Questions tagged [update]

questions relating to updating official Monero software to the latest release

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How can I be notified of important updates/news to the Monero software?

Monero forks twice a year at roughly predictable times. However, it is easy to forget about it, and you end up forked off if you don't update your software in time. How can I be notified of these forks and other important announcements such as any…
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How do I upgrade my software to v0.11.1.0?

I've been running CLI v0.11.0.0 and GUI v0.11.0.0. How do I update these to v0.11.1.0?
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How do I upgrade my software to v0.11.0.0?

I've been running CLI v0.10.3.1 and GUI Beta 2. How do I update these to v0.11.0.0?
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Upgraded Monero GUI, but getting an issue with "update needed"

I just "updated" from v0.12.2.0 because I was getting the message "update needed". I downloaded Current Version: 0.12.3.0 Lithium Luna, extracted the .zip to a new directory, but I still have the same status. status [9/19/2018 10:25 AM]…
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Installation and Update of monero cli and gui

I tried out monero cli and gui and created two wallets with each version, named Walletcli and Walletgui. There is now a Walletcli file in the program directory but no Walletgui file, where is it? Which files are created by the program on which…
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If I update the Monero GUI, do I need reinstall the blockchain?

I'm having trouble seeing the funds in my wallet so I want to update to a newer version. However the 90GB blockchain is quite large and I'm wondering if I need to install the blockchain again or does it just reuse the old one?
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Will I need to update wallet and miner after the next upcoming (March 2019) fork?

I have read about the next upcoming fork planned for the block 1788000 (around the 9th of March). After that block, will I need to update the Monero daemon, the wallet, or both? And what about the miner programs? Thanks in advance for answers.
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Backup and upgrade

It's getting cold and its a time to turn on my heater/miner again ;-) I saw that this machine is still running Ubuntu 14.04. I think it would be time to upgrade/reinstall the entire machine at that point. What do I need to backup? Which…
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Desktop GUI wallet not syncing

I've received two transactions on this wallet previously. The last time I opened this wallet it would not completely sync up, just stopped. I tried the suggestions on one post here, first deleted p2pstate.bin, then changed --block-sync-size 10,…
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What's inside the file hashes.txt.sig?

I studied the monero-gui code and in the file monero-gui/src/qt/updater.cpp I found two addresses to verify binaries: https://web.getmonero.org/downloads/hashes.txt https://web.getmonero.org/downloads/hashes.txt.sig The first file (hashes.txt) is…
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After I downloaded this recent 17.2.2 update, should I delete the 17.1.9 I had downloaded a few months ago?

I just logged into my Gui and it suggested I sownload the 17.2.2 update. I did, I think I did it right. I don't know. It's syncing right now but it's syncing from the 2155416 and going pretty slow. I was enjoying the syncing within 5 to 15 mins the…
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I get a "failed to store the wallet" message after trying to update to monero-gui-v0.17.1.9

I am using monero-gui-v0.17.1.6 and was advised to update. When I try to use it,it takes me to the Restore menu. I enter all the correct details but when I enter "next" I get a flash telling me "failed to store wallet". My O.S. is Zorin 15.3 on a…
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Previous balance showing after upgrade and resync

I'm new to this, so please bear with me. I'm using GUI 0.17.1.4 to run a single wallet on a Mac. I made a transfer from my exchange to my wallet. The transfer didn't arrive, so I went to getmonero.org to look for help and saw that I needed to…
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I now get the message "monero-core" is not responding

I applied the update monero.gui.0.16.0.3 from monero.gui.v0.16.0.2 on Zorin 15.2 and followed the instructions for a new installation from your website.
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How do I update the daemon and open port 18080?

I have tried to open port 18080, but still it says: No incoming connections - check firewalls/routers allow port 18080 Can anyone see what I've done wrong? Also, I am getting this message: Last scheduled hard fork time shows a daemon update is…