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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2015-03-25 16:54:14 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2015-03-25 16:54:14 +0100
commita316622fd012d36aa5885ecd938da671ae802ea2 (patch)
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parent1d2cdd2ef9091508c42619c94d4a7106b1471a14 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-a316622fd012d36aa5885ecd938da671ae802ea2.tar.xz
Clean out release notes for 0.10.1
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes.md703
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index 986b8832ec..53ea3aed4e 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 is now available from:
+Bitcoin Core version 0.10.1 is now available from:
- https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.10.0/
+ https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.10.1/
-This is a new major version release, bringing both new features and
-bug fixes.
+This is a new minor version release, bringing bug fixes and robustness
+improvements. If you are using 0.10.0, it is recommended to upgrade to this
+version.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
@@ -20,12 +21,12 @@ 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).
-Downgrading warning
----------------------
+Downgrade warning
+------------------
-Because release 0.10.0 makes use of headers-first synchronization and parallel
-block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
-backwards-compatible with older versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
+Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
+parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
+backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
@@ -43,720 +44,38 @@ supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.
This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility.
-
Notable changes
===============
-Faster synchronization
-----------------------
-
-Bitcoin Core now uses 'headers-first synchronization'. This means that we first
-ask peers for block headers (a total of 27 megabytes, as of December 2014) and
-validate those. In a second stage, when the headers have been discovered, we
-download the blocks. However, as we already know about the whole chain in
-advance, the blocks can be downloaded in parallel from all available peers.
-
-In practice, this means a much faster and more robust synchronization. On
-recent hardware with a decent network link, it can be as little as 3 hours
-for an initial full synchronization. You may notice a slower progress in the
-very first few minutes, when headers are still being fetched and verified, but
-it should gain speed afterwards.
-
-A few RPCs were added/updated as a result of this:
-- `getblockchaininfo` now returns the number of validated headers in addition to
-the number of validated blocks.
-- `getpeerinfo` lists both the number of blocks and headers we know we have in
-common with each peer. While synchronizing, the heights of the blocks that we
-have requested from peers (but haven't received yet) are also listed as
-'inflight'.
-- A new RPC `getchaintips` lists all known branches of the block chain,
-including those we only have headers for.
-
-Transaction fee changes
------------------------
-
-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. 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.
-
-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 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
-a transaction to begin confirmation within nblocks. Returns -1 if not enough
-transactions have been observed to compute a good estimate.
-- `estimatepriority nblocks` : Returns approximate priority needed for
-a zero-fee transaction to begin confirmation within nblocks. Returns -1 if not
-enough free transactions have been observed to compute a good
-estimate.
-
-RPC access control changes
---------------------------
-
-Subnet matching for the purpose of access control is now done
-by matching the binary network address, instead of with string wildcard matching.
-For the user this means that `-rpcallowip` takes a subnet specification, which can be
-
-- a single IP address (e.g. `1.2.3.4` or `fe80::0012:3456:789a:bcde`)
-- a network/CIDR (e.g. `1.2.3.0/24` or `fe80::0000/64`)
-- a network/netmask (e.g. `1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0` or `fe80::0012:3456:789a:bcde/ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff`)
-
-An arbitrary number of `-rpcallow` arguments can be given. An incoming connection will be accepted if its origin address
-matches one of them.
-
-For example:
-
-| 0.9.x and before | 0.10.x |
-|--------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
-| `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.1` | `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.1` (unchanged) |
-| `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.*` | `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.0/24` |
-| `-rpcallowip=192.168.*` | `-rpcallowip=192.168.0.0/16` |
-| `-rpcallowip=*` (dangerous!) | `-rpcallowip=::/0` (still dangerous!) |
-
-Using wildcards will result in the rule being rejected with the following error in debug.log:
-
- Error: Invalid -rpcallowip subnet specification: *. Valid are a single IP (e.g. 1.2.3.4), a network/netmask (e.g. 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0) or a network/CIDR (e.g. 1.2.3.4/24).
-
-
-REST interface
---------------
-
-A new HTTP API is exposed when running with the `-rest` flag, which allows
-unauthenticated access to public node data.
-
-It is served on the same port as RPC, but does not need a password, and uses
-plain HTTP instead of JSON-RPC.
-
-Assuming a local RPC server running on port 8332, it is possible to request:
-- Blocks: http://localhost:8332/rest/block/*HASH*.*EXT*
-- Blocks without transactions: http://localhost:8332/rest/block/notxdetails/*HASH*.*EXT*
-- Transactions (requires `-txindex`): http://localhost:8332/rest/tx/*HASH*.*EXT*
-
-In every case, *EXT* can be `bin` (for raw binary data), `hex` (for hex-encoded
-binary) or `json`.
