Thank you!

The 1.3.1 release will focus on these elements:

• Optional wallet auto-unlock on startup: This is a feature much demanded by hosts
• UI overhaul: The graphical elements are being redesigned, so the UX looks more clean and modern. Also, new explanatory elements are going to be added to assist new users to understand how to create an allowance for renting storage space, and more detail to the reports of how the funds are being expending during the contracts
• Renter overhaul: The whole backend code for renters is being redesigned. Without going into much technical detail (check the GitHub of Sia for details): a) the current version has problems of uploads being stalled, that's being fixed, b) currently the performance of Sia on a renter slows down when he approaches 5TB of uploaded data, so this is being optimized to allow up to 40TB (further increases are planned for the future); c) reduction in the RAM memory usage; d) a totally new filesystem that will allow nested folders to be uploaded; e) A feature called WAL (write ahead log) that will improve reliability of data upload and prevent data loss; f) many new parts of code that while they don't have an immediate use, will be the foundation of all the future features of Sia (like file sharing, recovery of files just with the seed, synchronizing files between two computers or file streaming)
• Connectivity fixes: There is an issue that is making 1.3.0 nodes loss sometimes the connectivity to other peers. This is being corrected
• Difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) fix: The recent hardfork for changing the DAA presented an unexpected bug, and a new hardfork will be introduced in this version of the software to correct it

And speaking about connectivity: if you are using the Sia client and your client is unable to sync to the latest block or you made a transfer but your client does not show it in the balance, try this workaround: https://www.siastats.info/nodes.html