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| author | Alex Morcos <morcos@chaincode.com> | 2015-02-04 11:03:32 -0500 |
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| committer | Alex Morcos <morcos@chaincode.com> | 2015-02-04 21:40:16 -0500 |
| commit | 63efb366727eb8890ccdd42d5b8f61b673ad8f56 (patch) | |
| tree | e86d9a647b796aeb7765a5406d62d98a9ddc1a36 | |
| parent | 1eb14af28f6fb24f5fd22a233d4f5d62b97b6be9 (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-63efb366727eb8890ccdd42d5b8f61b673ad8f56.tar.xz | |
Modify release-notes for changes related to free tranactions
Add comment about free transactions no longer being the default
Inform about the relay policy change
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release-notes.md | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index fba67fa1cf..53a022840c 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ This release automatically estimates how high a transaction fee (or how high a priority) transactions require to be confirmed quickly. The default settings will create transactions that confirm quickly; see the new 'txconfirmtarget' setting to control the tradeoff between fees and -confirmation times. +confirmation times. Fees are added by default unless the 'sendfreetransactions' +setting is enabled. Prior releases used hard-coded fees (and priorities), and would sometimes create transactions that took a very long time to confirm. @@ -88,10 +89,12 @@ Statistics used to estimate fees and priorities are saved in the data directory in the `fee_estimates.dat` file just before program shutdown, and are read in at startup. -New command line options for fee estimation: +New command line options for transaction fee changes: - `-txconfirmtarget=n` : create transactions that have enough fees (or priority) so they are likely to begin confirmation within n blocks (default: 1). This setting is over-ridden by the -paytxfee option. +- `-sendfreetransactions` : Send transactions as zero-fee transactions if possible +(default: 0) New RPC commands for fee estimation: - `estimatefee nblocks` : Returns approximate fee-per-1,000-bytes needed for @@ -273,7 +276,7 @@ server round-trip to execute. Other utilities "bitcoin-key" and "bitcoin-script" have been proposed, making key and script operations easily accessible via command line. -Mining enhancements +Mining and relay policy enhancements ------------------- The `prioritisetransaction` RPC method has been added to enable miners to @@ -293,6 +296,11 @@ if this is 1. - `-datacarriersize=n` : Maximum size, in bytes, we consider acceptable for "data carrier" outputs. +The relay policy has changed to more properly implement the desired behavior of not +relaying free (or very low fee) transactions unless they have a priority above the +AllowFreeThreshold(), in which case they are relayed subject to the rate limiter. + + 0.10.0 Change log ================= |