Please help test: bitcoin version 0.4 release candidate 2 - page 2.

winnetou

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I am also not able to not download the Mac os version but thank you for developing Bitcoin, I will try it as soon as it works.

Edit: Okay one version @ sourceforge works. I will test it
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I found a Bug on the mac version.
Settings->Encrypt Wallet-> Cancel: Error: The supplied passphrase was too short.

No matter if I enter a valid keyphrase or not. Seems that it does not really cancel.

As in the versions before it takes a very long long time to start and close the client.

defxor

hero member

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0.4rc2 is working a lot better than 0.3.24 on my OSX Snow Leopard. It seems to write a lot less data continuously to disk (which made .24 almost impossible to use) and for some reason I'm getting a lot more (8+) connections now vs just 8 before (same router, UPnP support switched on in both versions). Both of these things might play a part in that blocks now seem to be downloaded much quicker than before as well.

Oh wallet encryption? Haven't tried that out yet Wink

johnj

full member

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Windows links are giving me

Using windows7x64, chrome

phungus

full member

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I'm doin' fine on cloud 9

Go Bitcoin Dev Team Go!

That is great news, woohoo!

Gavin Andresen

legendary

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Chief Scientist

Linux and Windows and Mac binaries are available at sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.4.0/test/

And HTTPS download from the Amazon Cloudfront content distribution network:
https://d24z2fz21y4fag.cloudfront.net/downloads/bitcoin/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.4rc2-win32-setup.exe
https://d24z2fz21y4fag.cloudfront.net/downloads/bitcoin/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.4rc2-win32.zip
https://d24z2fz21y4fag.cloudfront.net/downloads/bitcoin/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.4rc2-macosx.dmg
https://d24z2fz21y4fag.cloudfront.net/downloads/bitcoin/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.4rc2-linux.tar.gz

The d24z.... downloads are an experiment; I like that they're https, I don't like the obscure d24z... URL (that's actually github's CloudFront id; I asked, and they have no objections to linking directly to the https version of the downloads).

Executive summary release notes:

The main feature in this release is wallet private key encryption;
you can set a passphrase that must be entered before sending coins.
See below for more information; if you decide to encrypt your wallet,
WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSPHRASE AND PUT IT IN A SECURE LOCATION. If you
forget or lose your wallet passphrase, you lose your bitcoins.
Previous versions of bitcoin are unable to read encrypted wallets,
and will crash on startup if the wallet is encrypted.

Also note: bitcoin version 0.4 uses a newer version of Berkeley DB
(bdb version 4.8) than previous versions (bdb 4.7). If you upgrade
to version 0.4 and then revert back to an earlier version of bitcoin
the it may be unable to start because bdb 4.7 cannot read bdb 4.8
"log" files.

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