v4.1.0 - Gwaihir

Hi AVN Community,

Our new major release, Avian 4.1.0, includes the block reward dev fee, important security updates, improved network efficiency, faster loading speeds, and other new features.

This release contains the code for block reward dev fee and assets activation.

MANDATORY UPDATE WARNING - Please ensure that you have updated your wallet/node to this version prior to 5th October 2022 when block reward changes kick in, if you are running any older versions past this point you will be on the incorrect chain.

How to Upgrade

If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Avian-Qt (on Mac)
or aviand/avian-qt (on Linux).

Downgrading warning

It is not recommended that users downgrade their version. Version 4.1.0 contains
changes that will fork the chain, users not running 4.1.0 will be not
be able to participate in this fork process and will be left on the old chain which
will not be valid.

Notable changes

• 5% Block reward dev fee
• Assets activation
• PoW cache for faster speeds
• Add pruning setting to the UI
• Wallet repair tab
• New RPC to get stuck transactions: liststucktransactions
• AIP-04 Avian Name System (testnet)
• Working regtest for development

Security Updates

• Avian will now tightly manage memory usage during high network traffic or when connected to slow peers.
• Bitcoin backports
• ...and many more

New Contributors

• @furcalor made their first contribution in #171
• @JunaidPeer made their first contribution in #159

Read the full detailed changelog: https://github.com/AvianNetwork/Avian/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-4.1.0.md

v4.0.3 - Thorondor Update

This release includes new checkpoints for safety:

940202 = 00000000ed69247f7ef177a14e44de41d9c1ba689cb930946ff773ebfe23f64c
952399 = 0000000000a11f354eacb65fee963df9818ee8884d8dd926da33921691ec9969

What's Changed

• 4.0.3 by @decentralisedcoder in #112

New Contributors

• @decentralisedcoder made their first contribution in #112

Full Changelog: v4.0.2...v4.0.3

v4.0.2 - Thorondor Update

Hi AVN Community,

Our latest maintenance release "Avian Network v4.0.2 - Thorondor Update".

Please update when you can, this is a mandatory upgrade for people who run Avian 4.x; if you are running Avian 3.1.x, we advise you update to take advantage of fixes and improvements it offers.

What's Changed

Avian 4.0.2 is a patch release to fix the regressions found in 4.0.

• Fix ComputeBlockVersion
• Add backward compatibility with ReadAddressUnspentIndex
• Restore FORKID to VerifyScript

v4.0.1 - Thorondor Update

Hi AVN Community,

Our latest maintenance release "Avian Network v4.0.1 - Thorondor Update".

Please update when you can, this is not a mandatory upgrade but we would advise you update to take advantage of fixes and improvements it offers.

What's Changed

• Correct bugs found in 4.0.0 by @cdonnachie in #68
  • Bump version to 4.0.1
  • Disable messaging check in Mainnet
  • Speed up indexing
  • Add new checkpoints
  • Update nMinimumChainWork and defaultAssumeValid

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.0.1

v4.0.0 - Thorondor

Hi AVN Community,

Our latest release "Avian Network v4.0.0 - Thorondor", this has many updates to the look of the wallet as well as Flight Plans and Assets activated in Testnet only.

Please update when you can, this is not a mandatory upgrade but we would advise you update to take advantage of fixes and improvements it offers.

What's Changed

• Merge v4.0 into main codebase by @alamshafil in #57
• Merge dev branch into master for v4 release by @alamshafil in #60
• Merge dev4.0.0 branch into master for v4.0.0 release by @cdonnachie in #67

Full Changelog: v3.1.1...v4.0.0

v3.1.1 - Tom Bombadil - Maintenance Release

Hi AVN Community,

Our latest maintenance release "Avian Network v3.1.1 - Tom Bombadil" that brings backports for security and performance along with tweaks here and there in the GUI is ready for release and download for each OS.

Please can you all update when you can, this is not a mandatory upgrade but we would advise you update to take advantage of fixes and improvements it offers.

