Electrum Personal Server 0.2.1 release with speed improvement

[btc_angela]

Electrum Personal Server 0.2.1, you can refer to the following below:

Github: https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server/releases/tag/eps-v0.2.1
Release notes: https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server/blob/master/release-notes
Setup guides: https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server#links-to-other-setup-guides

# Release v0.2.1 (4th June 2020)

New release, thanks to contributions by DriftwoodPalace, m-schmoock and wiredcheetah
And thanks to everyone else who contributed via discussion and donations

* Massive speedup to startup time and initial import of addresses. This is done
  using the descriptor wallets feature of Bitcoin Core 0.20. The speedup is
  very helpful when running Electrum Personal Server on low powered devices
  such as the raspberry pi
* Close the connection to client if it requests an unknown address or if the
  connection to the Bitcoin node is lost. The user will see a red dot in
  Electrum indicating that something is wrong which should prompt them to fix.
* Increase default polling interval to make the server more responsive to new
  transactions and confirmations
* Reduce spam in the debug log and info log
* Various other tweaks and bug fixes

But as far as I understand, we need to wait for Bitcoin Core 0.20 release before we can take advantage of the new features.

[HCP]

But as far as I understand, we need to wait for Bitcoin Core 0.20 release before we can take advantage of the new features.

Nothing to wait for... Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 was officially released on June 3rd: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2020/06/03/release-0.20.0/

Download link: https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/
Release notes: https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/0.20.0/

[hugeblack]

But as far as I understand, we need to wait for Bitcoin Core 0.20 release before we can take advantage of the new features.

I don't think the update is necessary if you are working on a Bitcoin Core 0.19.0.1 for a single key wallet.
For multi-sig wallet, you need sortedmulti() (keys are reordered in the resulting script such Electrum) So I think you will get an error when working with EPS.

Any way, Update it, it will not cause you a problem.


Am I the only one who thinks that this update didn't offer new things? https://github.com/shesek/bwt#http-api is better.