(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to release-notes at release time)
PIVX Core version version is now available from: https://github.com/pivx-project/pivx/releases
This is a new major version release, including various bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: https://github.com/pivx-project/pivx/issues
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/PIVX-Qt (on Mac) or pivxd/pivx-qt (on Linux).
(Developers: add your notes here as part of your pull requests whenever possible)
The autocombinerewards
RPC command was soft-deprecated in v5.3.0 and replaced with explicit setter/getter commands setautocombinethreshold
/getautocombinethreshold
. PIVX Core, by default, will no longer accept the autocombinerewards
command, returning a deprecation error, unless the pivxd
/pivx-qt
is started with the -deprecatedrpc=autocombinerewards
option.
This command will be fully removed in v6.0.0.
The setlabel
RPC command now supports a shield address input argument to allow users to set labels for shield addresses. Additionally, the getaddressesbylabel
RPC command will also now return shield addresses with a matching label.
The getnewshieldaddress
RPC command now takes an optional argument label (string)
to denote the desired label for the generated address.
-
Peers manually added through the addnode option or addnode RPC now have their own limit of sixteen connections which does not compete with other inbound or outbound connection usage and is not subject to the maxconnections limitation.
-
New connections to manually added peers are much faster.
Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and git merge commit are mentioned.
Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
As well as everyone that helped translating on Transifex, the QA team during Testing and the Node hosts supporting our Testnet.