Hi AVN Community,

Our new major release, Avian 4.1.0, includes the block reward dev fee, important security updates, improved network efficiency, faster loading speeds, and other new features.

This release contains the code for block reward dev fee and assets activation.

MANDATORY UPDATE WARNING - Please ensure that you have updated your wallet/node to this version prior to 5th October 2022 when block reward changes kick in, if you are running any older versions past this point you will be on the incorrect chain.

How to Upgrade

If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Avian-Qt (on Mac)
or aviand/avian-qt (on Linux).

Downgrading warning

It is not recommended that users downgrade their version. Version 4.1.0 contains
changes that will fork the chain, users not running 4.1.0 will be not
be able to participate in this fork process and will be left on the old chain which
will not be valid.

Notable changes

• 5% Block reward dev fee
• Assets activation
• PoW cache for faster speeds
• Add pruning setting to the UI
• Wallet repair tab
• New RPC to get stuck transactions: liststucktransactions
• AIP-04 Avian Name System (testnet)
• Working regtest for development

Security Updates

• Avian will now tightly manage memory usage during high network traffic or when connected to slow peers.
• Bitcoin backports
• ...and many more

New Contributors

• @furcalor made their first contribution in #171
• @JunaidPeer made their first contribution in #159

Read the full detailed changelog: https://github.com/AvianNetwork/Avian/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-4.1.0.md