-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA512Release 1.7.4sha256:baf0286983fee3f718ea755dd76f5e9bb3d6a2962560368d513ffc9517d10c9b nxt-client-1.7.4.zipsha256:13a4437bce4941b06f9ce3b0bf8f2371f2240db264712371094e22fc5152b34b nxt-client-1.7.4.jarThe exe, dmg, and jar packages must have a digital signature by "Stichting NXT".Change log:This is the first stable release in the 1.7 series. It is a mandatory updatefor everyone. There is a hard fork scheduled for block 621000, estimated tooccur around Jan 21, 2016, at which new features will be enabled. Nodes thatdo not update to 1.7.4 or later by this date will be left on a fork.On testnet, the hard fork block is already passed, and all new features arefully functional.There were incompatible API changes introduced in the 1.6 series. API usersstill on 1.5.15 and earlier should make sure to read the 1.6 series changelogsand forum announcements, before upgrading to 1.7. These changes do not affectregular end users who just run the NRS client on their desktop or VPS node.The new features and improvements in the 1.7 series have been documented inthe 1.7.0e through 1.7.3e changelogs, available in the changelogs directory.Here is a high level summary of the new features to be enabled after thehard fork:Coin Shuffling, a fully decentralized coin mixing, to improve account privacy.Account Control for phased transactions, the Nxt equivalent of multisignature.Immediate release of certain types of phased transactions on approval.Improved block times, 60 s average, long block times now extremely unlikely.Account Properties, assigning arbitrary name/value metadata to user accounts.Singleton Assets, useful for representing single tradeable objects.Dynamic fees, proportional to the relative transaction size.Improved Exchange Booth UI.Data Cloud, adding a UI and multiple enhancements to the existing Tagged Datafeature, to allow decentralized, censorship-free and tamper-proof publicationand retrieval of small files, documents, or arbitrary data. This feature isnot dependent on the hard fork and will be fully usable immediately on updateto this release.Changes added since the 1.7.3e release:Added detectMimeType utility API, allowing auto-detection of the mime type ofuploaded file or data, using the Apache Tika library.The uploadTaggedData API now uses such mime type auto-detection to determinethe mime type of uploaded data when the user has not explicitly provided atype parameter. It also automatically sets the isText property to true fordata of type text/plain only.Made the maximum permitted number of forgers or shufflers running at the sametime configurable, default 100 each, using the nxt.maxNumberOfForgers andnxt.maxNumberOfShufflers properties.The default value of includeCounts parameter in the searchDGSGoods API is nowalso false, this API was inadvertently missed when globally changing thedefaults to false in the 1.6 branch.Various UI improvements.Updated Bouncy Castle library to version 1.54.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----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t7Nb-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----