1.6.2

1.6.2 is now available for download. This release adds WalletConnect support as well as handful of other bug fixes and improvements.

Note: If you are running one of the 1.7.0 beta/rc builds from an installer, you may need to manually uninstall Chia prior to using a 1.6.2 installer.

For End Users:

• Use WalletConnect to connect the Chia reference wallet to your favorite DApps
• New fee input box available everywhere in Farming Mode where you can provide a fee
• Add a memo when sending XCH

For Farmers:

• Add and remove full nodes that you do or don’t want to connect to

For Developers:

• DID RPCs to give access to retrieving and updating the DID metadata and for creating a spendbundle with a DID announcement
• Improvement to the NFT minting RPCs to also include coin ID

Added

• Add WalletConnect
• Add Bladebit v2 plotting support (RAM and Disk)
• Add chia keys show --json (display all keys as json) (thanks @kimsk)
• Add chia data get_sync_status CLI and RPC.
• Add download progress log and stream in Datalayer (thanks @Chida82)
• Add wallet RPC /get_spendable_coins
• Add wallet RPC /get_coin_records_by_names
• Add wallet RPC /verify_signature
• Add wallet RPC /did_message_spend
• Add wallet RPC /did_get_info
• Add wallet RPC /nft_set_did_bulk
• Add options --max-coin-amount and --exclude-coin-ids to chia wallet send
• Add --fingerprint option to chia keys show
• Add SECURITY.md
• Add GUI support for adding and removing full node peers
• New GUI setting for NFT image scaling
• New GUI warning if the GUI version is different from the back-end version

Changed

• Remove legacy keyring support
• Drop support for bladebit v1 and use bladebit v2 for RAM and Disk plots
• Removed remaining vestiges of defunct backup service
• debug_spend_bundle -- print coin id as hex string
• Only open SQLite log file once per db wrapper
• Switch to context manager for task timing instrumentation
• Revert rate limiting messages from warning back to debug
• add_private_key now returns the fingerprint of the added key
• SQLite log the full node db version check
• Delete DID wallet after transfer
• Don't validate weight proof on wallet log_in
• Drop broken message types logging
• Return minted NFT ID & Allow transfer NFT with NFT ID
• Display key labels when making a wallet key selection
• Add support for pending transactions to get_mempool_item_by_tx_id() (thanks @rwarren)
• Simplify the mempool manager instantiation
• Add coin id and address to NFT Details screen in GUI
• New GUI prefs location under CHIA_ROOT
• Removed SkyNFT references
• Add GUI memo field when sending XCH
• Update to Electron 20.3.5

Fixed

• Fixed a missing state_changed GUI notification
• Minor sync optimizations and refactor; eliminate redundant weight proof requests
• Upped the number of file handles for madmax
• Catch exceptions raised when resolving plot directories (fix #13723)
• Call close callback for already closed connections (fix #9172)
• Set GUI binary name to chia-blockchain in the Fedora rpm and Ubuntu deb (fix #13847)
• Add simple fix to set farmer response timer for SP: 0 (fix #11869, #10900) (thanks @neurosis69)
• Preserve correct MempoolItem block height when rebuilding mempool
• Windows: start daemon without a window and detached from current console (fix #13175) (thanks @jcteng)
• Fix pool singleton sync height in DB
• Remove duplicate nft wallet deletion in reorg
• Fix DID unnecessary wallet deletion
• Improve performance of wallets with many NFTs
• Stop creating unecessary index in notification store (fix #13955)
• Fix issues in switching pools introduced in 1.6.0 (fix #13872)
• Handle incoming unknown capabilities
• GUI Offer Builder displays totals with royalties when requesting an NFT
• Fixed NFT inbox detection
• Convert and cache NFT metadata as UTF-8
• Fixed issue with switching between farmer and wallet modes (GUI issue #1005)
• Improve error message when sending more mojos than Spendable Balance