Coming Up: BitShares TESTNET Hardfork

to avoid confusion, the TESTNET will be forked and, surprise, tested thoroughly first before the main network forks.

pc on BitSharestalk wrote:

A testnet hardfork has been scheduled on testnet for friday 2017-09-15 12:00:00 UTC.

Changelog:

• BSIP-0018 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/340
• Improved startup time https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/339
• Fix for early withdrawal claims https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/23
• Fix for bug in vote evaluation https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/369
• Fix to prohibit voting for non-existant entities https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/348
• Some API changes
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/352
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/344
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/347
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/330
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/311
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/312
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/306
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/304
• new option --plugins for run-time selection of active plugins https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/288
• Fix for the "no blocks to pop" message during shutdown https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/336
• Fix for transaction signing in cli_wallet https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/321
• Improved error logging https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/332
• Get rid of broken flat_index https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/335
• Fix for blockchain crash https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/324

witnesses this will be our test run for the hardfork on mainnet. Please create witness nodes on testnet and ask xeroc to vote you in.

GitHub: https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/tree/test-2.0.170909