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title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 released
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title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 released
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---
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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 is now available for download at:
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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 is now available for download at:
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<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/>
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<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/>
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This release includes many bug fixes, performance improvements and new
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This release includes more than 20 language localizations.
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features over version 0.5.0, and we recommend that everybody upgrade.
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More translations are welcome; join the
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project at Transifex to help:
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<https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/>
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
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Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer
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distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them
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directly from github:
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.0> # .tar.gz
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.6.0> # .zip
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For Ubuntu users, there is a ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which
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you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep
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bitcoin up-to-date. Just type
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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
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in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.
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KNOWN ISSUES
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Shutting down while synchronizing with the network
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(downloading the blockchain) can take more than a minute,
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because database writes are queued to speed up download
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time.
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NEW FEATURES SINCE BITCOIN VERSION 0.5
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--------------------------------------
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Initial network synchronization should be much faster
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(one or two hours on a typical machine instead of ten or more
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hours).
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Backup Wallet menu option.
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Bitcoin-Qt can display and save QR codes for sending
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and receiving addresses.
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New context menu on addresses to copy/edit/delete them.
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New Sign Message dialog that allows you to prove that you
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own a bitcoin address by creating a digital
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signature.
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New wallets created with this version will
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use 33-byte 'compressed' public keys instead of
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65-byte public keys, resulting in smaller
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transactions and less traffic on the bitcoin
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network. The shorter keys are already supported
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by the network but wallet.dat files containing
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short keys are not compatible with earlier
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versions of Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind.
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New command-line argument -blocknotify=<command>
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that will spawn a shell process to run <command>
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when a new block is accepted.
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New command-line argument -splash=0 to disable
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Bitcoin-Qt's initial splash screen
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validateaddress JSON-RPC api command output includes
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two new fields for addresses in the wallet:
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pubkey : hexadecimal public key
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iscompressed : true if pubkey is a short 33-byte key
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New JSON-RPC api commands for dumping/importing
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private keys from the wallet (dumprivkey, importprivkey).
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New JSON-RPC api command for getting information about
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blocks (getblock, getblockhash).
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New JSON-RPC api command (getmininginfo) for getting
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extra information related to mining. The getinfo
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JSON-RPC command no longer includes mining-related
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information (generate/genproclimit/hashespersec).
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NOTABLE CHANGES
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---------------
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BIP30 implemented (security fix for an attack involving
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duplicate "coinbase transactions").
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The -nolisten, -noupnp and -nodnsseed command-line
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options were renamed to -listen, -upnp and -dnsseed,
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with a default value of 1. The old names are still
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supported for compatibility (so specifying -nolisten
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is automatically interpreted as -listen=0; every
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boolean argument can now be specified as either
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-foo or -nofoo).
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The -noirc command-line options was renamed to
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-irc, with a default value of 0. Run -irc=1 to
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get the old behavior.
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Three fill-up-available-memory denial-of-service
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attacks were fixed.
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NOT YET IMPLEMENTED FEATURES
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Support for clicking on bitcoin: URIs and
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opening/launching Bitcoin-Qt is available only on Linux,
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and only if you configure your desktop to launch
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Bitcoin-Qt. All platforms support dragging and dropping
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bitcoin: URIs onto the Bitcoin-Qt window to start
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payment.
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PRELIMINARY SUPPORT FOR MULTISIGNATURE TRANSACTIONS
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---------------------------------------------------
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This release has preliminary support for multisignature
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transactions-- transactions that require authorization
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from more than one person or device before they
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will be accepted by the bitcoin network.
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Prior to this release, multisignature transactions
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were considered 'non-standard' and were ignored;
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with this release multisignature transactions are
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considered standard and will start to be relayed
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and accepted into blocks.
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It is expected that future releases of Bitcoin-Qt
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will support the creation of multisignature transactions,
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once enough of the network has upgraded so relaying
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and validating them is robust.
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For this release, creation and testing of multisignature
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transactions is limited to the bitcoin test network using
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the "addmultisigaddress" JSON-RPC api call.
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Short multisignature address support is included in this
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release, as specified in BIP 13 and BIP 16.
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Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
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- Alex B
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- Alistair Buxton
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- Chris Moore
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- Clark Gaebel
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- Daniel Folkinshteyn
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- Dylan Noblesmith
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- Forrest Voight
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- Gavin Andresen
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- Gregory Maxwell
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- Janne Pulkkinen
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- Joel Kaartinen
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- Lars Rasmusson
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- Luke Dashjr
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- Matt Corallo
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- Michael Ford
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- Michael Hendricks
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- Nick Bosma
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- Nils Schneider
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- Philip Kaufmann
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- Pierre Pronchery
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- Pieter Wuille
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- Rune K Svendsen
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- Wladimir J. van der Laan
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- coderrr
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- p2k
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- sje397
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Special thanks to Sergio Lerner and Matt Corallo for bringing
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potential denial-of-service attacks to our attention.
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title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.1 released
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title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.1 released
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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.1 is now available for download at:
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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.1 is now available for download at:
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<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.1/>
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<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.1/>
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This is a bug-fix and code-cleanup release, with no major new features.
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This is a bug-fix and code-cleanup release, with no major new features.
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
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NOTABLE CHANGES
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
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===============
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Much faster shutdowns. However, the blkindex.dat file is no longer
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portable to different data directories by default. If you need a
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portable blkindex.dat file then run with the new -detachdb=1 option
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or the "Detach databases at shutdown" GUI preference.
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Mac and Windows binaries are compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1b (Linux
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binaries are dynamically linked to the version of OpenSSL on the system).
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CHANGE SUMMARY
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==============
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Use 'git shortlog --no-merges v0.6.0..' for a summary of this release.
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Source codebase changes:
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- Many source code cleanups and warnings fixes. Close to building with -Wall
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- Locking overhaul, and several minor locking fixes
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- Several source code portability fixes, e.g. FreeBSD
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JSON-RPC interface changes:
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- addmultisigaddress enabled for mainnet (previously only enabled for testnet)
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Network protocol changes:
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- protocol version 60001
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- added nonce value to "ping" message (BIP 31)
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- added new "pong" message (BIP 31)
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- Less redundant database flushing, especially during initial block download
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- Shutdown improvements (see above)
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- minor URI handling improvements
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- progressbar improvements
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- error handling improvements (show message box rather than console exception,
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- by popular request, make 4th bar of connection icon green
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Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
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- Chris Moore
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- Dwayne C. Litzenberger
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- Gavin Andresen
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- Jeff Garzik
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- Luke Dashjr
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- Matt Corallo
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- Philip Kaufmann
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- Pieter Wuille
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- R E Broadley
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- Timothy Redaelli
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- Wladimir J. van der Laan
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- cardpuncher
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title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.2 released
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title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.2 released
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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.2 is now available for download at:
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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.2 is now available for download at:
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<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.2/>
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<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.2/>
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This is a bug-fix release with no major new features.
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This is a bug-fix and code-cleanup release, with no major new features.
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
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===============
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Much faster shutdowns. However, the blkindex.dat file is no longer
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portable to different data directories by default. If you need a
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portable blkindex.dat file then run with the new -detachdb=1 option
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or the "Detach databases at shutdown" GUI preference.
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Fixed <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/1065>, a bug that
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could cause long-running nodes to crash.
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Mac and Windows binaries are compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1b (Linux
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binaries are dynamically linked to the version of OpenSSL on the system).
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CHANGE SUMMARY
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==============
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Use 'git shortlog --no-merges v0.6.0..' for a summary of this release.
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Source codebase changes:
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- Many source code cleanups and warnings fixes. Close to building with -Wall
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- Locking overhaul, and several minor locking fixes
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- Several source code portability fixes, e.g. FreeBSD
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JSON-RPC interface changes:
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- addmultisigaddress enabled for mainnet (previously only enabled for testnet)
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Network protocol changes:
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- protocol version 60001
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- added nonce value to "ping" message (BIP 31)
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- added new "pong" message (BIP 31)
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Backend storage changes:
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- Less redundant database flushing, especially during initial block download
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- Shutdown improvements (see above)
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Qt user interface:
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- minor URI handling improvements
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- progressbar improvements
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- error handling improvements (show message box rather than console exception,
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etc.)
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- by popular request, make 4th bar of connection icon green
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Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
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- Chris Moore
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- Dwayne C. Litzenberger
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- Gavin Andresen
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- Jeff Garzik
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- Luke Dashjr
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- Matt Corallo
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- Philip Kaufmann
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- Pieter Wuille
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- R E Broadley
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- Timothy Redaelli
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- Wladimir J. van der Laan
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- cardpuncher
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- freewil
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- graingert
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- sje397
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title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.3 released
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title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.3 released
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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.3 is now available for download at:
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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.3 is now available for download at:
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<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.3/>
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<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.3/>
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This is a bug-fix release with no new features.
