Parity 1.6.8

Changelog:

This release addresses:

• a rare condition where quickly creating a new account was generating an account not matching the recovery phrase.
• compressed RLP strings caused wrong/empty transaction receipts on Classic network.
• blacklisting the empty phrase account from UI and RPC on non-development chains. See also this blog post.
• canceling transactions that didn't have a condition.
• the updated Expanse fork block and chain ID.

Full changelog:

• Backporting to beta #5791
  • Bump to v1.6.8
  • Update expanse json with fork at block 600000 #5351
    • Update expanse json with fork at block 600000
    • Update exp chainID to 2
  • Bumped mio #5763
  • Fixed default UI port for mac installer #5782
  • Blacklist empty phrase account. #5730
  • Update Cid/multihash/ring/tinykeccak #5785
    • Updating ring,multihash,tiny-keccak
    • Updating CID in ipfs.
  • Disable compression for RLP strings #5786
• Beta Backports #5789
  • Fix local transactions without condition. #5716
  • Block invalid account name creation #5784
    • Additional non-empty phrase check (fromNew)
    • Explicit canCreate check in create (not only on UI)
    • BN instance check (fixes Geth imports)
    • Fixup tests after better checks
  • Recover from empty phrase in dev mode #5698
    • Add dev chain to isTest
    • Fix signer
    • Fix no condition transactions
    • Fix case: old parity
    • Fix propTypes.

Downloads

OS	Architecture	File	MD5 Checksum
linux	aarch64	parity_1.6.8_arm64.deb	d49d2de3bab4538cfb6a5b504ec76494
linux	armv7	parity_1.6.8_armhf.deb	f78031df6777d369ac114598a193319a
linux	x86_64	parity_1.6.8_amd64.deb	92ff746bb2d64fab00e64bbcd7b97bfa
darwin	x86_64	parity-1.6.8-osx-installer.pkg	eb006a866b1bf618b34d45b6c4032c91
windows	x86_64	InstallParity.exe	80b865a677da0418e4aa23a6fc61ea32

Homebrew: https://github.com/ethcore/homebrew-ethcore/blob/master/README.md
Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/ethcore/parity
Ubuntu snap package (Experimental)