-
-For more details, see the `doc/REST-interface.md` document in the repository.
-
-RPC Server "Warm-Up" Mode
--------------------------
-
-The RPC server is started earlier now, before most of the expensive
-intialisations like loading the block index. It is available now almost
-immediately after starting the process. However, until all initialisations
-are done, it always returns an immediate error with code -28 to all calls.
-
-This new behaviour can be useful for clients to know that a server is already
-started and will be available soon (for instance, so that they do not
-have to start it themselves).
-
-Improved signing security
--------------------------
-
-For 0.10 the security of signing against unusual attacks has been
-improved by making the signatures constant time and deterministic.
-
-This change is a result of switching signing to use libsecp256k1
-instead of OpenSSL. Libsecp256k1 is a cryptographic library
-optimized for the curve Bitcoin uses which was created by Bitcoin
-Core developer Pieter Wuille.
-
-There exist attacks[1] against most ECC implementations where an
-attacker on shared virtual machine hardware could extract a private
-key if they could cause a target to sign using the same key hundreds
-of times. While using shared hosts and reusing keys are inadvisable
-for other reasons, it's a better practice to avoid the exposure.
-
-OpenSSL has code in their source repository for derandomization
-and reduction in timing leaks that we've eagerly wanted to use for a
-long time, but this functionality has still not made its
-way into a released version of OpenSSL. Libsecp256k1 achieves
-significantly stronger protection: As far as we're aware this is
-the only deployed implementation of constant time signing for
-the curve Bitcoin uses and we have reason to believe that
-libsecp256k1 is better tested and more thoroughly reviewed
-than the implementation in OpenSSL.
-
-[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/161.pdf
-Watch-only wallet support
--------------------------
-
-The wallet can now track transactions to and from wallets for which you know
-all addresses (or scripts), even without the private keys.
-
-This can be used to track payments without needing the private keys online on a
-possibly vulnerable system. In addition, it can help for (manual) construction
-of multisig transactions where you are only one of the signers.
-
-One new RPC, `importaddress`, is added which functions similarly to
-`importprivkey`, but instead takes an address or script (in hexadecimal) as
-argument. After using it, outputs credited to this address or script are
-considered to be received, and transactions consuming these outputs will be
-considered to be sent.
-
-The following RPCs have optional support for watch-only:
-`getbalance`, `listreceivedbyaddress`, `listreceivedbyaccount`,
-`listtransactions`, `listaccounts`, `listsinceblock`, `gettransaction`. See the
-RPC documentation for those methods for more information.
-
-Compared to using `getrawtransaction`, this mechanism does not require
-`-txindex`, scales better, integrates better with the wallet, and is compatible
-with future block chain pruning functionality. It does mean that all relevant
-addresses need to added to the wallet before the payment, though.
-
-Consensus library
------------------
-
-Starting from 0.10.0, the Bitcoin Core distribution includes a consensus library.
-
-The purpose of this library is to make the verification functionality that is
-critical to Bitcoin's consensus available to other applications, e.g. to language
-bindings such as [python-bitcoinlib](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bitcoinlib) or
-alternative node implementations.
-
-This library is called `libbitcoinconsensus.so` (or, `.dll` for Windows).
-Its interface is defined in the C header [bitcoinconsensus.h](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.10/src/script/bitcoinconsensus.h).
-
-In its initial version the API includes two functions:
-
-- `bitcoinconsensus_verify_script` verifies a script. It returns whether the indicated input of the provided serialized transaction
-correctly spends the passed scriptPubKey under additional constraints indicated by flags
-- `bitcoinconsensus_version` returns the API version, currently at an experimental `0`
-
-The functionality is planned to be extended to e.g. UTXO management in upcoming releases, but the interface
-for existing methods should remain stable.
-
-Standard script rules relaxed for P2SH addresses
-------------------------------------------------
-
-The IsStandard() rules have been almost completely removed for P2SH
-redemption scripts, allowing applications to make use of any valid
-script type, such as "n-of-m OR y", hash-locked oracle addresses, etc.
-While the Bitcoin protocol has always supported these types of script,
-actually using them on mainnet has been previously inconvenient as
-standard Bitcoin Core nodes wouldn't relay them to miners, nor would
-most miners include them in blocks they mined.
