This patch will hopefully resolve a few issues discovered in the 3.7.4.0 leisure update. This is a leisure update, and is not mandatory for users. If you have issues installing the MSI, please try uninstalling the previous wallet installation and reinstalling fresh from this MSI.
Download the update from GitHub here.
You can also download the Windows MSI here. Remember to backup your wallet.dat and config file before updating!
Note that the in-wallet upgrader is still not working at this time. Please do not upgrade from inside the wallet!
Below is the changelog for this release:
Fixed
Fix crash when switching to new tally on block 1144120, #868 (@denravonska).
Fix crash when staking while tallying, #866 (@denravonska).
Thank you to our developers for this quick patch. Hopefully this will resolve some of the current crashing and forking situations users have been experiencing recently.
Thanks @barton26, always good to read you Gridcoin update release notes.
I just noticed that @grc-son has translated it in French as well and it would be great to have a multilingual version (with for example English, French, Spanish, German, etc.).
Just an idea...
I would be able to translate in German as a native speaker.
Seems like we are getting a big new round of bugs this patch. Its concerning. Particularly the WIndows wallet seems very unstable, maybe you should try distributing a version compiled with MinGw alongside the normal one.
Very strange @ivanviso while you say the Windows version is unstable, I have not found that to be the case at all ..
My Windows production client and my Windows node have both been running with complete stability since the previous update. I generally run them 24/7 365 and have continued to do this throughout this period.
"SCIENTIA HUMANA LIBERTAS"
Courtesy of @joshoeah
I would have to agree with @m3rocs1ty - I have not been experiencing any stability issues with the Windows wallet. I'm running Windows 10.
Well, i barely use windows, and definitively not the gridcoin wallet in them, but in reddit you find a lot of people complaining about it, so maybe it would be good to have an alternate version, just to see if it solves the problems.
I seriusly hate windows in that regard, everything it does, its done an odd way compared to every other OS .
Well that, in my opinion, is a crazy reply.
You barely use windows and do not use the gridcoin wallet in it. Yet you scour reddit and use that other people are having problems as your argument.
I personally installed Gridcoin back in Oct 2017 and NOT once had a problem with the wallet in Windows. I've upgraded when required with no issues. I've staked and mined, again with no issues what so ever.
IT is frustrating at times, because it doesn't really tell you what it is up to (in my opinion). However, it isn't buggy. Yes, new releases will always spring a bug, but not to the extent of your response.
Unfortunately, posts like yours put a negative spin on something that others, quite a lot of others, have had no problems with.
Just because you have a personal dislike of Windows, others dont. I personally use Mac OS, Linux and Windows. Each have their strengths and weaknesses. You need to understand how each operates and NOT have a bias against one.
I'm sorry, this isn't supposed to be an agressive response. I just find it very hard to understand your reply or reasoning here. If you could provide actual examples of your own problems, there are LOTS of people here and in reddit willing to help.
I'm just saying that people complain a lot about crashes. It seems like it's gotten better, but as windows visual c is significantly different from the Linux c libs, and the wallet is built with technology that is mostly native to Linux, it would not hurt to offer a version compiled with mingw, which is much similar to the Linux way and may improve stability for the people that complain, it's easy to do, I can do it in 15 minutes, but I don't have the ways to distribute it.
So your base assumption is that Visual C is the cause of instability problems? For which I've never experienced. Surely changing libraries would require a whole set of regression testing and checking across the window versions people have installed (i.e. win 7 and 10)?
It's good that you can get it recompiled, so clearly you can run the distro and capture the errors and then run your mingw version and then demonstrate why it should change?? This would then get the developers attention, would it not?
I'm still surprised the 'windows linked libraries' are going to make such a difference. The stability problems I assumed existed due to networking and connection issues (from what I've read till now).