0.4.3 minor release planned for this weekend. Changes announce:
- GBT speedup up to 10 times, to make stratum pools more reliable under high tx/s rates;
- Stake generation statistics (available coins amount, current stake generation power) will be available through RPC;
- Coinstake inputs adding policy will be a little more aggressive for some cases.
0.4.3 will be compatible with 0.4.2 in terms of database format and protocol rules.
StratumServer is updated and works OK
https://github.com/CryptoManiac/stratum-mining
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201230.msg2234622#msg2234622
0.4.2 update is ready and published.
It includes a few changes in addition to new PoS ROI calculation algorithm, which was implemented in 0.4.1:
- Fix for lk_max_locks exhaustion problem, more info is available here. It will become active since 20 Aug 2013;
- 27 bits PoS target limit will become active since 20 Jul 2013.
Protocol update conditions:
- 0.4.1 and 0.4.2 will be compatible with 0.3.5/0.4.0 until 20 June 2013.
- 0.4.2 will be compatible with 0.4.1 until 20 July 2013.
An optimal way is update to 0.4.2 before 20 June 2013.
Important changes are listed below.
- Dynamic PoS interest. Now it’s a function of PoS difficulty, nRewardCoinYear = 1 / (posdiff ^ 1/6). It can have values from 100% to 1%;
- Checkpoints ignore option added, disabled by default;
- Bug fix for coinstake transactions display in QT client;
- Bug fix for AvailableCoins function, prevents immature coins usage;
- Mac OS X compatibility issues resolved, from now we publishing official Mac OS X 64 bit builds also;
- New genesis block for testnet.
Update should be performed before 20 June 2013.
Some spoilers about 0.4.1, which is coming soon.
- Broadcasted checkpointing ignore option added;
- Updated emission model implemented. *
*It will neutralize benefit of early adopters, and will make system even more stable against dump attempts.
More info will be available later.