This is a bug fix release with hot fix of Qt transaction amount display bug. Users of Qt UI are required to upgrade. Users of daemon are not affected by the bug but still recomended to upgrade.
Upgrade deadline for users running v0.4.2 official release is still Monday April 25.
Upgrade instructions:
Back up wallet using the menu option or command line.
Note down your balance/stake in the wallet.
Shutdown peercoin client
Uninstall old client
Download and install v0.5.3 client
Start up v0.5.3 client
Confirm release name of the client as 0.5.3ppc-beta
8 ) Verify your balance/stake as correct.
one of the dat files that peerunity uses as well is not compatible with this version. I had to remove all files except the wallet before restarting it to get rid of the exception at start up.
peerunity shows a clock icon when a minted tx is still in limbo phase. This version shows a green checker in the grid.
Yeah that’s one of the downside using berkeley db, it has compatibility issues across different builds. Same thing occurs when switching between official build and local build. Fortunately the wallet.dat file only uses basic features and is free of compatibility issues.
One of the Microsoft guy in charge of their BaaS. They are looking at other blockchain to support. I could be an opportunity for peercoin here:
https:// twitter .com/HiroMarleyG/status/709568978167836672
(peercointalk doesn’t let me post external links, so please reconstruct URL manually by removing the spaces)
I’m kinda too distant from the community to handle this, but I support Peercoin project. If this could be useful to any of you guys I would be happy.
[quote=“hrobeers, post:16, topic:3813”]Oh yes, sorry I forgot that there are still people using windows ;D
The Qt4 installer for windows seems difficult to find.
I’m willing to port the code to Qt5, it’s quite easy. But the development team doesn’t seem very fast in reacting to pull requests.[/quote]
They don’t, for stability reasons. In addition, there are so many peercoin dependent forks that build from our base, we are very careful that way. Critical bugs are always fixed quickly though.
Our blockchain is where we focus our efforts on the most. Keeping that secure and sound.
A better (and more preferred) client for Windows “with installer” is this one:
[quote=“ppcman, post:17, topic:3813”][quote=“hrobeers, post:16, topic:3813”]Oh yes, sorry I forgot that there are still people using windows ;D
The Qt4 installer for windows seems difficult to find.
I’m willing to port the code to Qt5, it’s quite easy. But the development team doesn’t seem very fast in reacting to pull requests.[/quote]
They don’t, for stability reasons. In addition, there are so many peercoin dependent forks that build from our base, we are very careful that way. Critical bugs are always fixed quickly though.[/quote]
With reacting, I don’t mean merging. I mean communication in general.
I’m very keep to help the development. I fixed the unit tests, no stability implications at all. https://github.com/ppcoin/ppcoin/pull/110
But I didn’t receive a reaction form the core team yet.
Actually I just want to know if the fix is considered to be merged somewhere in the future. And to know if I should keep doing the effort to contribute changes for my peershares project to the upstream code.
It’s an extra effort that I’m happy to do. But if no contributions will be merged, I’ll just continue with my own stuff without all the extra efforts.
In the meantime, I’ve sent a couple private messages to let people know and find out. Please hold on a tad longer and I’m sure you’ll hear something Your effort is appreciated by many of us.