-
-bitcoin-tx
-----------
-
-It has been observed that many of the RPC functions offered by bitcoind are
-"pure functions", and operate independently of the bitcoind wallet. This
-included many of the RPC "raw transaction" API functions, such as
-createrawtransaction.
-
-bitcoin-tx is a newly introduced command line utility designed to enable easy
-manipulation of bitcoin transactions. A summary of its operation may be
-obtained via "bitcoin-tx --help" Transactions may be created or signed in a
-manner similar to the RPC raw tx API. Transactions may be updated, deleting
-inputs or outputs, or appending new inputs and outputs. Custom scripts may be
-easily composed using a simple text notation, borrowed from the bitcoin test
-suite.
-
-This tool may be used for experimenting with new transaction types, signing
-multi-party transactions, and many other uses. Long term, the goal is to
-deprecate and remove "pure function" RPC API calls, as those do not require a
-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 and relay policy enhancements
-------------------------------------
-
-Bitcoin Core's block templates are now for version 3 blocks only, and any mining
-software relying on its `getblocktemplate` must be updated in parallel to use
-libblkmaker either version 0.4.2 or any version from 0.5.1 onward.
-If you are solo mining, this will affect you the moment you upgrade Bitcoin
-Core, which must be done prior to BIP66 achieving its 951/1001 status.
-If you are mining with the stratum mining protocol: this does not affect you.
-If you are mining with the getblocktemplate protocol to a pool: this will affect
-you at the pool operator's discretion, which must be no later than BIP66
-achieving its 951/1001 status.
-
-The `prioritisetransaction` RPC method has been added to enable miners to
-manipulate the priority of transactions on an individual basis.
-
-Bitcoin Core now supports BIP 22 long polling, so mining software can be
-notified immediately of new templates rather than having to poll periodically.
-
-Support for BIP 23 block proposals is now available in Bitcoin Core's
-`getblocktemplate` method. This enables miners to check the basic validity of
-their next block before expending work on it, reducing risks of accidental
-hardforks or mining invalid blocks.
-
-Two new options to control mining policy:
-- `-datacarrier=0/1` : Relay and mine "data carrier" (OP_RETURN) transactions
-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.
-
-BIP 66: strict DER encoding for signatures
-------------------------------------------
-
-Bitcoin Core 0.10 implements BIP 66, which introduces block version 3, and a new
-consensus rule, which prohibits non-DER signatures. Such transactions have been
-non-standard since Bitcoin v0.8.0 (released in February 2013), but were
-technically still permitted inside blocks.
-
-This change breaks the dependency on OpenSSL's signature parsing, and is
-required if implementations would want to remove all of OpenSSL from the
-consensus code.
-
-The same miner-voting mechanism as in BIP 34 is used: when 751 out of a
-sequence of 1001 blocks have version number 3 or higher, the new consensus
-rule becomes active for those blocks. When 951 out of a sequence of 1001
-blocks have version number 3 or higher, it becomes mandatory for all blocks.
-
-Backward compatibility with current mining software is NOT provided, thus miners
-should read the first paragraph of "Mining and relay policy enhancements" above.
-
-0.10.0 Change log
+0.10.1 Change log
=================
Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect external
behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.
RPC:
-- `f923c07` Support IPv6 lookup in bitcoin-cli even when IPv6 only bound on localhost
-- `b641c9c` Fix addnode "onetry": Connect with OpenNetworkConnection
-- `171ca77` estimatefee / estimatepriority RPC methods
-- `b750cf1` Remove cli functionality from bitcoind
-- `f6984e8` Add "chain" to getmininginfo, improve help in getblockchaininfo
-- `99ddc6c` Add nLocalServices info to RPC getinfo
