Released on July 17, 2018

Changelog:

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Added

• Support for Qt 5.9 (@TheCharlatan)
• Compatibility with boost-1.67 (@ravonn)
• Calculations to reduce network time offset (@jamescowens)
• Feedback for addnode RPC command (@tomasbrod)
• Added data acquisiton commands (@tomasbrod):
  • getrecentblocks
  • exportstats1
  • getsupervotes
• /var/lib/boinc/ as a valid boinc path on Linux (@rsparlin)
• Stress testing script (@Foggyx420)
• refhash command also on linux (@jamescowens)
• Documentation for out of source build (@TheCharlatan)

Changed

• More accurate time to stake and network weight estimations (@jamescowens)
• Compressed image files (@Peppernrino)
• Poll (voting) code refactoring (@TheCharlatan)
• BITCOIN optimize command listunspent (@Foggyx420)
• RPC server refactoring (Wladimir J. van der Laan) (@TheCharlatan)
• Replace json spirit with Univalue JSON library (@TheCharlatan)
• Change repository URL (@Foggyx420)
• Pretty-print rpc output (@ravonn)
• Logging for debugging reward computation (@tomasbrod)
• Clean-up beacon manipulation (@Foggyx420)

Fixed

• Building errors on Mac releated to SVG framework (@TheCharlatan)
• neural data response (?)
• neural network fixes (@Foggyx420)
• investor cpid's appearing as zeros in block index (@tomasbrod)
• ensure that daemon functionality is correct when built together with gui wallet (@jamescowens)
• improve logging, remove empty lines (@jamescowens) (@Foggyx420) (@tomasbrod) (@ravonn)
• windows socket warnings (@TheCharlatan)

Removed

• unused components of neural network (@Foggyx420)
• GRCRestarter (@Foggyx420)
• Galaza (game) (@Foggyx420)
• unused images (@barton2526)
• unused code (@Foggyx420) (@Pythonix)
• unusual activity report (@tomasbrod)
• burnamount and recipient from appcache (@tomasbrod)
• GUI FAQ (@Lenni)
• unusable limit from magnitude command (@Foggyx420)
• cgminer support (@Foggyx420)
• deprecated menu items (@jamescowens)

Downloads:

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Windows: https://download.gridcoin.us/download/downloadstake/GridcoinResearch.msi
macOS: https://github.com/Git-Jiro/homebrew-jiro/releases/
Linux: http://wiki.gridcoin.us/Linux_guide
Source: https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research
Website: https://gridcoin.us/#Downloads
Cryptocurrencytalk thread: https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/topic/1331-new-coin-launch-announcement-grc-gridcoin/

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Thank you to our main developer Rob Halförd, @ravonn, @brod, @ifoggz, @jamescowens, @rsparlin, @Pythonix, @Lenni, @fooforever, @skcin, @tahvok, @aceypilot, @cm-steem, @bullshark, @erkan, @barton26, caraka, Marix, myself, and anybody else that chipped in! No matter how long ago, or seemingly insignificant, every contribution should be recognized as a part of the whole. <3

If you feel like contributing to development, try joining our testnet, and reporting your findings to our development team on Slack or Rocket.Chat.

More info here: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@peppernrino/gridcoin-development-is-now-only-available-on-slack

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