Windows users: does 0.3.20.01 work for you?

[Gavin Andresen]

The only thing stopping me from announcing 0.3.20 "Final!" is confirmation from Windows users that switching to the mingw build process fixed the rendering issues.

So:  if you're a Windows bitcoin user, please install the latest 0.3.20 from SourceForge and let me know how it works for you.

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[ronaldmaustin]

I never did get my siren feature when I have found a block   But thank you for all of your efforts in producing this    Furthermore, 

[LZ]

It seems to work, but I think that we need more time for tests.

[bossweld]

0.3.20.01 runs fine for me.

FYI I successfully built 0.3.20.00 using VC10 on my Windows machine, and haven't been able to reproduce the same WxWidgets problem that the build from the Amazon EC2 windows virtual machine had. So far.

Library versions I built with:

Berkeley DB 4.7.25.NC (projects converted to VC10)
OpenSSL 0.9.8r
Boost 1.43.0
WxWidgets 2.9.1

I'll try to match the OpenSSL and Boost versions more exactly up to the virtual machine build, but the other two libraries match.

[w8ks6]

Thank you for your work, Gavin.

Appears to work well, but i still get the wxWidgets debug alert on Win7x64

[Gavin Andresen]

Appears to work well, but i still get the wxWidgets debug alert on Win7x64

Did you get a debug alert with bitcoin 0.3.19 or earlier?
And could you post a screen snapshot (or, even better, file an issue at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues )?

[BitterTea]

Yes, the weird UI problem is gone now. It wasn't that big of a deal, but every now and again I would forget and be unable to find the addresses button. Thanks, Gavin.

[Amso]

Sorry, I would like to help testing 0.3.20, but I have a couple of silly questions.

Do i have to uninstall the 0.3.19 first?

If things go wrong with 0.3.20, would my wallet still be save?

Thanks.

[BitterTea]

I'd recommend uninstalling 0.3.19 first. You can make a backup of your wallet in case anything goes bad. Just copy %AppData%\Bitcoin\wallet.dat somewhere safe and encrypt it if possible.

[N12]

Uhm, what kind of rendering issues? I’m using 0.3.20 on Windows for a while now and haven’t noticed any problems at all.

[Binford 6100]

I'd recommend uninstalling 0.3.19 first.

i used the .zip distribution of 0.3.19 and that one has no uninstall. but it is in  c:/tools/bitcoin-0.3.19
so installing the new version into c:/tools/bitcoin-0.3.20 did not cause any conflicts with having both versions on the pc in the same time.
the idea is to have a bitcoin directory with a simlink to the latest version at the same place but being able to point it to a newer version when available.

my only 'negative' comment: it did not rescan the blockchain on start up (or i did not figure out how to use it)
- i've copied a different wallet into AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin folder and started the client
- it showed a high number of blocks, this i understood as the client having access to blockchain downloaded by the previous client
- the balance in client was not the same as client expected (and confirmed by blockexplorer)

could it be possible to drop last X blocks from the chain in order to save myself downloding the whole blockchain? p.ex. delete last 100 blocks and download them again. or a button to trigger rescan manually in the future?

or hint how to use the rescan feature on windows?

 Thanks a lot for your work!

[BitterTea]

Use the -rescan switch.

path-to-bitcoin\Bitcoin.exe -rescan

[SmokeTooMuch]

The only thing stopping me from announcing 0.3.20 "Final!" is confirmation from Windows users that switching to the mingw build process fixed the rendering issues.

So:  if you're a Windows bitcoin user, please install the latest 0.3.20 from SourceForge and let me know how it works for you.

official build 0.3.20.01 works fine for me on win7 64-bit.
but I haven't tested any of the new features yet.

[Binford 6100]

Use the -rescan switch.

path-to-bitcoin\Bitcoin.exe -rescan

how stupid am I ?

thank you very much!

edit: works as expected