Electrum 2.5 released

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

I ran the new 2.5.1 .exe on my Windows 7 system.  It ran my Trezor based wallet and it ran my software wallet.  I also ran this version on my Windows 8 system, testing it with my Trezor and it worked OK.  I did message signing tests and sending tranactions with the Trezor.

Looks good!  Thanks, Thomas!

Which 2.5.1 did you run, the one Thomas posted earlier i.e. the test one or the electrum-2.5.1-portable.exe ?

Just want to check because if it was the portable one then something must be wrong with my setup. Just tried sending from it again and nothing happens when I press on the send button.

modification date 10/23, MD5 DEB41AC7004E6C6C5B514E0C34C68664 electrum-2.5.1-setup.exe

This is a Windows installer, not a portable version.  (I can confirm that it runs on two of my systems using Trezor, but these systems had previously installed, Python Trezor,Cython, Libusb etc... which I did not uninstall, so it is conceivable that these images might not run on a plain vanilla Windows.)

I sent and received funds on my Windows 7 installation using a software wallet and a Trezor wallet. All four combinations worked. Also, I verified that sending funds to a payment protocol request works.

I think you are confusing the portable version electrum-2.5.1-portable.exe with the Windows installer electrum-2.5.1-setup.exe. Windows installer will store electrum data locally in %appdata% portable does not. Portable version can be installed and run from a USB drive or in an encrypted container and will not write to the host computer.

[RustyNomad]

I think you are confusing the portable version electrum-2.5.1-portable.exe with the Windows installer electrum-2.5.1-setup.exe. Windows installer will store electrum data locally in %appdata% portable does not. Portable version can be installed and run from a USB drive or in an encrypted container and will not write to the host computer.

No, I know the difference between the two, just thought I will try the Windows installer if the portable still did not want to work. Been running the portable since version 1.9.8 from a USB. I however think it might be the 'older' data files as mentioned. Will clear it all out just now and let it download everything again and see if that sorts it out.

EDIT: Not sure what the problem was yesterday when trying to send. Just tried to send quickly before deleting all the files and transaction went through without a problem. So portable 2.5.1. working fine now.

[medUSA]

I have been using Electrum 2.3.2 for a long time. I have no issues with it. Because of the "Low-S values", I need to upgrade my Electrum. I downloaded 2.5.2 setup.exe for windows and it failed to start, saying something about "settings are wrong and need to reinstall". I tried 2.5.1 and it's the same.

I found this thread about "Electrum 2.4.4 and higher crushes at start on WinXP SP3 x86":
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1219257.0

I also have Electrum on WindowsXP. I believe this is a known problem. There is a solution suggested in the above thread. I could install this "python" and download the python version of Electrum. But this is not I want to do for long term. Is Electrum going to drop support for Windows XP, or this is just a temporary glitch and will be fixed in later versions?

Thanks!

[OmegaStarScream]

I have been using Electrum 2.3.2 for a long time. I have no issues with it. Because of the "Low-S values", I need to upgrade my Electrum. I downloaded 2.5.2 setup.exe for windows and it failed to start, saying something about "settings are wrong and need to reinstall". I tried 2.5.1 and it's the same.

I found this thread about "Electrum 2.4.4 and higher crushes at start on WinXP SP3 x86":
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1219257.0

I also have Electrum on WindowsXP. I believe this is a known problem. There is a solution suggested in the above thread. I could install this "python" and download the python version of Electrum. But this is not I want to do for long term. Is Electrum going to drop support for Windows XP, or this is just a temporary glitch and will be fixed in later versions?

Thanks!

Python is a programming language , and Electrum is written on Python so you will have to download it if you want to get this working , same goes for Multibit HD for example , it's written in Java so you will have to download Java if you want to get it working .

[medUSA]

Python is a programming language , and Electrum is written on Python so you will have to download it if you want to get this working , same goes for Multibit HD for example , it's written in Java so you will have to download Java if you want to get it working .

