In 6 days, we'll be locking in HF19. One of the many roles of a witness is to decide whether a hard fork is good or bad. I personally don't see any issues with HF19, and will be updating at least 24 hours before.
The biggest change users will notice, is the Linear Rewards Curve. This makes votes more "fair". Read more here
What's new?
- Linear rewards curve (making voting fairer)
- (RPC NODE) Ability to track just one account to save resources
- (RPC NODE) Optimized plugin loading
- Ability to remove delegated SP without issues
- Fixed various bugs, including account creation fees
- Witness feeds older than 7 days will now be properly ignored
- You can no longer delete comments that have a positive vote
- Various other small fixes
Updating to HF19
As far as I'm aware, there are no breaking technical changes for node operators. Steem-in-a-box currently has a HF19 RC available (must manually install via docker), and I will publish a new dockerhub release when HF19 is finalized.
If you're running Steem-in-a-box and would like to try out HF19 prior to release (may be unstable!):
docker pull someguy123/steem:v0.19.0rc2
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