Curious whether to run 0.8.2 or 0.8.1

[Krellan]

I've been running 0.8.1 for a while, it's tried and true.

Should I upgrade to 0.8.2?

What advantages and disadvantages does it bring?

I'm curious, because even though 0.8.2 came out recently, I did "getpeerinfo" in my client and find that the vast majority of other nodes that I'm connected to are still running 0.8.1.  Are people holding back for a reason?

Thanks!

Josh

[Birdy]

0,8.2 has lower fees, but you cannot send extreme small BTC-amounts (<5430 Satoshis) anymore.
Some people don't like the dust restriction, but I don't really care about it, so yay lower fees for me :3

[co5hike]

0,8.2 has lower fees, but you cannot send extreme small BTC-amounts (<5430 Satoshis) anymore.

anyone has idea why 5430 Satoshis was choosen and not 1000, 5000 or 10000 

[Birdy]

0,8.2 has lower fees, but you cannot send extreme small BTC-amounts (<5430 Satoshis) anymore.

anyone has idea why 5430 Satoshis was choosen and not 1000, 5000 or 10000 

Yes

Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
(0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them
costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually
cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.

Link to the full release notes:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=219504.0

[Krellan]

Interesting.

5430 Satoshis does seem like a magic number.  Any insight as to how it was derived?  The release notes just says that's the amount, without explaining why, as if the number just came down on a stone tablet from the sky.

I'm glad to see the lower minimum TX fee.  I think it should be even lower.  The blocks aren't maxing out yet, at 1MB/block.  There's still plenty of headroom to accept more transactions.

[WhiteThunder]

Interesting.

5430 Satoshis does seem like a magic number.  Any insight as to how it was derived?  The release notes just says that's the amount, without explaining why, as if the number just came down on a stone tablet from the sky.

I'm glad to see the lower minimum TX fee.  I think it should be even lower.  The blocks aren't maxing out yet, at 1MB/block.  There's still plenty of headroom to accept more transactions.

5430 must be a clue! To what? I do not know, but a clue nonetheless.