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| author | MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com> | 2021-04-01 12:33:53 +0200 |
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| committer | MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com> | 2021-04-01 12:34:08 +0200 |
| commit | 65fa43bda19a8f41b808b1884c0bf5aefba18e7c (patch) | |
| tree | 9d088e997d9847b7c5c9605fd286ba418b77057d /doc/release-notes-20861.md | |
| parent | a30fd40735eb5646dd4bf3c78d1532fde14502b6 (diff) | |
| parent | f2195d7c4aa45f5168ec55b14406aeaf970adcb1 (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-65fa43bda19a8f41b808b1884c0bf5aefba18e7c.tar.xz | |
Merge #21469: BIP 350: Implement Bech32m and use it for v1+ segwit addresses (0.21 backport)
f2195d7c4aa45f5168ec55b14406aeaf970adcb1 Backport invalid address tests (Pieter Wuille)
1e9671116fc5805baa0442bd8fd1c88f2307fef0 naming nits (Fabian Jahr)
7dfe406e2023c9db7d9cc2e98484423adfbc8963 Add signet support to gen_key_io_test_vectors.py (Pieter Wuille)
593e206627f4fb789de70f55017f71b85d10754d Use Bech32m encoding for v1+ segwit addresses (Pieter Wuille)
8944aaa6d6ce55faa6224e288fe0a14dbbf5ca4f Add Bech32m test vectors (Pieter Wuille)
1485533092a0732bae55313659a3e3f9669fd77a Implement Bech32m encoding/decoding (Pieter Wuille)
Pull request description:
Backport of #20861. Also includes #21471.
ACKs for top commit:
jnewbery:
utACK f2195d7c4aa45f5168ec55b14406aeaf970adcb1
MarcoFalke:
cherry-pick re-ACK f2195d7c4aa45f5168ec55b14406aeaf970adcb1 , only change is version number in doc/bips and new test commit 🍝
fanquake:
ACK f2195d7c4aa45f5168ec55b14406aeaf970adcb1 - performed the backport, changes look sane. Have not tested extensively.
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes-20861.md b/doc/release-notes-20861.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5c68e4ab0c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes-20861.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Updated RPCs +------------ + +- Due to [BIP 350](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0350.mediawiki) + being implemented, behavior for all RPCs that accept addresses is changed when + a native witness version 1 (or higher) is passed. These now require a Bech32m + encoding instead of a Bech32 one, and Bech32m encoding will be used for such + addresses in RPC output as well. No version 1 addresses should be created + for mainnet until consensus rules are adopted that give them meaning + (e.g. through [BIP 341](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki)). + Once that happens, Bech32m is expected to be used for them, so this shouldn't + affect any production systems, but may be observed on other networks where such + addresses already have meaning (like signet). |