BCH Unlimited release 1.8.0.0 with electrscash
This is a major release of BCH Unlimited compatible with the upcoming protocol upgrade of the Bitcoin Cash network. You could find May 15th, 2020 upgrade specifications here:
- https://gitlab.com/bitcoin-cash-node/bchn-sw/bitcoincash-upgrade-specifications/-/blob/master/spec/2020-05-15-upgrade.md
This is list of the main changes that have been merged in this release:
- Project rebrand to BCH Unlimited
- Increase length of unconfirmed transaction to 500
- Drastically improve performance of mempool management
- OP_REVERSEBYTES implementation
- SigChecks implementation
- Failure recovery for Graphene
- Graphene improve block construction reliability
- Improve QA tests (both units and functional tests)
- Reduce resource requirement for Parallel Validation
- Fix datadir compatibility problem due to unspecified ABC parking/unparking chain concept
- Clean up and update the seeders list
- Various improvements to deadlock detectors
- Misc improvements to IBD
- Use ctor to improve fetching tx from disc (txindex=1)