Upgrade went smoothly on a Windows Server 2008R2. Mining looks to be working but haven't found any blocks yet.
Thanks
Topic: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required - page 2. (Read 6548 times)
Nice work, thanks Sunny.
Works ok on win7 x64. Coin balance is correct, and solo mining works as expected.
Works ok on win7 x64. Coin balance is correct, and solo mining works as expected.
Please note after 0.2.0 upgrade you may still see the exception message about tx messages in debug log. This problem is expected to go away after the network protocol switch on September 10th.
I'll be making this update at my pool 2/9/2012 @ 1 AM CST (UTC -6).
Official release build is now available http://www.ppcoin.org/ (via sourceforge)
What's in 0.2.0 release:
The protocol upgrades are an important step forward for ppcoin. In my opinion v0.2.0 has now achieved most design goals of ppcoin project. Now we are reasonably confident that central checkpointing can be weakened gradually and eventually removed thus achieving similar decentralization level of Bitcoin. We plan to review our checkpointing policy on a monthly basis from now on.
Upgrade instructions:
Upgrade is required before Monday September 10th. Nodes that have not upgraded before this deadline will be disconnected from the main ppcoin network.
To upgrade:
1) Before upgrade, you must first backup your wallet:
ppcoind backupwallet
2) Shutdown ppcoin
ppcoind stop
3) Inside your wallet directory, remove all files and subdirectories except for leaving wallet.dat and ppcoin.conf in place.
4) Download 0.2.0 and unpack/install.
5) Start up ppcoind normally.
6) Use getinfo to confirm your ppcoind version is now 'v0.2.0ppc-beta'
7) You should see block chain is being downloaded again. Please note during redownload of block chain your balance will be shown initially as 0 and grow as block chain is being downloaded. This is expected. When block chain download completes your balance should return to the same value before the upgrade.
Cheers and happy mining!
What's in 0.2.0 release:
- Network protocol upgrade to fix the exception message in debug log (protocol switch Sep. 10)
- Main chain protocol and block generation protocol upgrade to improve security
- Allow multiple outputs in coinbase and coinstake special transactions
- Track mint (getblock) and moneysupply (getinfo) figures
- Public testnet is now up and running
The protocol upgrades are an important step forward for ppcoin. In my opinion v0.2.0 has now achieved most design goals of ppcoin project. Now we are reasonably confident that central checkpointing can be weakened gradually and eventually removed thus achieving similar decentralization level of Bitcoin. We plan to review our checkpointing policy on a monthly basis from now on.
Upgrade instructions:
Upgrade is required before Monday September 10th. Nodes that have not upgraded before this deadline will be disconnected from the main ppcoin network.
To upgrade:
1) Before upgrade, you must first backup your wallet:
ppcoind backupwallet
2) Shutdown ppcoin
ppcoind stop
3) Inside your wallet directory, remove all files and subdirectories except for leaving wallet.dat and ppcoin.conf in place.
4) Download 0.2.0 and unpack/install.
5) Start up ppcoind normally.
6) Use getinfo to confirm your ppcoind version is now 'v0.2.0ppc-beta'
7) You should see block chain is being downloaded again. Please note during redownload of block chain your balance will be shown initially as 0 and grow as block chain is being downloaded. This is expected. When block chain download completes your balance should return to the same value before the upgrade.
Cheers and happy mining!
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