Client update 0.4.4.7 released.
This update incorporates all changes from “novacoin-next” branch.
- Core: New proof-of-stake miner implementation. Performance issues resolved, almost 100x faster with massive inputs amount;
- Qt: Coinbase/coinstake transaction records appearance unification;
- Core: Remove BDB support;
- Core: Automatically remove old transactions index database if that’s necessary, no runaway exceptions anymore;
- Core: Transaction index is replaced with unspent coins database, ~20% drop of size;
- Core: Batch block connection during initial block download;
- Core: Don’t process PoS block coinbase in the ConnectBlock()/DisconnectBlock(), ~3-4mb smaller database size;
- Core: Refactoring of Proof-of-Stake checkings code;
- Core: Remove some redundant messages from debug.log output;
- Core: Make stake related DoS checkings harder;
- Core: Database code is updated, direct CCoins links approach is implemented to decrease count of worthless flush and copy events;
- Core: Initial block download optimization, transaction hashes are cached now to make blocks validation faster;
- Core: Multiple CChainDB instantiations were replaced with a single CBlockTreeDB instance;
- RPC: gettxout and gettxoutsetinfo RPC calls added;
- RPC: getblock and getblockbynumber RPC calls are now providing generator public key for proof-of-stake blocks.
32/64-bit Windows builds of 0.4.4.7 release were uploaded to sourceforge.
Installation packages:
[AMD64 | i686]
Sources tree:
https://github.com/novacoin-project/novacoin
Updated my linux packages for CentOS, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE, Ubuntu-13.x at http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ap_conrad%3Acoins&package=novacoin
Updated 64 bit build for Mac OS X is uploaded.
