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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-09-11 00:12:40 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-09-11 00:13:03 +0200
commit3751912e8e044958d5ccea847a3f8eab0b026dc1 (patch)
treed669676ad0330d9580a3a5d8c52a27f22e81e92b
parent5f2cf88c2311ebb178dacd9776f237b16b3a4e5a (diff)
parentfa120bd01c7fc27eb9d3e4ecbf4b4ccc3b728686 (diff)
Merge #11295: doc: Old fee_estimates.dat are discarded by 0.15.0v0.15.0
fa120bd01 doc: Old fee_estimates.dat are discarded by 0.15.0 (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: Tree-SHA512: b4b1cb3efa307a7a0c37b8cc0a35f8fd31c8268747be59efba6530c36ba6423d9fb37e752782c7ebd5bc22a4aa1d2730b0e9ab560239fb2874afd42197ed9fd0
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@@ -21,13 +21,17 @@ How to Upgrade
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
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)
+installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt` (on Mac)
or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux).
The first time you run version 0.15.0, your chainstate database will be converted to a
new format, which will take anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour,
depending on the speed of your machine.
+The file format of `fee_estimates.dat` changed in version 0.15.0. Hence, a
+downgrade from version 0.15.0 or upgrade to version 0.15.0 will cause all fee
+estimates to be discarded.
+
Note that the block database format also changed in version 0.8.0 and there is no
automatic upgrade code from before version 0.8 to version 0.15.0. Upgrading
directly from 0.7.x and earlier without redownloading the blockchain is not supported.