-- `cf0c47b` Remove getwork() RPC call
-- `2a72d45` prioritisetransaction <txid> <priority delta> <priority tx fee>
-- `e44fea5` Add an option `-datacarrier` to allow users to disable relaying/mining data carrier transactions
-- `2ec5a3d` Prevent easy RPC memory exhaustion attack
-- `d4640d7` Added argument to getbalance to include watchonly addresses and fixed errors in balance calculation
-- `83f3543` Added argument to listaccounts to include watchonly addresses
-- `952877e` Showing 'involvesWatchonly' property for transactions returned by 'listtransactions' and 'listsinceblock'. It is only appended when the transaction involves a watchonly address
-- `d7d5d23` Added argument to listtransactions and listsinceblock to include watchonly addresses
-- `f87ba3d` added includeWatchonly argument to 'gettransaction' because it affects balance calculation
-- `0fa2f88` added includedWatchonly argument to listreceivedbyaddress/...account
-- `6c37f7f` `getrawchangeaddress`: fail when keypool exhausted and wallet locked
-- `ff6a7af` getblocktemplate: longpolling support
-- `c4a321f` Add peerid to getpeerinfo to allow correlation with the logs
-- `1b4568c` Add vout to ListTransactions output
-- `b33bd7a` Implement "getchaintips" RPC command to monitor blockchain forks
-- `733177e` Remove size limit in RPC client, keep it in server
-- `6b5b7cb` Categorize rpc help overview
-- `6f2c26a` Closely track mempool byte total. Add "getmempoolinfo" RPC
-- `aa82795` Add detailed network info to getnetworkinfo RPC
-- `01094bd` Don't reveal whether password is <20 or >20 characters in RPC
-- `57153d4` rpc: Compute number of confirmations of a block from block height
-- `ff36cbe` getnetworkinfo: export local node's client sub-version string
-- `d14d7de` SanitizeString: allow '(' and ')'
-- `31d6390` Fixed setaccount accepting foreign address
-- `b5ec5fe` update getnetworkinfo help with subversion
-- `ad6e601` RPC additions after headers-first
-- `33dfbf5` rpc: Fix leveldb iterator leak, and flush before `gettxoutsetinfo`
-- `2aa6329` Enable customising node policy for datacarrier data size with a -datacarriersize option
-- `f877aaa` submitblock: Use a temporary CValidationState to determine accurately the outcome of ProcessBlock
-- `e69a587` submitblock: Support for returning specific rejection reasons
-- `af82884` Add "warmup mode" for RPC server
-- `e2655e0` Add unauthenticated HTTP REST interface to public blockchain data
-- `683dc40` Disable SSLv3 (in favor of TLS) for the RPC client and server
-- `44b4c0d` signrawtransaction: validate private key
-- `9765a50` Implement BIP 23 Block Proposal
-- `f9de17e` Add warning comment to getinfo
-
-Command-line options:
-- `ee21912` Use netmasks instead of wildcards for IP address matching
-- `deb3572` Add `-rpcbind` option to allow binding RPC port on a specific interface
-- `96b733e` Add `-version` option to get just the version
-- `1569353` Add `-stopafterblockimport` option
-- `77cbd46` Let -zapwallettxes recover transaction meta data
-- `1c750db` remove -tor compatibility code (only allow -onion)
-- `4aaa017` rework help messages for fee-related options
-- `4278b1d` Clarify error message when invalid -rpcallowip
-- `6b407e4` -datadir is now allowed in config files
-- `bdd5b58` Add option `-sysperms` to disable 077 umask (create new files with system default umask)
-- `cbe39a3` Add "bitcoin-tx" command line utility and supporting modules
-- `dbca89b` Trigger -alertnotify if network is upgrading without you
-- `ad96e7c` Make -reindex cope with out-of-order blocks
-- `16d5194` Skip reindexed blocks individually
-- `ec01243` --tracerpc option for regression tests
-- `f654f00` Change -genproclimit default to 1
-- `3c77714` Make -proxy set all network types, avoiding a connect leak
-- `57be955` Remove -printblock, -printblocktree, and -printblockindex
-- `ad3d208` remove -maxorphanblocks config parameter since it is no longer functional
Block and transaction handling:
-- `7a0e84d` ProcessGetData(): abort if a block file is missing from disk
