This release is recommended, but it is not mandatory and includes no consensus based changes.
There are some minor bug fixes and handy user experience improvements.
What's Changed
If you are mining using RandomX,
- [RPC] Return RandomX seed and ProgPow epoch also if no miningaddress is set by @us77ipis in #1022
- Bugfix: race condition of two threads using same RandomX VM by @us77ipis in #1021
Syncing speed improvement by @barrystyle
- [Chain] Eliminate unnecessary overhead testing for stale block indexes. by @barrystyle in #1023
@ohcee made the warning when encrypting the wallet (setting a password) not so scary!
@us77ipis also corrected the hashrates returned by getnetworkhashps
@steel97 Fixed some dependencies issues (for the building process) in
- Removed ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin from build-factory.yml by @steel97 in #1027 and
- Local dependencies by @steel97 in #1037
@barrystyle also fixed some build (dependencies) issue with later Ubuntu versions
- [Build] Allow building on later model Ubuntu/Debian by @barrystyle in #1029
@ohcee also (thankfully) set the default for autominting from autominting, to not autominting. Some GUI reworking was also done here.
- Issue # 943 automintoff by default by @ohcee in #1028
and he also clarified the warning text for thedumpwalletanddumpprivkeythat these are NOT a substitute for a wallet backup for stealth addresses. - Issue#976 dumpwallet by @ohcee in #1031
@Necrosys fixed the previously non-working hyperlink to veil.tools in a new wallet info popup, and made it much more accessible.
- [GUI] Fix veil.tools hyperlink in wallet by @Necrosys in #1034
- [GUI] Add a link to the "Looks like you are new here!" screen by a "?" icon in the navigation bar by @Necrosys in #1035
These downloads were compiled with Github Actions, but we have also added the usual macOS DMG and Windows Setup EXE files a bit later. Windows and macOS users can in the meantime paste the executable files over the old executable files and check that the files are set to be executable. New users (on Linux, macOS, and Windows) can place these executable (binary) files (AFTER UNZIPPING THEM) in a folder wherever you prefer to run your program files from, such as in your Program Files folder on Windows, your /Applications or your ~/Applications folder on macOS, or ~/Apps or some other preferred place on Linux.
The later added macOS DMG, Windows setup exe, and a more universal (than Ubuntu) Linux executable can be found by the August creation date, but are also named in this paragraph. The macOS DMG one Veil-Core1.4.1.dmg can be installed the usual way, by dragging the Veil Core.app onto the Applications folder or alias of the folder. The Windows setup.exe one veil-1.4.1.0-win64-setup.exe can be installed the usual way, by running it, and it will put the veil-qt.exe program into the usual folder for programs, and will put a shortcut Veil Core (64-bit) for it into the Start Menu, and will also register the program in the computer's Windows Registry. The veil-1.4.1.0-LinuxQT download can be run from wherever you download it to, on your Ubuntu or other Linux computer. An example of how to make it executable in the Linux GUI is to right-click it in the file browser (e.g. Files) and on the Permissions tab tick the box "Allow executing file as program". Thereafter you can simply double click veil-1.4.1.0-LinuxQT to start your Veil Core wallet.
The most commonly downloaded versions are alphabetically toward the bottom of the list, starting with win64 for Windows, x86-64-linux for the typical PC running Ubuntu, and in the middle of the list, macosx for macOS. Our macOS release is for the Intel chipset, but we might get an Apple Silicon version depending on assistance from a community member with an M1 Mac. You will likely need to expand the list of downloadable files by clicking on "Show all 30 assets".
The ".sig" files are PGP signatures verifiying each file digitally signed by Sean Phillips with the public key with the fingerprint: DE1F CCEC 285E 0C01 3FDE 9295 325A EA88 4D6F 2E6C or 4D6F2E6C (short key ID).
Lastly, each downloaded ZIP file has been "sha summed" so you can verify a non-corrupted download, on macOS, for example, with shasum -a 256 FILENAME.ZIP and read the shasum.txt file to verify it calculates the same. In Windows Powershell you can check the sha256 sum by (for example) Get-FileHash -Path C:\Users\user\Downloads\veil-1.4.1.0-win64-setup.exe
New Contributors
- @ohcee made their first contribution in #1024
- @steel97 made their first contribution in #1027
- @Necrosys made their first contribution in #1034
Full Changelog: v1.4.0.0...v1.4.1.0
