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There's a new release of the Freicoin client for Linux and Windows, version 0.8.6-2, hosted on the official website:

http://freico.in/download/

Note that there was a problem in trying to update the Ubuntu PPA, which I am working to resolve. The recommended solution is to use the gitian-built, statically linked binaries on the website.

The new release contains TWO soft-forks. One is a security update to the consensus rules documented in BIP 66 (strict DER signatures). The other is freicoin-specific: truncation of input amounts. This greatly simplifies the code diff between Bitcoin and Freicoin, making the client easier to maintain and hopefully allow us to bring back regular supported releases in a cadence matching Bitcoin Core: Freicoin releases shortly after Bitcoin's.

The next release of Freicoin will be based on Bitcoin 0.13.x, and is currently being worked on. Because of the changes in the accounting rules, a 0.13 release will be conditional on successful activation of the input truncation soft-fork. So miners & mining pools, please upgrade!

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Can confirm that it builds from source ok on Debian Jessie. Backup stratum now runs new daemon and blocking...

freicoind --help
Freicoin version v0.8.6-2-beta

one or two warnings when building.

util.cpp: In function ‘mpq RoundAbsolute(const mpq&, int, int)’:
util.cpp:606:5: warning: ‘ret_next’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
     if (ret_next) {


Block http://explorer.sicanet.net/block/00000000000009537acf9f23f7d9add3602d0cc803991208ffcda37420d10486

is mined on new daemon.

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On 8/20/2016 at 11:13 PM, fedde said:

Can confirm that it builds from source ok on Debian Jessie. Backup stratum now runs new daemon and blocking...

freicoind --help
Freicoin version v0.8.6-2-beta

one or two warnings when building.


util.cpp: In function ‘mpq RoundAbsolute(const mpq&, int, int)’:
util.cpp:606:5: warning: ‘ret_next’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
     if (ret_next) {


Block http://explorer.sicanet.net/block/00000000000009537acf9f23f7d9add3602d0cc803991208ffcda37420d10486

is mined on new daemon.

Nice... I can now check my wallet with the block explorer.

 

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Reminder to miners to please upgrade... the 144-block window currently shows 75% have upgraded, but 2016-block window hovers at about 50%. I suspect the difference is multi-pool related although further analysis is required. In any case there does appear to be some long-term freicoin miners that have not upgraded, enough to keep us from activating the BIP 66 and input-truncation forks.

Also, if anyone has contacts with exchanges that host Freicoin, getting their daemons upgraded should be a priority.

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Hello,

I tried to start FreicoinQt 64 bit on Unbuntu Mint, but the following error comes:


./Freicoin-Qt: symbol lookup error: ./Freicoin-Qt: undefined symbol: SSLv2_client_method

Seems like SSLv_2 is not supported, because it has known security issues:

¨The Ubuntu people build OpenSSL without SSLv2 support because the protocol has known security issues. So that's why you can't find SSLv2_method in their library even though you can find it when you compile the library yourself.¨

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8206546/ubuntu-and-undefined-symbol-for-sslv2-method
 

Is there a workaround / or even better, can it be fixed?

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