PIVX Core version 5.6.0 is now available from: https://github.com/pivx-project/pivx/releases

This is a new major version release, including various bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: https://github.com/pivx-project/pivx/issues

Mandatory Update

PIVX Core v5.6.0 is a mandatory update for all users. This release contains new consensus rules and improvements that are not backwards compatible with older versions. Users will need to update their clients before enforcement of this update goes into effect.

Exchange address activation is scheduled to go into effect at the following time:

Mainnet: block 4,281,680. ~Feb 29th 2024.

Masternodes will need to be restarted from the controller wallet once both the masternode daemon and the controller wallet have been upgraded.

Note: In preparation for the new address type activation, upgraded peers will start rejecting non-upgraded peers a few days before the exchange address activation block height noted above, we recommend everyone to be updated at least a week prior to this time.

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/PIVX-Qt (on Mac) or pivxd/pivx-qt (on Linux).

Notable Changes

New Exchange Address Type

A new address type has been added for use by exchanges that require additional regulatory compliance. This new "exchange address" functions similarly to a regular PIVX address, but with one distinct difference; transactions originating from a SHIELD address are not allowed to be sent to said exchange addresses.

Creation of these new exchange addresses is available via the new getnewexchangeaddress RPC command. It takes an optional label (string) to set a label for the address if necessary. Functionality is the same comparatively to getnewaddress, getnewstakingaddress and getnewshieldaddress

Command is detailed below:

• getnewexchangeaddress

  Returns a new exchange address for receiving payments.
  Result:
  "address"    (string) The new exchange address.
  

Use Coin Control for masternode collateral creation

It is now possible to use the GUI's Coin Control feature to manually select which inputs you would like to use when creating a new masternode. The previous functionality of automatically selecting sufficient inputs remains however.

Generate a proposal payout address on-the-fly

Proposal creators can now choose to generate a new PIVX address to be used as a proposal's payout address directly within the proposal creation wizard.

Lockable sapling notes (SHIELD UTXOs)

The ability to "lock" SHIELD UTXOs has been added to both the RPC's lockunspent command as well as the GUI's Coin Control interface. This brings feature parity between SHIELD and Transparent UTXOs.

startmasternode RPC command cleanup

The startmasternode RPC command has had some long-time non-working options removed as part of a cleanup. Notably; the local and many options no longer exist. This is not a change in functionality, as both options have essentially done nothing for quite some time, and only led to confusion amongst users.

5.6.0 Change log

Detailed release notes follow. For convenience in locating the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and git merge commit are mentioned.

Core Features

• #2895 d293ad272c1c6545a54a80e60c32142fcd455564 [Core][GUI][RPC] Exchange Address (Liquid369)

Build System

• #2758 3e2eb99bc82b7356a6dd779c5098a5336a55e22a [Build] Update httpserver.cpp (andi448)
• #2789 5c5565924a747e26264430dead72d509fafcded5 [Build] Add Liquid369 gpg key (Liquid369)
• #2799 e8cf23395ebc83f6b5dde49f497ced0e40baf5dd [Build] Bump master to 5.5.99 (pre-6.0) (Fuzzbawls)
• #2803 ad9ecf88ab89a775fa18b4f52fdd6b5cdf170981 [Build] Bump copyright year to 2023 (Fuzzbawls)
• #2816 c36e8c5b51cac3eae4be6cac4e5596876bc40ae1 [Build] Fix build with configure flag --enable-mining-rpc (PeterL73)
• #2821 523877c255915567a6d09795c3cdb51a38c6ac98 [Build] Disable libsep256k1's openssl tests (Fuzzbawls)
• #2839 aadf4bb2c2f578712b1050d29ad4b526ebb14297 [Build] Minor fixups and simplifications for macdeploy (Fuzzbawls)
• #2868 30ae211daf009234d9e64ef7c4a8b0f06293ca15 [Build] Add header files (Duddino)
• #2896 ea3d1d6b3f838043a5eaf438abb9adbfba39fde7 [Build] Further security and symbol checking updates (Fuzzbawls)
• #2899 badb446e0b5c8ade5b26d4c944f96cb64afed44e [Build] Update copyright year to 2024 (Fuzzbawls)
• #2901 cdda6450ba6a16c71db62e66436b98471d9c8b8d [Build] Add duddino GPG key (Duddino)

