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authorDavid A. Harding <dave@dtrt.org>2015-11-08 14:19:02 -0500
committerDavid A. Harding <dave@dtrt.org>2015-11-08 14:21:18 -0500
commit929b2c73df2792f4705a5cd14e90c339b76b4366 (patch)
treeb0d85683b964b18ac8f9617deccb09e6cca5181d
parent40941d999d24fffb4a77b5b2dccccfd5f2d7fe1b (diff)
[docs] Minor revisions to 0.11.2RC1 release notes
- Revisions to text as proposed by Greg Maxwell - Add Btcdrak to contributors for backporting #6884 - Fix spelling mistake [ci skip]
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes.md19
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index 4e1a729566..5786b7c2c9 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ Bitcoin Core version 0.11.2 is now available from:
<https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.11.2/>
-This is a new minor version release, bringing new features and bug fixes. It is recommended
-to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
+This is a new minor version release, bringing bug fixes, the BIP65
+(CLTV) consensus change, and relay policy preparation for BIP113. It is
+recommended to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ version FIXME or any version from FIXME onward.
[BIP65]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki
-BIP113 mempool-only locktime enforment using GetMedianTimePast()
+BIP113 mempool-only locktime enforcement using GetMedianTimePast()
----------------------------------------------------------------
Bitcoin transactions currently may specify a locktime indicating when
@@ -118,10 +119,13 @@ This release begins applying the BIP113 rule to received transactions,
so transaction whose time is greater than the GetMedianTimePast() will
no longer be accepted into the mempool.
-**Implication for miners:** you may begin rejecting locktime
-transactions that could be included under the current consensus rules.
-Rejecting those transactions now means that you don't have to worry
-about producing invalid blocks when BIP113 becomes consensus enforced.
+**Implication for miners:** you will begin rejecting transactions that
+would not be valid under BIP113, which will prevent you from producing
+invalid blocks if/when BIP113 is enforced on the network. Any
+transactions which are valid under the current rules but not yet valid
+under the BIP113 rules will either be mined by other miners or delayed
+until they are valid under BIP113. Note, however, that time-based
+locktime transactions are more or less unseen on the network currently.
**Implication for users:** GetMedianTimePast() always trails behind the
current time, so a transaction locktime set to the present time will be
@@ -167,6 +171,7 @@ Credits
Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
- Alex Morcos
+- ฿tcDrak
- Chris Kleeschulte
- Daniel Cousens
- Diego Viola