Dear Operators,
We are happy to announce the long-awaited new version 20230801. This release contains numerous improvements and new features. We kindly ask you to take your time, pay special attention, and become familiar with the new pairing mechanism and supported deployment scenarios. We recommend testing the new release on one of your test servers before deploying it to the production environment.

Read more information about the release here:
https://generalbytes.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESD/pages/2979004417/20230801

New version 20230901 has been released today.
More details can be found here:
https://generalbytes.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESD/pages/2987753473/20230901

Dear customers of GENERAL BYTES,

As the year comes to a close, we want to express our gratitude for your continued trust in our team, our products and services. It has been a pleasure serving you throughout this year. Soon we'll share some results, insights and news in our end-of-year newsletter. And now, just a short notice.

We want to ensure that your orders reach you in a timely manner, especially during the holiday season. To help you plan accordingly, please take note of the following important update:

The last order shipment date in 2023 is December 15th.

Thank you for attention! :)

New version 20231101 has been released today.
More details can be found here:
https://generalbytes.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESD/pages/3033825281/20231101

Please don’t upgrade your production system before Jan 2nd 2024.
This is a fresh release and may contain bugs.
You are free to install it on your testing environment but don’t install it on production because GB has limited resources available during the Christmas season to fix bugs.

Here you can find new article on how to setup California bill compliant receipt:

https://generalbytes.atlassian.net/l/cp/XihUJuaW

Dear clients and followers!

If you didn't get a chance to see our last email newsletter, here's a brief summary of the key highlights from 2023!

generalbytes.com/en/news/2023-unwrapped

New version 20231212 has been released today.
More details can be found here:
https://generalbytes.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESD/pages/3061841921/20231212

Please read an important article that explains steps the operator should take when purchasing used machines or acquiring another operator.

https://generalbytes.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESD/pages/3078684757/Ownership+transfers

New version 20240201 has been released today.
More details can be found here:
https://generalbytes.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESD/pages/3111911426/20240201

We are talking to https://www.trmlabs.com/ to integrate their blockchain scoring solution as an alternative to current providers. Stay tuned...

Apart from TRMlabs we are also working on integrating blockchaingroup.io solution as a Ciphertrace replacement.

Patch versions 20231212.39 and 20240201.32 now contain added support for TRMlabs and Blockchaingroup transaction scoring.
However at this moment TRMlabs provider is scanning BUY transactions only.

Dear Valued Customers,

We are reaching out to advise you of a new update addressing known mySQL "Daylight Savings Time"-related issues. We urge you to install the most recent CAS patch (versions 20231212 or 20240201) before the daylight saving time change in your country.

For assistance or further questions please contact our support team. Thank you for your attention.

New version 20240301 has been released today.
More details can be found here:
https://generalbytes.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESD/pages/3256451073/20240301

Final call: Invitation to GB headquarters for GBDays

Most customers may have noticed the email invitation we sent several weeks ago. We now duplicate it in case that email was skipped by interested parties.

When: in two weeks. Mid-June '24
Where: Prague, Czech Republic

Dear clients and users of GENERAL BYTES products,

We are organizing an event called GBDays for our customers in mid-June. It will be especially useful for technical representatives, but it is of interest to business reps.

We will provide training on creating extensions for your Bitcoin ATMs, individual meetings with GB departments, office tours, showcases of our newest products and features, and more.

It goes without saying that we will experience the joy of Prague's summer together at the afterparty. As a bonus — you can combine all this with attending the biggest and most influential Bitcoin conference in Europe—BTC Prague.

⚠️ If you are interested in such an opportunity, please email ASAP the event's project manager at marketing@generalbytes.com. In the body of the letter, please attach the legal name of the company / brand name of the ATM network, your name and position, and some serial numbers of the ATMs that are currently operating (online). Make sure your license fees are paid. This way, we can determine whether you are an eligible client. We will provide full details about the event in our response letter.

Please be aware that the event is in high demand and almost fully booked. We have the right to refuse participation to those who respond later. However, even if you are unable to attend GBDays, you can still benefit from the BTC Prague conference. By using our discount code GENERALBYTES, you will receive a 10% price reduction.

Sincerely yours,
GENERAL BYTES team

Dear Operators,
U.S. Department of the Treasury recently slightly changed the format of their sanctions list that is being automatically downloaded from department's server by your CAS.
Introduced change breaks the parsing functionality of the watchlist causing the watchlist not being updated on your server.
Server releases 20240201.38 and 20240301.42 address this issue.
We recommend you to upgrade to one of these versions to keep your US sanction list up to date.

Important information - CAS upgrade needed.

GB CAS software uses 3rd party software library bitcoinj version 0.16.1.

This library contains a software bug that prevents CAS from downloading Bitcoin blocks higher than 849,138(mined yesterday)

As a result of this bug CAS software shuts down automatically after one hour when blocks are not being downloaded from bitcoin network after master service start.

CAS software is not the only product affected by this issue. (i.e. Bisq, Android Bitcoin wallet...)

More details about the library issue can be found here:
https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/issues/3410

Mentioned issue is fixed in following CAS versions by including newer version of bitcoinj library 0.16.3:
20240301.45
20240201.40

GBDays Customer Summit Lookback
📍June 11-15, 2024, Prague 🇨🇿

We recently hosted our first-ever customer event at our headquarters in Prague. The week-long program featured educational sessions, department meetups, office tours, sightseeing, team building and afterparty, culminating with the BTC Prague conference. We unveiled product releases, shared our roadmap, and covered topics like CAS extensions and cybersecurity. After significant success, we've decided that GBDays will now become a regular event for all of our actively growing clients.

Discover all the highlights in this article!

P.S. Consider 17-21 June 2025 as the following dates of the GBDays event.

New version 20240501 has been released today.
More details can be found here:
https://generalbytes.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESD/pages/3346464769/20240501

🚨IMPORTANT SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
Yesterday new OpenSSH severe vulnerability discovery has been announced.
Details about vulnerability are here: https://www.armosec.io/blog/cve-2024-6387-regresshion-rce-vulnerability-openssh/
We recommend you to test all your systems using the following utility that can remotely check if your system is vulnerable:
https://github.com/xaitax/CVE-2024-6387_Check