Today we have a new leisure update for you. This version includes a lot of "under the hood" changes, but there are some improvements for the average user as well.

Notably this release includes a better time to stake calculation method, thanks to @jamescowens. Also the Neural Network runs much smoother thanks to many optimizations by @ifoggz.

Download the update from GitHub here.

Update The Windows MSI can be downloaded here. Checksum

Full Release Notes:

Added

• Support for Qt 5.9 (@thecharlatan)
• Compatibility with boost-1.67 (@ravon)
• Calculations to reduce network time offset (@jamescowens)
• Feedback for addnode RPC command (@tomasbrod)
• Added data acquisiton commands (@tomasbrod):
  • getrecentblocks
  • exportstats1
  • getsupervotes
• /var/lib/boinc/ as a valid boinc path on Linux (@rsparlin)
• Stress testing script (@ifoggz)
• refhash command also on linux (@jamescowens)
• Documentation for out of source build (@thecharlatan)

Changed

• More accurate time to stake and network weight estimations (@jamescowens)
• Compressed image files (@Peppernrino)
• Poll (voting) code refactoring (@thecharlatan)
• BITCOIN optimize command listunspent (@ifoggz)
• RPC server refactoring (Wladimir J. van der Laan) (@thecharlatan)
• Replace json spirit with Univalue JSON library (@thecharlatan)
• Change repository URL (@ifoggz)
• Pretty-print rpc output (@ravon)
• Logging for debugging reward computation (@tomasbrod)
• Clean-up beacon manipulation (@ifoggz)

Fixed

• Building errors on Mac releated to SVG framework (@thecharlatan)
• neural data response
• neural network fixes (@ifoggz)
• investor cpid's appearing as zeros in block index (@tomasbrod)
• ensure that daemon functionality is correct when built together with gui wallet (@jamescowens)
• improve logging, remove empty lines (@jamescowens) (@ifoggz) (@tomasbrod) (@ravon)
• windows socket warnings (@thecharlatan)

Removed

• unused components of neural network (@ifoggz)
• GRCRestarter (@ifoggz)
• Galaza (game) (@ifoggz)
• unused images (@barton26)
• unused code (@ifoggz) (@Pythonix)
• unusual activity report (@tomasbrod)
• burnamount and recipient from appcache (@tomasbrod)
• GUI FAQ (@Lenni)
• unusable limit from magnitude command (@ifoggz)
• cgminer support (@ifoggz)
• deprecated menu items (@jamescowens)

Thank you to all the developers who contributed to this release. Update: The windows MSI is now available.