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This is a bug-fix release, with no new features.
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
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CHANGE SUMMARY
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
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==============
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Fixed a serious denial-of-service attack that could cause the
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bitcoin process to become unresponsive. Thanks to Sergio Lerner
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for finding and responsibly reporting the problem. (CVE-2012-3789)
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Optimized the process of checking transaction signatures, to
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speed up processing of new block messages and make propagating
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blocks across the network faster.
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Fixed an obscure bug that could cause the bitcoin process to get
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stuck on an invalid block-chain, if the invalid chain was
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Bitcoin-Qt no longer automatically selects the first address
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Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
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====================================================
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- Chris Moore
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- Christian von Roques
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- Fordy
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- Gavin Andresen
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- Jeff Garzik
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- Luke Dashjr
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- Matt Corallo
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- Michael Hendricks
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- Peter Todd
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- Philip Kaufmann
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- Pieter Wuille
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- R E Broadley
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- Sergio Lerner
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- Wladimir J. van der Laan
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title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 released
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title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 released
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---
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---
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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 is now available for download at:
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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 is now available for download at:
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<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.0/>
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<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.0/>
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We recommend that everybody running prior versions of bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt
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upgrade to this release.
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
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Project source code is hosted at github; you can get
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source-only tarballs/zipballs directly from there:
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|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.7.0> # .tar.gz
|
||||||
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.7.0> # .zip
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Ubuntu Linux users can use the "Personal Package Archive" (PPA)
|
||||||
|
maintained by Matt Corallo to automatically keep
|
||||||
|
bitcoin up-to-date. Just type
|
||||||
|
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
|
||||||
|
sudo apt-get update
|
||||||
|
in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package:
|
||||||
|
sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
|
||||||
|
until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
|
||||||
|
versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
|
||||||
|
/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you were running on Linux with a version that might have been compiled
|
||||||
|
with a different version of Berkeley DB (for example, if you were using the
|
||||||
|
PPA and are switching to the binary release), then run the old version again
|
||||||
|
with the -detachdb argument and shut it down; if you do not, then the new
|
||||||
|
version will not be able to read the database files and will exit with an error.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Incompatible Changes
|
||||||
|
--------------------
|
||||||
|
* Replaced the 'getmemorypool' RPC command with 'getblocktemplate/submitblock'
|
||||||
|
and 'getrawmempool' commands.
|
||||||
|
* Remove deprecated RPC 'getblocknumber'
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Bitcoin Improvement Proposals implemented
|
||||||
|
-----------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
BIP 22 - 'getblocktemplate', 'submitblock' RPCs
|
||||||
|
BIP 34 - block version 2, height in coinbase
|
||||||
|
BIP 35 - 'mempool' message, extended 'getdata' message behavior
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Core bitcoin handling and blockchain database
|
||||||
|
---------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
* Reduced CPU usage, by eliminating some redundant hash calculations
|
||||||
|
* Cache signature verifications, to eliminate redundant signature checks
|
||||||
|
* Transactions with zero-value outputs are considered non-standard
|
||||||
|
* Mining: when creating new blocks, sort 'paid' area by fee-per-kb
|
||||||
|
* Database: better validation of on-disk stored data
|
||||||
|
* Database: minor optimizations and reliability improvements
|
||||||
|
* -loadblock=FILE will import an external block file
|
||||||
|
* Additional DoS (denial-of-service) prevention measures
|
||||||
|
* New blockchain checkpoint at block 193,000
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
JSON-RPC API
|
||||||
|
------------
|
||||||
|
* Internal HTTP server is now thread-per-connection, rather than
|
||||||
|
a single-threaded queue that would stall on network I/O.
|
||||||
|
* Internal HTTP server supports HTTP/1.1, pipelined requests and
|
||||||
|
connection keep-alive.
|
||||||
|
* Support JSON-RPC 2.0 batches, to encapsulate multiple JSON-RPC requests
|
||||||
|
within a single HTTP request.
|
||||||
|
* IPv6 support
|
||||||
|
* Added raw transaction API. See https://gist.github.com/2839617
|
||||||
|
* Added 'getrawmempool', to list contents of TX memory pool
|
||||||
|
* Added 'getpeerinfo', to list data about each connected network peer
|
||||||
|
* Added 'listaddressgroupings' for better coin control
|
||||||
|
* Rework getblock call.
|
||||||
|
* Remove deprecated RPC 'getblocknumber'
|
||||||
|
* Remove superceded RPC 'getmemorypool' (see BIP 22, above)
|
||||||
|
* listtransactions output now displays "smart" times for transactions,
|
||||||
|
and 'blocktime' and 'timereceived' fields were added
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
P2P networking
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
* IPv6 support
|
||||||
|
* Tor hidden service support (see doc/Tor.txt)
|
||||||
|
* Attempts to fix "stuck blockchain download" problems
|
||||||
|
* Replace BDB database "addr.dat" with internally-managed "peers.dat"
|
||||||
|
file containing peer address data.
|
||||||
|
* Lower default send buffer from 10MB to 1MB
|
||||||
|
* proxy: SOCKS5 by default
|
||||||
|
* Support connecting by hostnames passed to proxy
|
||||||
|
* Add -seednode connections, and use this instead of DNS seeds when proxied
|
||||||
|
* Added -externalip and -discover
|
||||||
|
* Add -onlynet to connect only to a given network (IPv4, IPv6, or Tor)
|
||||||
|
* Separate listening sockets, -bind=<addr>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Qt GUI
|
||||||
|
------
|
||||||
|
* Add UI RPC console / debug window
|
||||||
|
* Re-Enable URI handling on Windows, add safety checks and tray-notifications
|
||||||
|
* Harmonize the use of ellipsis ("...") to be used in menus, but not on buttons
|
||||||
|
* Add 2 labels to the overviewpage that display Wallet and Transaction status (obsolete or current)
|
||||||
|
* Extend the optionsdialog (e.g. language selection) and re-work it to a tabbed UI
|
||||||
|
* Merge sign/verify message into a single window with tabbed UI
|
||||||
|
* Ensure a changed bitcoin unit immediately updates all GUI elements that use units
|
||||||
|
* Update QR Code dialog
|
||||||
|
* Improve error reporting at startup
|
||||||
|
* Fine-grained UI updates for a much smoother UI during block downloads
|
||||||
|
* Remove autocorrection of 0/i in addresses in UI
|
||||||
|
* Reorganize tray icon menu into more logical order
|
||||||
|
* Persistently poll for balance change when number of blocks changed
|
||||||
|
* Much better translations
|
||||||
|
* Override progress bar design on platforms with segmented progress bars to assist with readability
|
||||||
|
* Added 'immature balance' display on the overview page
|
||||||
|
* (Windows only): enable ASLR and DEP for bitcoin-qt.exe
|
||||||
|
* (Windows only): add meta-data to bitcoin-qt.exe (e.g. description)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Internal codebase
|
||||||
|
-----------------
|
||||||
|
* Additional unit tests
|
||||||
|
* Compile warning fixes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Miscellaneous
|
||||||
|
-------------
|
||||||
|
* Reopen debug.log upon SIGHUP
|
||||||
|
* Bash programmable completion for bitcoind(1)
|
||||||
|
* On supported OS's, each thread is given a useful name
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,113 @@
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.1 released
|
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.1 released
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.1 is now available for download at:
|
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.1 is now available from:
|
||||||
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.1/>
|
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.1/>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is a minor bug-fix release.
