summary: Major release with Dandelion++ integration, significant speedups and more
tags: [releases]
author: ErCiccione, selsta
---
# Overview
This is the v0.16.0.0 major release of the Monero software. This major release adds [Dandelion++]({{ site.baseurl_root }}/2020/04/18/dandelion-implemented.html) support and improves Bulletproofs verification speed.
Some highlights of this release are:
- Bulletproofs: improve verification speed
- Daemon: add Dandelion++ support
- Daemon: speedup startup in some cases
- Daemon: reduce bandwidth by up to 2/3rd
- Daemon: improve auto bootstrap algorithm
- Daemon: faster fetching of consecutive transactions
- Daemon: print estimates for time until fully synced
- Ledger: improve error messages
- Ledger: timelock verification
- Wallet: new "address one-off" command
- Wallet: new "sweep_account" command
- ZMQ: improved support and bug fixes
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements
The complete list of changes is [available on GitHub](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/compare/v0.15.0.5...v0.16.0.0), along with [the source code](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/tree/v0.16.0.0).
# Contributors for this Release
This release was the direct result of 49 people who worked, largely unpaid and altruistically, to put out 563 commits containing 81539 new lines of code. We'd like to thank them very much for their time and effort. In no particular order they are:
- Alexander Blair
- Lee Clagett
- xiphon
- Tadeas Moravec
- moneromooo-monero
- Howard Chu
- rbrunner7
- woodser
- selsta
- Riccardo Spagni
- Kevin Crumb
- Bert Peters
- iDunk5400
- Sarang Noether
- Interchained
- Dusan Klinec
- Sumo Gr
- Matt Smith
- TheCharlatan
- naughtyfox
- Aaron Hook
- mj-xmr
- Jonathan Cross
- erciccione
- kozyilmaz
- ArqTras
- TheGoose
- tevador
- Martijn Otto
- Jethro Grassie
- rating89us
- Nathan Dorfman
- Gingeropolous
- palomato
- JamesWrigley
- sumogr
- Doyle
- scoobybejesus
- UkoeHB
- Guillaume Le Vaillant
- guy
- stoffu
- cohcho
- cslashm
- Jason Rhinelander
- wowario
- binaryFate
- Bertrand Jacquin
# Download
The new binaries can be downloaded from the [Downloads page]({{ site.baseurl }}/downloads) or from the direct links below.
A GPG-signed list of the hashes is at [https://getmonero.org/downloads/hashes.txt]({{ site.baseurl_root }}/downloads/hashes.txt) and should be treated as canonical, with the signature checked against the appropriate GPG key in the source code (in /utils/gpg_keys). To ensure that the files you download are those originally posted by the maintainers, you should both check that the hashes of your files match those on the signed list, and that the signature on the list is valid.
Two guides are available to guide you through the verification process: [Verify binaries on Windows (beginner)]({{ site.baseurl }}/resources/user-guides/verification-windows-beginner.html) and [Verify binaries on Linux, Mac, or Windows command line (advanced)]({{ site.baseurl }}/resources/user-guides/verification-allos-advanced.html).