The "electrum-2.5.2-setup.exe" has python files included. Electrum should run right off the bat after installation without the need to install python separately. The same downloaded setup file installs fine on my other Windows 7 computer and not on a Windows XP notebook. That same notebook has been running Electrum from 1.9 to 2.3.2 without problems for a long time. Even Core runs fine on that notebook.

[camponez]

I got this error when I tried to open on Ubuntu 15.10:

$ electrum
"sni-qt/11012" WARN  09:41:06.933 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE
QNativeImage: Unable to attach to shared memory segment.
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
(...too many lines like this...)

Any ideas?

[OmegaStarScream]

medUSA then I'm not so sure about it :/ You will get faster answer on Github since it's a technical issue .

I got this error when I tried to open on Ubuntu 15.10:

$ electrum
"sni-qt/11012" WARN  09:41:06.933 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE
QNativeImage: Unable to attach to shared memory segment.
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
(...too many lines like this...)

Any ideas?

What version are you using ? I saw ThomasV post somewhere and the error seems to be the same , he just asked the person to upgrade his wallet to the latest version . (which is 2.5.2 now)

[camponez]

medUSA then I'm not so sure about it :/ You will get faster answer on Github since it's a technical issue .

I got this error when I tried to open on Ubuntu 15.10:

$ electrum
"sni-qt/11012" WARN  09:41:06.933 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE
QNativeImage: Unable to attach to shared memory segment.
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
(...too many lines like this...)

Any ideas?

What version are you using ? I saw ThomasV post somewhere and the error seems to be the same , he just asked the person to upgrade his wallet to the latest version . (which is 2.5.2 now)

I'm using the latest one. The problem seemed to be related to the Ubuntu upgrade to 15.10.

I tried to run another pyqt to see if the same error happen. It didn't. However, when I tried run electrum after that, it worked! Weird. But it's ok now.

[ThomasV]

new release today: version 2.5.3
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

[torusJKL]

Hopefully

Code:

* installwizard: do not allow direct copy-paste of the seed

will make people more aware of the importance of the seed.

Though I still think it is not enough.
We should have like a pop up window with a big red exclamation mark telling them the importance.

[OmegaStarScream]

new release today: version 2.5.3
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

Good job thomas , I just wanted to know , can we give suggestions for electrum and you add them ? Because I already contacted you about few important suggestions before however you never replied to me , so I'm not sure where to post them .

[shefchenko17]

excuse me but how are we supposed to update this electrum sh*t? to uninstall  the old one and download  the new one or.. ?
So I downloaded from https://electrum.org/#download  THAT -> "Install Electrum-2.5.3.zip" and inside there was no .exe file or something like that. Could you please guys explain why is it so complicated and why cannot a man download a file/rar and then run it and then just get into his wallet...
I cannot send anything because of DUST or some other sh*t and I cannot run the new version so... GREAT WALLET thums up !!!! .........

[medUSA]

new release today: version 2.5.3
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

Thanks, I am going to try this update. Hopefully it will work under Windows XP. Will update this thread regardless.

[torusJKL]

excuse me but how are we supposed to update this electrum sh*t? to uninstall  the old one and download  the new one or.. ?
So I downloaded from https://electrum.org/#download  THAT -> "Install Electrum-2.5.3.zip" and inside there was no .exe file or something like that. Could you please guys explain why is it so complicated and why cannot a man download a file/rar and then run it and then just get into his wallet...
I cannot send anything because of DUST or some other sh*t and I cannot run the new version so... GREAT WALLET thums up !!!! .........

Are you using Windows?

If you want to install the program download the Windows installer: electrum-2.5.3-setup.exe.
The zip file contains the python sources that you would need to run with a local python installation.

[ThomasV]

I made another release, 2.5.4, that should fix the 'dust' issue.

[torusJKL]

I made another release, 2.5.4, that should fix the 'dust' issue.

Thanks for the fast fix.