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author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-11-05 14:58:21 +0100 |
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committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-11-05 14:59:38 +0100 |
commit | 2ce9e586d5b11e1f61af4db27b7326687d5e5124 (patch) | |
tree | 73777e1ffa4bc51d774f9c1ab65bc9105afce496 | |
parent | f518d9ae6aa525c4cd360a16f07a9272cbef558d (diff) |
doc: Fill in 0.15.1 changelog and authors in release notes
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 6e4bd03cd5..edac364d85 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ -(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to -release-notes at release time) - Bitcoin Core version *0.15.1* is now available from: + <https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.15.1/> + +or + <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.15.1/> This is a new minor version release, including various bugfixes and @@ -60,18 +61,6 @@ frequently tested on them. Notable changes =============== - - -0.15.1 Change log -================= - -- `dumpwallet` no longer allows overwriting files. This is a security measure - as well as prevents dangerous user mistakes. - -- `listsinceblock` will now throw an error if an unknown `blockhash` argument - value is passed, instead of returning a list of all wallet transactions since - the genesis block. - Miner block size limiting deprecated ------------------------------------ @@ -88,11 +77,140 @@ Low-level RPC changes ---------------------- - The "currentblocksize" value in getmininginfo has been removed. +- `dumpwallet` no longer allows overwriting files. This is a security measure + as well as prevents dangerous user mistakes. + +- `listsinceblock` will now throw an error if an unknown `blockhash` argument + value is passed, instead of returning a list of all wallet transactions since + the genesis block. + +0.15.1 Change log +================= + +### Mining +- #11100 `7871a7d` Fix confusing blockmax{size,weight} options, dont default to throwing away money (TheBlueMatt) + +### RPC and other APIs +- #10859 `2a5d099` gettxout: Slightly improve doc and tests (jtimon) +- #11267 `b1a6c94` update cli for estimate\*fee argument rename (laanwj) +- #11483 `20cdc2b` Fix importmulti bug when importing an already imported key (pedrobranco) +- #9937 `a43be5b` Prevent `dumpwallet` from overwriting files (laanwj) +- #11465 `405e069` Update named args documentation for importprivkey (dusty-wil) +- #11131 `b278a43` Write authcookie atomically (laanwj) +- #11565 `7d4546f` Make listsinceblock refuse unknown block hash (ryanofsky) +- #11593 `8195cb0` Work-around an upstream libevent bug (theuni) + +### P2P protocol and network code +- #11397 `27e861a` Improve and document SOCKS code (laanwj) +- #11252 `0fe2a9a` When clearing addrman clear mapInfo and mapAddr (instagibbs) +- #11527 `a2bd86a` Remove my testnet DNS seed (schildbach) +- #10756 `0a5477c` net processing: swap out signals for an interface class (theuni) +- #11531 `55b7abf` Check that new headers are not a descendant of an invalid block (more effeciently) (TheBlueMatt) +- #11560 `49bf090` Connect to a new outbound peer if our tip is stale (sdaftuar) +- #11568 `fc966bb` Disconnect outbound peers on invalid chains (sdaftuar) +- #11578 `ec8dedf` Add missing lock in ProcessHeadersMessage(...) (practicalswift) +- #11456 `6f27965` Replace relevant services logic with a function suite (TheBlueMatt) +- #11490 `bf191a7` Disconnect from outbound peers with bad headers chains (sdaftuar) + +### Validation +- #10357 `da4908c` Allow setting nMinimumChainWork on command line (sdaftuar) +- #11458 `2df65ee` Don't process unrequested, low-work blocks (sdaftuar) + +### Build system +- #11440 `b6c0209` Fix validationinterface build on super old boost/clang (TheBlueMatt) +- #11530 `265bb21` Add share/rpcuser to dist. source code archive (MarcoFalke) + +### GUI +- #11334 `19d63e8` Remove custom fee radio group and remove nCustomFeeRadio setting (achow101) +- #11198 `7310f1f` Fix display of package name on 'open config file' tooltip (esotericnonsense) +- #11015 `6642558` Add delay before filtering transactions (lclc) +- #11338 `6a62c74` Backup former GUI settings