Version 8.0 Released
This patch is aimed at fixing a number of IO and thread performance issues, it's a recommended upgrade for everyone.
Changes:
- Reorganized the bootstrap code to be more readable and also fixed a number of edge cases where it would start from the beginning
- Votes coming off the network no longer cause an IO write every time greatly reducing running IO
- Blocks are processed in a single queue greatly reducing bootstrap disk IO
- Fixed issue where network requests would wait for IO to complete lowering throughput
- Fixed issue where log rotation size couldn't be changed
- Fixed an issue where the database resizing could cause a crash
- Tracking and displaying peer version number in GUI and RPCs
- Fixed a number of issues found with clang sanitizers