Upgrade Electrum to >= 2.5.x for compatibility with all Electrum servers (#9713) · Issues · tails / tails

Upgrade Electrum to >= 2.5.x for compatibility with all Electrum servers

Originally created by @s7r on #9713 (Redmine)

Currently Tails comes with Electrum wallet 1.9.8. It is a very nice app to have.

I recommend upgrading it to 2.3.x since there are significant improvements and bug fixes, including important security fixes. The policy in Debian stable is not to include new version of packages, I know, but regarding Electrum this should not apply. The current version used in Tails is old, there was a change in Bitcoin’s blockchain (switched to v3 blocks) which 2.3.x knows about. The electrum client <-> electrum server communication is also improved in 2.3.x

Feature Branch: bugfix/9713-electrum-2.5

Attachments

Related issues

Related to #10754 (closed)
Related to #10758 (closed)
Has duplicate #10073 (closed)
Blocks #10475

_Originally created by @s7r on [#9713 (Redmine)](https://public-redmine-archive.tails.boum.org/code/issues/9713)_

Currently Tails comes with Electrum wallet 1.9.8. It is a very nice app
to have.

I recommend upgrading it to 2.3.x since there are significant
improvements and bug fixes, including important security fixes. The
policy in Debian stable is not to include new version of packages, I
know, but regarding Electrum this should not apply. The current version
used in Tails is old, there was a change in Bitcoin’s blockchain
(switched to v3 blocks) which 2.3.x knows about. The electrum client
\<-> electrum server communication is also improved in 2.3.x

Feature Branch: bugfix/9713-electrum-2.5

### Attachments

* [python-pbkdf2-1.3+20110613.git2a0fb15~ds0-wheezy-backports-sloppy.patch](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/938/python-pbkdf2-1.3+20110613.git2a0fb15~ds0-wheezy-backports-sloppy.patch)
  * [electrum-2.4.4-wheezy-backports-sloppy.patch](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/939/electrum-2.4.4-wheezy-backports-sloppy.patch)
  * [electrum_2.5.4-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.patch](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/1066/electrum_2.5.4-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.patch)
  * [config](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/1081/config)
  * [electrum_2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.patch](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/1100/electrum_2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.patch)

### Related issues

- **Related to** tails/tails#10754
  - **Related to** tails/tails#10758
  - **Has duplicate** tails/tails#10073
  - **Blocks** tails/tails#10475

Edited May 21, 2020 by s7r

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