on `-resetguisettings` (laanwj) +- #11335 `8d13b42` Replace save|restoreWindowGeometry with Qt functions (MeshCollider) +- #11237 `2e31b1d` Fixing division by zero in time remaining (MeshCollider) +- #11247 `47c02a8` Use IsMine to validate custom change address (MarcoFalke) + +### Wallet +- #11017 `9e8aae3` Close DB on error (kallewoof) +- #11225 `6b4d9f2` Update stored witness in AddToWallet (sdaftuar) +- #11126 `2cb720a` Acquire cs_main lock before cs_wallet during wallet initialization (ryanofsky) +- #11476 `9c8006d` Avoid opening copied wallet databases simultaneously (ryanofsky) +- #11492 `de7053f` Fix leak in CDB constructor (promag) +- #11376 `fd79ed6` Ensure backupwallet fails when attempting to backup to source file (tomasvdw) +- #11326 `d570aa4` Fix crash on shutdown with invalid wallet (MeshCollider) + +### Tests and QA +- #11399 `a825d4a` Fix bip68-sequence rpc test (jl2012) +- #11150 `847c75e` Add getmininginfo test (mess110) +- #11407 `806c78f` add functional test for mempoolreplacement command line arg (instagibbs) +- #11433 `e169349` Restore bitcoin-util-test py2 compatibility (MarcoFalke) +- #11308 `2e1ac70` zapwallettxes: Wait up to 3s for mempool reload (MarcoFalke) +- #10798 `716066d` test bitcoin-cli (jnewbery) +- #11443 `019c492` Allow "make cov" out-of-tree; Fix rpc mapping check (MarcoFalke) +- #11445 `51bad91` 0.15.1 Backports (MarcoFalke) +- #11319 `2f0b30a` Fix error introduced into p2p-segwit.py, and prevent future similar errors (sdaftuar) +- #10552 `e4605d9` Tests for zmqpubrawtx and zmqpubrawblock (achow101) +- #11067 `eeb24a3` TestNode: Add wait_until_stopped helper method (MarcoFalke) +- #11068 `5398f20` Move wait_until to util (MarcoFalke) +- #11125 `812c870` Add bitcoin-cli -stdin and -stdinrpcpass functional tests (promag) +- #11077 `1d80d1e` fix timeout issues from TestNode (jnewbery) +- #11078 `f1ced0d` Make p2p-leaktests.py more robust (jnewbery) +- #11210 `f3f7891` Stop test_bitcoin-qt touching ~/.bitcoin (MeshCollider) +- #11234 `f0b6795` Remove redundant testutil.cpp|h files (MeshCollider) +- #11215 `cef0319` fixups from set_test_params() (jnewbery) +- #11345 `f9cf7b5` Check connectivity before sending in assumevalid.py (jnewbery) +- #11091 `c276c1e` Increase initial RPC timeout to 60 seconds (laanwj) +- #10711 `fc2aa09` Introduce TestNode (jnewbery) +- #11230 `d8dd8e7` Fixup dbcrash interaction with add_nodes() (jnewbery) +- #11241 `4424176` Improve signmessages functional test (mess110) +- #11116 `2c4ff35` Unit tests for script/standard and IsMine functions (jimpo) +- #11422 `a36f332` Verify DBWrapper iterators are taking snapshots (TheBlueMatt) +- #11121 `bb5e7cb` TestNode tidyups (jnewbery) +- #11521 `ca0f3f7` travis: move back to the minimal image (theuni) +- #11538 `adbc9d1` Fix race condition failures in replace-by-fee.py, sendheaders.py (sdaftuar) +- #11472 `4108879` Make tmpdir option an absolute path, misc cleanup (MarcoFalke) +- #10853 `5b728c8` Fix RPC failure testing (again) (jnewbery) +- #11310 `b6468d3` Test listwallets RPC (mess110) + +### Miscellaneous +- #11377 `75997c3` Disallow uncompressed pubkeys in bitcoin-tx [multisig] output adds (TheBlueMatt) +- #11437 `dea3b87` [Docs] Update Windows build instructions for using WSL and Ubuntu 17.04 (fanquake) +- #11318 `8b61aee` Put back inadvertently removed copyright notices (gmaxwell) +- #11442 `cf18f42` [Docs] Update OpenBSD Build Instructions for OpenBSD 6.2 (fanquake) +- #10957 `50bd3f6` Avoid returning a BIP9Stats object with uninitialized values (practicalswift) +- #11539 `01223a0` [verify-commits] Allow revoked keys to expire (TheBlueMatt) + Credits ======= Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: -(fill this in) +- Andreas Schildbach +- Andrew Chow +- Chris Moore +- Cory Fields +- Cristian Mircea Messel +- Daniel Edgecumbe +- Donal OConnor +- Dusty Williams +- fanquake +- Gregory Sanders +- Jim Posen +- John Newbery +- Johnson Lau +- João Barbosa +- Jorge Timón +- Karl-Johan Alm +- Lucas Betschart +- MarcoFalke +- Matt Corallo +- MeshCollider +- Paul Berg +- Pedro Branco +- Pieter Wuille +- practicalswift +- Russell Yanofsky +- Suhas Daftuar +- Tomas van der Wansem +- Wladimir J. van der Laan As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/). |