|
This is a bug-fix minor release.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Project source code is hosted at github; you can get
|
||||||
|
source-only tarballs/zipballs directly from there:
|
||||||
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.7.1> # .tar.gz
|
||||||
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.7.1> # .zip
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Ubuntu Linux users can use the "Personal Package Archive" (PPA)
|
||||||
|
maintained by Matt Corallo to automatically keep
|
||||||
|
up-to-date. Just type:
|
||||||
|
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
|
||||||
|
sudo apt-get update
|
||||||
|
in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package:
|
||||||
|
sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
KNOWN ISSUES
|
||||||
|
------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Mac OSX 10.5 is no longer supported.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
|
||||||
|
until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
|
||||||
|
versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
|
||||||
|
/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you were running on Linux with a version that might have been compiled
|
||||||
|
with a different version of Berkeley DB (for example, if you were using an
|
||||||
|
Ubuntu PPA version), then run the old version again with the -detachdb
|
||||||
|
argument and shut it down; if you do not, then the new version will not
|
||||||
|
be able to read the database files and will exit with an error.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Explanation of -detachdb (and the new "stop true" RPC command):
|
||||||
|
The Berkeley DB database library stores data in both ".dat" and
|
||||||
|
"log" files, so the database is always in a consistent state,
|
||||||
|
even in case of power failure or other sudden shutdown. The
|
||||||
|
format of the ".dat" files is portable between different
|
||||||
|
versions of Berkeley DB, but the "log" files are not-- even minor
|
||||||
|
version differences may have incompatible "log" files. The
|
||||||
|
-detachdb option moves any pending changes from the "log" files
|
||||||
|
to the "blkindex.dat" file for maximum compatibility, but makes
|
||||||
|
shutdown much slower. Note that the "wallet.dat" file is always
|
||||||
|
detached, and versions prior to 0.6.0 detached all databases
|
||||||
|
at shutdown.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
New features
|
||||||
|
------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Added a boolean argument to the RPC 'stop' command, if true sets
|
||||||
|
-detachdb to create standalone database .dat files before shutting down.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* -salvagewallet command-line option, which moves any existing wallet.dat
|
||||||
|
to wallet.{timestamp}.dat and then attempts to salvage public/private
|
||||||
|
keys and master encryption keys (if the wallet is encrypted) into
|
||||||
|
a new wallet.dat. This should only be used if your wallet becomes
|
||||||
|
corrupted, and is not intended to replace regular wallet backups.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Import $DataDir/bootstrap.dat automatically, if it exists.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Dependency changes
|
||||||
|
------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Qt 4.8.2 for Windows builds
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* openssl 1.0.1c
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Bug fixes
|
||||||
|
---------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Clicking on a bitcoin: URI on Windows should now launch Bitcoin-Qt properly.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* When running -testnet, use RPC port 18332 by default.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Better detection and handling of corrupt wallet.dat and blkindex.dat files.
|
||||||
|
Previous versions would crash with a DB_RUNRECOVERY exception, this
|
||||||
|
version detects most problems and tells you how to recover if it
|
||||||
|
cannot recover itself.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Fixed an uninitialized variable bug that could cause transactions to
|
||||||
|
be reported out of order.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Fixed a bug that could cause occasional crashes on exit.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Warn the user that they need to create fresh wallet backups after they
|
||||||
|
encrypt their wallet.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
----------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Gavin Andresen
|
||||||
|
- Jeff Garzik
|
||||||
|
- Luke Dashjr
|
||||||
|
- Mark Friedenbach
|
||||||
|
- Matt Corallo
|
||||||
|
- Philip Kaufmann
|
||||||
|
- Pieter Wuille
|
||||||
|
- Rune K. Svendsen
|
||||||
|
- Virgil Dupras
|
||||||
|
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
|
||||||
|
- fanquake
|
||||||
|
- kjj2
|
||||||
|
- xanatos
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,72 @@
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.2 released
|
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.2 released
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.2 is now available for download at:
|
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.2 is now available from:
|
||||||
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.2/>
|
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.2>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is a minor bug-fix release.
|
This is a bug-fix minor release.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
|
||||||
|
until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
|
||||||
|
versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
|
||||||
|
/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you were running on Linux with a version that might have been compiled
|
||||||
|
with a different version of Berkeley DB (for example, if you were using an
|
||||||
|
Ubuntu PPA version), then run the old version again with the -detachdb
|
||||||
|
argument and shut it down; if you do not, then the new version will not
|
||||||
|
be able to read the database files and will exit with an error.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Explanation of -detachdb (and the new "stop true" RPC command):
|
||||||
|
The Berkeley DB database library stores data in both ".dat" and
|
||||||
|
"log" files, so the database is always in a consistent state,
|
||||||
|
even in case of power failure or other sudden shutdown. The
|
||||||
|
format of the ".dat" files is portable between different
|
||||||
|
versions of Berkeley DB, but the "log" files are not-- even minor
|
||||||
|
version differences may have incompatible "log" files. The
|
||||||
|
-detachdb option moves any pending changes from the "log" files
|
||||||
|
to the "blkindex.dat" file for maximum compatibility, but makes
|
||||||
|
shutdown much slower. Note that the "wallet.dat" file is always
|
||||||
|
detached, and versions prior to 0.6.0 detached all databases
|
||||||
|
at shutdown.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Bug fixes
|
||||||
|
---------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Prevent RPC 'move' from deadlocking. This was caused by trying to lock the
|
||||||
|
database twice.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Fix use-after-free problems in initialization and shutdown, the latter of
|
||||||
|
which caused Bitcoin-Qt to crash on Windows when exiting.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Correct library linking so building on Windows natively works.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Avoid a race condition and out-of-bounds read in block creation/mining code.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Improve platform compatibility quirks, including fix for 100% CPU utilization
|
||||||
|
on FreeBSD 9.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* A few minor corrections to error handling, and updated translations.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* OSX 10.5 supported again
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
----------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Alex
|
||||||
|
- dansmith
|
||||||
|
- Gavin Andresen
|
||||||
|
- Gregory Maxwell
|
||||||
|
- Jeff Garzik
|
||||||
|
- Luke Dashjr
|
||||||
|
- Philip Kaufmann
|
||||||
|
- Pieter Wuille
|
||||||
|
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
|
||||||
|
- grimd34th
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,12 +1,142 @@
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.0 released
|
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.0 released
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.0 is now available for download at:
|
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.0 are now available from:
|
||||||
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.0/>
|
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.0/>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is a major release designed to improve performance and handle the
|
This is a major release designed to improve performance and handle the
|
||||||
increasing volume of transactions on the network.
|
increasing volume of transactions on the network.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
|
||||||
|
until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
|
||||||
|
versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
|
||||||
|
/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The first time you run after the upgrade a re-indexing process will be
|
||||||
|
started that will take anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours,
|
||||||
|
depending on the speed of your machine.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Incompatible Changes
|
||||||
|
--------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This release no longer maintains a full index of historical transaction ids
|
||||||
|
by default, so looking up an arbitrary transaction using the getrawtransaction
|
||||||
|
RPC call will not work. If you need that functionality, you must run once
|
||||||
|
with -txindex=1 -reindex=1 to rebuild block-chain indices (see below for more
|
||||||
|
details).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Improvements
|
||||||
|
------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Mac and Windows binaries are signed with certificates owned by the Bitcoin
|
||||||
|
Foundation, to be compatible with the new security features in OSX 10.8 and
|
||||||
|
Windows 8.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
LevelDB, a fast, open-source, non-relational database from Google, is
|
||||||
|
now used to store transaction and block indices. LevelDB works much better
|
||||||
|
on machines with slow I/O and is faster in general. Berkeley DB is now only
|
||||||
|
used for the wallet.dat file (public and private wallet keys and transactions
|
||||||
|
relevant to you).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Pieter Wuille implemented many optimizations to the way transactions are
|
||||||
|
verified, so a running, synchronized node uses less working memory and does
|
||||||
|
much less I/O. He also implemented parallel signature checking, so if you
|
||||||
|
have a multi-CPU machine all CPUs will be used to verify transactions.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
New Features
|
||||||
|
------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
"Bloom filter" support in the network protocol for sending only relevant transactions to
|
||||||
|
lightweight clients.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
contrib/verifysfbinaries is a shell-script to verify that the binary downloads
|
||||||
|
at sourceforge have not been tampered with. If you are able, you can help make
|
||||||
|
everybody's downloads more secure by running this occasionally to check PGP
|
||||||
|
signatures against download file checksums.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
contrib/spendfrom is a python-language command-line utility that demonstrates
|
||||||
|
how to use the "raw transactions" JSON-RPC api to send coins received from particular
|
||||||
|
addresses (also known as "coin control").
