Software Update: Monero 0.17.0.0

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 Monero. The network consists of numerous nodes running the Monero client. An update has been released with version number 0.17.0.0, with the following announcement:

Monero 0.17.0.0 “Oxygen Orion” released

This is the v0.17.0.0 release of the Monero software. This major release is due to the October 17th network upgrade, which in turn adds support for the CLSAG transaction format which improves verification speed and reduces transaction size.

Some highlights of this release are:

• Support for CLSAG transaction format
• Deterministic unlock times
• Enforce claiming maximum coinbase amount
• Serialization format changes
• Remove most usage of Boost library
• Always send raw transactions through P2P, don’t use bootstrap daemon
• Update InProofV1, OutProofV1, and ReserveProofV1 to V2
• ASM optimizations for wallet refresh (macOS / Linux)
• Randomized delay when forwarding txes from i2p/tor -> ipv4/6
• New show_qr_code wallet command for CLI
• Add ZMQ/Pub support for txpool_add and chain_main events
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

The complete list of changes is available on GitHub, along with the source code.