I have updated the blog to also include the new android wallet that was released on the 1st October.
Development update:Prelude:The initial goal for 1.5.1 was only going to be sorting out bug fixes that came across with the 0.10/0.11 code base update.
A few weeks later it became a larger more in depth project due to the name change to Gulden and other concerns.
The below tasks were achieved for 1.5.1
1. Renaming to Gulden.
A lot more effort goes into a name change then what's on the surface especially on the building process of the wallet. QR codes with Gulden wallet will scan for old Guldencoin addresses and new
Gulden addresses so that all addresses are catered for going forward. The new android wallet update also includes both.
The install process also caters for moving the wallet.dat file into the new location so you don't have to do this manually. This was very important to implement for new users to Gulden and crypto.
2. UI update.
We felt it was important to put a unique touch on 1.5.1 to showcase the direction we moving. The UI changes and rebranding along with the removal of the overview screen and the addition of the backup tab felt like a good first move. The backup wallet button is not visible in normal wallets and as the saying goes "out of sight out of mind".
The progress bar is another added touch, instead of displaying a count down in time for the sync which would scare most users away a progress bar will now be visible during the sync process.
1.5.1 is the first changes we going to be making to the UI, we expect to have another release before the end of the year.
3. Bug fixes.
The 2 main fixes were:
The max fee(size) have been increased to cater for addresses where a lot of transactions (mainly mining) made up the balance of a particular wallet increasing the size of transactions being sent from that address.
KGW fix for linux 32bit builds.
4. Streamlining of the build process
MaNI has does a incredible job with our build server, a lot of the time for 1.5.1 was spent perfecting the process of delivering new wallet builds whenever we make changes and want to test or release. This is going to save us a lot of time in the future and we can start focusing on more functionality.
The above was a great team effort from the core developers to web design to testing.
1.5.1 is now available at our developer site:
https://developer.gulden.com/apps