Software Update: Monero 0.14.0.0

Blockchains and cryptocurrencies, in whatever form, have now become an integral part of the news. The founder of the technique and at the same time the best-known 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 0.14.0.0, with the following announcement:

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This is the v0.14.0 release of the Monero software. This major release is due to the March 9th network update, which in turn adds a new PoW based on Cryptonight-R, adds a new block weight algorithm, and introduces a slightly more efficient RingCT format. This is an intermediary, stable release specifically for the network update, and does not represent the bulk of the effort on Monero over the past 6 months. That effort will be in the 0.14.1 release, which will follow in March after the network update.

Some highlights of this major release are:

• New PoW based on Cryptonight-R
• New block weight algorithm
• New slightly more efficient RingCT format
• Placeholder short payment ID to increase transaction uniformity
• Obsolete long payment IDs are now disabled unless a switch is used
• New event notifications for large block rate changes and blockchain reorgs
• Unmixable outputs can be spent again
• Fix bad pruned transactions JSON in RPC
• Some build fixes for various platforms/setups
• Fix for crash on exit

Contributors for this Release
This intermediary release was the direct result of 11 people who worked, largely unpaid and altruistically, to put out 72 commits containing 5 981 new lines of code. We’d like to thank them very much for their time and effort.