Software Update: Monero 0.14.1.0

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 disagreements among the developers. The network consists of numerous nodes running the Monero client. An update has been released with version number 0.14.1.0, with the following announcement:

CLI v0.14.1.0 ‘Boron Butterfly’ released!

This is the CLI v0.14.1.0 ‘Boron Butterfly’ point release, which includes all new features and was built deterministically.

Letter release notes

• Blockchain pruning.
• Deterministic (reproducible) builds.
• Trezor support (for the model T).
• Ledger NanoX support.
• Tor & I2P (CLI) wallet integration.
• Multisig Messaging System.
• Further Bulletproofs verification optimizations.
• JIT enabled, which drastically improves sync performance.
• Bug fixes and further performance improvements.

A few final notes

• The Linux binaries are not compressed. Thus, you will have to use tar xvf .tar.bz2 to unpack the binary.
• GUI v0.14.1.0 has been tagged and is thus expected to be available soon.
• The hashes of the Linux and Windows builds were confirmed (by reproducing the build) by moneromooo, iDunk, hyc, kinghat, scoobybejesus, gingeropolous, TheCharlatan, and fluffypony.
• The hashes of the Mac OS build were confirmed (by reproducing the build) by iDunk, hyc, scoobybejesus, gingeropolous, and fluffypony.
• Deterministic (reproducible) builds are not available yet for BSD.
• To prune an existing blockchain file (data.mdb), you can utilize the prune-blockchain tool that is included in the binaries. Make sure to close all Monero related processes before utilizing this tool. Additionally, if your blockchain file is stored in a non-default directory, you have to make use of the –data-dir flag.
• To enable pruning on monerod, use the –prune-blockchain startup flag.