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# Release 3.1 - (to be released)
# Release 3.1 - (March 5, 2018)
* Memory-pool based transaction fees. Users can set dynamic fees that
target a desired depth in the memory pool. This feature is
optional, and ETA-based estimates (from Bitcoin Core) remain the
default. Note that miners could exploit this feature, if they
conspired and filled the memory pool with expensive transactions
that never get mined. However, since the Electrum client already
trusts an Electrum server with fee estimates, activating this
feature does not introduce any new vulnerability; the client uses a
hard threshold to detect unusually high fees. In practice,
ETA-based estimates have resulted in sticky fees, and caused many
users to overpay for transactions. Advanced users tend to visit
(and trust) websites that display memory-pool data in order to set
their fees.
* Memory-pool based fee estimation. Dynamic fees can target a desired
depth in the memory pool. This feature is optional, and ETA-based
estimates from Bitcoin Core are still available. Note that miners
could exploit this feature, if they conspired and filled the memory
pool with expensive transactions that never get mined. However,
since the Electrum client already trusts an Electrum server with
fee estimates, activating this feature does not introduce any new
vulnerability. In addition, the client uses a hard threshold to
protect itself from servers sending excessive fee estimates. In
practice, ETA-based estimates have resulted in sticky fees, and
caused many users to overpay for transactions. Advanced users tend
to visit (and trust) websites that display memory-pool data in
order to set their fees.
* Capital gains: For each outgoing transaction, the difference
between the acquisition and liquidation prices of outgoing coins is
displayed in the wallet history. By default, historical exchange
rates are used to compute acquisition and liquidation prices. These
values can also be entered manually, in order to match the actual
price realized by the user. The order of liquidation of coins is
the natural order defined by the blockchain; this results in
capital gain values that are invariant to changes in the set of
addresses that are in the wallet. Any other ordering strategy (such
as FIFO, LIFO) would result in capital gain values that depend on
the presence of other addresses in the wallet.
* Local transactions: Transactions can be saved in the wallet without
being broadcast. The inputs of local transactions are considered as
spent, and their change outputs can be re-used in subsequent
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* Watching-only wallets and hardware wallets can be encrypted.
* Semi-automated crash reporting
* The SSL checkbox option was removed from the GUI.
* Capital gains: For each outgoing transaction, the difference
between the acquisition and liquidation prices of outgoing coins is
displayed in the wallet history. By default, historical exchange
rates are used to compute acquisition and liquidation prices. These
values can also be entered manually, in order to match the actual
price realized by the user. The order of liquidation of coins is
the natural order defined by the blockchain; this results in
capital gain values that are invariant to changes in the set of
addresses that are in the wallet. Any other ordering strategy (such
as FIFO, LIFO) would result in capital gain values that depend on
the set of addresses in the wallet.
* A new version of the Electrum protocol is required by the client
(version 1.2). Servers using older versions of the protocol will
not be displayed in the GUI.
* The Trezor T hardware wallet is now supported.
* BIP84: native segwit p2wpkh scripts for bip39 seeds and hardware
wallets can now be created when specifying a BIP84 derivation
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Note that due to this change, testnet wallet files created with previous
versions of Electrum must be considered broken, and they need to be
recreated from seed words.
* A new version of the Electrum protocol is required by the client
(version 1.2). Servers using older versions of the protocol will
not be displayed in the GUI.
# Release 3.0.6 :