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
New/changed settings (command-line or bitcoin.conf file)
|
||||||
|
--------------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
dbcache : controls LevelDB memory usage.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
par : controls how many threads to use to validate transactions. Defaults to the number
|
||||||
|
of CPUs on your machine, use -par=1 to limit to a single CPU.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
txindex : maintains an extra index of old, spent transaction ids so they will be found
|
||||||
|
by the getrawtransaction JSON-RPC method.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
reindex : rebuild block and transaction indices from the downloaded block data.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
New JSON-RPC API Features
|
||||||
|
-------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
lockunspent / listlockunspent allow locking transaction outputs for a period of time so
|
||||||
|
they will not be spent by other processes that might be accessing the same wallet.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
addnode / getaddednodeinfo methods, to connect to specific peers without restarting.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
importprivkey now takes an optional boolean parameter (default true) to control whether
|
||||||
|
or not to rescan the blockchain for transactions after importing a new private key.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Important Bug Fixes
|
||||||
|
-------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Privacy leak: the position of the "change" output in most transactions was not being
|
||||||
|
properly randomized, making network analysis of the transaction graph to identify
|
||||||
|
users' wallets easier.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Zero-confirmation transaction vulnerability: accepting zero-confirmation transactions
|
||||||
|
(transactions that have not yet been included in a block) from somebody you do not
|
||||||
|
trust is still not recommended, because there will always be ways for attackers to
|
||||||
|
double-spend zero-confirmation transactions. However, this release includes a bug
|
||||||
|
fix that makes it a little bit more difficult for attackers to double-spend a
|
||||||
|
certain type ("lockTime in the future") of zero-confirmation transaction.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Dependency Changes
|
||||||
|
------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Qt 4.8.3 (compiling against older versions of Qt 4 should continue to work)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
|
||||||
|
----------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Alexander Kjeldaas
|
||||||
|
- Andrey Alekseenko
|
||||||
|
- Arnav Singh
|
||||||
|
- Christian von Roques
|
||||||
|
- Eric Lombrozo
|
||||||
|
- Forrest Voight
|
||||||
|
- Gavin Andresen
|
||||||
|
- Gregory Maxwell
|
||||||
|
- Jeff Garzik
|
||||||
|
- Luke Dashjr
|
||||||
|
- Matt Corallo
|
||||||
|
- Mike Cassano
|
||||||
|
- Mike Hearn
|
||||||
|
- Peter Todd
|
||||||
|
- Philip Kaufmann
|
||||||
|
- Pieter Wuille
|
||||||
|
- Richard Schwab
|
||||||
|
- Robert Backhaus
|
||||||
|
- Rune K. Svendsen
|
||||||
|
- Sergio Demian Lerner
|
||||||
|
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
|
||||||
|
- burger2
|
||||||
|
- default
|
||||||
|
- fanquake
|
||||||
|
- grimd34th
|
||||||
|
- justmoon
|
||||||
|
- redshark1802
|
||||||
|
- tucenaber
|
||||||
|
- xanatos
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,160 @@
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.1 released
|
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.1 released
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.1 is now available for download at:
|
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.1 is now available from:
|
||||||
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.1/>
|
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.1/>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is a maintenance release that adds a new network rule to avoid
|
This is a maintenance release that adds a new network rule to avoid
|
||||||
a chain-forking incompatibility with versions 0.7.2 and earlier.
|
a chain-forking incompatibility with versions 0.7.2 and earlier.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
|
||||||
|
until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
|
||||||
|
versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
|
||||||
|
/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you
|
||||||
|
run 0.8.1 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
|
||||||
|
anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
|
||||||
|
your machine.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0.8.1 Release notes
|
||||||
|
===================
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The 0.8.1 release has just two changes from the 0.8.0 release:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
1. A new block-acceptance rule that will be enforced from 21 March 2013 until
|
||||||
|
15 May 2013 to prevent accepting blocks that fail to validate on pre-0.8 peers.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
2. A new compiled-in checkpoint at block number 225,430 -- the first block
|
||||||
|
of the 11 March 2013 chain fork.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0.8.0 Release notes
|
||||||
|
===================
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Incompatible Changes
|
||||||
|
--------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This release no longer maintains a full index of historical transaction ids
|
||||||
|
by default, so looking up an arbitrary transaction using the getrawtransaction
|
||||||
|
RPC call will not work. If you need that functionality, you must run once
|
||||||
|
with -txindex=1 -reindex=1 to rebuild block-chain indices (see below for more
|
||||||
|
details).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Improvements
|
||||||
|
------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Mac and Windows binaries are signed with certificates owned by the Bitcoin
|
||||||
|
Foundation, to be compatible with the new security features in OSX 10.8 and
|
||||||
|
Windows 8.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
LevelDB, a fast, open-source, non-relational database from Google, is
|
||||||
|
now used to store transaction and block indices. LevelDB works much better
|
||||||
|
on machines with slow I/O and is faster in general. Berkeley DB is now only
|
||||||
|
used for the wallet.dat file (public and private wallet keys and transactions
|
||||||
|
relevant to you).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Pieter Wuille implemented many optimizations to the way transactions are
|
||||||
|
verified, so a running, synchronized node uses less working memory and does
|
||||||
|
much less I/O. He also implemented parallel signature checking, so if you
|
||||||
|
have a multi-CPU machine all CPUs will be used to verify transactions.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
New Features
|
||||||
|
------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
"Bloom filter" support in the network protocol for sending only relevant transactions to
|
||||||
|
lightweight clients.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
contrib/verifysfbinaries is a shell-script to verify that the binary downloads
|
||||||
|
at sourceforge have not been tampered with. If you are able, you can help make
|
||||||
|
everybody's downloads more secure by running this occasionally to check PGP
|
||||||
|
signatures against download file checksums.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
contrib/spendfrom is a python-language command-line utility that demonstrates
|
||||||
|
how to use the "raw transactions" JSON-RPC api to send coins received from particular
|
||||||
|
addresses (also known as "coin control").
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
New/changed settings (command-line or bitcoin.conf file)
|
||||||
|
--------------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
dbcache : controls LevelDB memory usage.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
par : controls how many threads to use to validate transactions. Defaults to the number
|
||||||
|
of CPUs on your machine, use -par=1 to limit to a single CPU.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
txindex : maintains an extra index of old, spent transaction ids so they will be found
|
||||||
|
by the getrawtransaction JSON-RPC method.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
reindex : rebuild block and transaction indices from the downloaded block data.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
New JSON-RPC API Features
|
||||||
|
-------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
lockunspent / listlockunspent allow locking transaction outputs for a period of time so
|
||||||
|
they will not be spent by other processes that might be accessing the same wallet.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
addnode / getaddednodeinfo methods, to connect to specific peers without restarting.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
importprivkey now takes an optional boolean parameter (default true) to control whether
|
||||||
|
or not to rescan the blockchain for transactions after importing a new private key.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Important Bug Fixes
|
||||||
|
-------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Privacy leak: the position of the "change" output in most transactions was not being
|
||||||
|
properly randomized, making network analysis of the transaction graph to identify
|
||||||
|
users' wallets easier.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Zero-confirmation transaction vulnerability: accepting zero-confirmation transactions
|
||||||
|
(transactions that have not yet been included in a block) from somebody you do not
|
||||||
|
trust is still not recommended, because there will always be ways for attackers to
|
||||||
|
double-spend zero-confirmation transactions. However, this release includes a bug
|
||||||
|
fix that makes it a little bit more difficult for attackers to double-spend a
|
||||||
|
certain type ("lockTime in the future") of zero-confirmation transaction.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Dependency Changes
|
||||||
|
------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Qt 4.8.3 (compiling against older versions of Qt 4 should continue to work)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.0 release:
|
||||||
|
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Alexander Kjeldaas
|
||||||
|
- Andrey Alekseenko
|
||||||
|
- Arnav Singh
|
||||||
|
- Christian von Roques
|
||||||
|
- Eric Lombrozo
|
||||||
|
- Forrest Voight
|
||||||
|
- Gavin Andresen
|
||||||
|
- Gregory Maxwell
|
||||||
|
- Jeff Garzik
|
||||||
|
- Luke Dashjr
|
||||||
|
- Matt Corallo
|
||||||
|
- Mike Cassano
|
||||||
|
- Mike Hearn
|
||||||
|
- Peter Todd
|
||||||
|
- Philip Kaufmann
|
||||||
|
- Pieter Wuille
|
||||||
|
- Richard Schwab
|
||||||
|
- Robert Backhaus
|
||||||
|
- Rune K. Svendsen
|
||||||
|
- Sergio Demian Lerner
|
||||||
|
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
|
||||||
|
- burger2
|
||||||
|
- default
|
||||||
|
- fanquake
|
||||||
|
- grimd34th
|
||||||
|
- justmoon
|
||||||
|
- redshark1802
|
||||||
|
- tucenaber
|
||||||
|
- xanatos
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,150 @@
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 released
|
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 released
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 is now available for download at:
|
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 is now available from:
|
||||||
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.2/>
|
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.2/>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is a maintenance release that fixes many bugs and includes
|
This is a maintenance release that fixes many bugs and includes
|
||||||
a few small new features.
|
a few small new features.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
|
||||||
|
until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
|
||||||
|
versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
|
||||||
|
/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you
|
||||||
|
run 0.8.2 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
|
||||||
|
anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
|
||||||
|
your machine.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0.8.2 Release notes
|
||||||
|
===================
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Fee Policy changes
|
||||||
|
------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC
|
||||||
|
(for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is
|
||||||
|
about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
|
||||||
|
(0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them
|
||||||
|
costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually
|
||||||
|
cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included
|
||||||
|
in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are
|
||||||
|
included in a block.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee
|
||||||
|
command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees
|
||||||
|
with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the
|
||||||
|
0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from
|
||||||
|
the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Bitcoin-Qt changes
|
||||||
|
------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* New icon and splash screen
|
||||||
|
* Improve reporting of synchronization process
|
||||||
|
* Remove hardcoded fee recommendations
|
||||||
|
* Improve metadata of executable on MacOSX and Windows
|
||||||
|
* Move export button to individual tabs instead of toolbar
|
||||||
|
* Add "send coins" command to context menu in address book
|
||||||
|
* Add "copy txid" command to copy transaction IDs from transaction overview
|
||||||
|
* Save & restore window size and position when showing & hiding window
|
||||||
|
* New translations: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Welsh (cy),
|
||||||
|
Esperanto (eo), Interlingua (la), Latvian (lv) and many improvements
|
||||||
|
to current translations
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
MacOSX:
|
||||||
|
* OSX support for click-to-pay (bitcoin:) links
|
||||||
|
* Fix GUI disappearing problem on MacOSX (issue #1522)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Linux/Unix:
|
||||||
|
* Copy addresses to middle-mouse-button clipboard
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Command-line options
|
||||||
|
--------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* -walletnotify will call a command on receiving transactions that affect the wallet.