-- `8c93bf4` LoadBlockIndexDB(): Require block db reindex if any `blk*.dat` files are missing
-- `77339e5` Get rid of the static chainMostWork (optimization)
-- `4e0eed8` Allow ActivateBestChain to release its lock on cs_main
-- `18e7216` Push cs_mains down in ProcessBlock
-- `fa126ef` Avoid undefined behavior using CFlatData in CScript serialization
-- `7f3b4e9` Relax IsStandard rules for pay-to-script-hash transactions
-- `c9a0918` Add a skiplist to the CBlockIndex structure
-- `bc42503` Use unordered_map for CCoinsViewCache with salted hash (optimization)
-- `d4d3fbd` Do not flush the cache after every block outside of IBD (optimization)
-- `ad08d0b` Bugfix: make CCoinsViewMemPool support pruned entries in underlying cache
-- `5734d4d` Only remove actualy failed blocks from setBlockIndexValid
-- `d70bc52` Rework block processing benchmark code
-- `714a3e6` Only keep setBlockIndexValid entries that are possible improvements
-- `ea100c7` Reduce maximum coinscache size during verification (reduce memory usage)
-- `4fad8e6` Reject transactions with excessive numbers of sigops
-- `b0875eb` Allow BatchWrite to destroy its input, reducing copying (optimization)
-- `92bb6f2` Bypass reloading blocks from disk (optimization)
-- `2e28031` Perform CVerifyDB on pcoinsdbview instead of pcoinsTip (reduce memory usage)
-- `ab15b2e` Avoid copying undo data (optimization)
-- `341735e` Headers-first synchronization
-- `afc32c5` Fix rebuild-chainstate feature and improve its performance
-- `e11b2ce` Fix large reorgs
-- `ed6d1a2` Keep information about all block files in memory
-- `a48f2d6` Abstract context-dependent block checking from acceptance
-- `7e615f5` Fixed mempool sync after sending a transaction
-- `51ce901` Improve chainstate/blockindex disk writing policy
-- `a206950` Introduce separate flushing modes
-- `9ec75c5` Add a locking mechanism to IsInitialBlockDownload to ensure it never goes from false to true
-- `868d041` Remove coinbase-dependant transactions during reorg
-- `723d12c` Remove txn which are invalidated by coinbase maturity during reorg
-- `0cb8763` Check against MANDATORY flags prior to accepting to mempool
-- `8446262` Reject headers that build on an invalid parent
-- `008138c` Bugfix: only track UTXO modification after lookup
P2P protocol and network code:
-- `f80cffa` Do not trigger a DoS ban if SCRIPT_VERIFY_NULLDUMMY fails
-- `c30329a` Add testnet DNS seed of Alex Kotenko
-- `45a4baf` Add testnet DNS seed of Andreas Schildbach
-- `f1920e8` Ping automatically every 2 minutes (unconditionally)
-- `806fd19` Allocate receive buffers in on the fly
-- `6ecf3ed` Display unknown commands received
-- `aa81564` Track peers' available blocks
-- `caf6150` Use async name resolving to improve net thread responsiveness
-- `9f4da19` Use pong receive time rather than processing time
-- `0127a9b` remove SOCKS4 support from core and GUI, use SOCKS5
-- `40f5cb8` Send rejects and apply DoS scoring for errors in direct block validation
-- `dc942e6` Introduce whitelisted peers
-- `c994d2e` prevent SOCKET leak in BindListenPort()
-- `a60120e` Add built-in seeds for .onion
-- `60dc8e4` Allow -onlynet=onion to be used
-- `3a56de7` addrman: Do not propagate obviously poor addresses onto the network
-- `6050ab6` netbase: Make SOCKS5 negotiation interruptible
-- `604ee2a` Remove tx from AlreadyAskedFor list once we receive it, not when we process it
-- `efad808` Avoid reject message feedback loops
-- `71697f9` Separate protocol versioning from clientversion
-- `20a5f61` Don't relay alerts to peers before version negotiation
-- `b4ee0bd` Introduce preferred download peers
-- `845c86d` Do not use third party services for IP detection
-- `12a49ca` Limit the number of new addressses to accumulate
-- `35e408f` Regard connection failures as attempt for addrman
-- `a3a7317` Introduce 10 minute block download timeout
-- `3022e7d` Require sufficent priority for relay of free transactions
-- `58fda4d` Update seed IPs, based on bitcoin.sipa.be crawler data
-- `18021d0` Remove bitnodes.io from dnsseeds.
