Monero 0.15.0.0 "Carbon Chamaeleon" released

Posted by: ErCiccione

Overview

This is the v0.15.0 release of the Monero software. This major release, announced in an earlier post, is due to the November 30th network upgrade. Users, merchants and exchanges should update to the latest Monero software before that date. The binaries for the GUI wallet are forthcoming, we will make another announcement as soon as they are released.

Some of the major changes introduced with this release are:

New PoW (RandomX) based on random instructions, adapted to CPUs

based on random instructions, adapted to CPUs Android builds

Automatic public nodes discovery and bootstrap daemon switching

and bootstrap daemon switching Improved network protections for connections between wallets and nodes

for connections between wallets and nodes Pay for service system (either for nodes to offer paid RPC, or third parties to offer services paid for via monero mining)

(either for nodes to offer paid RPC, or third parties to offer services paid for via monero mining) Optional Tor/I2P transaction relay for privacy (block relay being done on clearnet)

transaction relay for privacy (block relay being done on clearnet) New gen_ssl_cert tool to generate SSL certificates suitable for Monero usage

to generate SSL certificates suitable for Monero usage IPv6 support

support Removed Long Payment IDs (see the deprecation announcement)

The complete list of features and changes is on GitHub: github.com/monero-project/monero/releases/tag/v0.15.0.0.

You can also compile it from source by yourself. See the instructions on GitHub

Important note: This release contains a bug which makes problematic (very slow) to sync the blockchain from scratch. A fix was already introduced and will be available with a subsequent point release, which will be out very soon.

Download Hashes

If you would like to verify that you have downloaded the correct file, please use the following SHA256 hashes:

monero-win-x64-v0.15.0.0.zip, 6b72b3836d179eb517154bbcb8e2119b168ae9d1054866a438aaeab9521f795f monero-win-x86-v0.15.0.0.zip, b4856d0d3389497bf103d5a4dc4e73c6a39e5be20736b3e0286e76f100c508b6 monero-mac-x64-v0.15.0.0.tar.bz2, bca6b776e7e906fcda4c829aa8666eb9d92014450b87a6723a7c6eda6d6e7de1 monero-linux-x64-v0.15.0.0.tar.bz2, 53d9da55137f83b1e7571aef090b0784d9f04a980115b5c391455374729393f3 monero-linux-x86-v0.15.0.0.tar.bz2, 2197d04f4ffad4e1344b2648273f0be152de637bafc5d940cdf215cbc50e1f79 monero-linux-armv7-v0.15.0.0.tar.bz2, 326f783ffde78694b2820c95aa310ead00bb5876937ed4edf9c1abd6b6aadc02 monero-linux-armv8-v0.15.0.0.tar.bz2, f92f0acbc49076ad57337b5928981cd72c01aabe6a8eb69a1782f7fa1388fb77 monero-android-armv7-v0.15.0.0.tar.bz2, 90f7717c47031f27512e95c111e74313544049c44c765b59420ac1c13721cd09 monero-android-armv8-v0.15.0.0.tar.bz2, 01c18528f93f1c347188a0645ab4150016c6471aa391b2499b618f9e3d2fad2d

A GPG-signed list of the hashes is at https://getmonero.org/downloads/hashes.txt and should be treated as canonical, with the signature checked against the appropriate GPG key in the source code (in /utils/gpg_keys)

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