Electrum version 1.7rc0 (release candidate)

[ThomasV]

Electrum 1.7 is almost ready.

In order to allow interested users to test it, we decided to create "pre-release" packages:

http://download.electrum.org/download/Electrum-1.7rc0.tar.gz
http://download.electrum.org/download/Electrum-1.7rc0.zip

Please read the release notes, and report issues here.
We will use your feedback to prepare and release the final 1.7 version.

[carpetbagger]

Thanks but it doesn't start up for me on linux (Linux Mint distro). When I run "electrum" in a terminal I get:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/electrum", line 185, in <module>
    gui.main(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/gui_classic.py", line 2351, in main
    w = ElectrumWindow(self.wallet, self.config)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/gui_classic.py", line 291, in __init__
    tabs.addTab(self.create_send_tab(), _('Send') )
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/gui_classic.py", line 756, in create_send_tab
    self.run_hook('create_send_tab', (grid,))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/gui_classic.py", line 366, in run_hook
    apply(cb, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_plugins/qrscanner.py", line 96, in create_send_tab
    if qrscanner.is_available():
NameError: global name 'qrscanner' is not defined

*edit: actually it did start the Import dialog but not the full program