- NVC/USD pair planned on btc-e.
- New hotfix release with changed bnProofOfStakeLimit and minor fixes will be published today.
- Next major release will be based on bitcoin 0.8 codebase, we stopped work with 0.7 codebase due to serious issue in upstream. It’s planned at the end of April.
0.3.4 hotfix build is ready. It adds new hardened checkpoint at block #13560.
If you don’t have problem, which is described below, you can ignore this. But anyway, it’s recommended to apply this update, especially if you running mining pool or another service. It will prevent downtime possibility.
If you see “Invalid checkpoint found” message and your client switches to safe mode, you need to install this update and re-download the blockchain. By the way, with win32 client you don’t need sync og the whole blockchain, you can use files from the blockchain snapshot.
Win32 build:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/
Sources tree:
https://github.com/CryptoManiac/novacoin
P2Pool is updated to support v3 blocks:
Sources tree:
https://github.com/CryptoManiac/p2pool
Win32 py2exe:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/p2pool_win32_14f.zip/download
Only ~ 200 blocks left to v3 lock-in.
This release fixes entropy bit calculation problem, which was discovered yesterday.
Sources: https://github.com/CryptoManiac/novacoin/
Binary builds: https://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/
You need to update your nodes as soon as possible, otherwise you risk to be affected by blockchain fork which will happen soon (deadline is approximately ~30.03.2013) for unfixed clients.
P.S. Thanks to SunnyKing for help with investigating this issue. Smiley
P2pool was updated. It’s neccessary to apply this update after majority of hashing power upgraded. It fixes coinbase size calculation inaccuracy, which caused generation of invalid blocks in some cases.
Sources:
https://github.com/CryptoManiac/p2pool
Win32 py2exe:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/p2pool_win32_py2exe_12_f.zip/download
Warning for p2pool users, the block-losing issue was found. You need to update your p2pool nodes as soon as possible.
Sources tree:
https://github.com/CryptoManiac/p2pool
Windows build:
Testing p2pool in mainnet now. Continue reading
Changes list:
- Checkpoint at block #8700;
- New RPC calls (validatepubkey, getpowreward);
- getnewpubkey now creates compressed 33-byte public keys;
- Non-wallet transactions support for gettransactions RPC call;
- Output of getblock/getblockbynumber is improved, now it returns full information about included transactions.
1) Actual gettransaction implementation merged from bitcoin, you will be able to get information about any transaction, not only yours.
2) The getblock/getblockbynumber functions output improved, now it can provide the full information about transactions, which was included into block.
3) Checkpoint at block #8700 was added.
