Electrum 1.9 released

[SebastianJu]

ok, if you are reporting a regression, please mention if it occured with the "windows portable" build

I use the portable windows build and it seems nothing is stored. Even more. It seems like everything was set back to default after starting 1.9. currency, language and so on.

[ThomasV]

I just made 1.9.1 packages, that fix a few regressions: --offline mode, portable mode.
I hope we will soon have binaries from Animazing.

[ThomasV]

I also temporarily removed the portable build from the website; it was broken.
apologies for the mishap; I hope we will soon have a fixed build

[marketorder]

For those of us who use the Ubuntu version is it ok using the older version since theirs no new update for Ubuntu? Will using the older version on Ubuntu cause any security issues?

[btcven]

For those of us who use the Ubuntu version is it ok using the older version since theirs no new update for Ubuntu? Will using the older version on Ubuntu cause any security issues?

All latest versions works on Ubuntu. Do you mean the slowaes error while installing in Ubuntu 13.10?

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install python-slowaes

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=315815.msg3390829#msg3390829

[Mitchell]

Electrum 1.8.1 works for me, but 1.9 connects, sync's once and then drops all its connections for no reason. It doesn't matter what I do afterwards. Yes, I have deleted the BlockChain headers and all the other file, no my Firewalls doesn't block it. Nothing helps.

[kfruit]

bitcoininformation, have you tried uninstalling it, removing any trace (from appdata if windows), and reinstalling it and restoring it through the seed? That worked for me when I was having problems with the connection.

[OleOle]

Not the smoothest of upgrades, that's for sure. Takes a little of the shine off the venerable Electrum 

[cryptojoe]

Looks like it's back to QT and time consuming blockchain downloads. 

[kfruit]

I keep getting pending transactions even though they have clearly have many confirmations on blockchain, I reinstalled and it was temporarily fixed but now it's happening again. Any advice?

[Mitchell]

bitcoininformation, have you tried uninstalling it, removing any trace (from appdata if windows), and reinstalling it and restoring it through the seed? That worked for me when I was having problems with the connection.

Hm, no I did not. Will try that.

[ThomasV]

Not the smoothest of upgrades, that's for sure. Takes a little of the shine off the venerable Electrum 

indeed, sorry about that.
we are actively working on these issues, and I hope we'll get better binaries next week.

[(A)social]

Not the smoothest of upgrades, that's for sure. Takes a little of the shine off the venerable Electrum 

indeed, sorry about that.
we are actively working on these issues, and I hope we'll get better binaries next week.

Thanks Thomas.
What about supporting multi wallets? Is it hard to implement? I really have enough of Multibit, it is slow, memory hungry, and full of glitches.

[CryptCard]

Please add HTTPS support to the download page of electrum. (download.electrum.org)

Or just only for the PGP signature of the downloads and the developers.

[nomnomnom]

Hey,

I upgraded my watchonly wallet to 1.9.2, tried to send some coins,
but I could not sign the transaction on my offline pc (older electrum 1.7.1)

Error Message on the offline pc was:
exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not Nonetype

After downgrading the watchonly wallet to 1.8.1 it works again.
Not sure if this is a bug or if I just need to upgrade the offline electrum (too lazy right now, it is a live cd)

[captchunk]

I've an interesting problem here, seems relatable enough to the 1.9 upgrade so I'll post it here. I've got an Electrum wallet made with 1.8.1 that I've lost the seed for, and I've also spent the last week trying to remember what my password was.

When the 1.9 update came I was still at it trying password combinations, when EUREKA! One of them finally worked. Seems I capitalized TWO extra letters. Or so I thought...

When I clicked the little seed icon and entered in the password, there was an empty space where it should have been showing me the seed. I clicked on the padlock and changed my password to empty spaces to decrypt the wallet. I opened it up in notepad and here are some snippets:

'use_virtualkeyboard': False, 'use_encryption': False, 'labels':...

                               
...'classic_expert_mode': True, 'seed': '', 'accounts':.....



Ok, so the seed's gone. I checked the backup of the file I'd just opened. Saw this:


{'use_virtualkeyboard': False, 'use_encryption': True, 'labels': ....

 'classic_expert_mode': True, 'seed': '*******************************************************************************************==',....


Ok, so the original file did have a seed in it and it was encrypted. I thought maybe it might have been an issue with 1.9+, so I opened up the wallet in 1.8.1. Tried the password that decrypted it in 1.9+....Invalid. Wtf?


I've tried everything I possibly can to get this money out. Using 1.9+ after decrypting with the password: I can export all the key pairs, but importing them into another wallet doesn't give me the coin or the same address. Send leads me to the offline transaction mode, but I'm unable to sign the transaction.

What is the connection between this passphrase and this .dat file, when it doesn't even work in the original build that I generated the wallet in? I'm pulling my hair out on this one, the amount of money in there isn't chump change for a guy like me who lost his job and is late on rent.

More pertitent info:

- Original wallet generated with the 1.8.1 python build in a Debian VM.

- Seed backup that I always make is definitely nowhere to be found, spent the first three days covering those bases.

- In windows I've tried with 1.9 portable & .msi / 1.8.1 portable, same results.

- If it turns out the the password that decrypts with 1.9 isn't the "real" password, I've got a good enough idea about what the password might be to make brute force a plausible solution, it wasn't a hashed password or anything like that.

- Aye thar be bounty for whoever helps me get my money (watching the dollar value rise in the wallet the last week has been bitter-sweet to say the least).

[Mitchell]

I have noticed that there isn't a tray icon for Electrum Portable (Windows 7 x64), so it just shows an empty spot (this also happened with 1.8.1).

[jago25_98]

Same connection problem here.

Installed via pip.

edit:
Was able to get connection by playing with auto connect setting, exiting and reenter a few times.

Is there anything I can try typing in the console when it does it again to help diagnose the problem?

[btcven]

Thanks Thomas.
What about supporting multi wallets? Is it hard to implement? I really have enough of Multibit, it is slow, memory hungry, and full of glitches.

It is already in the code, but the priority now is to fix those errors, so you won't need to wait much if that matters

[btcven]

Please add HTTPS support to the download page of electrum. (download.electrum.org)

Or just only for the PGP signature of the downloads and the developers.

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/master/pubkeys