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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-11-05 14:58:21 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-11-05 14:59:38 +0100
commit2ce9e586d5b11e1f61af4db27b7326687d5e5124 (patch)
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parentf518d9ae6aa525c4cd360a16f07a9272cbef558d (diff)
doc: Fill in 0.15.1 changelog and authors in release notes
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@@ -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/).