Validation:
-- `6fd7ef2` Also switch the (unused) verification code to low-s instead of even-s
-- `584a358` Do merkle root and txid duplicates check simultaneously
-- `217a5c9` When transaction outputs exceed inputs, show the offending amounts so as to aid debugging
-- `f74fc9b` Print input index when signature validation fails, to aid debugging
-- `6fd59ee` script.h: set_vch() should shift a >32 bit value
-- `d752ba8` Add SCRIPT_VERIFY_SIGPUSHONLY (BIP62 rule 2) (test only)
-- `698c6ab` Add SCRIPT_VERIFY_MINIMALDATA (BIP62 rules 3 and 4) (test only)
-- `ab9edbd` script: create sane error return codes for script validation and remove logging
-- `219a147` script: check ScriptError values in script tests
-- `0391423` Discourage NOPs reserved for soft-fork upgrades
-- `98b135f` Make STRICTENC invalid pubkeys fail the script rather than the opcode
-- `307f7d4` Report script evaluation failures in log and reject messages
-- `ace39db` consensus: guard against openssl's new strict DER checks
-- `12b7c44` Improve robustness of DER recoding code
-- `76ce5c8` fail immediately on an empty signature
Build system:
-- `f25e3ad` Fix build in OS X 10.9
-- `65e8ba4` build: Switch to non-recursive make
-- `460b32d` build: fix broken boost chrono check on some platforms
-- `9ce0774` build: Fix windows configure when using --with-qt-libdir
-- `ea96475` build: Add mention of --disable-wallet to bdb48 error messages
-- `1dec09b` depends: add shared dependency builder
-- `c101c76` build: Add --with-utils (bitcoin-cli and bitcoin-tx, default=yes). Help string consistency tweaks. Target sanity check fix
-- `e432a5f` build: add option for reducing exports (v2)
-- `6134b43` Fixing condition 'sabotaging' MSVC build
-- `af0bd5e` osx: fix signing to make Gatekeeper happy (again)
-- `a7d1f03` build: fix dynamic boost check when --with-boost= is used
-- `d5fd094` build: fix qt test build when libprotobuf is in a non-standard path
-- `2cf5f16` Add libbitcoinconsensus library
-- `914868a` build: add a deterministic dmg signer
-- `2d375fe` depends: bump openssl to 1.0.1k
-- `b7a4ecc` Build: Only check for boost when building code that requires it
Wallet:
-- `b33d1f5` Use fee/priority estimates in wallet CreateTransaction
-- `4b7b1bb` Sanity checks for estimates
-- `c898846` Add support for watch-only addresses
-- `d5087d1` Use script matching rather than destination matching for watch-only
-- `d88af56` Fee fixes
-- `a35b55b` Dont run full check every time we decrypt wallet
-- `3a7c348` Fix make_change to not create half-satoshis
-- `f606bb9` fix a possible memory leak in CWalletDB::Recover
-- `870da77` fix possible memory leaks in CWallet::EncryptWallet
-- `ccca27a` Watch-only fixes
-- `9b1627d` [Wallet] Reduce minTxFee for transaction creation to 1000 satoshis
-- `a53fd41` Deterministic signing
-- `15ad0b5` Apply AreSane() checks to the fees from the network
-- `11855c1` Enforce minRelayTxFee on wallet created tx and add a maxtxfee option
GUI:
-- `c21c74b` osx: Fix missing dock menu with qt5
-- `b90711c` Fix Transaction details shows wrong To:
-- `516053c` Make links in 'About Bitcoin Core' clickable
-- `bdc83e8` Ensure payment request network matches client network
-- `65f78a1` Add GUI view of peer information
-- `06a91d9` VerifyDB progress reporting
-- `fe6bff2` Add BerkeleyDB version info to RPCConsole
-- `b917555` PeerTableModel: Fix potential deadlock. #4296
-- `dff0e3b` Improve rpc console history behavior
-- `95a9383` Remove CENT-fee-rule from coin control completely
-- `56b07d2` Allow setting listen via GUI
-- `d95ba75` Log messages with type>QtDebugMsg as non-debug
-- `8969828` New status bar Unit Display Control and related changes
-- `674c070` seed OpenSSL PNRG with Windows event data
-- `509f926` Payment request parsing on startup now only changes network if a valid network name is specified
-- `acd432b` Prevent balloon-spam after rescan
-- `7007402` Implement SI-style (thin space) thoudands separator
-- `91cce17` Use fixed-point arithmetic in amount spinbox
-- `bdba2dd` Remove an obscure option no-one cares about
-- `bd0aa10` Replace the temporary file hack currently used to change Bitcoin-Qt's dock icon (OS X) with a buffer-based solution
