Latest BU Release for Bitcoin Cash: BUCash-1.7.0.0

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Latest BU Release for Bitcoin Cash: BUCash-1.7.0.0

Download the latest release of Bitcoin Unlimited (1.7.0.0, Oct 10, 2019) from:
https://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/download

This is a major release of Bitcoin Unlimited compatible with the upcoming protocol upgrade of the Bitcoin Cash network. You can find November 15th, 2019 upgrade specifications here:

• https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org/blob/master/spec/2019-11-15-upgrade.md

This is list of the main changes that have been merged in this release:

• Mempool synchronization via Graphene primitives
  
  
• Intelligent unconfirmed transaction forwarding
  
  
• Child-Pay-For-Parent implementation based on Ancestor Grouped Transactions (AGT)
  
  
• Graphene ver 2.1 and IBLT specifications
  
  
• New dead-lock detection mechanism
  
  
• New getblockstats rpc call
  
  
• ElectrsCash v1.0 (release notes)
  
  
• QA improvements
  
  
• Schnorr multisignature (Nov 15th' 2019 upgrade)
  
  
• Enforce minimal data push at the consensus layer (Nov 15th' 2019 upgrade).
  
  
• Transaction index database improvements (*)
  
  
• Add transaction rate trend graph in Qt debug dialog

Release notes: https://github.com/BitcoinUnlimited/BitcoinUnlimited/blob/dev/doc/release-notes/release-notes-bucash1.7.0.md

Bitcoin Unlimited 1.7.0.0 is now available on Docker Hub
https://hub.docker.com/r/zquestz/bitcoin-unlimited

https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin-unlimited/+archive/ubuntu/bucash
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This release is compatible the Bitcoin Cash protocol. To update already installed packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade​

To install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin-unlimited/bucash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install bitcoind bitcoin-qt​

Starting from this update the repository is serving also ElectrsCash(*) v.1.0, for now just for the amd64 architecture. To install it just execute this command:

sudo apt install electrscash

See the official announcement and the release notes for more details:

https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/dgc8mq/bitcoin_unlimited_170_has_just_been_released/

https://github.com/BitcoinUnlimited/BitcoinUnlimited/blob/bucash1.7.0.0/doc/release-notes-bucash.md

(*) ElectrsCash is an efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server written in Rust

Credit to @sickpig for the summary and Zquestz for the docker update.