With great excitement, we would like to hand over into the hands of EOS developers the fourth incarnation of [EOSFactory v2.0](https://github.com/tokenika/eosfactory). We worked very hard to make it as useful as possible and included a lot of new cool features.

Below please find an introduction of what's new, and a short tutorial on how to interact with a local, and also a public testnet. For those interested in just the tutorial, skip to 3:00. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IlH4I4MduE&feature=youtu.be

New features in [the v2.0 release](https://github.com/tokenika/eosfactory/releases/tag/v2.0):

- Full compatibility with production version of EOS ([v1.2.0](https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/releases/tag/v1.2.0) or higher).
- Seamless integration with public testnets (e.g. [Jungle Testnet](http://dev.remote_testnet.io/) or [Kylin Testnet](https://tools.cryptokylin.io)).
- The entire wallet management migrated to keosd, as for security reasons this feature is no longer supported by nodeos.
- A radically improved mechanism for mapping random account names to human-friendly aliases, including symbolic translation of *EOS* logger messages.
- A new mechanism for caching public testnet settings.
- Radically improved logger messaging, including highly customizable verbosity.
- ​[Developer API](https://github.com/tokenika/eosfactory/blob/master/pyteos/eosf.py) reduced to less than 20 basic commands and classes.

For more information please refer to [our documentation](http://eosfactory.io/build/html/), and if you have any questions, hit us up on the [EOSFactory Support Channel](https://t.me/EOSFactorySupport).

We made sure that the tutorials are comprehensive, and take you step-by-step through setting up and interacting with EOS blockchain, so everything should be relatively straightforward. In case of any bugs or problems, don’t hesitate to let us now - since we are not a large team, not everything is polished from the get-go, still, we’re on it constantly and hope to make it more and more useful as we go along.

We hope to hear from you - any form of feedback will help to make our product better, as we steer towards a full-blown smart contract IDE that EOSFactory is aiming to become. 

We are looking forward to seeing you guys at the London Hackathon in a few days, and if you like our work, please support us by voting `tokenika4eos`, or alternatively by supporting our developer-oriented proxy `tokenika4dev`.

Take care and best of luck!