Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.26 "Williamina Fleming"

This Trinity release goes out under the name "Williamina Fleming".

Look for improvements to command line usage, logging, plugin dogfooding, and a less-crashy (but still experimental) new sync approach.

With each release we like to highlight one of the amazing women from history and present day. Meet Williamina Fleming, a:

Scottish astronomer. During her career, she helped develop a common designation system for stars and cataloged thousands of stars and other astronomical phenomena. Among several career achievements that advanced astronomy, Fleming is noted for her discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in 1888.

Of special note is trinity --sync-mode=beam. Beam Sync now crashes so much less that it's reasonable for adventurous folks to start experimenting with it. Beam Sync downloads just enough state to run the latest blocks, and is currently the best option for executing the latest mainnet blocks with Trinity. Note that the current Beam Sync implementation does eventually fall behind and stop syncing, but there are many options for performance improvement. In the current implementation, Beam Sync can run for a few hundred blocks if you sync against a peer on localhost.

For the full list of changes, see the release notes.

See the quickstart guide here for information on how to install and run the Trinity client.