Software Update: Monero 0.13.0.4

Blockchains and cryptocurrencies, in whatever form, have now become an integral part of the news. The founder of the technology and at the same time most famous application is Bitcoin, and since it is open source, numerous so-called altcoins have appeared. In early 2014, Bytecoin appeared based on the CryptoNote protocol, which was completely different. Due to the mystery of Bytecoin’s background and the estimate that it was already more than eighty percent mined, a group of developers soon started using Bitmonero as a fork, which in turn was released at the end of April 2014. forked to the current Monero, due to disagreement among developers. The network consists of numerous nodes running the Monero client. An update has been released with version number 0.13.0.4, with the following announcement:

Overview

This is the v0.13.0.4 point release of the Monero software, and it is part of the v0.13 network wide update. That major release was due to the October 18th network update, which in turn enabled Bulletproofs for reduced transaction sizes, sets the ringssize globally to 11 for uniformity of transactions, updated the PoW algorithm to CNv2, and finally sets the max transaction size at half of the penalty free block size. This release of the software presents a number of major improvements to Monero, as well as a large set of bug fixes.

Some highlights of this point release are:

• Fix view key parsing when creating a view wallet from the command line
• Mark the default-ring-size simplewallet setting as obsolete
• Fix loading an old Ledger wallet in the GUI
• Exit crash fix for the daemon
• Fix seed input not being echoed on Windows
• Fix backspace in seed input echoing ^? on Linux
• Fix connection issues with some Tor setups
• Automatically pull submodules for the Docker build
• Fix build for some ARM variants
• Fix get_transactions RPC sending some binary data rather than hexadecimal
• Fix new wallets generated via the GUI not being loadable again
• Fix change_wallet_password RPC
• Fix the daemon spawned by the GUI keeping a file descriptor to the wallet file
• Fix performance issue due to multiple range proof verification
• Fix Ledger communication issues
• Rename blackball to spent_outputs, since some people seem to think it’s a censorship list…
• Fix caching issue with the output distribution RPC
• Fix daemon log colors on (some versions of) Windows
• Mitigate coinbase outputs being preferred by fake output selection