof
* consensus/bor/bor.go : stateSyncs init fixed [Fix#686]
* eth/filters: handle nil state-sync before notify
* eth/filters: update check
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniil <daniil.melnik@chainstack.com>
* core, tests/bor: add more tests for state-sync validation (#710)
* core: add get state sync function for tests
* tests/bor: add validation for state sync events post consensus
* Arpit/temp bor sync (#701)
* Increase grpc message size limit in pprof
* ReadBorReceipts improvements
* use internal function
* fix tests
* fetch geth upstread for ReadBorReceiptRLP
* Only query bor receipt when the query index is equal to # tx in block body
This change reduces the frequency of calling ReadBorReceipt and
ReadBorTransaction, which are CPU and db intensive.
* Revert "fetch geth upstread for ReadBorReceiptRLP"
This reverts commit 2e838a6b1313d26674f3a8df4b044e35dcbf35a0.
* Restore ReadBorReceiptRLP
* fix bor receipts
* remove unused
* fix lints
---------
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Manav Darji <manavdarji.india@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
* Revert "chg : trieTimeout from 60 to 10 mins (#692)" (#720)
This reverts commit 241843c7e7.
* Arpit/add execution pool 2 (#719)
* initial
* linters
* linters
* remove timeout
* update pool
* change pool size function
* check nil
* check nil
* fix tests
* Use execution pool from server in all handlers
* simplify things
* test fix
* add support for cli, config
* add to cli and config
* merge base branch
* debug statements
* fix bug
* atomic pointer timeout
* add apis
* update workerpool
* fix issues
* change params
* fix issues
* fix ipc issue
* remove execution pool from IPC
* revert
* fix tests
* mutex
* refactor flag and value names
* ordering fix
* refactor flag and value names
* update default ep size to 40
* fix bor start issues
* revert file changes
* debug statements
* fix bug
* update workerpool
* atomic pointer timeout
* add apis
* Merge branch 'add-execution-pool' of github.com:maticnetwork/bor into arpit/add-execution-pool
* fix issues
* change params
* fix issues
* fix ipc issue
* remove execution pool from IPC
* revert
* merge base branch
* Merge branch 'add-execution-pool' of github.com:maticnetwork/bor into arpit/add-execution-pool
* mutex
* fix tests
* Merge branch 'arpit/add-execution-pool' of github.com:maticnetwork/bor into arpit/add-execution-pool
* Change default size of execution pool to 40
* refactor flag and value names
* fix merge conflicts
* ordering fix
* refactor flag and value names
* update default ep size to 40
* fix bor start issues
* revert file changes
* fix linters
* fix go.mod
* change sec to ms
* change default value for ep timeout
* fix node api calls
* comment setter for ep timeout
---------
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Manav Darji <manavdarji.india@gmail.com>
* version change (#721)
* Event based pprof (#732)
* feature
* Save pprof to /tmp
---------
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
* Cherry-pick changes from develop (#738)
* Check if block is nil to prevent panic (#736)
* miner: use env for tracing instead of block object (#728)
---------
Co-authored-by: Dmitry <46797839+dkeysil@users.noreply.github.com>
* add max code init size check in txpool (#739)
* Revert "Event based pprof" and update version (#742)
* Revert "Event based pprof (#732)"
This reverts commit 22fa4033e8.
* params: update version to 0.3.4-beta3
* packaging/templates: update bor version
* internal/ethapi :: Fix : newRPCTransactionFromBlockIndex
* fix: remove assignment for bor receipt
---------
Co-authored-by: SHIVAM SHARMA <shivam691999@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Pratik Patil <pratikspatil024@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniil <daniil.melnik@chainstack.com>
Co-authored-by: Arpit Temani <temaniarpit27@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
Co-authored-by: Dmitry <46797839+dkeysil@users.noreply.github.com>
* Setting up bor to use hosted 18.04 runner as ubuntu provided 18.04 runner is end of life
---------
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Co-authored-by: Pratik Patil <pratikspatil024@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniil <daniil.melnik@chainstack.com>
Co-authored-by: Arpit Temani <temaniarpit27@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
Co-authored-by: Dmitry <46797839+dkeysil@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
Co-authored-by: marcello33 <marcelloardizzone@hotmail.it>
Co-authored-by: Raneet Debnath <raneetdebnath10@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Raneet Debnath <35629432+Raneet10@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Alex <dalexwatts@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Jones <djones@polygon.technology>
* core: remove duplicate tests
* miner: use get validators by hash in tests
---------
Co-authored-by: Daniel Jones <djones@polygon.technology>
Co-authored-by: Will Button <wbutton@polygon.technology>
Co-authored-by: Will Button <will@willbutton.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Jones <105369507+djpolygon@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Pratik Patil <pratikspatil024@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Arpit Temani <temaniarpit27@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jerry <jerrycgh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: SHIVAM SHARMA <shivam691999@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniil <daniil.melnik@chainstack.com>
Co-authored-by: Evgeny Danienko <6655321@bk.ru>
Co-authored-by: Dmitry <46797839+dkeysil@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
Co-authored-by: marcello33 <marcelloardizzone@hotmail.it>
Co-authored-by: Raneet Debnath <raneetdebnath10@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Raneet Debnath <35629432+Raneet10@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Alex <dalexwatts@gmail.com>
* minor comment update
* added support for rpc.evmtimeout flag
* added support for vmdebug (EnablePreimageRecording) flag
* added support for jsonrpc.auth.(jwtsecret, addr, port, vhosts) flags
* added support for miner.recommit flag
* added support for gpo.maxheaderhistory and gpo.maxblockhistory flag
* Revert "added support for miner.recommit flag"
This reverts commit fcb722e4bf5bdda23d4c91da40ab95c9023a80c3.
* added pprof related flags (expect --pprof.cpuprofile - Write CPU profile to the given file)
* added support for --dev.gaslimit flag
* added support for --fdlimit flag
* added support for --netrestrict flag
* added support for --nodekey and --nodekeyhex flag
* added support for --vmodule, --log.json, --log.backtrace, and --log.debug flags
* fixed related lint errors
* fix lints from develop (few lints decided to appear from code that was untouched, weird)
* more weird lints from develop
* small precautionary fix
* small bug ;) fix in NetRestrict
* weird lints
* change vmdebug = true to vmdebug = false
* changed log-level flag back to verbosity, and updated the conversion script
* supporting both verbosity and log-level, with a message to deprecat log-level
* converted verbosity to a int value
* checking if backend is available during status call, and added a flag to wait if backend is not available
* added test for status command (does not cover the whole code)
