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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: FabioCarpi on May 19, 2015, 04:13:02 PM



Title: client 0.10.99
Post by: FabioCarpi on May 19, 2015, 04:13:02 PM
why in my connected client list appears to version 0.10.99?
this version actually exists?
I'm using the "last" which is 0.10.2...


Title: Re: client 0.10.99
Post by: TierNolan on May 19, 2015, 05:01:49 PM
I think x.y.99 means that someone built their own version of the client. 


Title: Re: client 0.10.99
Post by: altcoinex on May 19, 2015, 06:17:15 PM
I think x.y.99 means that someone built their own version of the client.  

To clarify, he means someone built a version of the source from the master branch.
(If they build a version from the 0.10 branch instead of master, it will say 0.10.2 unless they modify the version themselves.)

x.y.99 reflects is the current 'master' branch from the repository: master is typically the last minor before the next major version. Since the next major version will be 0.11, the current master branch version is 0.10.99.

This does produce a couple small considerations however:
All you know from a client saying 0.10.99 is that it was built sometime between 10.0 and the current code on the master tree. It is not necessarily the current master branch, just likely a version sometime since 0.10. It also may or may not have modifications to the core client's code as well(Equally, nothing says that just because a client claims its 0.10.2 that it hasn't been modified either).

Out of 6069 Full Nodes, 165 are currently running "version" 0.10.99 and 51 running 0.9.99.



Title: Re: client 0.10.99
Post by: Cinnob0n on May 27, 2015, 07:45:20 AM
Where can you download this new release since it's not official ??? ?


Title: Re: client 0.10.99
Post by: altcoinex on May 27, 2015, 12:53:40 PM
Where can you download this new release since it's not official ??? ?

If you download the source from the master branch and compile it: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin


Title: Re: client 0.10.99
Post by: Saturn7 on May 27, 2015, 10:15:22 PM
Most of those nodes are ARM based servers, as there are no official binaries for Arm. So people with Arm cpus git clone master and build that.


Title: Re: client 0.10.99
Post by: Meuh6879 on May 27, 2015, 11:10:48 PM
v 0.x.99 ou v0.01 ... are product for nodes of farm miners or services (like bitcoin nodes feature site). ;)