|
||||||
|
* -alertnotify will call a command on receiving an alert from the network.
|
||||||
|
* -par now takes a negative number, to leave a certain amount of cores free.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
JSON-RPC API changes
|
||||||
|
--------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* fixed a getblocktemplate bug that caused excessive CPU creating blocks.
|
||||||
|
* listunspent now lists account and address infromation.
|
||||||
|
* getinfo now also returns the time adjustment estimated from your peers.
|
||||||
|
* getpeerinfo now returns bytessent, bytesrecv and syncnode.
|
||||||
|
* gettxoutsetinfo returns statistics about the unspent transaction output database.
|
||||||
|
* gettxout returns information about a specific unspent transaction output.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Networking changes
|
||||||
|
------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Significant changes to the networking code, reducing latency and memory consumption.
|
||||||
|
* Avoid initial block download stalling.
|
||||||
|
* Remove IRC seeding support.
|
||||||
|
* Performance tweaks.
|
||||||
|
* Added testnet DNS seeds.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Wallet compatibility/rescuing
|
||||||
|
-----------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Cases where wallets cannot be opened in another version/installation should be reduced.
|
||||||
|
* -salvagewallet now works for encrypted wallets.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Known Bugs
|
||||||
|
----------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Entering the 'getblocktemplate' or 'getwork' RPC commands into the Bitcoin-Qt debug
|
||||||
|
console will cause Bitcoin-Qt to crash. Run Bitcoin-Qt with the -server command-line
|
||||||
|
option to workaround.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.2 release!
|
||||||
|
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- APerson241
|
||||||
|
- Andrew Poelstra
|
||||||
|
- Calvin Owens
|
||||||
|
- Chuck LeDuc Díaz
|
||||||
|
- Colin Dean
|
||||||
|
- David Griffith
|
||||||
|
- David Serrano
|
||||||
|
- Eric Lombrozo
|
||||||
|
- Gavin Andresen
|
||||||
|
- Gregory Maxwell
|
||||||
|
- Jeff Garzik
|
||||||
|
- Jonas Schnelli
|
||||||
|
- Larry Gilbert
|
||||||
|
- Luke Dashjr
|
||||||
|
- Matt Corallo
|
||||||
|
- Michael Ford
|
||||||
|
- Mike Hearn
|
||||||
|
- Patrick Brown
|
||||||
|
- Peter Todd
|
||||||
|
- Philip Kaufmann
|
||||||
|
- Pieter Wuille
|
||||||
|
- Richard Schwab
|
||||||
|
- Roman Mindalev
|
||||||
|
- Scott Howard
|
||||||
|
- Tariq Bashir
|
||||||
|
- Warren Togami
|
||||||
|
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
|
||||||
|
- freewil
|
||||||
|
- gladoscc
|
||||||
|
- kjj2
|
||||||
|
- mb300sd
|
||||||
|
- super3
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||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,157 @@
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 released
|
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 released
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 is now available for download at:
|
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 is now available from:
|
||||||
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.3/>
|
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.3/>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is a maintenance release to fix a denial-of-service attack that
|
This is a maintenance release to fix a denial-of-service attack that
|
||||||
can cause nodes to crash.
|
can cause nodes to crash.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
|
||||||
|
until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
|
||||||
|
versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
|
||||||
|
/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you
|
||||||
|
run 0.8.3 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
|
||||||
|
anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
|
||||||
|
your machine.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0.8.3 Release notes
|
||||||
|
===================
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Truncate over-size messages to prevent a memory exhaustion attack.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Fix a regression that causes excessive re-writing of the 'peers.dat' file.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0.8.2 Release notes
|
||||||
|
===================
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Fee Policy changes
|
||||||
|
------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC
|
||||||
|
(for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is
|
||||||
|
about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
|
||||||
|
(0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them
|
||||||
|
costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually
|
||||||
|
cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included
|
||||||
|
in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are
|
||||||
|
included in a block.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee
|
||||||
|
command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees
|
||||||
|
with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the
|
||||||
|
0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from
|
||||||
|
the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Bitcoin-Qt changes
|
||||||
|
------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* New icon and splash screen
|
||||||
|
* Improve reporting of synchronization process
|
||||||
|
* Remove hardcoded fee recommendations
|
||||||
|
* Improve metadata of executable on MacOSX and Windows
|
||||||
|
* Move export button to individual tabs instead of toolbar
|
||||||
|
* Add "send coins" command to context menu in address book
|
||||||
|
* Add "copy txid" command to copy transaction IDs from transaction overview
|
||||||
|
* Save & restore window size and position when showing & hiding window
|
||||||
|
* New translations: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Welsh (cy),
|
||||||
|
Esperanto (eo), Interlingua (la), Latvian (lv) and many improvements
|
||||||
|
to current translations
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
MacOSX:
|
||||||
|
* OSX support for click-to-pay (bitcoin:) links
|
||||||
|
* Fix GUI disappearing problem on MacOSX (issue #1522)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Linux/Unix:
|
||||||
|
* Copy addresses to middle-mouse-button clipboard
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Command-line options
|
||||||
|
--------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* -walletnotify will call a command on receiving transactions that affect the wallet.
|
||||||
|
* -alertnotify will call a command on receiving an alert from the network.
|
||||||
|
* -par now takes a negative number, to leave a certain amount of cores free.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
JSON-RPC API changes
|
||||||
|
--------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* fixed a getblocktemplate bug that caused excessive CPU creating blocks.
|
||||||
|
* listunspent now lists account and address infromation.
|
||||||
|
* getinfo now also returns the time adjustment estimated from your peers.
|
||||||
|
* getpeerinfo now returns bytessent, bytesrecv and syncnode.
|
||||||
|
* gettxoutsetinfo returns statistics about the unspent transaction output database.
|
||||||
|
* gettxout returns information about a specific unspent transaction output.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Networking changes
|
||||||
|
------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Significant changes to the networking code, reducing latency and memory consumption.
|
||||||
|
* Avoid initial block download stalling.
|
||||||
|
* Remove IRC seeding support.
|
||||||
|
* Performance tweaks.
|
||||||
|
* Added testnet DNS seeds.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Wallet compatibility/rescuing
|
||||||
|
-----------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Cases where wallets cannot be opened in another version/installation should be reduced.
|
||||||
|
* -salvagewallet now works for encrypted wallets.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Known Bugs
|
||||||
|
----------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Entering the 'getblocktemplate' or 'getwork' RPC commands into the Bitcoin-Qt debug
|
||||||
|
console will cause Bitcoin-Qt to crash. Run Bitcoin-Qt with the -server command-line
|
||||||
|
option to workaround.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.2 and 0.8.3 releases!
|
||||||
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* APerson241
|
||||||
|
* Andrew Poelstra
|
||||||
|
* Calvin Owens
|
||||||
|
* Chuck LeDuc Díaz
|
||||||
|
* Colin Dean
|
||||||
|
* David Griffith
|
||||||
|
* David Serrano
|
||||||
|
* Eric Lombrozo
|
||||||
|
* Gavin Andresen
|
||||||
|
* Gregory Maxwell
|
||||||
|
* Jeff Garzik
|
||||||
|
* Jonas Schnelli
|
||||||
|
* Larry Gilbert
|
||||||
|
* Luke Dashjr
|
||||||
|
* Matt Corallo
|
||||||
|
* Michael Ford
|
||||||
|
* Mike Hearn
|
||||||
|
* Patrick Brown
|
||||||
|
* Peter Todd
|
||||||
|
* Philip Kaufmann
|
||||||
|
* Pieter Wuille
|
||||||
|
* Richard Schwab
|
||||||
|
* Roman Mindalev
|
||||||
|
* Scott Howard
|
||||||
|
* Tariq Bashir
|
||||||
|
* Warren Togami
|
||||||
|
* Wladimir J. van der Laan
|
||||||
|
* freewil
|
||||||
|
* gladoscc
|
||||||
|
* kjj2
|
||||||
|
* mb300sd
|
||||||
|
* super3
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,14 +1,86 @@
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.4 released
|
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.4 released
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.4 is now available for download at:
|
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.4 is now available from:
|
||||||
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.4/>
|
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.4/>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is a maintenance release to fix a critical bug and three
|
This is a maintenance release to fix a critical bug and three
|
||||||
security issues; we urge all users to upgrade.
|
security issues; we urge all users to upgrade.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
There were no changes from 0.8.4 release candidate 2, so if you are running
|
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
|
||||||
0.8.4rc2 you do not need to upgrade.
