Parity 1.6.9

This is a first stable release of 1.6 series. It contains a number of minor fixes and introduces the --reseal-on-uncles option for miners.

OS	Architecture	File	MD5 Checksum
linux	aarch64	parity_1.6.9_arm64.deb	87f0231167613a99081e6de75c43e955
linux	armv7	parity_1.6.9_armhf.deb	b197707697b66efadb4f160679a9d616
linux	x86_64	parity_1.6.9_amd64.deb	35ef321c3f8a4c412fff8d59ce5905e5
linux	x86_64	parity_1.6.9_amd64.snap	a5ee94366b8eee9eef45b497589b55e7
windows	x86_64	InstallParity.exe	1849cd5861c9dd2776270196f85e13ba
darwin	x86_64	parity-1.6.9-osx-installer.pkg	cb46fb83bf2986f1d26db35406bdc7f1

Homebrew: https://github.com/ethcore/homebrew-ethcore/blob/master/README.md
Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/parity/parity

Full list of changes:

• Backports #6061
  • Ethereum Classic Monetary Policy #5741
    • Update rewards for uncle miners for ECIP1017
    • Fix an off-by-one error in ECIP1017 era calculation
    • ecip1017_era_rounds missing from EthashParams when run in build bot
    • strip out ecip1017_eras_block_reward function and add unit test
  • JS precompiled set to stable
• Backports #6060
  • --reseal-on-uncle #5940
    • Optimized uncle check
    • Additional uncle check
    • Updated comment
  • Bump to v1.6.9
  • CLI: Export error message and less verbose peer counter. #5870
    • Removed numbed of active connections from informant
    • Print error message when fatdb is required
    • Remove peers from UI