AnnouncementThe RaiBlocks Team are pleased to announce the release of RaiBlocks Wallet 8.0 for Windows 64bit, Mac OS X and Linux. This is a major upgrade with significant improvements in the speed and reliability of wallet syncing. Other changes include the addition of new RPC as well as upgrading of the included submodules. It is recommended that RaiBlocks users upgrade their desktop/pc wallets to this latest version. The team recognise that the GUI has not been upgraded - it was felt that backend reliability was more important to improve.
At this point 32bit systems are not supported due to the block lattice file system exceeding 32bit OS limitations - it is advised to either upgrade your OS or use an online wallet.
To download please go to
https://github.com/clemahieu/raiblocks/releases/tag/V8.0While the wallet has been tested extensively for further feedback please go to #new_wallet on the RaiBlocks slack channel.
Some Changes:
- Reorganized the bootstrap code to be more readable and also fixed a number of edge cases where it would start from the beginning
- Votes coming off the network no longer cause an IO write every time greatly reducing running IO
- Blocks are processed in a single queue greatly reducing bootstrap disk IO
- Fixed issue where network requests would wait for IO to complete lowering throughput
- Fixed issue where log rotation size couldn't be changed
- Fixed an issue where the database resizing could cause a crash
- Tracking and displaying peer version number in GUI and RPCs
- Fixed a number of issues found with clang sanitizers
If you have already downloaded the OS X or Windows 64bit wallets then please downloaded them again, there was a missing commit in the binaries which has now been pushed. You'll find the wallet boots much faster...