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  • v0.14.1 1a300eb0f4

    Dobbscoin Core v0.14.1 Stable

    btcbob released this 2026-11-11 02:22:41 +00:00 | 0 commits to main since this release

    A small release on top of v0.14.0: dark mode, a way to forget a private key, and two Mining tab changes. Nothing changes in the wallet file format, consensus or the network protocol, so upgrading from v0.14.0 is a plain swap.

    Dark mode

    Options > Display > Theme: System, Light or Dark (#49). The change takes effect after a restart, like the language setting. You can also start with -theme=system, -theme=light or -theme=dark.

    • Dark uses dark colors throughout. The line drawings that were black on a light background (Send, Receive, the transaction icons, the units, the overview art) have light versions, and the drawings of "Bob" keep their linework with a light outline so he doesn't turn into a photo negative.
    • System follows your operating system. On Windows it reads the app mode setting (Settings > Personalization > Colors). On macOS and Linux it follows the colors your desktop already gives programs, and if your desktop is dark, the wallet keeps its native look and only swaps the artwork.
    • Light looks the same as v0.14.0.

    The default is System. If your Windows apps are set to dark, the wallet comes up dark after the upgrade. Pick Light under Options to keep the old look.

    Requested by dokfaux.

    Forget a private key

    File > Receiving addresses > right-click > Forget private key (#46). This takes the private key for one of your addresses back out of the wallet, for example a key you brought in with importprivkey. Coins at that address can no longer be spent from this wallet. You're asked whether to keep watching the address: yes keeps it as watch-only, so its balance and history stay visible; no removes the address and its label too. An encrypted wallet asks for your passphrase first. The wallet refuses its default key, keys still in the keypool, and keys it uses for change.

    Two new RPC commands go with it:

    • removeprivkey "address" ( keepwatchonly force ) does the same from the console or dobbscoin-cli. force is needed to remove a change key.
    • signmessagewithprivkey "privkey" "message" signs a message with a private key you supply. The key is not imported, so a cold key can sign without becoming hot.

    Keep a backup. Backups made before you forget a key still contain it. Without one, and without the key written down somewhere, coins at that address are gone for good.

    Mining tab

    • Start mining when the wallet opens (#47). A new choice at the top of the Mining tab: don't start mining (the default), start solo, or start pool mining. Solo waits until a peer has been connected for 30 seconds and the wallet has every block it knows about. Pool is offered once you've saved a pay-to address, and uses your saved pool, address and threads. gen= or stratum= in dobbscoin.conf or on the command line take precedence. The solo thread count is now saved too.
    • The pool and pay-to fields say why they come filled in. The pool field explains the default pool and that any stratum pool for (BOB) works. A pay-to address in the box is always your own from a previous session, saved on your computer, and a note says so; no address ships with the wallet.

    Docs

    The whitepaper says the wallet is SQLite as of v0.14.0, names the treasury, and says who supplies wBOB liquidity.

    No consensus rules change in this release.

    Should you upgrade?

    If you're on v0.14.0: whenever you like. Nothing in this release is urgent, and your wallet file is untouched.

    If you're on v0.13.8 or earlier: read the first section of the v0.14.0 notes before you upgrade. Your wallet is converted to SQLite the first time v0.14.x starts, the original is kept beside it, and older versions can't open the converted file. A large wallet can take a while to convert, and the window may say "Not Responding" until it finishes. Let it run.

    Miners and pool operators: be on v0.13.8 or later before block 2,000,000 (roughly 2027-01-24), when CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY activates by height. v0.14.1 satisfies that.

    What the Linux builds need

    Same as v0.14.0. The daemon tarball needs:

    sudo apt install libsqlite3-0 libssl3 \
                 libboost-chrono1.74.0 libboost-filesystem1.74.0 \
                 libboost-program-options1.74.0 libboost-thread1.74.0

    The Qt tarball also needs the system Qt 5 libraries (libqt5core5a libqt5gui5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5network5 libqt5dbus5), libqrencode4 and libprotobuf23. The binaries need glibc 2.34 or newer. The AppImage bundles its libraries and needs none of this.

    Verification

    All of this was run on the release files themselves:

    • Version: every program reports a clean v0.14.1, with no commit suffix, because it was built at the tag. getinfo reports "version" : 140100.
    • Linux, on a machine that did not build it (Debian 12): the daemon from the tarball starts, mines on regtest, sends and confirms a payment, and backupwallet writes a valid SQLite copy. signmessagewithprivkey signs, and removeprivkey with keepwatchonly leaves the address watch-only. The AppImage starts there and opens in Dark with -theme=dark.
    • Encrypted wallet: after encryptwallet the file holds 202 encrypted keys, no cleartext keys and one master key; the right passphrase unlocks it and a wrong one is refused.
    • Dark mode: every tab, the Options dialog and the debug console checked in Dark on Linux, with Light unchanged. A Windows test build of the same code went out on 2026-11-10.
    • Test suites: consensus and scrypt suites 37 cases, no errors; qa/run-all.sh: passed 27 failed 0 known failures 0.
    • Not run for this release: the Windows programs have not been started on Windows. They come from the same build setup as v0.14.0's, and the Theme option and version string are present in dobbscoin-qt.exe.

    Checksums

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    The zip also carries SHA256SUMS-windows.txt for the three programs inside it. To check a download on Linux: sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt. On Windows: certutil -hashfile <file> SHA256.

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