There are currently 32bit and 64bit windows builds for v1.7 @ https://github.com/strcoin/starcoin/releases/tag/v1.7.0.0-str

I have been busy with work so I haven't been able to finish v1.7.1 as soon as I hoped. I just have to test it out to make sure everything is working properly. I am hoping to release v1.7.1 by the end of the day today. Also I have decided to roll the block tree optimization into 1.7.2 which will decrease the sync time and wallet opening time dramatically.

Also in regards to using addnode, it should not be needed anymore since IRC is now working. I will remove the IRC support in a later version and replace it with a few dns seeds.

Edit: There is a temporary block crawler @ http://block.directory until we get an ABE block explorer up