I uploaded 0.3.0 beta to sourceforge and updated the links on bitcoin.org. I still need to post the announcement message on the forum and mailing list. Here’s what I’ve prepared:
Announcing version 0.3 of Bitcoin, the P2P cryptocurrency! Bitcoin is a digital currency using cryptography and a distributed network to replace the need for a trusted central server. Escape the arbitrary inflation risk of centrally managed currencies! Bitcoin’s total circulation is limited to 21 million coins. The coins are gradually being released to the networks nodes based on the CPU power they contribute. You can get a share of them just by installing the software and contributing your idle CPU time.
What’s new:
- Command line and JSON-RPC control
- Includes a daemon version without GUI
- Tabs for sent and received transactions
- 20% faster hashing
- Hashmeter performance display
- Mac OS X version (thanks to Laszlo)
- German, Dutch and Italian translations (thanks to DataWraith, Xunie and Joozero)