Good bit of news above.
But now that my wallet finally synced this morning. For those who care to know it synced at block height #115814
Do I need to do this full sync again once the update of 1.3.0 is available?
Nope, don't worry :-) . Once released, just close Sia completely, install the new version and open the client again. The blockchain will be there already synced
For those waiting for v1.3.0, I have a bit of an update.
The testing and fixing of problems has been ongoing with quite a few long standing bugs found. As of yesterday morning, Taek said that they had found and fixed all the bugs discovered by the group in the #contributor channel. With that he released an RC8 build for a final round of testing.
Nothing of significance has been discovered since then and I expect he will release the v1.3.0 pretty soon (just my opinion). It has been a lot longer coming but I think everyone will be surprised in the performance improvements and happy with the reduced number of problems.
Yes, I agree. RC8 looks very stable according to everybody. Even Teak mentioned on Reddit that 1.3 could be finally released this Friday... but let's take it with a pinch of salt. Better a 100% functional version released next week than an early version that has to be patched in the following days
EDIT --> Oh, they just released v1.3 at this precise moment :-)Okay.
Just downloaded and installing it on top of the one I had.
Now let's see if it takes anytime at all to sync up.
Hope just 10 minutes since I just installed from the links up above.
It is asking to unlock the wallet now after the install and once entered in the password has been sitting there for the past 20 minutes.
Do not have any coins in there and it says it will take a couple of minutes.
