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# Changes to Hedera API (HAPI) for v0.8.0 and v0.9.0

September 24, 2020

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Simi Hunjan

The Hedera API (HAPI) is always evolving based on user feedback, usability testing, and necessary changes in functionality directed and approved by the Hedera Governing Council. Sometimes these changes require the deprecation or addition of functionalities.

If you’re utilizing the Hedera API (HAPI) to build applications on the testnet or mainnet, you’ll need to review the deprecations and additions coming in v0.8.0 and v0.9.0 of the Hedera Services Codebase. If you’re building on Hedera using any of the official Hedera SDKs, no action is needed at this time.

****Testnet******v0.9.0 estimated release****:**November 19, 2020  
**Mainnet****v0.9.0 estimated release****:**December 3, 2020

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#### Deprecate threshold records (v0.8.0)

**Mainnet v0.8.0 estimated release**: October 1, 2020

When creating an account, you can optionally generate records for receiving or sending hbars that meet a certain threshold value. The option to generate these threshold records will be marked as deprecated in this release. The following protobufs will be affected:

- CryptoCreate.proto – sendRecordThreshold, receiveRecordThreshold

- CryptoGetInfo.proto – generateSendRecordThreshold, generateReceiveRecordThreshold

- CryptoUpdate.proto – sendRecordThresholdWrapper, receiveRecordThresholdWrapper

- ResponseCode.proto – INVALID_RECEIVE_RECORD_THRESHOLD, INVALID_SEND_RECORD_THRESHOLD

You can view the updated protobufs [here](https://github.com/hashgraph/hedera-protobuf/tree/hedera-protobuf-java-api-0.8.0-rc1)
 and related issue [here](https://github.com/hashgraph/hedera-services/issues/506)
. These fields will be marked deprecated for at least 6 months before they’re completely removed.

#### [ACTION REQUIRED] Deprecated fields removed from transaction proto (v0.9.0)

**Testnet****v0.9.0 estimated release**: November 19, 2020   
**Mainnet****v0.9.0 estimated release**: December 3, 2020

For the upcoming v0.9.0 release, the Transaction proto will have the following deprecated fields removed. They have been marked as deprecated:

![code window background](https://hedera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CodeSnippetBackground-scaled.jpg)

x

x

```
TransactionBody body = 1SignatureList sigs = 2
```

The ~~signedTransactionBytes~~ field will be added. If the appropriate updates are not made, transactions will fail with~~INVALID_TRANSACTION_BODY~~ or ~~INVALID~~~~_SIGNATURE~~response from the network. You can view the updated transaction proto [here](https://github.com/hashgraph/hedera-services/blob/00432-D-new-transaction-proto/hapi-proto/src/main/proto/Transaction.proto)
 and issue [here](https://github.com/hashgraph/hedera-services/issues/539)
.

#### New fields in transaction proto (v0.9.0)

**Testnet****v0.9.0 estimated release**: November 19, 2020   
**Mainnet****v0.9.0 estimated release**: December 3, 2020

Release v0.9.0 will be introducing a new field to transaction proto. The addition of the ~~signedTransactionBytes~~ field to the Transaction protobuf message is designed to ensure that the hash of the entire transaction (including signatures) as calculated by the client and the network is guaranteed to be identical. The new field stores the entire signed transaction including signatures as an array of bytes.

![code window background](https://hedera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CodeSnippetBackground-scaled.jpg)

x

x

```
signedTransactionBytes = 5
```

This change is a backwards compatible change, so clients that currently use the ~~bodyBytes~~ & ~~sigMap~~ to submit transactions can continue to do so, with the node parsing and hashing the transaction as it currently does.

A transaction can only contain ~~signedTransactionBytes~~ or contain ~~bodyBytes~~ & ~~sigMap~~. A transaction that contains any other combination of fields will be rejected with an ~~INVALID_TRANSACTION~~ response from the network.

You can view the updated transaction proto [here](https://github.com/hashgraph/hedera-services/blob/00432-D-new-transaction-proto/hapi-proto/src/main/proto/Transaction.proto)
.

![code window background](https://hedera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CodeSnippetBackground-scaled.jpg)

x

x

```
message Transaction {
bytes signedTransactionBytes = 5; // SignedTransaction serialized into bytes 
bytes bodyBytes = 4 [deprecated = true]; // TransactionBody serialized into bytes, which needs to be signed 
SignatureMap sigMap = 3 [deprecated = true]; // The signatures on the body with the new format, to authorize the transaction 
}
```

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