[Monero-announce] Monero v0.18.0.0 "Fluorine Fermi" released -- Network upgrade 13th of August

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear participants of the Monero ecosystem, CLI & GUI v0.18.0.0 have been tagged and release binaries have been made available at www.getmonero.org/downloads/ The full release posts can be found on our blog: CLI: www.getmonero.org/2022/07/19/monero-0.18.0.0-released.html GUI: www.getmonero.org/2022/07/19/monero-GUI-0.18.0.0-released.html Please be reminded that on the 13th of August a scheduled network upgrade will take place on the Monero network. To be prepared, a user, service, merchant, pool operator, or exchange *MUST* run CLI or GUI v0.18. Among many other improvements, the scheduled network upgrade introduces three consensus changes. First, the network will use Bulletproofs+ to decrease transactions size and verification time. Second, the addition of so-called view tags to transaction outputs will significantly reduce wallet scanning time. Finally, the ring size will be increased to 16. For more details on all improvements contained in the new version, please refer to our blog posts. If any assistance is required, please get in touch with the Monero dev community at #monero-dev (libera.chat IRC, or matrix). Kind regards, The Monero dev community -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEgaxZH+nEtlxYBq/D8K9NRioL35IFAmLduj0ACgkQ8K9NRioL 35KkCBAApoUJFGMG7b209P3dOOHODAZRLokUoCiYNOYZ+OqPtaF0qwwD5uwokyEQ 8DMIaFShk1QQWO73XrwqD0jTaJTKaGZk+ngTNrkwJ4WZktYg1byZhJi96UQjzjJg SEDNLOIqhwHFsxAQEtm0wa+ujzqBd03AzdinpOu4pg6X94vL4nkO6cI1TqTTgRxm dfaX1CItS2JA7sgJW5aBoro3oqwnngkTpyqbjEYukDOyiWqyeDimdkysJYbbRAry kgozer/Dto4VbjKBr7U985sAILsXCgreC0rG3B9ofKFbdfNAEbxzyJGr6qM8J0iW T3zAbSc15dONJ9GO42B/D/uzp1XoBRHbgnW7NOdCDbIsNU9OLBX0E71n++R6qXs7 MLrNgqFl8wFYiFVmC48NM9lYHHkg2nt97gZjIX6NHlhXUABD3s1DniJegqGPbuks OOQYU0Ubj+hXT2hX1L6gk+l/cDDIsctF61dwMKtvT4EPzRugRKNUsU5ZT836qgFQ PEqoNh1xcXHFTE362GUW8HHqjlaL6ALIrae5RQ0mp3LBDgaLcHwjfg/1Pkjlj10e HN2xa1rkUq4r8IyC1433Rn40hfGQ5bIyatdADC+FuZZWbG/XMPHvEccwfnEW0sHl YNepl5OKGF71F1pa8tOa+O2Qg47E+f5vDQvZKNG4haj2Xxp1zQM= =IkJI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----