New version available:v1030 (MSI v3.1) is available for download on
www.gridcoin.us. The MSI and the ZIP have been updated.
Please update your clients.
Note: This is not the much anticipated pool mining production version, but it contains the feature that will let you test pool mining.
It is also critical that we go through this exercise to upgrade each clients block chain to the new expanded gridcoin version, which stores the boinchash in the chain, the boinc credits over time, and the avg user trend.
It is important that these values start to propogate to all gridcoin users so we can move forward with a standard chain across all clients that will let us finish the development of the pool mining credit algorithm and let the block explorer see the boinc utilization, md5, and other security information in case anyone asks why the user received > 5 subsidy.
There are 2 major issues you have to overcome to successfully upgrade. One, please backup your wallet and your gridcoin.conf file (you can make a backup folder in your users\yourname\appdata\roaming\gridcoin folder if you want to dump your entire folder in there. Then delete the Blocks and the ChainState folder-- the Blocks and ChainState must be wiped out in order for the database to expand.
Download the new version to your machine, before running it:
The second issue is you must delete your c:\program files (x86)\gridcoin folder contents (as the MSI installer will not kill the old gridcoin-qt.exe file or the dll files by itself, working on a fix for that to see if the installer will listen to upgrade commands eventually), so please erase your program directory and then re-install the new MSI. Launch it, and verify the client syncs up to the current block.
To test that you are running the newest version, you can go into the gridcoin-qt Help | Debug | Console and type listminers.
You should receive a pool mining report (v1.3). The boinc information will show up under "boinchash". Going forward, the information will be stored in the chain and propogated to other users automatically.
Have a good one.
Grid