Electrum 3.0 is out !

[PVminer]

I agree with everything you have said. I like bech32 much better, it is practically no different than typing hex.

But that wasn't my point. I said that for electrum to "go with bc1***" on their own was a serious mistake. Think of it as a business mistake, not a technical one.

Better would have been at some get together, for a half dozen of the major players to announce support for bech32 "within a year."

I disagree   Bech32 is perfectly useful as a sending wallet. And somebody needs to polish the bugs. I found and reported a few segwit-related bugs in Electrum already.  

I only wish Electrum had a less convoluted support for P2SH-P2WPKH wallets, though.  

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[TheQuin]

The support for bech32 is indeed very weak but Bitcoin Core can also send to (and receive) this address if you compile from github source. The bech32 support was included in commit aa624b6. There might be some other wallets that support it because these transactions can be spotted in the wild from time to time.

I just thought I would update this to save anyone the effort of trying this themselves.
I just downloaded and installed Bitcoin Core: 0.15.1 Windows installer version released 2 days ago. For some reason, they don't seem to have included the ability to send to a bech32 address.

[broadhurst]

Wow - a big thanks to all the contributors!  

This is a huge code upgrade !!!  
    
     - Code migration from Python 2.7 to Python 3.x
     - Code migration from QT4 to QT5
     - Segwit support

Release Notes: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

Download: https://electrum.org/#download
 
"To Infinity and Beyond !"

Hi,
 Am trying to install 3.0/3.01/3.02 on Linux Ubuntu 16.10 and am getting this:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 python3-pip : Depends: python-pip-whl (= 8.1.2-2) but 8.1.2-2ubuntu0.1 is to be installed
               Recommends: python3-dev (>= 3.2) but it is not going to be installed
               Recommends: python3-wheel but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any ideas how to fix?

[Abdussamad]

try doing an apt-get clean, an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and finally install python3-pip.

[adaseb]

Anyone know if you can use the old Electrum 2.7.xx to sign transactions and use Electrum 3.x to create and broadcast transactions?

The Electrum 2.7 is on my cold computer and rather leave it as-is.

[TheQuin]

Anyone know if you can use the old Electrum 2.7.xx to sign transactions and use Electrum 3.x to create and broadcast transactions?

The Electrum 2.7 is on my cold computer and rather leave it as-is.

That will work, but you will not be able to make Segwit transactions.