We have an exciting release coming up with several new features. The 0.4.0 release will feature the decred-copay wallet and a revamped dcrticketbuyer. Several feature request were implemented and bugs got squashed along the way as well. We are still planning on releasing CUDA for gominer as well however, we had a setback. We are hoping to get this resolved by the release date or do a patch release for it. Stay tuned for this.
Great news ! I tried to run from GIT yesterday, seems fine, testnet really synchronizes faster, uses the new lldb, but : * it downloads the whole blockchain from the start (1 hour download is not that bad) * it seems using only one client for sync Is this going to be in release or any future plans about that ? Thanks devs, great job !
I did not answer the database question right. 0.4.0 will NOT contain the new database code. 0.5.0 WILL contain the new database code.
To elaborate more on my previous question/s : 1/ in case of the new database - any plans of converting local (already present) old DB or is the blockchain going to be downloaded in full from 0 ? 2/ when downloading blockchain - any future plans for a download from more than 1 peer ?
1) No. That way lies insanity and dragons. IBD is pretty quick with new DB so really there is no point in wasting man-weeks hacking that up. 2) Yes but it has not come to fruition yet. This is an unusually hard problem actually.
Must be resynd. This is potentially a problem as nodes may unexpectedly go down if the operator is not aware of this point. It takes hours, even with the speed improvements. Here are some suggestions for avoiding prolonged down time: https://spool.cc/2016/09/migrating-to-new-db/