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Orchid Release v0.5.1 Is Here

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Orchid Release v0.5.1 Is Here

A new RSK Orchid release has been published in our Github repo.This release is mainly focused on bug fixing and security improvements.

This is a summary of the changes included in this version:

  • Collect NodeHandler reputation when purging (#641)
  • Consider gasPrice in miner transactions selection algorithm (#651)
  • Bug fixing and code clean up (#640, #642, #643, #644, #650, #653)

You can find a complete list of the changes introduced in the corresponding Github milestone.

Version 0.5.1 release’s sha256 sum is 24d021a33d45917826b6d5da84e206368d8ac6de20abc55a89466404155c697d rskj-core-0.5.1-ORCHID-all.jar. See Reproducible Build guide for further details.

We encourage all users to update to this new version. Please reach out with any feedback you would like to share with us, you can contact us directly on our Gitter community or directly through creating issues in our Github repository.

If you are new to RSK, you may want to check our Starting with RSK guide and Smart Contracts quick start tutorial to find out how to start working on the RSK platform

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