What's Changed

• Github issue-template: Discord invite-link and names updated to Avian by @fdoving in #29
• GUI: Add out-of-the-box browsers. Can be changed and removed in options by @fdoving in #30
• set the correct url to the Avian webpage. by @fdoving in #28
• gui: encrypt wallet dialog, update to AVN by @fdoving in #33
• [backport] gui, wallet: random abort (segmentation fault) btc#9683 by @fdoving in #14
• build: Suppress -Wdeprecated-copy warnings by @fdoving in #15
• Drop buggy TableViewLastColumnResizingFixer class (btc#204) by @fdoving in #16
• Introduce a Shuffle for FastRandomContext and use it in wallet by @fdoving in #17
• Backport: Remove useless mapRequest tracking by @fdoving in #19
• depends: update zeromq to 4.3.4 by @fdoving in #20
• lockedpool: avoid sensitive data in core files (Linux and FreeBSD) by @fdoving in #21
• backport: wallet: Fix Char as Bool in Wallet by @fdoving in #23
• backport: gui: Set CConnman byte counters earlier to avoid uninitialized reads by @fdoving in #24
• backport: rpc: Fix data race (UB) in InterruptRPC() by @fdoving in #25
• backport: fix uninitialized read when stringifying an addrLocal by @fdoving in #26
• backport: Introduce a maximum size for locators. by @fdoving in #27
• depends: update expat to 2.4.1 by @fdoving in #31
• depends: libevent update by @fdoving in #32
• Contrib: Copy install_db4.sh from bitcoin by @fdoving in #37
• http: Release work queue after event base finish (btc#19033) by @fdoving in #38
• disable output to stdout by @fdoving in #36
• disable logging of diff by @fdoving in #39
• gui: set black text for price and increase to 30s update times. by @fdoving in #41
• Revert "gui: set black text for price and increase to 30s update times." by @alamshafil in #43
• gui: set black text for price and increase to 30s update times. by @fdoving in #42
• gui: text color for price info fixed for dark and light mode. by @fdoving in #44
• backport: [qt] Fix potential memory leak in newPossibleKey(ChangeCWallet *wallet) (bitcoin #10920) by @fdoving in #45
• translations: search and replace Raven/Avian by @fdoving in #49
• GUI: Enable High DPI Scaling by @fdoving in #50
• Merge dev branch by @alamshafil in #46

New Contributors

• @fdoving made their first contribution in #29

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v3.1.1

Thanks and happy mining! :)

AVN Team

v3.1.0 - Gandalf Stormcrow - Mandatory Urgent Release!

Hi AVN Community,

You have been waiting very patiently for this release and we thank you for all for that!

Without further ado here is our change log for AVN Version 3.1.0 "Gandalf Stormcrow"

• Rewrite of block difficulty retargetter algorithm GetNextWorkRequiredLWMA3()
• Rewrite of CheckProofOfWork to include powLimit from multiple algos, if they differ
• Small tweaks here and there to support other changes mentioned
• RPC command output fixes towards industry standards
• Bumped version number and protocol version
• Checkpoint added for block 275972

Please can you all update asap to make sure you are on the correct chain.

Thanks and happy mining! :)

Mandatory AVN V3.0.0 Update - 07-12-21

Hi Everyone,

Here are the new Avian Wallet releases for Windows, Linux and Mac (QT GUI Wallet, CLI Utility and Daemon) to fix difficulty adjustment balancing between X16RT and MinotaurX issues and start the roll back to the block where we previously attempted activation.

This is a mandatory update, please install asap and do a reindex when asked to make sure you sync to the correct chain.

Apologies for the delay in getting mainnet up but we had to be sure everything was working correctly.

The update also contains some minor gui and naming changes.

Thanks!

Avian Network Team

https://github.com/AvianNetwork/Avian/releases/

v2.6.2

Latest stable version from October 10, 2021.

This is not a new release, but rather a reupload from the old GitHub.

Currently Windows only.