Pepecoin Core 1.1.0

Pepecoin Core 1.1.0 Release Notes

This is a new minor release which includes improvements from recent Dogecoin releases. All users are strongly recommended to upgrade.

Technical Changes

• Merged several upstream improvements from Dogecoin 1.14.7, 1.14.8, and 1.14.9
• Add new DNS seeder for mainnet and testnet (seeds.pepeblocks.com and seeds-testnet.pepeblocks.com)
• Update chainparamsseeds.h with more nodes to make the network more resilient
• Various security fixes

Design Changes

• Update P logo for "About Pepecoin Core" in the help menu
• Add Chinese translation fix in Pepecoin Core
• Add German, Japanese, and French translations for README.md

Credits

• Chromatic
• MasterKush
• YingZheng
• Emgi
• Zordiak
• MadSpring
• Eltociear
• Omahs
• Thunderrabbit

Pepecoin Core 1.0.1

This is a new minor release that activates AuxPow at block 42,000. This will cause a hard fork after the first AuxPow block is mined.

All users on Pepecoin 1.0.0 must upgrade to 1.0.1

Technical Changes

• Set AuxPow activation height to 42,000
• Change CLIENT_NAME from satoshi to pepetoshi
• Increment protocol version from 70015 to 70016 for auxpow acceleration
• Reduce the amount of blockchain space recommended during installation
• Add getcoincount RPC call to report current number of coins in circulation

Design Changes

• Add ribbits in place of satoshi in GUI tooltips

Pepecoin Core 1.0.0

Technical

• Set AuxPow ChainID to 63.

• Remove occurances of Dogecoin and replace with Pepecoin where appropriate.

• All Pepecoin addresses now start with the letter P. All other address prefixes Dogecoin uses will be adopted by Pepecoin for familiarity purposes.

• Update PUBKEY_ADDRESS from 30 to 56 (Address prefixes start with P instead of D). Update base58_keys_valid.json and base58_keys_invalid.json with gen_base58_test_vectors.py

• Update key_tests.cpp with new Pepecoin addresses to resolve test failures.

• Resolve test failures in key_tests.cpp

• Resolve test failures in bctest.py

• Initialize genesis block data (nonce, timestamp, unix time, hashes, merkle root hash). Remove checkpoints. Set new nMinimumChainWork and defaultAssumeValid

• Add genesis block data to regtest network.

• Add genesis public key to miner_tests.cpp

• Resolve test failure in rpcnestedtests.cpp

• Use new genesis block for regtest that is compatible with unit tests. Update a few references of the old genesis hash to the new one.

• Change Unix timestamp for regtest block to Dogecoin and Litecoin's timestamp for their blocks. This makes the python unit tests easier to run.

• Add seed nodes for main and test nets

• Add DNS Seed nodes to chainparams.cpp and dnsseed-policy to point to generic seeder project on github

• Update Dogecoin address strings to Pepecoin addresses in uritests.cpp

• Change magic numbers in pow.cpp and pepecoin.cpp to the correct values which reflect the block height digishield min difficulty block activates

• Update checkpointsData to the genesis blocks

• Update nMinimumChainWork. It was too high.

• Set client version to 1.0.0 in clientversion.h

• Add more seed nodes. 15 for main net and 3 for test net in total.

• Change port numbers to the following

  Function	mainnet	testnet	regtest
  P2P	33874	44874	18444
  RPC	33873	44873	18332

Design

• Add new Pepecoin vector logos.
• Add newer and nicer pepecoin.png logo to splash screen.
• Remove Dogecoin logos qt/res/icons folder
• Update the wallet_bgcoin.png file to the new Pepecoin logo
• Remove Comic Sans. Add RobotoMono and set GUI to use Monospace font
• Change "Wow" to "Overview", "Such Send" to "Send", "Much Receive" to "Receive", and "So Print" to "Print"
• Remove "much" and "such" strings in README.md
• Change UI text "Very new address" to "New address"
• Add pepecoin.icns file
• Update fee strings in GUI from Dogecoin theme to Pepecoin theme
• Create new about.png with a Pepecoin logo
• Add new design for paper_wallet.png
• Remove Dogecoin explorer urls
• Update tx urls in gui to point to the Pepecoin blockchain explorer PepeExplorer.com

Documentation

• Generate Pepecoin man pages
• Add --with-gui to build-windows.md instructions
• Change website url to pepecoin.org
• Change ticker symbol from PPC to PEPE in readme.md, man pages, and amount.cpp
• Update assets-attribution.md
• Update gen-manpages.sh to target the bash shell
• Update readme files to correct urls and Pepe icon/text. Remove references to Pepecoin in the Dogecoin release notes. Move Dogecoin release notes to new release-notes/dogecoin folder.
• Add link to official community Discord
• Update FAQ.md to reflect Pepecoin changes
• Update README_windows.txt to point to the Dogecoin wiki (The wiki for Dogecoin is a good guide for Pepecoin as well)
• Change Dogecoin addresses to Pepecoin addresses in help text.
• Translate readme.md pages