dcrd v1.6.1

This is a patch release of dcrd which includes the following changes:

• Correct a hard to hit issue where connections might not be reestablished after a network outage under some rare circumstances
• Allow stakeholders to make use of the staking system to force proof-of-work miners to upgrade to the latest version so voting on the new consensus changes can commence

Changelog

This patch release consists of 3 commits from 1 contributor which total to 3 files changed, 30 additional lines of code, and 9 deleted lines of code.

All commits since the last release may be viewed on GitHub here.

Protocol and network:

• server: Notify block mgr later and track ntfn (decred/dcrd#2588)
• server: Force PoW upgrade to v8 (decred/dcrd#2597)

Misc:

• release: Bump for 1.6.1 (decred/dcrd#2600)

Code Contributors (alphabetical order):

• Dave Collins