Gridcoin 4.0.6.0-Leisure "Ernestine" Release

Wait you say? Another "E" milestone release? Yes, indeed! There is so much going into Fern, and we were originally going to do a hotfix only, but we decided to do a release with the hotfixes and most of the non-mandatory stuff for Fern in a second "E" milestone. So, enjoy Ernestine.

Thanks to the core devs and the testers under @barton26 for testing the post Elizabeth code and the release candidates!

Some highlights worth mentioning:

• Random shuffle of sidestake entries if more than six are specified to allow more than six entries to sidestake.
• Multisig tools for easier multisig administration
• Port of Bitcoin "Peers" tab and port of Bitcoin banning manager
• Selection of smallest rather than random UTXO's to send contracts (beacons and votes)
• Handle the missing external CPID in client_state.xml which was causing some people to not show as researchers
• Support boost 1.70+ for the newest Arch and others moving to ultra new boost versions.
• Lots of other stuff to set the stage for Fern that isn't visible on the surface yet.

https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research/releases/tag/4.0.6.0

Here is the changelog:

[4.0.6.0] 2019-10-22, leisure, "Ernestine"

Added

• Add testnet desktop launcher action for Linux #1516 (@caraka)
• Shuffle vSideStakeAlloc if necessary to support sidestaking to more than 6 destinations #1532 (@jamescowens)
• New Superblock format preparations for Fern #1526, #1542 (@jamescowens, @cyrossignol)
• Multisigtools
  • Consolidate multisig unspent #1529 (@iFoggz)
  • Scanforunspent #1547 (@iFoggz)
  • consolidatemsunspent and scanforunspent bug fix #1561 (@iFoggz)
• New banning misbehavior handling and Peers Tab on Debug Console #1537 (@jamescowens)
• Reimplement getunconfirmedbalance rpc #1548 (@jamescowens)
• Add CLI switch to display binary version #1553 (@cyrossignol)

Changed

• Select smallest coins for contracts #1519 (@iFoggz)
• Move some functionality from miner to SelectCoinsForStaking + Respect the coin reserve setting + Randomize UTXO order #1525 (@iFoggz)
• For voting - if url does not contain http then add it #1531 (@ifoggz)
• Backport newer serialization facilities from Bitcoin #1535 (@cyrossignol)
• Refactor ThreadSocketHandler2() Inactivity checks #1538 (@iFoggz)
• Update outdated checkpoints #1539 (@barton2526)
• Change needed to build Gridcoin for OSX using homebrew #1540 (@Git-Jiro)
• Optimize scraper traffic for expiring manifests #1542 (@jamescowens)
• Move legacy neural vote warnings to debug log level #1560 (@cyrossignol)
• Change banlist save interval to 5 minutes #1564 (@jamescowens)
• Change default rpcconsole.ui window size to better support new Peers tab #1566 (@jamescowens)

Removed

• Remove deprecated RSA weight and legacy kernel #1507 (@cyrossignol)

Fixed

• Clean up compiler warnings #1521 (@cyrossignol)
• Handle missing external CPID in client_state.xml #1530 (@cyrossignol)
• Support boost 1.70+ #1533 (@iFoggz)
• Fix diagnostics failed to make connection to NTP server #1545 (@Git-Jiro)
• Install manpages in correct system location #1546 (@Git-Jiro)
• Fix ability to show help and version without a config file #1553 (@cyrossignol)
• Refactor QT UI variable names to be more consistent, Fix Difficulty default #1563 (@barton2526)
• Fix two regressions in previous UI refactor #1565 (@barton2526)
• Fix "Owed" amount in output of "magnitude" RPC method #1569 (@cyrossignol)