0.4 RELEASE Bitcoin version 0.4 release candidate 2 looks stable; I've been running a slightly-modified version of it on the Faucet website with no issues for a couple of days now, and am not aware of any show-stopper issues.
I built and uploaded OSX binaries to github: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/downloads Windows and Linux binaries will appear as soon as our "gitian-capable" builders get a minute to create them (Jeff and Matt have been busy with real life or their day jobs). I'd like to switch from distributing binaries on SourceForge to distributing them on GitHub, since GitHub supports https downloads. NEXT RELEASE If you have patches waiting to be pulled, now would be a good time to rebase them; I expect minimal-to-no changes between release candidate 2 and the final 0.4 release. And, if you haven't already, write up a little test plan and/or add some unit tests. The big planned feature for next release is switching from wxWidgets to qt for the GUI client. ON THE RADAR I'm going to start separate discussions about a few need-deep-thinking issues: 1) There is a bug/design flaw in bitcoin's difficulty adjustment algorithm. More generally, there have been nagging issues surrounding how bitcoin handles time that I think need to be addressed. 2) I'm going to submit pull requests for an implementation of the "don't talk to misbehaving peers" idea. That should proactively prevent a whole swath of potential denial-of-service attacks, but if I got it wrong it could be very bad for the network. 3) I'd really like to come to consensus on one or more 'multi-signature' standard transactions to enable much better wallet backup and security. Lets talk about those three issues in separate threads. -- -- Gavin Andresen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
