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Re: [ANN][XNC] XenCoin | Instant | Stable | Long term Support - New UPDATE!!!
by
thecarnie
on 19/03/2015, 05:00:45 UTC
Small delay:

In a nutshell, with the surprise issues of OpenSSL being able to cause consensus issues in a *coin daemon (search posts by Gregory Maxwell and other BTC devs regarding this), I am holding back the updated Xencoin release (v0.6.3.4) builds I have for a couple days so that I can re-build with the newest OpenSSL libs available. 

It seems kind of pointless to me to release then have to make an additional release in a week to handle the OpenSSL updates. 

My builds of the wallet/daemon/node are all static builds (based on research and recommendations of BTC developers within how they manage builds) so that 'linked libraries can't surprise us with consensus issues' like they did to almost every other *coin out here.  My opinion follows that of the BTC devs on the issue of using static binaries in order to avoid surprises brought on by OS updates and the likes.

Additional to that, I will also make a second point release available directly after the first.  The ONLY change between the two will be that 0.6.3.5 will resolve the issue of a monolithic blockchain database on the local machine the client runs on and convert it to a segmented chain split across several files (as the new clients do). 

I will also create a bootstrap.dat for the blockchain and make it available as well for quick syncing new clients and users.  Our blockchain is right around a gig right now - which as a torrent could be downloaded in a matter of minutes rather than hours via the daemon.  If someone has a nice torrent seeder available to host it, please let me know and we'll work out getting it hosted. 

Sorry for the delayed upload on 0.6.3.4 but I just don't feel the need to release, then re-release binaries within a week of eachother...