BTX Node 0.6.6 (Mac, Windows) — setup keeps the snapshot, and Windows joins the update feed
Setting up works properly again, and Windows updates now arrive on their own.
Setting up no longer gives up on the snapshot
A new node starts from a verified snapshot of the chain. Before the app can hand
it over, the node has to find its own place in the chain first, and that can take
the better part of an hour. While it runs you will see a count of chain headers
going up — that number climbing high and then dropping back to a small one is
normal, and it may happen several times before it settles.
The app used to read those restarts as a failure. It stopped waiting, left the
snapshot sitting there unused, and let the node build the chain from the very
beginning instead. It now waits for as long as that step genuinely takes.
If a setup already fell into this, updating repairs it. The snapshot was
never deleted, so there is nothing to download again — the next start picks it up.
Otherwise this only affects setting up for the first time. A node that is already
running was never at risk.
Windows: updates now come to you
No Windows copy of BTX Node has ever been offered an update in the app. Windows
is on the update list from now on, the same as the Mac, and an update now hands
over to your node properly instead of leaving you on the old one.
On 0.6.0 or 0.6.4, this one reaches you in the app. On anything older than
0.6.0, please fetch it by hand from easybtx.com — those builds ask an address
that does not answer.
Block 185,000 is unchanged. Checking blocks past that height still needs an
Apple Silicon Mac or one of the very newest graphics cards. That is the node
software's rule, not ours. A Windows node checking on the processor still stops
at 184,999, and this update does not change that.
Windows installers are unsigned, so Windows may show a SmartScreen warning on
first run.
Mac
The setup fix above, plus clearer wording on the Block checking line. Your
bundled node is the same one 0.6.2 introduced — nothing to re-download.
Full changelog: https://easybtx.com/node/changelog