Faster sync, stability improvements, more robust node

This update has been a long time coming. A lot of things happened in the last weeks that created this delay: geth had not only one, but two vulnerabilities found at the same time that it released with a lot of internal changes to the way the wallet synced and connected to the IPC. We were starting a new team (welcome @hiddentao, @evertonfraga and @luclu) and I was pushing for weekly releases, without proper testing. Meanwhile the DAO happened, and we wanted to make a release that had support for events subscription without realizing the performance impact it would have. All that converged into having a couple of crappy releases where many users were having to downgrade to 0.6.2 just to be able to do small and simple tasks. As a result, we decided to hold off on any new releases until we were sure we could have the stable and usable Wallet we believe the community deserves.

But finally, we feel that this version arrived. Ram has worked hard on refactoring the logic behind the node connection to make it more resilient and stable. Bas has worked a lot with to adopt the changes to the Geth IPC connection, which should allow other nodes to be more easily integrated in the future. Fabian refactored the whole event subscription so that you only Luca and Ev have worked in a ton of smaller issues that combined were creating an overall bad experience. I've refactored a lot of the splash screen and onboarding logic. All this, together with a brand new sync by the geth team and specially the fast sync by @karalabe result in a much more stable and fast wallet. Even if you have already downloaded the blockchain before, I suggest you try downloading it from scratch again as an experience: Peter reported being able to sync from scratch in less than 30 minutes using a SSD, while my experience, from a not so great connection in south america, was a full sync in about 1 hour and 30 minutes.

If you had downloaded the wallet in any point in the past and had issues syncing, sending transactions or a constant wrong password message, I highly recommend you give the wallet a second try. Even if it's not perfect I'm sure it's a lot better.

We are also working to streamline and optimize our release process, including some automated UI testing for electron, and at the same time all of those improvements were some great stride forwards on the Mist Browser itself, which we hope to be able to release a preview soon (no dates promised though).

Checksums

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Known issues

• The latest version has issues connecting to the latest Eth nodes
• While running the wallet in Mist mode on the command line, you'll see some icons and images missing
• If you close the window during sync, the app will stay running in the background and won't quit. Close the app using the keyboard shortcuts

Full Changelog

• Changes the way event subscriptions occur, now only downloading events and logs when requested, per watched contract. This was severely impacting the wallet - especially with very active contracts like The DAO
• Added unlock and send (#700) aka "two second unlock vulnerability"
• Fixed incorrect total token balance (ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet#206 and #608 )
• Fixed broken clipboard-functionality on the main-net (ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet#192)
• Check for update at startup and inform the user if a new version is available (#707)
• Pass custom CLI options to the Ethereum node (#689)
• Updated nodes to latest version of geth (1.4.7) and eth (1.2.9)
• Upgrade code to latest version of Electron (#811)
• Korean Translation (#645)
• Norwegian Bokmål translation (#705)
• Italian translation (#768)
• Improvements to the French translation
• Node startup and synchronization improvements (#559)
• Sync is much more resilient now and auto-restarts if node changes
• Fix how we detect whether eth has started up, remove nodeConnector
• Ensure can switch network type while syncing
• Improved how we determine splash screen status messages. Now much more responsive to underlying connection process.
• Adds default wallet hosted by github for Mist Browser (#767)
• Build windows management architecture, to avoid 'window already destroyed' errors
• Fix problem with geth node being detached (#789)
• Removed peer search timeout functionality and simplified splash screen logic
• Check for node startup error (#673)
• UI Changes to network indicator (#675)
• Make the wallet span the whole width of the app (ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet#212)
• New art for Mist Browser (#696)
• Remove dependency on node log output for detecting startup success (#706)
• Refactoring Dapp IPC connection (#724) this will prevent multiple 'wrong password' and unresponsive nodes
• Refactor splash screen (#772): center the checking network message, show Start App button sooner
• Changes to onboarding screen (#786): Fix bug that was preventing onboarding to start, allows account creation to be skipped and checks passwords, Added number animation to block numbers
• Added a drag region to the mist sidebar (#820)
• Fixed header jump on transparent bar (Mist Browser only)
• When sending from multisig, makes sure you own the "from" account (ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet#210). This makes sure not only that you have that account, but it picks the highest balance you have
• Fixed an issue where the multisig wallet would not show the correct owners after they were changed

This is a security release. The details on the security issues are described on this blog post.

