RECOMMENDED UPDATE - v2.0.2This is a security and maintenance patch for the 2.0 branch of MintCoin. As work towards the 2.1 overhaul is being extended, we are continuing to make adjustments and forward compatibility patches to our current release branch (2.0). Included in this release are a number of updates related to security. Though mostly edge cases, we feel it is important to include such patches for completeness.
SUPPORT FOR 3RD PARTY TRANSACTION URLSIncluded in this release is optional support for 3rd party transaction URLs (Block explorer links). The setting is accessed from within the GUI's options window in the "Display" tab. Users can enter URLs to as many Block Explorers Transaction pages as they like and each entry (after restarting the client) will then be a clickable item in the transaction history's context menu.
This eliminates the need to manually copy/paste a TXID into a block explorer's search field. Some example URLs to include in this field are:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/mint/tx.dws?%s.htm
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/BlockExplorer?id=240&txId=%s
SECURITY / DEPENDENCIES UPDATES- [f21ebad] Guard against OpenSSL's new strict DER checking
- [1696dc1] Miniupnpc 1.9 API compatibility
- [a5d130c] Fix invalid signature with crafted length (PPC)
CLI / GUI UPDATES- [470bfb4] Optional support for 3rd party transaction URLs
- [2215305] Display the Berkeley DB version used in debug.log and RPC Console UI
- [e8e2d96] Clean up GUI Tooltips and status message handling
MISC UPDATESHOW TO UPDATESince this release still runs on the single-file database format, updating is a simple process of replacing your binary executable from one of the downloads from the
downloads page. Please make sure that no MintCoin processes are currently running before replacing this file! Once the file has been replaced, start up your wallet/daemon as usual.
WINDOWS INSTALLER RETURNSWindows clients now again have the option of using a self-contained installer (available below) to install MintCoin on their systems. The installer places the binaries in your Program Files folder and adds a handy Start Menu Icon for easy launching.
NOTE FOR SELF-COMPILERSThis release is NOT contained in the master branch of the MINT repository, it is in the 2.0 branch exclusively! The 2.0 branch contains backports from our development repos that were custom tailored specifically for the 2.0 branch of MINT. Rather than deal with a chain of rebases, we decided to branch off the 2.0 tree from master. The process for compiling this release yourself contains the additional step of making sure you have the correct branch (or tag) checked out.
git clone https://github.com/MintcoinCommunity/Mintcoin-Desktop-Wallet.git
Then either
or
All startup and RPC commands from previous versions, as well as conf file format remain the same.
All Images, Logos, and GUI elements remain consistent with previous 2.0 branch releases.