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PIVX Core version v5.6.0 is now available from: https://github.com/pivx-project/pivx/releases

This is a new major version release, including various bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: https://github.com/pivx-project/pivx/issues

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/PIVX-Qt (on Mac) or pivxd/pivx-qt (on Linux).

Notable Changes

(Developers: add your notes here as part of your pull requests whenever possible)

Deprecated autocombinerewards RPC Command

The autocombinerewards RPC command was soft-deprecated in v5.3.0 and replaced with explicit setter/getter commands setautocombinethreshold/getautocombinethreshold. PIVX Core, by default, will no longer accept the autocombinerewards command, returning a deprecation error, unless the pivxd/pivx-qt is started with the -deprecatedrpc=autocombinerewards option.

This command will be fully removed in v6.0.0.

Shield address support for RPC label commands

The setlabel RPC command now supports a shield address input argument to allow users to set labels for shield addresses. Additionally, the getaddressesbylabel RPC command will also now return shield addresses with a matching label.

Specify optional label for getnewshieldaddress

The getnewshieldaddress RPC command now takes an optional argument label (string) to denote the desired label for the generated address.

New getnewexchangeaddress RPC Command

The getnewexchangeaddress RPC command has been introduced to create an essentially fully Transparent address to disallow deshielding to in compliance for exchanges. It takes an optional label (string) to set a label for the address if necessary. Functionality is the same comparitively to getnewaddress, getnewstakingaddress and getnewshieldaddress

Command Name Purpose Requires Unlocked Wallet?
getnewexchangeaddress Creates a new exchange address Yes

Command is detailed below:

  • getnewexchangeaddress 
    Returns a new exchange address for receiving payments.

Result:
"address"    (string) The new exchange address.

P2P connection management

  • Peers manually added through the addnode option or addnode RPC now have their own limit of sixteen connections which does not compete with other inbound or outbound connection usage and is not subject to the maxconnections limitation.

  • New connections to manually added peers are much faster.

version Change log

Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and git merge commit are mentioned.

Core Features

Build System

P2P Protocol and Network Code

GUI

RPC/REST

  • #2895 Exchange Address getnewexchangeaddress (Liquid369)

Wallet

Miscellaneous

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

As well as everyone that helped translating on Transifex, the QA team during Testing and the Node hosts supporting our Testnet.