[Bitcoin-development] 0.6 Release Candidate 1

I'd like version 0.6 to get lots of review, soak time and testing, so please download and run release candidate 1 from:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/ You can review the code changes using github's compare feature:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scaling at the end user level

Have any groups published proposals for distributing a weekly precomputed bootstrap chain? rsync? db_dump git db_load? There is also 50% or more compression available in the index and chain. I have proposed packaging part of the block chain (doesn't even have to be weekly, just until the