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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-02-28 11:41:19 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-02-28 11:41:24 +0100
commit5aaac4d09e7ef2817be922b9661bb5e15e07e6a9 (patch)
tree67c49b7b6fa218106543dff6efda0a022568e517
parent775cf54d0e0ad97e043e46fd88018ed6e0bd2684 (diff)
parent29bae0c6c5a03890e3498f1ee194f5bef5426091 (diff)
Merge #9878: Mention bumpfee in 0.14 release notes.
29bae0c Mention bumpfee in 0.14 release notes. (Russell Yanofsky) Tree-SHA512: f16cdac3effbc6c4d69da2205931c782c272937c93c97bf22b49193fc905dd55a24d5e42568c7c7d8108b0b23f81f415655f9ebdf1f6ba04ef0ab3b125e8dcce
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index 557f8985d0..0f2ed893fa 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ Opt into RBF When Sending
A new startup option, `-walletrbf`, has been added to allow users to have all
transactions sent opt into RBF support. The default value for this option is
-currently `false`, so transactions will not opt into RBF by default.
+currently `false`, so transactions will not opt into RBF by default. The new
+`bumpfee` RPC can be used to replace transactions that opt into RBF.
Sensitive Data Is No Longer Stored In Debug Console History
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@@ -247,6 +248,11 @@ Low-level RPC changes
optimizations to memory management. See [Pull #8753](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8753)
for more information.
+ - A new RPC command `bumpfee` has been added which allows replacing an
+ unconfirmed wallet transaction that signaled RBF (see the `-walletrbf`
+ startup option above) with a new transaction that pays a higher fee, and
+ should be more likely to get confirmed quickly.
+
HTTP REST Changes
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