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
|
||||||
|
until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
|
||||||
|
versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
|
||||||
|
/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you
|
||||||
|
run 0.8.4 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
|
||||||
|
anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
|
||||||
|
your machine.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0.8.4 Release notes
|
||||||
|
===================
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Security issues
|
||||||
|
---------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
An attacker could send a series of messages that resulted in
|
||||||
|
an integer division-by-zero error in the Bloom Filter handling
|
||||||
|
code, causing the Bitcoin-Qt or bitcoind process to crash.
|
||||||
|
Bloom filters were introduced with version 0.8, so versions 0.8.0
|
||||||
|
through 0.8.3 are vulnerable to this critical denial-of-service attack.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
A constant-time algorithm is now used to check RPC password
|
||||||
|
guess attempts; fixes <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/2838>
|
||||||
|
(CVE-2013-4165)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Implement a better fix for the fill-memory-with-orphan-transactions
|
||||||
|
attack that was fixed in 0.8.3. See
|
||||||
|
<https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/buggy-cve-2013-4627-patch-open-new-vectors-of-attack/>
|
||||||
|
for a description of the weaknesses of the previous fix.
|
||||||
|
(CVE-2013-4627)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Bugs fixed
|
||||||
|
----------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Fix multi-block reorg transaction resurrection.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Fix non-standard disconnected transactions causing mempool orphans.
|
||||||
|
This bug could cause nodes running with the -debug flag to crash.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
OSX: use 'FD_FULLSYNC' with LevelDB, which will (hopefully!)
|
||||||
|
prevent the database corruption issues many people have
|
||||||
|
experienced on OSX.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Linux: clicking on bitcoin: links was broken if you were using
|
||||||
|
a Gnome-based desktop.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Fix a hang-at-shutdown bug that only affects users that compile
|
||||||
|
their own version of Bitcoin against Boost versions 1.50-1.52.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Other changes
|
||||||
|
-------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Checkpoint at block 250,000 to speed up initial block downloads
|
||||||
|
and make the progress indicator when downloading more accurate.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.4 releases!
|
||||||
|
----------------------------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Pieter Wuille
|
||||||
|
* Warren Togami
|
||||||
|
* Patrick Strateman
|
||||||
|
* pakt
|
||||||
|
* Gregory Maxwell
|
||||||
|
* Sergio Demian Lerner
|
||||||
|
* grayleonard
|
||||||
|
* Cory Fields
|
||||||
|
* Matt Corallo
|
||||||
|
* Gavin Andresen
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,47 @@
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.5 released
|
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.5 released
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.5 is now available for download at:
|
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.5 is now available from:
|
||||||
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.5/>
|
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.5/>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is a maintenance release to fix a critical bug; we urge all users to
|
This is a maintenance release to fix a critical bug;
|
||||||
upgrade.
|
we urge all users to upgrade.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
|
||||||
|
until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
|
||||||
|
versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
|
||||||
|
/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you
|
||||||
|
run 0.8.5 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
|
||||||
|
anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
|
||||||
|
your machine.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0.8.5 Release notes
|
||||||
|
===================
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Bugs fixed
|
||||||
|
----------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Transactions with version numbers larger than 0x7fffffff were
|
||||||
|
incorrectly being relayed and included in blocks.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Blocks containing transactions with version numbers larger
|
||||||
|
than 0x7fffffff caused the code that checks for LevelDB database
|
||||||
|
inconsistencies at startup to erroneously report database
|
||||||
|
corruption and suggest that you reindex your database.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This release also contains a non-critical fix to the code that
|
||||||
|
enforces BIP 34 (block height in the coinbase transaction).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
--
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Thanks to Gregory Maxwell and Pieter Wuille for quickly
|
||||||
|
identifying and fixing the transaction version number bug.
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,66 @@
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.6 released
|
title: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.6 released
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.6 is now available for download at:
|
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.6 is now available from:
|
||||||
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.6/>
|
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.6/>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is a maintenance release to fix a critical bug;
|
This is a maintenance release to fix a critical bug;
|
||||||
we urge all users to upgrade.
|
we urge all users to upgrade.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
|
||||||
|
until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
|
||||||
|
versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
|
||||||
|
/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you
|
||||||
|
run 0.8.6 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
|
||||||
|
anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
|
||||||
|
your machine.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0.8.6 Release notes
|
||||||
|
===================
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Default block size increase for miners.
|
||||||
|
(see <https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7670433#086-accept-into-block>)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Remove the all-outputs-must-be-greater-than-CENT-to-qualify-as-free rule for relaying
|
||||||
|
(see <https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7670433#086-relaying>)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Lower maximum size for free transaction creation
|
||||||
|
(see <https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7670433#086-wallet>)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- OSX block chain database corruption fixes
|
||||||
|
- Update leveldb to 1.13
|
||||||
|
- Use fcntl with `F_FULLSYNC` instead of fsync on OSX
|
||||||
|
- Use native Darwin memory barriers
|
||||||
|
- Replace use of mmap in leveldb for improved reliability (only on OSX)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Fix nodes forwarding transactions with empty vins and getting banned
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Network code performance and robustness improvements
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Additional debug.log logging for diagnosis of network problems, log timestamps by default
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Fix Bitcoin-Qt startup crash when clicking dock icon on OSX
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Fix memory leaks in CKey::SetCompactSignature() and Key::SignCompact()
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Fix rare GUI crash on send
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Various small GUI, documentation and build fixes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Warning
|
||||||
|
-------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- There have been frequent reports of users running out of virtual memory on 32-bit systems
|
||||||
|
during the initial sync.
|
||||||
|
Hence it is recommended to use a 64-bit executable if possible.
|
||||||
|
A 64-bit executable for Windows is planned for 0.9.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,415 @@
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
title: Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 released
|
title: Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 released
|
||||||
---
|
---
|
||||||
Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 is now available for download at:
|
Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 is now available from:
|
||||||
<https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is a new major version that brings both new features and
|
<https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/>
|
||||||
bug fixes; we urge all users to upgrade.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
This is a new major version release, bringing both new features and
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
bug fixes.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
How to Upgrade
|
||||||
|
--------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
|
||||||
|
shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), uninstall all
|
||||||
|
earlier versions of Bitcoin, then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy
|
||||||
|
over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you run
|
||||||
|
0.9.0 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from
|
||||||
|
30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
On Windows, do not forget to uninstall all earlier versions of the Bitcoin
|
||||||
|
client first, especially if you are switching to the 64-bit version.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Windows 64-bit installer
|
||||||
|
-------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
New in 0.9.0 is the Windows 64-bit version of the client. There have been
|
||||||
|
frequent reports of users running out of virtual memory on 32-bit systems
|
||||||
|
during the initial sync. Because of this it is recommended to install the
|
||||||
|
64-bit version if your system supports it.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
NOTE: Release candidate 2 Windows binaries are not code-signed; use PGP
|
||||||
|
and the SHA256SUMS.asc file to make sure your binaries are correct.
