Release 1.2.8 ("On the trail of The Heisenbug")

This is a bug-fix release with two major fixes:

• #558 - ethminer was broken in v1.2.6 and v1.2.7 and would never deliver work.
• #546 - workaround for Mix crash-at-boot on OS X El Capitan due to The Heisenbug

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IMPORTANT - If you have ever contributed code to cpp-ethereum, please look through #530 - Get to clarity on licensing and copyright . We are considering re-licensing as Apache 2.0, but are still missing some contributor contact details. Can you help?

Changelog - eth-v1.2.8

• #558 - ethminer was broken in v1.2.6 and v1.2.7 and would never deliver work.
  • Thanks to Iancu Aurel, jtremblaytdst, Ross Perkins and wariner84 for the bug reports.
• #568 - Correct LICENSE file to show GPLv3 and removed confusing language around MIT.
  • Thanks to Alex Beregszaszi and Alex Leverington.
• #559 - Added Solidity Emscripten deployment script using TravisCI.
• ethereum/libethereum#274 - Update tests to 64bit block gas limit
• ethereum/evmjit#63 - Updated EVMJIT sub-module, to remove accidental use of CMake 3.1 feature. Back to CMake 3.0+ as min version.
• ethereum/libweb3core#84 - Using c_defaultListenPort constant rather than hardcoded IP port, courtesy of ijcoe6ru.
• ethereum/webthree#177 - Added test_setChainParams RPC.
• #557 - OpenCL detection fix. Thanks to Wainer Security for working through various openSUSE build issues with us.
• Many thanks to everybody who contributed changes to this release:
  • Paweł Bylica
  • Dimitry Khoklov
  • Christian Reitwießner
  • Bob Summerwill
  • ijcoe6ru
  • Wainer Security

Changelog - mix-v1.0.5

• See main mix-v1.0.5 release page
• ethereum/mix#312 - Improved handling and error messages for creation of projects in existing folders.
• ethereum/mix#315 - Link directly to build instructions
• #546 - Temporarily forcing OS X binaries to Debug in ethbinaries.sh release process, as workaround for The Heisenbug.
• Many thanks to everybody who contributed changes to this release:
  • Jason Carver
  • Dimitry Khoklov
  • Christian Reitwießner
  • Bob Summerwill
  • Yann Levreau.

Changelog - solidity-v0.3.5

• See main Solidity-v0.3.5 release page
• Context-dependent path remappings (different modules can use the same library in different versions)
• Type Checking: Dynamic return types were removed when fetching data from external calls, now they are replaced by an "unusable" type.
• Type Checking: Overrides by constructors were considered making a function non-abstract.
• Many thanks to everybody who contributed changes to this release:
  • Alex Beregszaszi
  • Denton Liu
  • Christian Reitwießner
  • Bob Summerwill
  • Giacomo Tazzari
  • Wainer Security

Links and instructions

Platform	Build from source	Primary binaries	Secondary binaries
Windows	Build for Windows	Installer [help]	ZIP
OS X Yosemite	Build for OS X	DMG [help]	ZIP
OS X El Capitan	Build for OS X	DMG [help]	ZIP
Ubuntu + derivatives	Build for Linux	PPA [help]

Notes

• AlethZero is still included in this release but will be slowly phased out during the next releases.
• We support building from source on a very broad range of platforms, much broader than the subset we have official binaries for. Check out the full building from source instructions.
• Please ignore the source archives below, which are auto-generated by Github and are missing the git sub-modules.
• Use the v1.2.8 tag of this repo instead, cloned recursively.