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author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2016-08-16 12:22:46 +0200 |
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committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2016-08-16 12:22:54 +0200 |
commit | 4374f0ee35f8f617320ef603a23f3bdc1964d2d0 (patch) | |
tree | 1510945cc0ef228599194f374c6e72974cfd8bdf | |
parent | b52c67c4b188c274de60fbd5e26441e9a644dba6 (diff) | |
parent | 2f5858952e968ff0d93eeb704a480a095f7c9adf (diff) |
Merge #8519: [0.13] A few small improvements to the 0.13 release notes
2f58589 Mention dump/import support for HD wallets (Pieter Wuille)
fe20b83 Remove refactors from list of changes (Pieter Wuille)
7f84015 Inline mempool RPCs and feefilter into misc sections (Pieter Wuille)
-rw-r--r-- | doc/release-notes.md | 44 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index ea6e569272..ba8ad71beb 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ For nodes on low-memory systems, the database cache can be changed back to Note that the database cache setting has the most performance impact during initial sync of a node, and when catching up after downtime. + bitcoin-cli: arguments privacy -------------------------------- @@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ It is recommended to use this for sensitive information such as wallet passphrases, as command-line arguments can usually be read from the process table by any user on the system. + C++11 and Python 3 ------------------- @@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ When cross-compiling for a target that doesn't have C++11 libraries, configure w For running the functional tests in `qa/rpc-tests`, Python3.4 or higher is now required. + Linux ARM builds ------------------ @@ -104,20 +107,6 @@ possible to resolve them. Note that Android is not considered ARM Linux in this context. The executables are not expected to work out of the box on Android. -New mempool information RPC calls ---------------------------------- - -RPC calls have been added to output detailed statistics for individual mempool -entries, as well as to calculate the in-mempool ancestors or descendants of a -transaction: see `getmempoolentry`, `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants`. - -Fee filtering of invs (BIP 133) ------------------------------------- - -The optional new p2p message "feefilter" is implemented and the protocol -version is bumped to 70013. Upon receiving a feefilter message from a peer, -a node will not send invs for any transactions which do not meet the filter -feerate. [BIP 133](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0133.mediawiki) Compact Block support (BIP 152) ------------------------------- @@ -130,6 +119,7 @@ cases it also reduces propagation delay. It is automatically enabled between compatible peers. [BIP 152](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0152.mediawiki) + Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation ----------------------------------------- Newly created wallets will use hierarchical deterministic key generation @@ -142,6 +132,10 @@ ones which haven't already been generated during the time of the backup. **Attention:** Encrypting the wallet will create a new seed which requires a new backup! +Wallet dumps (created using the `dumpwallet` RPC) will contain the deterministic +seed. This is expected to allow future versions to import the seed and all +associated funds, but this is not yet implemented. + HD key generation for new wallets can be disabled by `-usehd=0`. Keep in mind that this flag only has affect on newly created wallets. You can't disable HD key generation once you have created a HD wallet. @@ -152,6 +146,7 @@ HD wallets are incompatible with older versions of Bitcoin Core. [Pull request](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8035/files), [BIP 32](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki) + Segregated Witness ------------------ @@ -174,6 +169,7 @@ BIP 141 activation, mine segwit blocks, fully validate segwit blocks, relay segwit blocks to other segwit nodes, and use segwit transactions in the wallet, etc). + Mining transaction selection ("Child Pays For Parent") ------------------------------------------------------ @@ -232,6 +228,7 @@ using the command line option `-reindex-chainstate` (in addition to are assumed to be fine, but the chainstate is still corrupted. It is also useful for benchmarks. + Removal of internal miner -------------------------- @@ -246,9 +243,15 @@ For testing, the `generate` call can still be used to mine a block, and a new RPC call `generatetoaddress` has been added to mine to a specific address. This works with wallet disabled. + Low-level P2P changes ---------------------- +- The optional new p2p message "feefilter" is implemented and the protocol + version is bumped to 70013. Upon receiving a feefilter message from a peer, + a node will not send invs for any transactions which do not meet the filter + feerate. [BIP 133](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0133.mediawiki) + - The P2P alert system has been removed in PR #7692 and the `alert` P2P message is no longer supported. @@ -276,9 +279,14 @@ Low-level P2P changes - Connections to peers who have recently been the first one to give us a valid new block or transaction are protected from disconnections since PR #8084. + Low-level RPC changes ---------------------- +- RPC calls have been added to output detailed statistics for individual mempool + entries, as well as to calculate the in-mempool ancestors or descendants of a + transaction: see `getmempoolentry`, `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants`. + - `gettxoutsetinfo` UTXO hash (`hash_serialized`) has changed. There was a divergence between 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and the txids were missing in the hashed data. This has been fixed, but this means that the output will be different than from previous versions. @@ -315,6 +323,7 @@ Low-level RPC changes - New options were added to `fundrawtransaction`: `includeWatching`, `changeAddress`, `changePosition` and `feeRate`. + Low-level ZMQ changes ---------------------- @@ -324,6 +333,7 @@ Low-level ZMQ changes therefore backward compatible. Each message type has its own counter. PR [#7762](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7762). + 0.13.0 Change log ================= @@ -541,10 +551,8 @@ git merge commit are mentioned. - #7649 `4900641` Prevent multiple calls to CWallet::AvailableCoins (promag) - #7646 `e5c3511` Fix lockunspent help message (promag) - #7558 `b35a591` Add import/removeprunedfunds rpc call (instagibbs) -- #7691 `30c2dd8` Refactor wallet/init interaction (jonasschnelli) - #6215 `48c5adf` add bip32 pub key serialization (jonasschnelli) - #7913 `bafd075` Fix for incorrect locking in GetPubKey() (keystore.cpp) (yurizhykin) -- #7816 `0c95ebc` Slighly refactor GetOldestKeyPoolTime() (jonasschnelli) - #8036 `41138f9` init: Move berkeleydb version reporting to wallet (laanwj) - #8028 `373b50d` Fix insanity of CWalletDB::WriteTx and CWalletTx::WriteToDisk (pstratem) - #8061 `f6b7df3` Improve Wallet encapsulation (pstratem) @@ -589,11 +597,9 @@ git merge commit are mentioned. - #7764 `a65b36c` Don't run pruning.py twice (MarcoFalke) - #7773 `7c80e72` Fix comments in tests (btcdrak) - #7489 `e9723cb` tests: Make proxy_test work on travis servers without IPv6 (laanwj) -- #7778 `ff5874b` Bug fixes and refactor (MarcoFalke) - #7801 `70ac71b` Remove misleading "errorString syntax" (MarcoFalke) - #7803 `401c65c` maxblocksinflight: Actually enable test (MarcoFalke) - #7802 `3bc71e1` httpbasics: Actually test second connection (MarcoFalke) -- #7818 `3911a0a` Refactor script tests (sipa) - #7849 `ab8586e` tests: add varints_bitpatterns test (laanwj) - #7846 `491171f` Clean up lockorder data of destroyed mutexes (sipa) - #7853 `6ef5e00` py2: Unfiddle strings into bytes explicitly (MarcoFalke) @@ -609,7 +615,6 @@ git merge commit are mentioned. - #7814 `77b637f` Switch to py3 (MarcoFalke) - #8030 `409a8a1` Revert fatal-ness of missing python-zmq (laanwj) - #8018 `3e90fe6` Autofind rpc tests --srcdir (jonasschnelli) -- #7971 `4e14afe` Refactor test_framework and pull tester (MarcoFalke) - #8016 `5767e80` Fix multithread CScheduler and reenable test (paveljanik) - #7972 `423ca30` pull-tester: Run rpc test in parallel (MarcoFalke) - #8039 `69b3a6d` Bench: Add crypto hash benchmarks (laanwj) @@ -653,7 +658,6 @@ git merge commit are mentioned. - #7663 `c87f51e` Make the generate RPC call function for non-regtest (sipa) - #7671 `e2ebd25` Add generatetoaddress RPC to mine to an address (achow101) - #7935 `66ed450` Versionbits: GBT support (luke-jr) -- #7598 `e1486eb` Refactor CreateNewBlock to be a method of the BlockAssembler class (morcos) - #7600 `66db2d6` Select transactions using feerate-with-ancestors (sdaftuar) - #8295 `f5660d3` Mining-related fixups for 0.13.0 (sdaftuar) - #7796 `536b75e` Add support for negative fee rates, fixes `prioritizetransaction` (MarcoFalke) |