Feathercoin 0.8.5 Released

Today has been a big day. Are there any specifics with updating the client? I’ve never had to update before.

I’m betting I should at the very least backup my .dat to begin with?

sheepson

Good job all!

[quote name=“Calem” post=“45804” timestamp=“1387367300”]
Today has been a big day. Are there any specifics with updating the client? I’ve never had to update before.

I’m betting I should at the very least backup my .dat to begin with?
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Here is ‘how to upgrade your client’
[url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,2702.html]http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,2702.html[/url]

ChekaZ

Great, tweeted it out! :)

I just saved my wallet.dat and upgraded the client, all went fine though! :)

Regards,
ChekaZ

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Good job all!
Here is ‘how to upgrade your client’
[url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,2702.html]http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,2702.html[/url]
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Danke Sheepson +1 rep

lizhi

Great Job , I need good news . ;) Really

chrisj

Brilliant! +rep.

lizhi

Who can provided 0.8.5 feathercoind.exe ? I compile it 68484KB. :)
About Information No update.

Health Is Wealth

Question: i’m updating to the Feathercoin-QT v0.8.5 , but at the first post on this thread it says to “Delete the old Feathercoin directory” first (for Mac version). I didn’t do that since I didn’t/don’t know what the “Feathercoin directory” is. I’ve downloaded the new version and it is currently in the process of “reindexing blocks on disc.” Need I be concerned that I didn’t “delete the old feathercoin directory” before I downloaded the new version? (yes i had a previous version.)

Please advise.

Bushstar

Delete the Feathercoin directory means delete the old folder that Feathercoin came in. You may have deleted the folder already and moved the Feathercoin-Qt app elsewhere like the application folder. Please delete the old Feathercoin-Qt so that you do not run it by mistake.

Health Is Wealth

Thanks Bushstar.
I’ve deleted both the previous version of Feather-QT and the previous .zip for the previous version of Feather-QT, after I downloaded the new version (I did open the old one and got an error message, and then trashed the old version). — Is that all I needed to delete?

Bushstar

That’s it. You can technically have the old version on the computer as well as the new one but best to remove the old one.

Kevlar

Great work guys. Very well executed.

Looks like it’s time to start on 0.8.6?

According to the change log, there’s a number of important fixes in there:
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Default block size increase for miners.
(see https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7670433#086-accept-into-block)
Remove the all-outputs-must-be-greater-than-CENT-to-qualify-as-free rule for relaying
(see https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7670433#086-relaying)
Lower maximum size for free transaction creation
(see https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7670433#086-wallet)
OSX block chain database corruption fixes
Update leveldb to 1.13
Use fcntl with `F_FULLSYNC` instead of fsync on OSX
Use native Darwin memory barriers
Replace use of mmap in leveldb for improved reliability (only on OSX)
Fix nodes forwarding transactions with empty vins and getting banned
Network code performance and robustness improvements
Additional debug.log logging for diagnosis of network problems, log timestamps by default
Fix Bitcoin-Qt startup crash when clicking dock icon on OSX
Fix memory leaks in CKey::SetCompactSignature() and Key::SignCompact()
Fix rare GUI crash on send
Various small GUI, documentation and build fixes
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It should be pretty straightforward given all the work you’ve done for this build.

kris_davison

Just updated and yes that was a very pretty splash screen - shame its not just the background or something.

great job guys.

zerodrama

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Just updated and yes that was a very pretty splash screen - shame its not just the background or something.

great job guys.
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When I hover on the check mark (when all blocks are downloaded), I no longer get the difficulty reported.

wrapper

Hi Kevlar, I thought the difficulty only shows when syncing?. I have to go to Debug console to get that consistently.

I agree, I looked at the GUI in Qt. There could easily be a switch, that runs other information or a a markay of Statistics.

Personally, I think we should do the Help, Urgently, you will never known the pain you’re going to feel (in support), if we don’t.

It looks like we will have to patch ourselves from now on, so we use Github to include and test the patches. I would like to learn about the patches, even if we ACK them in to 0.9

SkullandHeadphones

:)

SkullandHeadphones

Hi!

On the the VO.8.50 version my old transaction come up. is this ok, or do I not downloaded ok?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend my friends!

Ruthie

Hey S&H, did you mean your transactions did not come up?

Is the balance okay?

Thanks :)

SkullandHeadphones

yes they did come up.
With regards to my balance I didn’t trust myself to keep it there, so I transferred it to the btc-e wallet before I trashed the old one Feathercoin Qt.

Ruthie

All is good S&H :D