About Electrum 2.6

[pooya87]

on github release notes the latest version is 2.6 but on the website there is one version older for downloading.
why is that?
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES#L1

also can anybody please explain about this new feature called "coin selection"

improved coin selection to help preserve user privacy.  This is an
   experimental feature.  Enable it by setting the Coin Selection
   preference to Privacy.

[Abdussamad]

on github release notes the latest version is 2.6 but on the website there is one version older for downloading.
why is that?

Probably because the new version is still under development and testing and isn't stable enough for general release.

[OmegaStarScream]

on github release notes the latest version is 2.6 but on the website there is one version older for downloading.
why is that?
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES#L1

also can anybody please explain about this new feature called "coin selection"

improved coin selection to help preserve user privacy.  This is an
   experimental feature.  Enable it by setting the Coin Selection
   preference to Privacy.

It's normal , it's like this most of the time . Changelog have always higher versions then the one available for download because it's unfinished .
You still can compile the wallet your self though and test it .

[DuddlyDoRight]

Yeah when you see it in "RELEASE-NOTES" on github it's easy to think that there is a new final release out, because that's how most repos do it and typically put "beta", "b", "release candidate", or "rc" where it's unfinished..

I also watch Electrum GIT and wait for new versions. They added some key-store device support yesterday..

EDIT: You have to build it under Linux for Windows using Wine because some of the tools have no NT/cygwin builds.

[arorts]

Hello,

I'm getting this error after installing the last electrum 2.6 version for Ubuntu (previous version was working perfectly). Any pointers? Note the import name error at the end... :-(

Code:

Using /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Finished processing dependencies for Electrum==2.6
waingro@ubuntu:~/electrum$ ./electrum
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./electrum", line 316, in <module>
    plugins = init_plugins(config, config.get('gui', 'qt'))
  File "./electrum", line 247, in init_plugins
    return Plugins(config, is_bundle or is_local or is_android, gui_name)
  File "/home/waingro/electrum/lib/util.py", line 171, in <lambda>
    return lambda *args, **kw_args: do_profile(func, args, kw_args)
  File "/home/waingro/electrum/lib/util.py", line 167, in do_profile
    o = func(*args, **kw_args)
  File "/home/waingro/electrum/lib/plugins.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.load_plugins()
  File "/home/waingro/electrum/lib/plugins.py", line 55, in load_plugins
    m = loader.find_module(name).load_module(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pkgutil.py", line 246, in load_module
    mod = imp.load_module(fullname, self.file, self.filename, self.etc)
  File "/home/waingro/electrum/plugins/btchipwallet.py", line 11, in <module>

ImportError: cannot import name make_password_dialog

[nomnomnom]

2.6 hasn't been officially released yet, but I just tried it works fine here.
If you got it from github try, 'git pull' to get the latest updates.

If the error keeps popping up you can report it here: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues
Or you can try going back to electrum 2.5.4