Gene Hoffman hoffmang9

Draft Release Notes

Summary

This release focuses on cross-platform hardware VDF maturity, release packaging, and reliability hardening.
It adds stronger Linux/macOS/Windows ARM64 support, improves CI/test signal quality, and addresses correctness and safety issues in core paths.

What's Changed

Hardware VDF and Platform Support

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"The future of money is programmable, compliant, and green." – Gene Hoffman

Claiming your OG Farmer Prizes

You will need to send a signed message to @hoffmang or @lbisio (both are preferred) on Keybase or email to hello@chia.net.

To sign the proper message you will need some data about your HD key. Don't share the full results, but reference this command for the following steps.

chia keys show

From that you will first need the Fingerprint: and the Pool public key and it's derivation path which is in the parentheses right before the Pool public key.

You will need some data about your HD key. Don't share the results, but reference this command for the following steps.

chia keys show

Grab the Fingerprint value for your key set. You will also need the keypath to your Pool Public key, e.g. (m/12381/8444/1/0). You will drop the parentheses and the leading m/ as shown below.

chia keys sign -f [fingerprint] -t [hd_path] -d [message] (sign a message with a private key)
# Working Example

Here are the new Windows install instructions as of 2020-04-21 00:30 PDT:

For beta3 chain compatibility: Download and Run https://download.chia.net/beta-1.4-win64/chia-0.1.8.exe (current at 2020-04-20-0930 PDT)

For pre-beta4 chain compatibility: Download and Run https://download.chia.net/beta-1.4-win64/chia-0.1.9.exe (current at 2020-04-21-0030 PDT)

Right click on the PowerShell application and select Run as Administrator or search for PowerShell and choose the Administrator option.

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am hoffmang9 on github.
I am hoffmang (https://keybase.io/hoffmang) on keybase.
I have a public key ASDfAMG266H11MMnk3xGygEO6hJ0OYUNQ1VztJxjtVQP5Qo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	python -c '
	import sqlite3
	import sys
	conn = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
	print("Python version:", sys.version)
	print("SQLite version:", conn.execute("select sqlite_version()").fetchone()[0])
	print("SQLite compile options\n " + "\n ".join(r[0] for r in conn.execute("pragma compile_options").fetchall()))
	for pragma in (
	"foreign_keys", "defer_foreign_keys", "ignore_check_constraints", "legacy_alter_table",
	"recursive_triggers", "writable_schema",