summary:A major update that is ready for the March 9th network upgrade
tags:[releases]
author:Riccardo Spagni (fluffypony)
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### Overview
This is the v0.14.0 release of the Monero software. This major release is due to the March 9th network update, which in turn adds a new PoW based on Cryptonight-R, adds a new block weight algorithm, and introduces a slightly more efficient RingCT format. This is a intermediary, stable release specifically for the network update, and does not represent the bulk of the effort on Monero over the past 6 months. That effort will be in the 0.14.1 release, which will follow in March after the network update.
Some highlights of this major release are:
- New PoW based on Cryptonight-R
- New block weight algorithm
- New slightly more efficient RingCT format
- Placeholder short payment ID to increase transaction uniformity
- Obsolete long payment IDs are now disabled unless a switch is used
- New event notifications for large block rate changes and blockchain reorgs
- Unmixable outputs can be spent again
- Fix bad pruned transactions JSON in RPC
- Some build fixes for various platforms/setups
- Fix for crash on exit
### Contributors for this Release
This intermediary release was the direct result of 11 people who worked, largely unpaid and altruistically, to put out 72 commits containing 5 981 new lines of code. We'd like to thank them very much for their time and effort. In no particular order they are:
A GPG-signed list of the hashes is at https://getmonero.org/downloads/hashes.txt and should be treated as canonical, with the signature checked against the appropriate GPG key in the source code (in /utils/gpg_keys)
