Congrats to the Decred project on releasing version 1.6!
https://decred.org/release/
Don't forget to verify your installer by hashing with sha256 and comparing to the PGP signed manifests on github.
And of course if you've been buying ticktes using the Decrediton 1.6 release candidate, you don't need to log into the website at all. You can simply (and privately) select your voting choice directly in your own wallet.
I finally spent some time learning to use vimdiff as a git mergetool!
Testnet vsp is back and upgraded. :D
Make sure to upgrade to RC5 if you're running release candidates. RC4 and prior will no longer be able to purchase tickets after a recent api change.
There was an unplanned server reboot this morning, after which mastodon-web/tootctl were throwing an exception "NameError: uninitialized constant ActiveSupport::Logger::WARNING"
After debugging for a couple hours, blowing away and restoring several times, I finally compared fresh-install environment variables to the production config. That's when I found the spurious var "RAILS_LOG_LEVEL=warning" that I must have forgotten about. Removing that resolved the exception. Derp! Lesson learned..
vspd has been upgraded to head which includes a new api improvement (the ticket parent transaction) that should signficantly reduce the amount of time to confirm a fee for a ticket and verify that it has been added to the vsp. all voting nodes have been moved up to rc3 as well over the weekend. ie. we're ready for RC4 which will include this api improvement!
Network status updates and maintenance notifications will land here now!
This instance is open to the Decred community. Invitation link: https://citadel.stakey.net/invite/tZ2Cm5FX