Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.24 "Betty Holberton"

After a too-long gap, Trinity has been released again! It goes out under the name "Betty Holberton".

This release has a huge set of changes. There are improvements to peer discovery & communication, sync reliability, performance, and custom networks.

With each release we like to highlight one of the amazing women from history and present day.
Meet Betty Holberton, one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC. Holberton invented breakpoints in computer debugging.

We continue making significant progress, but still much work remains. Holberton's breakpoints will come in handy...

The full release notes are posted for reference.

See the quickstart guide here for information on how to install and run the Trinity client.

Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.23 "Theodora"

This is the first notable alpha release after splitting the py-evm code repository from trinity. It goes out under the name "Theodora".

This release is relatively small, but important. Constantinople (take 2) was launched on mainnet today, and this release includes support for it. Ropsten support for the fork is also included.

With each release we like to highlight one of the amazing women from history and present day.
Meet Theodora, who was an empress in Constantinople about 1500 years ago. Note that we don't condone all actions taken by people we highlight. It is simply an opportunity to learn about all kinds of complex people.

Check out the release notes for some new trinity sync options at the command line, like skipping sync altogether.

We continue to see improvements in syncing reliability and performance. Still more work to do there.

The full release notes are posted for reference.

See the quickstart guide here for information on how to install and run the Trinity client.

Constantinople Delay "White Witch"

Due to some security concerns raised today, all core devs decided to delay the hard fork.

See:

• https://medium.com/chainsecurity/constantinople-enables-new-reentrancy-attack-ace4088297d9
• https://gitter.im/ethereum/AllCoreDevs?at=5c3e0fb51cb70a372ae2c1f7

We delayed the Constantinople VM in this PR: #176