|
||||||
|
In the final 0.9.0 release, Windows setup.exe binaries will be code-signed.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
OSX 10.5 / 32-bit no longer supported
|
||||||
|
-------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0.9.0 drops support for older Macs. The minimum requirements are now:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* A 64-bit-capable CPU (see <http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3696>);
|
||||||
|
* Mac OS 10.6 or later (see <https://support.apple.com/kb/ht1633>).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Downgrading warnings
|
||||||
|
--------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The 'chainstate' for this release is not always compatible with previous
|
||||||
|
releases, so if you run 0.9 and then decide to switch back to a
|
||||||
|
0.8.x release you might get a blockchain validation error when starting the
|
||||||
|
old release (due to 'pruned outputs' being omitted from the index of
|
||||||
|
unspent transaction outputs).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Running the old release with the -reindex option will rebuild the chainstate
|
||||||
|
data structures and correct the problem.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Also, the first time you run a 0.8.x release on a 0.9 wallet it will rescan
|
||||||
|
the blockchain for missing spent coins, which will take a long time (tens
|
||||||
|
of minutes on a typical machine).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Rebranding to Bitcoin Core
|
||||||
|
---------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
To reduce confusion between Bitcoin-the-network and Bitcoin-the-software we
|
||||||
|
have renamed the reference client to Bitcoin Core.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
OP_RETURN and data in the block chain
|
||||||
|
-------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
On OP_RETURN: There was been some confusion and misunderstanding in
|
||||||
|
the community, regarding the OP_RETURN feature in 0.9 and data in the
|
||||||
|
blockchain. This change is not an endorsement of storing data in the
|
||||||
|
blockchain. The OP_RETURN change creates a provably-prunable output,
|
||||||
|
to avoid data storage schemes -- some of which were already deployed --
|
||||||
|
that were storing arbitrary data such as images as forever-unspendable
|
||||||
|
TX outputs, bloating bitcoin's UTXO database.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Storing arbitrary data in the blockchain is still a bad idea; it is less
|
||||||
|
costly and far more efficient to store non-currency data elsewhere.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Autotools build system
|
||||||
|
-----------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
For 0.9.0 we switched to an autotools-based build system instead of individual
|
||||||
|
(q)makefiles.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Using the standard "./autogen.sh; ./configure; make" to build Bitcoin-Qt and
|
||||||
|
bitcoind makes it easier for experienced open source developers to contribute
|
||||||
|
to the project.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Be sure to check doc/build-*.md for your platform before building from source.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Bitcoin-cli
|
||||||
|
-------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Another change in the 0.9 release is moving away from the bitcoind executable
|
||||||
|
functioning both as a server and as a RPC client. The RPC client functionality
|
||||||
|
("tell the running bitcoin daemon to do THIS") was split into a separate
|
||||||
|
executable, 'bitcoin-cli'. The RPC client code will eventually be removed from
|
||||||
|
bitcoind, but will be kept for backwards compatibility for a release or two.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
`walletpassphrase` RPC
|
||||||
|
-----------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The behavior of the `walletpassphrase` RPC when the wallet is already unlocked
|
||||||
|
has changed between 0.8 and 0.9.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The 0.8 behavior of `walletpassphrase` is to fail when the wallet is already unlocked:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
> walletpassphrase 1000
|
||||||
|
walletunlocktime = now + 1000
|
||||||
|
> walletpassphrase 10
|
||||||
|
Error: Wallet is already unlocked (old unlock time stays)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The new behavior of `walletpassphrase` is to set a new unlock time overriding
|
||||||
|
the old one:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
> walletpassphrase 1000
|
||||||
|
walletunlocktime = now + 1000
|
||||||
|
> walletpassphrase 10
|
||||||
|
walletunlocktime = now + 10 (overriding the old unlock time)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Transaction malleability-related fixes
|
||||||
|
--------------------------------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This release contains a few fixes for transaction ID (TXID) malleability
|
||||||
|
issues:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- -nospendzeroconfchange command-line option, to avoid spending
|
||||||
|
zero-confirmation change
|
||||||
|
- IsStandard() transaction rules tightened to prevent relaying and mining of
|
||||||
|
mutated transactions
|
||||||
|
- Additional information in listtransactions/gettransaction output to
|
||||||
|
report wallet transactions that conflict with each other because
|
||||||
|
they spend the same outputs.
|
||||||
|
- Bug fixes to the getbalance/listaccounts RPC commands, which would report
|
||||||
|
incorrect balances for double-spent (or mutated) transactions.
|
||||||
|
- New option: -zapwallettxes to rebuild the wallet's transaction information
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Transaction Fees
|
||||||
|
----------------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This release drops the default fee required to relay transactions across the
|
||||||
|
network and for miners to consider the transaction in their blocks to
|
||||||
|
0.01mBTC per kilobyte.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Note that getting a transaction relayed across the network does NOT guarantee
|
||||||
|
that the transaction will be accepted by a miner; by default, miners fill
|
||||||
|
their blocks with 50 kilobytes of high-priority transactions, and then with
|
||||||
|
700 kilobytes of the highest-fee-per-kilobyte transactions.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The minimum relay/mining fee-per-kilobyte may be changed with the
|
||||||
|
minrelaytxfee option. Note that previous releases incorrectly used
|
||||||
|
the mintxfee setting to determine which low-priority transactions should
|
||||||
|
be considered for inclusion in blocks.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The wallet code still uses a default fee for low-priority transactions of
|
||||||
|
0.1mBTC per kilobyte. During periods of heavy transaction volume, even this
|
||||||
|
fee may not be enough to get transactions confirmed quickly; the mintxfee
|
||||||
|
option may be used to override the default.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
0.9.0 Release notes
|
||||||
|
=======================
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
RPC:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- New notion of 'conflicted' transactions, reported as confirmations: -1
|
||||||
|
- 'listreceivedbyaddress' now provides tx ids
|
||||||
|
- Add raw transaction hex to 'gettransaction' output
|
||||||
|
- Updated help and tests for 'getreceivedby(account|address)'
|
||||||
|
- In 'getblock', accept 2nd 'verbose' parameter, similar to getrawtransaction,
|
||||||
|
but defaulting to 1 for backward compatibility
|
||||||
|
- Add 'verifychain', to verify chain database at runtime
|
||||||
|
- Add 'dumpwallet' and 'importwallet' RPCs
|
||||||
|
- 'keypoolrefill' gains optional size parameter
|
||||||
|
- Add 'getbestblockhash', to return tip of best chain
|
||||||
|
- Add 'chainwork' (the total work done by all blocks since the genesis block)
|
||||||
|
to 'getblock' output
|
||||||
|
- Make RPC password resistant to timing attacks
|
||||||
|
- Clarify help messages and add examples
|
||||||
|
- Add 'getrawchangeaddress' call for raw transaction change destinations
|
||||||
|
- Reject insanely high fees by default in 'sendrawtransaction'
|
||||||
|
- Add RPC call 'decodescript' to decode a hex-encoded transaction script
|
||||||
|
- Make 'validateaddress' provide redeemScript
|
||||||
|
- Add 'getnetworkhashps' to get the calculated network hashrate
|
||||||
|
- New RPC 'ping' command to request ping, new 'pingtime' and 'pingwait' fields
|
||||||
|
in 'getpeerinfo' output
|
||||||
|
- Adding new 'addrlocal' field to 'getpeerinfo' output
|
||||||
|
- Add verbose boolean to 'getrawmempool'
|
||||||
|
- Add rpc command 'getunconfirmedbalance' to obtain total unconfirmed balance
|
||||||
|
- Explicitly ensure that wallet is unlocked in `importprivkey`
|
||||||
|
- Add check for valid keys in `importprivkey`
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Command-line options:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- New option: -nospendzeroconfchange to never spend unconfirmed change outputs
|
||||||
|
- New option: -zapwallettxes to rebuild the wallet's transaction information
|
||||||
|
- Rename option '-tor' to '-onion' to better reflect what it does
|
||||||
|
- Add '-disablewallet' mode to let bitcoind run entirely without wallet (when
|
||||||
|
built with wallet)
|
||||||
|
- Update default '-rpcsslciphers' to include TLSv1.2
|
||||||
|
- make '-logtimestamps' default on and rework help-message
|
||||||
|
- RPC client option: '-rpcwait', to wait for server start
|
||||||
|
- Remove '-logtodebugger'
|
||||||
|
- Allow `-noserver` with bitcoind
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Block-chain handling and storage:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Update leveldb to 1.15
|
||||||
|
- Check for correct genesis (prevent cases where a datadir from the wrong
|
||||||
|
network is accidentally loaded)
|
||||||
|
- Allow txindex to be removed and add a reindex dialog
|
||||||
|
- Log aborted block database rebuilds
|
||||||
|
- Store orphan blocks in serialized form, to save memory
|
||||||
|
- Limit the number of orphan blocks in memory to 750
|
||||||
|
- Fix non-standard disconnected transactions causing mempool orphans
|
||||||
|
- Add a new checkpoint at block 279,000
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Wallet:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Bug fixes and new regression tests to correctly compute
|
||||||
|
the balance of wallets containing double-spent (or mutated) transactions
|
||||||
|
- Store key creation time. Calculate whole-wallet birthday.