-- `94e1b9e` Re-work overviewpage UI
-- `8bfdc9a` Better looking trayicon
-- `b197bf3` disable tray interactions when client model set to 0
-- `1c5f0af` Add column Watch-only to transactions list
-- `21f139b` Fix tablet crash. closes #4854
-- `e84843c` Broken addresses on command line no longer trigger testnet
-- `a49f11d` Change splash screen to normal window
-- `1f9be98` Disable App Nap on OSX 10.9+
-- `27c3e91` Add proxy to options overridden if necessary
-- `4bd1185` Allow "emergency" shutdown during startup
-- `d52f072` Don't show wallet options in the preferences menu when running with -disablewallet
-- `6093aa1` Qt: QProgressBar CPU-Issue workaround
-- `0ed9675` [Wallet] Add global boolean whether to send free transactions (default=true)
-- `ed3e5e4` [Wallet] Add global boolean whether to pay at least the custom fee (default=true)
-- `e7876b2` [Wallet] Prevent user from paying a non-sense fee
-- `c1c9d5b` Add Smartfee to GUI
-- `e0a25c5` Make askpassphrase dialog behave more sanely
-- `94b362d` On close of splashscreen interrupt verifyDB
-- `b790d13` English translation update
-- `8543b0d` Correct tooltip on address book page
Tests:
-- `b41e594` Fix script test handling of empty scripts
-- `d3a33fc` Test CHECKMULTISIG with m == 0 and n == 0
-- `29c1749` Let tx (in)valid tests use any SCRIPT_VERIFY flag
-- `6380180` Add rejection of non-null CHECKMULTISIG dummy values
-- `21bf3d2` Add tests for BoostAsioToCNetAddr
-- `b5ad5e7` Add Python test for -rpcbind and -rpcallowip
-- `9ec0306` Add CODESEPARATOR/FindAndDelete() tests
-- `75ebced` Added many rpc wallet tests
-- `0193fb8` Allow multiple regression tests to run at once
-- `92a6220` Hook up sanity checks
-- `3820e01` Extend and move all crypto tests to crypto_tests.cpp
-- `3f9a019` added list/get received by address/ account tests
-- `a90689f` Remove timing-based signature cache unit test
-- `236982c` Add skiplist unit tests
-- `f4b00be` Add CChain::GetLocator() unit test
-- `b45a6e8` Add test for getblocktemplate longpolling
-- `cdf305e` Set -discover=0 in regtest framework
-- `ed02282` additional test for OP_SIZE in script_valid.json
-- `0072d98` script tests: BOOLAND, BOOLOR decode to integer
-- `833ff16` script tests: values that overflow to 0 are true
-- `4cac5db` script tests: value with trailing 0x00 is true
-- `89101c6` script test: test case for 5-byte bools
-- `d2d9dc0` script tests: add tests for CHECKMULTISIG limits
-- `d789386` Add "it works" test for bitcoin-tx
-- `df4d61e` Add bitcoin-tx tests
-- `aa41ac2` Test IsPushOnly() with invalid push
-- `6022b5d` Make `script_{valid,invalid}.json` validation flags configurable
-- `8138cbe` Add automatic script test generation, and actual checksig tests
-- `ed27e53` Add coins_tests with a large randomized CCoinViewCache test
-- `9df9cf5` Make SCRIPT_VERIFY_STRICTENC compatible with BIP62
-- `dcb9846` Extend getchaintips RPC test
-- `554147a` Ensure MINIMALDATA invalid tests can only fail one way
-- `dfeec18` Test every numeric-accepting opcode for correct handling of the numeric minimal encoding rule
-- `2b62e17` Clearly separate PUSHDATA and numeric argument MINIMALDATA tests
-- `16d78bd` Add valid invert of invalid every numeric opcode tests
-- `f635269` tests: enable alertnotify test for Windows
-- `7a41614` tests: allow rpc-tests to get filenames for bitcoind and bitcoin-cli from the environment
-- `5122ea7` tests: fix forknotify.py on windows
-- `fa7f8cd` tests: remove old pull-tester scripts
-- `7667850` tests: replace the old (unused since Travis) tests with new rpc test scripts
-- `f4e0aef` Do signature-s negation inside the tests
-- `1837987` Optimize -regtest setgenerate block generation
-- `2db4c8a` Fix node ranges in the test framework
-- `a8b2ce5` regression test only setmocktime RPC call
-- `daf03e7` RPC tests: create initial chain with specific timestamps
-- `8656dbb` Port/fix txnmall.sh regression test
-- `ca81587` Test the exact order of CHECKMULTISIG sig/pubkey evaluation
-- `7357893` Prioritize and display -testsafemode status in UI
-- `f321d6b` Add key generation/verification to ECC sanity check
-- `132ea9b` miner_tests: Disable checkpoints so they don't fail the subsidy-change test
