Released on May 25, 2018

Changelog:

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Fixed

• Fixes for displaying on high DPI displays, #517 (@skcin).
• Re-enable unit tests, add unit test to Travis, #769, #808 (@TheCharlatan).
• Fix empty string in sendalert2 (@tomasbrod).

Added

• Neural Report RPC command, #1063 (@tomasbrod).
• GUI wallet redesign with new icons and purple native style (@skcin).

Changed

• Switch to autotools and Depends from Bitcoin, #487 (@TheCharlatan).
• Clean and update docs for new build system, remove outdated, #828 (@TheCharlatan).
• Change estimated time to stake calculations to be more accurate, #1084 (@jamescowens).
• Move logging to tinyformat, #1009 (@TheCharlatan).
• Improve appcache performance, #734 (@denravonska).
• Improve block index memory access performance, #679 (@denravonska).
• NN fixes: clean logging, explain mag single response, move contract to ndata_nresp (@denravonska)
• Updated translations:
  Turkish, #771 (@confuest).
  Chinese, #1012 (@linnaea).
• RPC refactor: Cleaner locks, better error handling, move execute calls to straght rpc calls, #1024 (@Foggyx420).
• Change locking primitives from Boost to STL, #1029 (@Foggyx420).

Removed

• gridcoindiagnostic RPC call (@denravonska).
• Galaza, #945 (@barton2526).
• Assertion in SignSignature, #998 (@TheCharlatan).
• Upgrade menu, #1094 (@jamescowens).
• Acid test functions, #871 (@tomasbrod).
• Qt4 support, #801 (@denravonska).

I also did an image compression roundup on the images contained in the wallet, and reduced the source by quite a substantial amount. I've been told only major changes were included in this release, so my contribution was not included. :(

Downloads:

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Windows: https://download.gridcoin.us/download/downloadstake/GridcoinResearch.msi
macOS: https://github.com/Git-Jiro/homebrew-jiro/releases/
Linux: http://wiki.gridcoin.us/Linux_guide
Source: https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research
Website: https://gridcoin.us/#Downloads
Cryptocurrencytalk thread: https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/topic/1331-new-coin-launch-announcement-grc-gridcoin/

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Thank you to our main developer Rob Halförd, @ravonn, @brod, @ifoggz, @jamescowens, @fooforever, @skcin, @tahvok, @aceypilot, @cm-steem, @bullshark, @erkan, @barton26, caraka, Marix, myself, and anybody else that chipped in.

If you feel like contributing to development, try joining our testnet, and reporting your findings to our development team on Slack or Rocket.Chat.

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