Depends System

• #2826 a161b1d31a0e15116fd8968790d97ce8d1be1a01 [Depends] Bump zlib to v1.2.13 (Fuzzbawls)
• #2872 8c4ffa642981ccff126f9fe138117177861684cb [Depends] Bump Rust toolchain to 1.69.0 (Fuzzbawls)

P2P Protocol and Network Code

• #2824 cfc110e0a0750cb8903a17704f9e9c59b344cf9a [P2P] Rate limiting rumored address processing (Liquid369)
• #2849 39656e39125ab0eea58459e1f295aa6122203298 [P2P] Do not fully sort all nodes for addr relay (Liquid369)
• #2850 9ea6a1bd39951b33b9ece40b30642bda00d42524 [P2P] Increase performance of Good (Liquid369)
• #2851 f07f32c09a99542f292154051fadd13c2cdee40f [Net] Add Liquid DNS Seeder for mainnet (Liquid369)

GUI

• #2798 9e2a102f3d3f19c3259e7771d8a073308f3dc8db [GUI] Adds copy button to proposal recipient address (Liquid369)
• #2828 89f3f9853d414ae607a4b85055ee470735ba0447 [GUI] Proposal Generate Address (Liquid369)
• #2829 106e72e59ef4c6ac116eca55b29adcce90b4212a [GUI] Fix bug in proposal creation (panleone)
• #2842 744b3241943006936bf9747d87982ec7f463c6d7 [GUI] Show memo in self s->s txs (panleone)
• #2852 aca81a13cfb6f3e1cbb4999107d065510b61473c [GUI] Fix ban actions in peer list (Liquid369)
• #2854 a428bc28b645d0da77de4b40d19a7cfa6ff63af1 [GUI] Don't always clear coin control (panleone)
• #2859 fec4cfe2af5d5474de4b6a70320057d19bd913e1 [GUI] CoinControl Change (panleone)
• #2860 62d745982e96a48ecbaed364d1b055f9ad222719 [Bug] Fix toggle lock button (panleone)
• #2862 1f0db3868ad577d72c44171e9d4f27f9aa923fc6 [GUI] CoinControl for masternodes (panleone)
• #2863 6c26a0eb772dbfccbdbaff0129068f1427b4f843 [Bug] [GUI] Fix focus on send transaction (panleone)
• #2865 559e4f1dc39e1e65029462d92d42e6c7e40d5697 [GUI] Add differentiation for Shielded Memos (Liquid369)
• #2874 d0cf09312df121894803386757ac3ef3bc9d2f2c [GUI] Periodic make translate (Fuzzbawls)
• #2893 012387d563647a2a1898aa381dada16eba346761 [GUI] Remove unused addressbookpage references (Fuzzbawls)

RPC/REST

• #2833 25bcf8600faff97bb63e60440d65193d426bb9f2 [RPC] Cleanup startmasternode command (Fuzzbawls)
• #2856 f02ab524131e79805910c846a8569ba3beea9145 [RPC] Fix Invalidateblock (panleone)
• #2873 05fdf6040adf0b3517b294b3a8729400522ee06e [RPC][MN] Serialize in ADDRV2 for TorV3 in RPC's (Liquid369)

Wallet

• #2782 0bd96c8a188547be8ce4bb5415610e0285ec76d2 [Wallet] Fix stake split output count calculation (PeterL73)
• #2812 ac8a74dc2a946df609c6d200a9367f1264fb638f [Wallet] Fix AutoCombineDust and improve setautocombinethreshold (panleone)
• #2861 326321d511e600a0d6a75350eb6cfe9832604528 [Wallet] Locked sapling notes (panleone)

Testing Frameworks

• #2822 0d779aa53d7e67a73e968e5c04fe4446a1021d98 [Tests] Replace hashlib.ripemd160 with native implementation (Fuzzbawls)
• #2832 6e50e49eea89b8ea15e4bcf8def69f4b36b4116a [Tests] Run tiertwo and sapling functional tests by default (Fuzzbawls)
• #2840 0d2051a82c5fa5fb28c43bc9e1fa2c92ae7b4d78 [Tests] Add further RPC test coverage for cold staking (Fuzzbawls)
• #2867 3a7ab3d715e54ef9583b436a52315ec168193977 [Core][Tests] Cleanup HTTPServer start and stop (Liquid369)
• #2877 42643088e5052faab4fb4fa9a53f7bdc05970e52 [Tests][Scripts] Bump Python version to 3.8 and add more linting (Fuzzbawls)
• #2878 0ab665dfef9082acff0e32d62df46b7ca859d1d1 [Lint] lint spelling (Fuzzbawls)
• #2881 6829cfd172b410e4de169bea3f9663f4b220c949 [Tests] Fix random fee generation (panleone)

