Feathercoin 0.13.0.0 has been released. It is a mandatory update for anyone on a version prior to 0.9.6.2 as on block 2,120,000 it will start minting Version Bit blocks which will be rejected by old version of Feathercoin. Please make sure you have updated to 0.13 before block 2,120,000 which will be minted roughly in 17 days on the 8th March.
Download the Feathercoin 0.13 from the first page of this thread, the homepage of the official website or from the GitHub release page.
BitcoinTalkhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178286.3480feathercoin.comhttps://www.feathercoin.com/GitHubhttps://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/releases/tag/v0.13.0.0Major changes in 0.13.
- BIP9 Version Bits which starts on block 2120000
- Segregated Witness BIP9 Soft Fork
- Elimination of unwanted transaction malleability
- Capacity increase
- Weighting data based on how it affects node performance
- Signature covers value
- Linear scaling of sighash operations
- Increased security for multisig
- More efficient almost-full-node security
- Script versioning
- CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY BIP9 Soft Fork
- CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY Legacy Soft Fork
- Faster synchronization
- Compact Block support
- Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation
- Dynamic transaction fee
- RPC Access Control Changes
- `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.*` becomes `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.0/24`
- `-rpcallowip=*` becomes `-rpcallowip=::/0`
- REST interface with `-rest` flag
- Watch-only wallet support
- Block file pruning
- Memory usage optimization
- Reduce upload traffic
- Direct headers announcement
- Notifications through ZMQ