YACoin - MANDATORY UPGRADE TO VERSION 0.4.2 REQUIRED

[Joe_Bauers]

In order to alleviate the issue where some POS blocks were overriding already accepted POW blocks, we are requiring everyone that is running
YACoin 0.4.1 and lower to upgrade to the newest version before block 420000. This should occur within the next 2 weeks, so please upgrade asap.

Make sure to backup your wallet first!

Windows users can get the new wallet here:
https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/releases/download/stable_0.4.2/YACoin-0.4.2.zip
           sha1sum: "549c4cf32f1057bd62f04022abf805c0f9ce0868" YACoin-0.4.2.zip


Everyone else can git and compile as usual.

Code:

git clone https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin.git  
 
cd yacoin/

qmake

make -f Makefile

In additon, grokouser created the following for anyone running VirtualBox and Ubuntu Server 12.04 https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/blob/master/doc/README_ubuntu.txt

Thanks to everyone who helped with this release.

saironiq

grokouser

old c coder

[ilostcoins]

Do people need to delete blockchain data or anything? Any special instructions when running it for the first time?

I have 2 PC's, one with the damn slow old wallet and one with the faster beta wallet from a month ago or so. Any difference between updating from those 2?

Thanks everyone for fixing the issue. 

[Joe_Bauers]

Do people need to delete blockchain data or anything? Any special instructions when running it for the first time?

I have 2 PC's, one with the damn slow old wallet and one with the faster beta wallet from a month ago or so. Any difference between updating from those 2?

Thanks everyone for fixing the issue. 

Depending on how old it is, you will probably have to delete the blockchain data for the damn slow old wallet, but the newer one should open up the same as version 0.4.1. 

[pmconrad]

Updated my yacoin packages for various linux distros at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:p_conrad:coins/yacoin .

I'd appreciate some test feedback, since I don't use that many OS versions myself.

How-To:

What follows below is some commands to be executed as root in a shell. These will make my repository known to your package manager and install the yacoin client. After installation, you should find yacoin in your desktop's application menu.

You can also download and install the packages by hand. In that case you have to manually install all required dependencies, and you should check for updates every once in a while.

Debian:

Code:

wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/p_conrad:/coins/Debian_7.0/Release.key
apt-key add Release.key
echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/p_conrad:/coins/Debian_7.0/ ./" >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/obs-pconrad-coins.list
apt-get update
apt-get install yacoin

openSUSE 12.x/13.x (change 13.1 to your OS version):

Code:

zypper ar -f obs://home:p_conrad:coins/openSUSE_13.1 obs:pconrad_coins-13.1
zypper in yacoin-gui

CentOS / Fedora / RHEL (change Fedora_20 to your OS and version):

(Use "CentOS_CentOS-6" for CentOS, or "RedHat_RHEL-6" for RHEL.)

Code:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/p_conrad:/coins/Fedora_20/home:p_conrad:coins.repo
yum install yacoin-gui

Ubuntu 13.x (change 13.04 to your OS version):

Code:

wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/p_conrad:/coins/xUbuntu_13.04/Release.key
apt-key add Release.key
echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/p_conrad:/coins/xUbuntu_13.04/ ./" >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/obs-pconrad-coins.list
apt-get update
apt-get install yacoin

[Joe_Bauers]

@ pmconrad:  Very cool, thanks very much!

[sairon]

@ pmconrad:  Very cool, thanks very much!

Very nice, indeed. Just noticed some builds are failing 'cause the machine's OOM.


Also, I think we should inform the exchanges (AFAIK only cryptsy and bter) to change to the new version before the deadline. No need for them to enable trading just yet as the risk of double-spends is kinda increased now IMO; but it never hurts to let them know well ahead of time.

[cbuchner1]

We really need the repo ppa:yacoin/yacoin updated with builds for Ubuntu 12.4 and above.

Christian

[Joe_Bauers]

We really need the repo ppa:yacoin/yacoin updated with builds for Ubuntu 12.4 and above.

Christian

I asked Sahtor today to do an updated ppa if/when he has some time.

[Sahtor]

I'm running 2nd test build on PPA right now. First one failed because yacoin-qt.install had a reference to novacoin icon. (Which was correctly removed from source I guess)

Edit: yacoin - 0.4.2.0~saucy2 was succesfully built. The binaries should publish shortly and I uploaded raring, quantal and precise to build queue aswell. I'll check back in morning.

[Sahtor]

ppa:yacoin/yacoin should be up to date right now.

[Joe_Bauers]

Great, thanks!

[ilostcoins]

Ok, I've updated my 2 PC's. I updated the PC with beta wallet first, synced there and then copied the blockchain data files to the other PC.

It works fine overall. The little bug which keeps an orphan transaction from months ago at the top of "recent transactions" is still in this version though. 

[Sahtor]

Yacoin - Debug window - console - "getpeerinfo"

6 peers with protocol version 60005 (old)
2 peers with protocol version 60006 (new)

It's not looking good for our mandatory update yet.

[skaffen]

Yacoin - Debug window - console - "getpeerinfo"

6 peers with protocol version 60005 (old)
2 peers with protocol version 60006 (new)

It's not looking good for our mandatory update yet.

I get 4 old and 4 new.  Getting better. 

Also, Github repo has display of stake interest now, looks better than 0 value transactions.  https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin

[bitdwarf]

Are we there yet?

[sairon]

Are we there yet?

7100 blocks to go, almost 5 days till the switch

[SaltySpitoon]

Stickied for a day or two 

If someone wouldn't mind pming me after the mandatory upgrade date has passed, I'd appreciate it.

[Cannoli]

Where can you trade YACoins?  I can't find them on cryptsy in spite of it saying they can be traded there on the main webpage.

[bitdwarf]

bter.com/trade/yac_btc mainly

[digger]

http://yac.ltcoin.net just upgraded to version 4.2