Scripts and Tools

• #2806 e4634a5d53d24502056f22f95379b22c69275579 [Tools] Sanitize existing clang-format rules (Fuzzbawls)
• #2827 38df19c2672b60c90ec315fd781dde3183bb81d1 [Tools] Fix case typo in .clang-format (Fuzzbawls)
• #2855 616cc4823f6a04cdcf8790ab5d7766189064eaf3 [Scripts] Delete redundant util/fetch-params.sh (Liquid369)
• #2892 658f2fe46e27b7db1b2b7df31725383cfcd13fa1 [Scripts][GUI] Overhaul translation ingestion script and update translations from Transifex (Fuzzbawls)

Continuous Integration

• #2787 286c318db2fc451bfdea2605ff11aabf68fb0298 [GA] Update depreciated actions (Fuzzbawls)
• #2817 9240e153f3074cb0537e72c887e1715449e7b7a1 [GA] Bump GA linux workers to Ubuntu 20.04 (Fuzzbawls)
• #2825 e1e376e494fab2fac33d85bb3477ef8f776e378e [GA] Reorganize and optimize GA runner flow (Fuzzbawls)
• #2857 05e73a0ef50c2886c48faf1d330d810f7112584b [GA] Overhaul GA caches (Fuzzbawls)
• #2891 028a1eaa1d8cdc1ff3ebe8463182189007092094 [GA] Fix macOS runs (Fuzzbawls)
• #2897 c53095a9ed8b672c15d22f3ef21a15cbc427d3be [GA] Update actions to node20 versions (Fuzzbawls)
• #2903 03f038b82fa724978b112def30192abdfb279904 [GA] Link Boost 1.76 regardless of pre-existing version (Fuzzbawls)

Internal Libraries

• #2753 aa9be76d1313a86db0c8411c85ee518ef3f2a526 [Libs] Re-introduce immer header-only library as a git subtree (Fuzzbawls)
• #2807 59e4c1acb092abc46b825fd461a86fef0e80bd71 [Libs] Update chiabls subtree library (Fuzzbawls)
• #2853 5d71589ab8043772fe87df982a6f3d6d7effb608 [Libs] Bump chiabls subtree (Fuzzbawls)
• #2870 7488a2721da8a4defc08d145dadd3c3065e2735d [Libs] Update librustzcash (Duddino)

Documentation

• #2788 d3acaa09f5fd9d5ef4a95ca7cd2b1a674e7851ce [Doc] Don't include dependency paths in Doxygen or Coverage (Fuzzbawls)
• #2846 28c9eaba5d89b7dd77d128bd88d2465b4d883e3c [Doc] Remove bitness from pivx-qt help message and manpage (Fuzzbawls)
• #2894 3c1f32fb1258aa80f9683e0a84f466a8535fea98 [Doc] Update Ubuntu ppa source for db4.8 (Fuzzbawls)
• #2898 a949c658b815bc2e817c238aab00ed4711844939 [Doc] Update gpg keyserver URL (Fuzzbawls)

Miscellaneous

• #2266 8b983704a31eddd16d036e7ccadccdad8d304c11 [Cleanup] Use C++11 nullptr instead of NULL (Fuzzbawls)
• #2793 e9c73031615b9263019102721b4e3e077fc556b2 [Consensus] Set v5.5.0 superblock checkpoint block hash. (Fuzzbawls)
• #2841 14d859ccb593a684013e2c1526ef2b19ec4b6a5b [Core] Remove unused PoW block signing code (panleone)
• #2845 83dd4542659aad2eaeb1ca2f84ff3388a06fa71b [Core] Unify binary exit codes (Fuzzbawls)
• #2847 05f0662f73a78261e0d8d55a4053afdd2e4aee18 [ZMQ] Call va_end() on va_start()ed args. (Fuzzbawls)
• #2848 b33843bfdba8e5935bcaa0bfd37de2c892329922 [Misc] Cleanup whitespace and guard RPC tables from clang-format (Fuzzbawls)
• #2900 9a60dd86d7d17f4aa922c69831950a3a997cb2a1 [Core] Bump Protocol Version to 70927 (Liquid369)

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

• Duddino
• Fuzzbawls
• Liquid369
• PeterL73
• andi448
• panleone

As well as everyone that helped translating on Transifex, the QA team during Testing and the Node hosts supporting our Testnet.@