Dd-16 V0.4.0 (09/06/16)

# Dd-16: V0.4.0 (09/06/16)



This development dispatch covers work completed since the Decred v0.4.0 release on August 15, 2016. Since then, developers have merged 49 pull requests into 8 repositories (see below for more detailed changes).

Here are direct links to the Windows installers for Paymetheus:

• Paymetheus v0.4.0 64-bit
• Paymetheus v0.4.0 32-bit

Installer: https://github.com/decred/decred-release/releases/tag/v0.4.0
Binaries: https://github.com/decred/decred-binaries/releases/tag/v0.4.0

This release contains improvements and bugfixes for all of the decred tools (dcrd, dcrwallet, gominer, and Paymetheus). Notable changes include Paymetheus starting dcrd automatically in the background. This is also the first release to include desktop versions of the Copay GUI for OSX and Linux. This is also the first release built with the version 1.7 of the go compiler. This produces smaller and faster binaries than previous versions of go.

Paymetheus

• Make seed copyable, Fixes #154 (PR#160)
• Add Launcher project to start dcrd and open PM when finished. (PR#163)
• Remove help link since it links nowhere. (PR#164)
• Bump for v0.4.0 (PR#166)
• Update assembly info for Launcher. (PR#167)
• Fix arches for release builds (PR#168)
• Add proper icons. (PR#169)
• Finding correct paths for both wallet and dcrd. (PR#170)

Credits: @moo1337, @jrick, @jcv

dcrwallet

• Add address argument to consolidate (PR#323)
• Add golang 1.7 and drop golang 1.5 support. (PR#324)
• RFP-10 Milestone 1 (PR#326)
• Wallet: limit the tx size with compressWallet/consolidate. (PR#327)
• Update project dependencies. (PR#329)
• Update dcrd dependency. (PR#330)
• Fixes #146: added RWMutex on addrPools map (PR#331)
• Bump for v0.4.0 (PR#332)

Credits: @chappjc, @dhill, @jrick, javed-khan, @jcv

dcrd

• dcrd: Do not send a wakeup if not sleeping (PR#314)
• Travis: Add go 1.7 and drop go 1.5 support. (PR#318)
• Add pipes for parent process IPC. (PR#311)
• Backport #333 (Use correct r.err in dcrdLog.Errorf msg) (PR#334)
• Bump for v0.4.0 (PR#335)
• add more checkpoints for upcoming release (#329) (PR#338)

Credits: @dhill, @jrick, @ay-p, @jcv

gominer

• Partial fix for proper invalid share accounting (PR#60)
• Add license for OpenCL bindings (PR#65)
• Make the autocalibration/device/intensity/worksize flags consistent (PR#68)
• Some cleanup to appease go clean/go vet (PR#69)
• Fix build on 32-bit platforms and properly error on too small worksizes (PR#70)
• Properly account for multiple OpenCL platforms (PR#71)
• Cleanup atomic usage. (PR#74)
• Remove erroneous waitgroup Done in Stop (PR#76)
• Bump for v0.4.0 (PR#77)

Credits: @jolan, @dhill, @jcv

dcrticketbuyer

• Fix typos (PR#36)
• Fix misses first buying opportunity (PR#40)
• make consistent with other dcr tools and repair web UI (PR#41)
• Update glide.yaml (PR#43)
• Add heightCheck to make sure that purchase is run once per height (PR#44)
• Document maxinmempool is the number of your, not all, tickets. (PR#45)
• Fix price mode issues (PR#46)
• Update MaxPerBlock check to match comment above (PR#47)
• Update couldBuy to reflect number of possible tickets left in window (PR#48)
• Load previously used toBuyDiffPeriod from purchased.csv (PR#49)
• Bump for v0.4.0 (PR#50)
• Revert config file name change and add back in httpuipath for compat (PR#51)

Credits: @jolan, javed-khan, @dhill, @ay-p, @jcv

dcrinstall

• Update for dcrticketbuyer changes (PR#56)
• Change defaults for v0.4.0 (PR#57)

Credits: @moo1337, @jcv

Copay

• Comment out ionspinner and ion infinite scroll due to CPU/mem usage (PR#27)
• Update package.json and github release api URL (PR#30)
• Update icon and allow window resizing (PR#32)

Credits: @ay-p

Public keys

The file cmd/dcrinstall/pubkey.go contains the decred public key which is used to check the signed manifest in the release. You can compare the contents of this file to what you get from a keyserver to confirm that dcrinstaller is using the proper key.

Important

The Decred installer will only work on Windows 7 and above.

 

We will have a look at this.

 

We have confirmed this bug and we are putting in a patch. We'll roll a patch release for this later today.

 

We apologize and have taken corrective action.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

We have updated the 0.4.0 dcrinstall binaries and updated the signature to cope with this. So simply redownload 0.4.0 dcrinstall and run it as normal.

Nothing else was affected; only dcrinstall!

Again, we apologize for the inconvenience.