v0.2.0 beta - Aurora

v0.2.0 is the last major release before our auto-exchange & multi-pool feature with many fixes and improvements. You can find out the details below;

What's new?

• Improved support for POW + POS hybrids and peercoin variants.
• Improved & re-developed payment manager.
• New web frontend theme.
• Improved web frontend's functionality.

Changelog

Algorithms

• Added scrypt-og, sha1, qubit, nist5 and fresh support.

Coin

• Improved support for POW + POS hybrid coins.
• Added support for peercoin and variants.
• Improved coin configuration file format.
• Added working block explorer's for most coins.

Payments

• Re-developed payments manager from stratch with base-work for upcoming auto-exchange feature.
• Multiple payments can now be sent using sendmany() together in once.

Database

• Hybrid-storage can now track users, payouts and transactions.

Web

• Fixed misc. bugs in embedded web-server, it can now correctly function both in debug and release mode.
• The front-end now uses a brand new bootstrap based theme which is also mobile-friendly.
• Implemented "Getting Started pages for miners.
• Implemented "Mining Software" pages for miners.
• Implemented "Terms of Service" page.
• Front-end can now render algorithms, blocks, payments and transactions in details.
• Added a template option to config.json - website section so additional themes can be used.
• Added partial views to front-end allowing easier edits.
• Added support for social icons to be rendered in frontend.
• Live template edits are now possible in debug mode.
• Embedded web-server can now listen on all available network interfaces.

Blocks

• Improved handling of newly found blocks.
• Fixed an integer overflow bug within in block pooler.

RPC

• Improved handling of coin daemon rpc errors.

Configuration

• Removed comment lines from json configuration files so they can be validated (using jsonlint.com or so).
• Added timeout option for daemon rpc connections (by default 5 seconds).
• Added node configuration support to config.json stack section.
• Added more error checks for json config file loaders.

Logging

• Removed console.log configuration as it'll be always on by default.
• Packet.log configuration is now correctly honored.