BCH Unlimited release 1.8.0.0 with electrscash

This is a major release of BCH Unlimited compatible with the upcoming protocol upgrade of the Bitcoin Cash network. You could find May 15th, 2020 upgrade specifications here:

• https://gitlab.com/bitcoin-cash-node/bchn-sw/bitcoincash-upgrade-specifications/-/blob/master/spec/2020-05-15-upgrade.md

This is list of the main changes that have been merged in this release:

• Project rebrand to BCH Unlimited
• Increase length of unconfirmed transaction to 500
• Drastically improve performance of mempool management
• OP_REVERSEBYTES implementation
• SigChecks implementation
• Failure recovery for Graphene
• Graphene improve block construction reliability
• Improve QA tests (both units and functional tests)
• Reduce resource requirement for Parallel Validation
• Fix datadir compatibility problem due to unspecified ABC parking/unparking chain concept
• Clean up and update the seeders list
• Various improvements to deadlock detectors
• Misc improvements to IBD
• Use ctor to improve fetching tx from disc (txindex=1)
• Add a priority queue for urgent message processing
• Documentation update and improvements
• Improve ElectrsCash integration
• Rewrite of the fee estimator

see the release notes for more detail:

https://github.com/BitcoinUnlimited/BitcoinUnlimited/blob/dev/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.8.0.md

You could find binaries in this repository https://github.com/BitcoinUnlimited/BitcoinUnlimitedWebDownloads/