v2.0.17

Major

• -blockmaxcomplexity switch, limit transactions to be included into blocks based on block complexity.
• -deprecatedgetblocktemplate switch, disable block complexity calculation and use the previous GetBlockTemplate implementation.
• getblockfinalityindex RPC method, display contextual confidence value of needed confirmations for block to be considered final, taking into account possible parallel penalized chains
• getglobaltips utility RPC method, display known chaintips including possible parallel penalized chains
• Additions to the 51% attack prevention implementation adjusting block propagation of penalized chains
• Multiple test cases added for all new features

Minor

• Update zeromq dependency fixing CVE-2019-6250
• Fix libsodium fall-back dl-path
• Backport of zcash/zcash#3897, fixes security issue https://z.cash/support/security/announcements/security-announcement-2019-03-19/ reported to Zcash by Alexis Enston, thanks to the original reporter and the Zcash team for notifying us about the issue!
• Updates to documentation addressing DNS rebinding attacks with ZMQ/AMQP, Zcash PR zcash/zcash#3890, credit to @zebambam.
• New mainnet and testnet checkpoint blocks
• Aria2 added to fetch-params.sh DL methods, wget resume support more robust

Install

Debian package dependencies:

Depends amd64: libc6 (>= 2.18), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2), libgomp1 (>= 4.9), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Depends arm64: libc6 (>= 2.25), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2), libgomp1 (>= 4.9), libstdc++6 (>= 7)

Binaries

Windows and macOS binaries are signed with a valid certificate,
see included instructions.txt for Win/Mac command line wallets.

NOTE: the bitcore binaries are built from the AddressIndexing branch and are intended for block explorers

UPDATE 2019-04-15: Zen_Win_binaries_v2.0.17.zip repackaged fixing HTTPS not working with included wget.exe