Monero Monday Missives

November 2nd, 2014

Hello, and welcome to our seventeeth Monero Monday Missive! This Missive has been horrendously delayed due to travelling, jetlag, and timezones. Nonetheless, we're keeping it short and sweet, as it is a prelude to next week's Missive, in which we hope to have some binaries so you don't have to compile source code to test these new features;)

Major Updates

1. For those following the database development, we are at a point where it is actually syncing! Our initial observations are that as the blockchain grows LMDB's virtual memory requirements will increase, but since it will rarely touch any of the virtually mapped data the real memory requirements are incredibly tiny. We are currently testing rollbacks and edge-cases, but if you would like to give it a spin (or just check out the nearly 6 000 lines of code that comprise of the blockchain DB clase and the initial lmdb implementation) then you need to clone tewinget's repo and checkout the blockchain branch - https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/tree/blockchain (note that this is pretty much Linux only at this stage, Windows and OS X support will come soon)

2. Per-kb fees are ready to go, and has been merged into the master repository! The per-kb fee has initially been set at 0.01 XMR per kb, and we are confident that this will be a suitable fee for the moment. We are not going to enforce a block-point hard fork, but we would appreciate it if major pools could upgrade by Monday. Thereafter, exchanges and users can upgrade over the course of next week as Monero 0.8.8.5 is released.

3. Our shiny new CMake is also nearly ready - there are a few final nigglies on Windows and FreeBSD, and then it'll be all merged in.

Dev Diary

Core: LMDB implementation is complete, and is undergoing testing for drastic rollbacks and edge cases. Please grab and test (link is above)

Core: per-kb fees merged into master, and switchover to the new fee structure is hoped to happen next week.

Until next week!