v1.8.1

This release contains important bug fixes for VSP users.

Bug fixes

• A warning is logged if a VSP fee payment could not be created due to a locked wallet (1c1bcfbd).

• VSP fee payments started by RPC requests are no longer cancelled early after the RPC returns (07854e37).

• The random duration interval during which ticket fee payment operations occur was fixed using the correct calculation of when a ticket goes live (c4c6c421).

• Fee payment confirmations are no longer assumed to be valid after they receive 6 confirmations, and the VSP is contacted to ensure that it has also confirmed the payment (7c551ce6).

• Block heights for ticket liveness and expiry are recalculated properly whenever unmined tickets are processed by the VSP client (1319da0b).

New features

• The verbose getblock and getblockheader JSON-RPC results now include a powhash field with the hash calculated for the Proof-of-Work algorithm.

Changelog

The following lists all commits since dcrwallet v1.8.0:

• 1c1bcfbd: vsp: Dont ignore locked wallet errs
• 07854e37: vsp: Hardcode background ctx
• c4c6c421: vsp: Fix blocksUntilLive calc
• 7c551ce6: vsp: Only remove confirmed payments
• 1319da0b: vsp: Recalculate live/expiry height
• bc7f095c: Bump patch version for upcoming 1.8.1 release
• a02926a8: Update dcrd JSON-RPC types module
• 7cb12ad4: Update decred dependencies

Code Contributors (alphabetical order):

• Jamie Holdstock (@jholdstock)
• Josh Rickmar (@jrick)