Release Candidate 8 is Out

From the Chia Network Github Page

Added

• This is a hard fork/breaking change from RC6/7. TXCH Coins will not be moved forward but your plots and keys and parts of your configuration do. When you install this version before 10AM PDST on 3/16/2021 it will load up, start finding peers, and otherwise wait for the flag drop at that time to start farming. This is likely to be the last dress rehearsal for mainnet launch. Our 3/15/2021 blog post has more details on the current mainnet launch plan.
• The GUI now has a tooltip that directs users to the explanation of the plot filter.
• The GUI now has a tooltip to explain the “Disable bitfield plotting” option. Thanks @shaneo257 for the idea.
• The GUI now has a tooltip to explain Hierarchical Deterministic keys next to Receive Address on the Wallet page.

Changed

• We now use Python 3.9 to build MacOS installers.
• Harvester now catches another error class and continues to harvest. Thanks to @xorinox for this PR.
• We now use a smaller weight proof sample size to ease the load on smaller machines when syncing.
• Starting the GUI from Linux will now also error out if npm run build is run outside the venv. Huge thanks to @dkackman for that PR.
• chia farm summary will now display TXCH or XCH as appropriate.
• We added more time to our API timeouts and improved logging around times outs.

Fixed

• We no longer use the transaction cache to look up transactions for new transactions as that was causing a wallet sync bug.
• Sometimes the GUI would not pick up the fingerprint for the plotting key.
• chia farm summary displayed some incorrect amounts.
• Weight proofs were timing out.
• Changes to farming rewards target addresses from the GUI were not being saved for restart correctly.
• Signage points, recent deficit blocks, and slots for overflow challenge blocks had minor issues.