During sync, NotifyTransactionChanged fires for every wallet tx in
every block, each triggering 3 blocking LOCK(cs_wallet) calls on
the UI thread: updateWallet, GetAllBalances, getNumTransactions.
With the block processing thread holding cs_wallet almost continuously,
the UI thread blocks waiting for the lock - causing "not responding".
Fixes:
- GetAllBalances: LOCK → TRY_LOCK, returns false if busy
- updateWallet (tx table): LOCK → TRY_LOCK, skips if busy
- updateTransaction: removed checkBalanceChanged() call entirely
(pollBalanceChanged timer handles it every 2.5s with TRY_LOCK)
- getNumTransactions: replaced with rowCount() from cached model
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move GetStakeWeight() off the UI thread by caching in the staking
miner thread. Replace blocking LOCK(cs_vNodes) with TRY_LOCK in
clientmodel and staking icon updates. Fix out-of-sync label getting
stuck when disconnected. Add daemon bootstrap and faster IBD pipeline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Peer connectivity (small network optimizations):
- Reduce hardcoded seed fallback delay from 30s to 10s
- Reduce peer retry interval from 600s to 120s
- Lower staking minimum peers from 3 to 1
- Relay addr messages to all connected peers instead of just 2
UI responsiveness:
- Add progress reporting to ScanForWalletTransactions (every 10K blocks)
- Use TRY_LOCK in WalletModel::pollBalanceChanged to avoid blocking UI
- Use TRY_LOCK in TransactionTablePriv::refreshWallet with retry
Auto-bootstrap:
- Add bootstrap.h/cpp with HTTP download via boost::asio
- On first run, prompt user to download blockchain snapshot from
bootstrap.cryptographic-triangles.org directly into data directory
- Downloads filelist.txt manifest then each file with progress dialog
- Falls back to IP 194.233.88.206 if DNS fails
- Gracefully continues to P2P sync if bootstrap unavailable
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace random_shuffle (removed in C++17) with std::shuffle in wallet.cpp
- Add -std=c++17 to makefile.mingw (Windows daemon was missing it)
- Add lz4.o, tor_embed_hooks.o, tor_embedded.o to makefile.mingw OBJS
- Add build rules for new objects in makefile.mingw
- Simplify Tor embedded build to use aggregate libtor.a
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Startup optimization (fixes multi-minute hang on 2M+ block chain):
- Skip computing SHA-256 stake modifier checksum for blocks below last
checkpoint (was doing 2M+ unnecessary hashes on every startup)
- Reduce default -checkblocks from 2500 to 50 (disk read savings)
- Add progress percentage reporting during block index load
Headers-first sync (faster initial sync):
- Switch initial sync from getblocks to getheaders protocol
- Add PushGetHeaders and headers message handler in net/main
- Downloads 80-byte headers first, then requests blocks — allows
the node to learn chain structure before downloading full blocks
Address-index accelerated wallet rescan:
- New ScanForWalletTransactionsFromIndex() uses address index to find
only transactions touching wallet keys (skips scanning every block)
- Follows spend chains to find related transactions
- Falls back to full scan if index unavailable
- Track index sync state with addressIndexBestChain/StartHeight in LevelDB
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Defer SecureMsgStart and ReacceptWalletTransactions to background thread
so GUI appears faster during startup
- Add shutdown checks in wallet scan/reaccept to prevent hanging on exit
- Smart wallet rescan: start from wallet birthday instead of genesis block
- Raise default dbcache from 25 to 128 MB for better performance
- Replace deprecated QDesktopServices with QStandardPaths (Qt5 compat)
- Enforce Qt5+ requirement in build system, remove -fpermissive flag
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Version 4.2.1.0
- wallet makeover
- staking behaviour adjustments
- non mandatory update-
- no need for updating daemons (only recomended if used for staking)