The team is actively working on final touches and testing.
Please have a look at the status update that was posted on Discord earlier.
As our dear community, who has stuck with us through this delay, we believe you need to know what is happening behind the scenes with the upgrade. Before I get into the details, let us give you a quick background on why we were doing the upgrade apart from the obvious lag issue.
A bit of technical background: Many of the mainstream cryptos that we know today, introduced protocol changes through what is often called a fork. Prime examples are Ethereum’s Byzantium, and Monero’s RCT (not mentioning BTC’s as that is a contentious change and Dash’s “sporks” are way different). In both the above cases, these were performed to improve the existing protocol.
What Lux wanted to do was enforce a protocol change, while upgrading functionalities like LuxSend, enforcing MN payments, introduce Instant transactions through the deployment of an advanced protocol and wallet that helps to ensure SegWit activation at a certain height. On top of this, the upgrade will fix any current lag issues, without performing a fork.
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Good News: All of the above planned features run fine on our compiled versions during tests.
Not so good news: Only issue now is with stratum compatibility which returns errors when this new wallet daemon is used for mining. This is a key test that ensures miners are able to find the right blocks and is critical to PoW. This is an absolute and significant requirement for a successful release. We are currently making some changes to the protocol as we test further to find the root cause and make required changes.
We are also contemplating a possible soft release with minimal changes to ensure community has a lag free wallet as an interim solution. Although, as we prepare for SegWit, this isn’t exactly a preferred solution. We are almost working round the clock at the moment (my time zone is EU-CET and its 3:30 AM now on a Saturday) to get a secure solution out there. Once again, we thank you for being as supportive as you have been despite the obvious wallet lag issues.
Temporary workaround: transfer your coins to a new wallet instance to reduce the number of txes/coin inputs. It will reset your stake weight but will remove lag.
Thanks for your patience!