From 85cef681e99845b6def11cf035feec48e942b875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: The MMGen Project <mmgen@tuta.io>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:33:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Version 16.0.0

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+### MMGen Wallet Version 16.0.0 Release Notes
+
+Version 16.0.0 brings THORChain swaps to MMGen Wallet, along with some other
+major new features, other significant features and improvements, and the usual
+bugfixes and code cleanups.  Users are highly encouraged to upgrade.
+
+#### Major new features:
+
+ - Swap support for 21 assets via THORChain (ff28d39a3, 85cec5655)
+ - RUNE transaction and swap support (ec84abc90, ef76cf646)
+ - Nix/NixOS support (d69fee71c, abbc9c843, 84b0843be)
+ - Rust Ethereum (Reth) support (1e422b2c2, 5269b5efc)
+ - Ethereum transaction sending via Etherscan (1eb0de793)
+ - BCH cashaddr support (8edc7da5a, 3c726f909)
+ - OP_RETURN data support (8fd463ecf, 6620b4dba)
+
+#### Other significant features and improvements:
+
+ - autosign: support signing TXs with non-MMGen inputs (b12fd879b)
+ - txcreate: support sub-Satoshi fees (1cab2f9d6)
+ - txbump: support new outputs in the replacement transaction (ef5f6e4b2)
+ - txsend: new `--receipt` (ff9a1e08d) and `--test` (1f166ce45) options
+ - txsend: new `--dump-hex` and `--mark-sent` options (6967456f8)
+ - new `mmgen-cli` utility for communication with coin daemons (94bee46cb)
+ - contextual command options (037c6bfb6)
+ - contextual usage screens (4eb7c6456)
+ - coin-specific and protocol-specific configuration options (f8a312e40)
+ - negated command-line options (df3559d42)
+ - LED signaling support for:
+   - Radxa Rock 5 (b4898b9ae);
+   - Banana Pi F3 (b4898b9ae);
+   - Orange Pi 5 (3bcbde514); and
+   - Nano Pi M6 (98c84a4a3)
+ - new JSON transaction file format (4ffe5c48d)
+
+#### Security-related changes:
+
+ - Ethereum transaction signing with libsecp256k1 (60ca7a291)
+ - secp256k1 extension mod: randomize context for enhanced protection against
+   side-channel leakage (fbeda2f07)
+ - mmgen-txcreate: prompt user if change address is not wallet address
+   (6df695024)
+
+#### Testing:
+
+ - migrate from Pylint to Ruff (783b05e37, 487678bce)
+
+Python requirement: >= 3.9 (tested on 3.9, 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13)
+
+This release has been tested on the following platforms:
+
+    NixOS 25.05 / x86_64
+    Debian 13 (Trixie) / x86_64
+    Debian 12 (Bookworm) / x86_64
+    Debian 11 (Bullseye) / x86_64
+    Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky) / x86_64
+    Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) / x86_64
+    Arch Linux 2025-09-09 (Python 3.13.7) / x86_64
+    Armbian Debian 13 (Trixie) / Radxa Rock 5B [arm64]
+    Armbian Debian 13 (Trixie) / Nano Pi M6 [arm64]
+    Armbian Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) / Banana Pi F3 [riscv64] (no Reth)
+    Armbian Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) / Orange Pi 5B [arm64]
+    Windows 11 Enterprise / MSYS2 2025-08-30 / x86_64 [qemu]
+    macOS 13.7.6 (Ventura) / Homebrew 4.6.10 (Python 3.13.7, Bash 5.3.3) / x86_64 [qemu]
+
+and with the following coin daemon versions:
+
+    Bitcoin Core 29.1.0
+    Bitcoin-Cash-Node 28.0.1
+    Litecoin Core 0.21.4
+    Monerod 0.18.4.2
+    Go-Ethereum (Geth) 1.16.3
+    Rust Ethereum (Reth) 1.7.0
+    Parity Ethereum 2.7.2
+
+Solc 0.8.26 or newer is required for ERC20 token contract creation
+
+Coin address generation has been additionally tested using the following
+reference tools:
+
+    pycoin-0.92.20241201 (https://github.com/richardkiss/pycoin)
+    monero-python 1.1.1 (https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-python)
+    zcash-mini a2b3504 (https://github.com/FiloSottile/zcash-mini)
+    vanitygen-plusplus e7858035 (https://github.com/10gic/vanitygen-plusplus)
+    eth-keys 0.7.0 (https://github.com/ethereum/eth-keys)
+    ethkey (OpenEthereum 3.1.0)
diff --git a/mmgen/data/version b/mmgen/data/version
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-15.1.dev57
+16.0.0