This is the first release to include geth 1.4 wich should come with some performance improvements and connection fixes.

New from 0.7:

This is a small but very special release. First, and foremost it's the first release with contributions from our new team members: Ramesh Nair (@hiddentao), Everton Fraga (@evertonfraga) and Luca Zeug (@luclu). With our new hires we hope to be shift the focus slowly from adding features to the Ethereum Wallet and focus more on Mist Browser, the target of the next big Ethereum Milestone, Metropolis. We will write more about the new roadmap for mist and how the new team members fit into that, but for the moment, let's talk about this release:

• On version 0.7.x we added Contract Events to our logs, which would allow users to watch contracts for any event logged. At each new block the wallet reads not only the new events, but goes back a few blocks and checks them again, in case there was a network split. We knew there was a very proeminent crowdsale that would benefit from it, but we never expected it would be as popular as it became. As a result, at each block the wallet was doing over 10k local database reads and writes, therefore causing the interface to stop responding and sometimes lose connection to the database. This bug was behind the dreaded "invalid date" error that affected many of our users.

• A lot of the logging and startup sequence has been rewritten, to avoid common sync errors on startup and make bug diagnostics more effective.

• New traditional chinese translation has been added, as well as improvements to french and spanish translations. All of these are from members of the community and we are grateful for everyone. If you want to make a translation or help on our current ones, here are the links you'll need:

https://github.com/ethereum/mist/blob/develop/interface/i18n/app.en.i18n.json
https://github.com/ethereum/mist/blob/develop/interface/i18n/mist.en.i18n.json
https://github.com/ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet/blob/develop/app/i18n/app.en.i18n.json
https://github.com/ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet/blob/develop/app/i18n/wallet.en.i18n.json

• Keyboard shortcuts have been changed to avoid conflicts, typos and many other smaller bug fixes.

These should fix most recent issues, but you still have trouble launching or running the wallet and you feel you must do it this week, we recommend you try these, in order:

• If you are watching The DAO we recommend you stop watching it for now, at least while it's so popular. You can still send ether to it, if that's your intention. On our testings, even if the performance has improved, watching the DAO still hangs the wallet occasionally.
• If you can't even launch the wallet to remove it, try downloading and running (no need to uninstall or delete anything) the Wallet version 0.6.2, stop watching and then launch the newest one (or use the older version for a while).
• If you still have the "Invalid Date" error or is stuck at "Waiting for blocks" for a long period of time, then you might have a corrupted database and might need to sync it again. Go to your Ethereum folder (access it via accounts > backup > accounts), delete (or simply rename) the folder chain data and start the app again.
• Create an issue

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This is a small bug fix update

• Fixes a bug in which token balances would not change
• Adds proper spacing and formatting to Events

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This one fixes an issue, which hid the "new account" button.
Also adds the released eth version 1.2.4

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• Added French (thanks to @timoDAO from Expanse)
• Add CustomContracts Events! This allows you to see the events your custom contract generates.
• Add logging #502 (Thanks to @hiddentao)
• fixes #499

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Fixes ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet#143
And also add

• chinese to the Mist interface (Not the wallet though). Thanks to @TT1943
• spanish (Thanks to @franckuestein)

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Contains all of the 0.6.0 release + eth 1.2.3 and a small windows fix!

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This release adds some additional log information to the splash screen and adds a feature to send all ether for an account.

Full list of changes:

• Added a send-all functionality to the send page.
• Add German (thanks to @ColRad) and Portuguese (@alexvandesande) translation for the wallet!
• Added log infos to the splash screen, so users can see what the node is currently doing...
• Improved ether display precision on the confirmation screen
• Added a check with NTP servers to see if the computer time is correct, if not it shows an error
• Increased error timeout

If you should notice that your wallet links lead to a white page, please run the following script in the console:
https://gist.github.com/frozeman/ed41008f4d30900da3e8
This changes all your wallet addresses internally back to lowercase (we introduced that by accident).

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