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authorMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2017-09-12 10:04:27 +0200
committerMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2017-09-12 09:56:13 +0200
commitfa65dcdda07746d2e5149367a193e361249873b5 (patch)
tree833a0ae50db73671304ff8892c3ac510acb18b99
parentfa2c3b6cf73e776147b5a714fd3f0dc0652c4b34 (diff)
doc: Update release notes for 0.16.0
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes.md15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index 46fbae0423..04fb0f333b 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Bitcoin Core version *version* is now available from:
This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes
and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
-Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ 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
@@ -68,9 +68,20 @@ implied blockmaxweight, instead of limiting block size directly. Any miners who
to limit their blocks by size, instead of by weight, will have to do so manually by
removing transactions from their block template directly.
+HD-wallets by default
+---------------------
+Due to a backward-incompatible change in the wallet database, wallets created
+with version 0.16.0 will be rejected by previous versions. Also, version 0.16.0
+will only create hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets.
+
Low-level RPC changes
----------------------
- The "currentblocksize" value in getmininginfo has been removed.
+- The deprecated RPC `getinfo` was removed. It is recommended that the more specific RPCs are used:
+ * `getblockchaininfo`
+ * `getnetworkinfo`
+ * `getwalletinfo`
+ * `getmininginfo`
Credits
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