v1.0

We are happy to announce the release of 1.0 This release includes binaries, which can be downloaded above.

About this Release

This major release contains new features, improvements and bugfixes and we consider this a stable release.

Notable changes:

DIP0002 - Special Transactions
DIP0003 - Deterministic Masternode Lists
DIP0004 - Simplified Verification of Deterministic Masternode Lists
Automatic InstantSend for "simple" transactions, which make up about 90% of all transactions seen on the network
Multiple improvements to PrivateSend, including the introduction of multi-session mixing
Changes in getblocktemplate, miners please take a note (also see Coinbase Special Transaction in DIP0004)
New ZMQ notifications for Governance
New Masternode Tab for DIP3 Masternodes
Various RPC changes and new command-line options
Lots of translation updates, refactoring and bug fixes