-- `bc6cb41` QA RPC tests: Add tests block block proposals
-- `f67a9ce` Use deterministically generated script tests
-- `11d7a7d` [RPC] add rpc-test for http keep-alive (persistent connections)
-- `34318d7` RPC-test based on invalidateblock for mempool coinbase spends
-- `76ec867` Use actually valid transactions for script tests
-- `c8589bf` Add actual signature tests
-- `e2677d7` Fix smartfees test for change to relay policy
-- `263b65e` tests: run sanity checks in tests too
Miscellaneous:
-- `122549f` Fix incorrect checkpoint data for testnet3
-- `5bd02cf` Log used config file to debug.log on startup
-- `68ba85f` Updated Debian example bitcoin.conf with config from wiki + removed some cruft and updated comments
-- `e5ee8f0` Remove -beta suffix
-- `38405ac` Add comment regarding experimental-use service bits
-- `be873f6` Issue warning if collecting RandSeed data failed
-- `8ae973c` Allocate more space if necessary in RandSeedAddPerfMon
-- `675bcd5` Correct comment for 15-of-15 p2sh script size
-- `fda3fed` libsecp256k1 integration
-- `2e36866` Show nodeid instead of addresses in log (for anonymity) unless otherwise requested
-- `cd01a5e` Enable paranoid corruption checks in LevelDB >= 1.16
-- `9365937` Add comment about never updating nTimeOffset past 199 samples
-- `403c1bf` contrib: remove getwork-based pyminer (as getwork API call has been removed)
-- `0c3e101` contrib: Added systemd .service file in order to help distributions integrate bitcoind
-- `0a0878d` doc: Add new DNSseed policy
-- `2887bff` Update coding style and add .clang-format
-- `5cbda4f` Changed LevelDB cursors to use scoped pointers to ensure destruction when going out of scope
-- `b4a72a7` contrib/linearize: split output files based on new-timestamp-year or max-file-size
-- `e982b57` Use explicit fflush() instead of setvbuf()
-- `234bfbf` contrib: Add init scripts and docs for Upstart and OpenRC
-- `01c2807` Add warning about the merkle-tree algorithm duplicate txid flaw
-- `d6712db` Also create pid file in non-daemon mode
-- `772ab0e` contrib: use batched JSON-RPC in linarize-hashes (optimization)
-- `7ab4358` Update bash-completion for v0.10
-- `6e6a36c` contrib: show pull # in prompt for github-merge script
-- `5b9f842` Upgrade leveldb to 1.18, make chainstate databases compatible between ARM and x86 (issue #2293)
-- `4e7c219` Catch UTXO set read errors and shutdown
-- `867c600` Catch LevelDB errors during flush
-- `06ca065` Fix CScriptID(const CScript& in) in empty script case
Credits
=======
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
-- 21E14
-- Adam Weiss
-- Aitor Pazos
-- Alexander Jeng
-- Alex Morcos
-- Alon Muroch
-- Andreas Schildbach
-- Andrew Poelstra
-- Andy Alness
-- Ashley Holman
-- Benedict Chan
-- Ben Holden-Crowther
-- Bryan Bishop
-- BtcDrak
-- Christian von Roques
-- Clinton Christian
-- Cory Fields
-- Cozz Lovan
-- daniel
-- Daniel Kraft
-- David Hill
-- Derek701
-- dexX7
-- dllud
-- Dominyk Tiller
-- Doug
-- elichai
-- elkingtowa
-- ENikS
-- Eric Shaw
-- Federico Bond
-- Francis GASCHET
-- Gavin Andresen
-- Giuseppe Mazzotta
-- Glenn Willen
-- Gregory Maxwell
-- gubatron
-- HarryWu
-- himynameismartin
-- Huang Le
-- Ian Carroll
-- imharrywu
-- Jameson Lopp
-- Janusz Lenar
-- JaSK
-- Jeff Garzik
-- JL2035
-- Johnathan Corgan
-- Jonas Schnelli
-- jtimon
-- Julian Haight
-- Kamil Domanski
-- kazcw
-- kevin
-- kiwigb
-- Kosta Zertsekel
-- LongShao007
-- Luke Dashjr
-- Mark Friedenbach
-- Mathy Vanvoorden
-- Matt Corallo
-- Matthew Bogosian
-- Micha
-- Michael Ford
-- Mike Hearn
-- mrbandrews
-- mruddy
-- ntrgn
-- Otto Allmendinger
-- paveljanik
-- Pavel Vasin
-- Peter Todd
-- phantomcircuit
-- Philip Kaufmann
-- Pieter Wuille
-- pryds
-- randy-waterhouse
-- R E Broadley
-- Rose Toomey
-- Ross Nicoll
-- Roy Badami
-- Ruben Dario Ponticelli
-- Rune K. Svendsen
-- Ryan X. Charles
-- Saivann
-- sandakersmann
-- SergioDemianLerner
-- shshshsh
-- sinetek
-- Stuart Cardall
-- Suhas Daftuar
-- Tawanda Kembo
-- Teran McKinney
-- tm314159
-- Tom Harding
-- Trevin Hofmann
-- Whit J
-- Wladimir J. van der Laan
-- Yoichi Hirai
-- Zak Wilcox
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As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).