Monero Monday Missives

October 13th, 2014

Hello, and welcome to our fourteenth Monero Monday Missive!

Major Updates

The database effort is ongoing, and is currently playing a little bit of catch-up back-porting features and fixes we added to the current codebase. The GUI, too, is progressing at a slightly reduced pace. We hope to update the preview binaries in the next week or two. We are working hard on solving the static build issues to tag and release updated binaries. If you require any of the more recent features it is compile-only at this stage. We are happy to announce that per-kb fees is going to be deployed to testnet over the next couple of days. Barring any major complications, we expect positive testing results, and are hopeful that mainnet can move over to per-kb fees within the next two weeks. A few other things undergoing testing are: parallel support for MSVC 2013 as a build environment, minor tweaks and improvements to the new mnemonic system whereby English words now match on the first 3 letters and not the first 4, asynchronous DNS checkpointing, and support for long / blob hash checkpointing on both the file and DNS side.

Dev Diary

Build: initial work has started on reworking the CMake environment so that it is consistent and extensible. This will reduce build issues further down the line.

Core: per-kb fees are done, and are being deployed to testnet. If you are mining on testnet you don't have to update to that fork/branch, as we want to see more real-world results with both fixed-fee and per-kb miners.

Core: documentation continues, with Doxygen comments now added to the serialisation functions

Core: DNS checkpointing is now asynchronous, and doesn't prevent blocks from being received (in testing)

Core: file and DNS checkpoints now also support blob hash (longhash) checkpointing (in testing)

Wallet: mnemonic lists now support a variable trim length (instead of the previous fixed trim length). English is 3, the rest are 4, and the old English wordlist doesn't really conform to the trim length rule (in testing)

Until next week!