|
||||||
|
- Optimize rescan to skip blocks prior to birthday
|
||||||
|
- Let user select wallet file with -wallet=foo.dat
|
||||||
|
- Consider generated coins mature at 101 instead of 120 blocks
|
||||||
|
- Improve wallet load time
|
||||||
|
- Don't count txins for priority to encourage sweeping
|
||||||
|
- Don't create empty transactions when reading a corrupted wallet
|
||||||
|
- Fix rescan to start from beginning after importprivkey
|
||||||
|
- Only create signatures with low S values
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Mining:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Increase default -blockmaxsize/prioritysize to 750K/50K
|
||||||
|
- 'getblocktemplate' does not require a key to create a block template
|
||||||
|
- Mining code fee policy now matches relay fee policy
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Protocol and network:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Drop the fee required to relay a transaction to 0.01mBTC per kilobyte
|
||||||
|
- Send tx relay flag with version
|
||||||
|
- New 'reject' P2P message (BIP 0061, see
|
||||||
|
<https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7079034> for draft)
|
||||||
|
- Dump addresses every 15 minutes instead of 10 seconds
|
||||||
|
- Relay OP_RETURN data TxOut as standard transaction type
|
||||||
|
- Remove CENT-output free transaction rule when relaying
|
||||||
|
- Lower maximum size for free transaction creation
|
||||||
|
- Send multiple inv messages if mempool.size > MAX_INV_SZ
|
||||||
|
- Split MIN_PROTO_VERSION into INIT_PROTO_VERSION and MIN_PEER_PROTO_VERSION
|
||||||
|
- Do not treat fFromMe transaction differently when broadcasting
|
||||||
|
- Process received messages one at a time without sleeping between messages
|
||||||
|
- Improve logging of failed connections
|
||||||
|
- Bump protocol version to 70002
|
||||||
|
- Add some additional logging to give extra network insight
|
||||||
|
- Added new DNS seed from bitcoinstats.com
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Validation:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Log reason for non-standard transaction rejection
|
||||||
|
- Prune provably-unspendable outputs, and adapt consistency check for it.
|
||||||
|
- Detect any sufficiently long fork and add a warning
|
||||||
|
- Call the -alertnotify script when we see a long or invalid fork
|
||||||
|
- Fix multi-block reorg transaction resurrection
|
||||||
|
- Reject non-canonically-encoded serialization sizes
|
||||||
|
- Reject dust amounts during validation
|
||||||
|
- Accept nLockTime transactions that finalize in the next block
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Build system:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Switch to autotools-based build system
|
||||||
|
- Build without wallet by passing `--disable-wallet` to configure, this
|
||||||
|
removes the BerkeleyDB dependency
|
||||||
|
- Upgrade gitian dependencies (libpng, libz, libupnpc, boost, openssl) to more
|
||||||
|
recent versions
|
||||||
|
- Windows 64-bit build support
|
||||||
|
- Solaris compatibility fixes
|
||||||
|
- Check integrity of gitian input source tarballs
|
||||||
|
- Enable full GCC Stack-smashing protection for all OSes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
GUI:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Switch to Qt 5.2.0 for Windows build
|
||||||
|
- Add payment request (BIP 0070) support
|
||||||
|
- Improve options dialog
|
||||||
|
- Show transaction fee in new send confirmation dialog
|
||||||
|
- Add total balance in overview page
|
||||||
|
- Allow user to choose data directory on first start, when data directory is
|
||||||
|
missing, or when the -choosedatadir option is passed
|
||||||
|
- Save and restore window positions
|
||||||
|
- Add vout index to transaction id in transactions details dialog
|
||||||
|
- Add network traffic graph in debug window
|
||||||
|
- Add open URI dialog
|
||||||
|
- Add Coin Control Features
|
||||||
|
- Improve receive coins workflow: make the 'Receive' tab into a form to request
|
||||||
|
payments, and move historical address list functionality to File menu.
|
||||||
|
- Rebrand to `Bitcoin Core`
|
||||||
|
- Move initialization/shutdown to a thread. This prevents "Not responding"
|
||||||
|
messages during startup. Also show a window during shutdown.
|
||||||
|
- Don't regenerate autostart link on every client startup
|
||||||
|
- Show and store message of normal bitcoin:URI
|
||||||
|
- Fix richtext detection hang issue on very old Qt versions
|
||||||
|
- OS X: Make use of the 10.8+ user notification center to display Growl-like
|
||||||
|
notifications
|
||||||
|
- OS X: Added NSHighResolutionCapable flag to Info.plist for better font
|
||||||
|
rendering on Retina displays.
|
||||||
|
- OS X: Fix bitcoin-qt startup crash when clicking dock icon
|
||||||
|
- Linux: Fix Gnome bitcoin: URI handler
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Miscellaneous:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Add Linux script (contrib/qos/tc.sh) to limit outgoing bandwidth
|
||||||
|
- Add '-regtest' mode, similar to testnet but private with instant block
|
||||||
|
generation with 'setgenerate' RPC.
|
||||||
|
- Add 'linearize.py' script to contrib, for creating bootstrap.dat
|
||||||
|
- Add separate bitcoin-cli client
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Credits
|
||||||
|
--------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Andrey
|
||||||
|
- Ashley Holman
|
||||||
|
- b6393ce9-d324-4fe1-996b-acf82dbc3d53
|
||||||
|
- bitsofproof
|
||||||
|
- Brandon Dahler
|
||||||
|
- Calvin Tam
|
||||||
|
- Christian Decker
|
||||||
|
- Christian von Roques
|
||||||
|
- Christopher Latham
|
||||||
|
- Chuck
|
||||||
|
- coblee
|
||||||
|
- constantined
|
||||||
|
- Cory Fields
|
||||||
|
- Cozz Lovan
|
||||||
|
- daniel
|
||||||
|
- Daniel Larimer
|
||||||
|
- David Hill
|
||||||
|
- Dmitry Smirnov
|
||||||
|
- Drak
|
||||||
|
- Eric Lombrozo
|
||||||
|
- fanquake
|
||||||
|
- fcicq
|
||||||
|
- Florin
|
||||||
|
- frewil
|
||||||
|
- Gavin Andresen
|
||||||
|
- Gregory Maxwell
|
||||||
|
- gubatron
|
||||||
|
- Guillermo Céspedes Tabárez
|
||||||
|
- Haakon Nilsen
|
||||||
|
- HaltingState
|
||||||
|
- Han Lin Yap
|
||||||
|
- harry
|
||||||
|
- Ian Kelling
|
||||||
|
- Jeff Garzik
|
||||||
|
- Johnathan Corgan
|
||||||
|
- Jonas Schnelli
|
||||||
|
- Josh Lehan
|
||||||
|
- Josh Triplett
|
||||||
|
- Julian Langschaedel
|
||||||
|
- Kangmo
|
||||||
|
- Lake Denman
|
||||||
|
- Luke Dashjr
|
||||||
|
- Mark Friedenbach
|
||||||
|
- Matt Corallo
|
||||||
|
- Michael Bauer
|
||||||
|
- Michael Ford
|
||||||
|
- Michagogo
|
||||||
|
- Midnight Magic
|
||||||
|
- Mike Hearn
|
||||||
|
- Nils Schneider
|
||||||
|
- Noel Tiernan
|
||||||
|
- Olivier Langlois
|
||||||
|
- patrick s
|
||||||
|
- Patrick Strateman
|
||||||
|
- paveljanik
|
||||||
|
- Peter Todd
|
||||||
|
- phantomcircuit
|
||||||
|
- phelixbtc
|
||||||
|
- Philip Kaufmann
|
||||||
|
- Pieter Wuille
|
||||||
|
- Rav3nPL
|
||||||
|
- R E Broadley
|
||||||
|
- regergregregerrge
|
||||||
|
- Robert Backhaus
|
||||||
|
- Roman Mindalev
|
||||||
|
- Rune K. Svendsen
|
||||||
|
- Ryan Niebur
|
||||||
|
- Scott Ellis
|
||||||
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- Scott Willeke
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title: Bitcoin Core version 0.9.1 released
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title: Bitcoin Core version 0.9.1 released
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---
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Bitcoin Core version 0.9.1 is now available for download at:
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Bitcoin Core version 0.9.1 is now available from:
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<https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.1/>
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This is a maintenance release to fix an urgent security
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<https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.1/>
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vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160); all users should
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upgrade.
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This is a security update. It is recommended to upgrade to this release
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as soon as possible.
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It is especially important to upgrade if you currently have version
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0.9.0 installed and are using the graphical interface OR you are using
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bitcoind from any pre-0.9.1 version, and have enabled SSL for RPC and
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have configured allowip to allow rpc connections from potentially
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hostile hosts.
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
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How to Upgrade
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If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
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shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
|
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installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or
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bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
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If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you run
|
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0.9.1 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from
|
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30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine.
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||||||
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0.9.1 Release notes
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|
-------------------
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No code changes were made between 0.9.0 and 0.9.1. Only the dependencies were changed.
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||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1g. This release fixes the following vulnerabilities which can
|
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|
affect the Bitcoin Core software:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
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- CVE-2014-0160 ("heartbleed")
|
||||||
|
A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension can
|
||||||
|
be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or server.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- CVE-2014-0076
|
||||||
|
The Montgomery ladder implementation in OpenSSL does not ensure that
|
||||||
|
certain swap operations have a constant-time behavior, which makes it
|
||||||
|
easier for local users to obtain ECDSA nonces via a FLUSH+RELOAD cache
|
||||||
|
side-channel attack.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- Add statically built executables to Linux build
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Credits
|
||||||
|
--------
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Credits go to the OpenSSL team for fixing the vulnerabilities quickly.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
|
|
||||||
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
|
|
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|
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