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title: Bitcoin version 0.5.1 released
category: releases
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Bitcoin version 0.5.1 is now available for download at:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.1/>

This is a bugfix-only release.

This release includes 13 translations, including 5 new translations:
Italian, Hungarian, Ukranian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Simplified Chinese.
More translations are welcome; join the project at Transifex if you can help:
<https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/>

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>

For Ubuntu users, there is a new ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which
you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep
bitcoin up-to-date.  Just type

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
 
in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.

BUG FIXES
---------

* Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally
disabled for the 0.5.0 release binaries).

* The code that finds peers via "dns seeds" no longer stops bitcoin startup
if one of the dns seed machines is down.

* Tooltips on the transaction list view were rendering incorrectly (as black boxes
or with a transparent background).

* Prevent a denial-of-service attack involving flooding a bitcoin node with
orphan blocks.

* The wallet passphrase dialog now warns you if the caps lock key was pressed.

* Improved searching in addresses and labels in bitcoin-qt.