Sunday, December 15, 2013

The new Litecoin release is here #Litecoin #v0.8.6.1

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The new release of Litecoin is here.  Below are some of the key changes...

Technical Changelog
  • v0.8.6.1
    • Bitcoin 0.8.6 Fixes
      • Fixed rare issue involving relay of invalid transactions.
      • Fixed rare MacOS X crash during GUI send.
      • Fixed the MacOS X leveldb corruption issue.
      • More informative debug.log messages about peers and messages.
      • Timestamps enabled by default in debug.log.
    • Litecoin Changes
      • Default mintxfee reduced by 20x to 0.001 LTC per kilobyte.
      • Dust thresholds reduced by 10x.
      • More fairness: High priority area reduced to 17KB per block.  High priority tx size limit reduced to 5KB.  See notes in commits to learn more.
      • Coin Control 0.8.5
      • SSE2 PoW validation 
      • Disable Wallet Mode
        • Optional advanced feature for relay-only or mining nodes where a wallet is not required.  Operating litecoind with disablewallet saves between 40-200MB of RAM.
      • Disconnect nodes older than protocol version 70002 (Litecoin 0.8.3.7)
        • Disallow connections from clients that are a dangerously old.  Along with the alerts this is to encourage those users to upgrade their client to better protect both themselves and the entire network.
      • Add verifychain and getbestblockhash
      • Fix MacOS X dock icon menu.

More at the Litecoin Blog:  http://blog.litecoin.org/2013/12/litecoin-086-release-notes.html

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