Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind version 0.7.0 released

[mintymark]

Is there really STILL no coin control options in this release? This is the major feature I have been waiting for for many many months and I am so disappointed that it seems to be not here ?

[SRoulette]

Thanks to Gavin and all Bitcoin devs current and past.

Our games at SatoshiRoulette simply would not be possible were it not for bitcoind and the ongoing work from yourselves.

[tpantlik]

Thanks to all the developers, great work!

Is there an option to send some coins as a donation?

[CIYAM]

Is there really STILL no coin control options in this release? This is the major feature I have been waiting for for many many months and I am so disappointed that it seems to be not here ?

There is actually complete coin control now (note that the patch that had been created earlier whilst having GUI support only provided limited control), however,  you will need to use the console version (bitcoind) to create the tx's via the "raw transactions" RPC calls: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Raw_Transactions

Great work guys (am reading about raw tx's now in order to start playing with them)!

[waspoza]

Thanks!

[minimalB]

Wow... i can browse the web while DLing BlockChain on my old trusty P4!

Thanks!

[arklan]

yay! updates! thanks guys.

[waspoza]

Bad news, this new version hogging cpu, making my server unresponsive:

Code:

top - 12:50:36 up 259 days, 13:54,  1 user,  load average: 1.42, 0.89, 0.81
Tasks: 185 total,   1 running, 184 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  1.3%us, 11.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 39.2%id, 48.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.2%st
Cpu1  :  1.7%us,  2.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 70.6%id, 24.9%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.2%st
Cpu2  : 33.3%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 66.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu3  : 25.0%us, 25.0%sy, 50.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   6033904k total,  5858656k used,   175248k free,   632912k buffers
Swap:   488444k total,   488444k used,        0k free,  2984440k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
25314 bitcoin   20   0  328m  97m 3800 S  143  1.6   3:29.96 bitcoind
   12 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   39  0.0 167:28.84 ksoftirqd/2
25567 web28     20   0  443m  15m 4824 D   17  0.3   0:05.10 apache2
   15 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   17  0.0 167:39.36 ksoftirqd/3
26319 web29     20   0  440m  14m 3288 S    1  0.2   0:00.03 apache2
 1161 mysql     20   0  411m  85m 3876 S    0  1.4   3004:18 mysqld

Its Debian Squeeze 64 bit.

[tenakha]

Hi,

I want to upgrade to 0.7. I'm using macos. Do I just download and install?

Should I backup my wallet again just for safely?

There is no chance of my existing wallet getting over-written or anything is there?

T

[fornit]

nice improvements 
runs smothly so far, great job devs! 

[paraipan]

Good work guys, thank you 

[finway]

Ubuntu Linux users can use the "Personal Package Archive" (PPA)
maintained by Matt Corallo to automatically keep
bitcoin up-to-date.  Just type
  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package:
  sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt

Ubuntu PPA is not updated.

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bitcoin-qt is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 523 not upgraded.

Code:

$ bitcoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 60300,
    "protocolversion" : 60001,
    "walletversion" : 10500,
    "balance" : 1.04223600,
    "blocks" : 199384,
    "connections" : 54,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 2694047.95295501,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1330254479,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

[paraipan]

Ubuntu Linux users can use the "Personal Package Archive" (PPA)
maintained by Matt Corallo to automatically keep
bitcoin up-to-date.  Just type
  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package:
  sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt

Ubuntu PPA is not updated.

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bitcoin-qt is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 523 not upgraded.

Code:

$ bitcoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 60300,
    "protocolversion" : 60001,
    "walletversion" : 10500,
    "balance" : 1.04223600,
    "blocks" : 199384,
    "connections" : 54,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 2694047.95295501,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1330254479,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

Yes, it is. Do a...

Code:

sudo apt-get update

[XertroV]

...
Core bitcoin handling and blockchain database
...
* -loadblock=FILE will import an external block file
...

Is there any chance of this being able to support blockchains made using a different version of libdb?

Also, the PPA is most certainly updated.

[Gavin Andresen]

The block files (blk000N.dat) are not BDB files, they're a raw, binary, append-only list of serialized blocks, so -loadblock doesn't care about the version of libdb used.

[finway]

Thanks.

[old_engineer]

Gavin, you might want to add that Ubuntu users should also type
 sudo apt-get update
between the repository addition and apt-get install steps.

[rate5]

Upgraded with PPA on Ubuntu 12.04 32bit.  No problems, tray icon fixed and now showing

Gavin, you might want to add that Ubuntu users should also type
 sudo apt-get update
between the repository addition and apt-get install steps.

+1 this step should be included

[Dansker]

Thank you for your hard work!

I hope that history will remember your contributions

[flatfly]

Great job once again!
Congratulations.