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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2019-01-24 15:19:47 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2019-01-24 15:25:17 +0100
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Merge #15193: Default -whitelistforcerelay to off
a36d97d866e8a11f205d07c624ace7c3d1a2ded8 Default -whitelistforcerelay to off (Suhas Daftuar) Pull request description: No one seems to use this "feature", and at any rate the behavior of relaying transactions when they violate local policy is error-prone, if we ever consider changing the ban behavior of our software from one version to the next. Defaulting this to off means that users who use -whitelist won't be unexpectedly surprised by this interaction. If anyone is still relying on this feature, it can still be explicitly turned on. Tree-SHA512: 52650ad464a728d1648f496751e3f713077ea3a1de7278ed03531b2e8723e63cf2f6f41b56c98c0f73ffa22c36e01d9170b409ab452c737aca35b7ecd7a6b448
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@@ -111,6 +111,14 @@ Configuration option changes
ambiguous whether the hash character is meant for the password or as a
comment.
+- The `whitelistforcerelay` option is used to relay transactions from
+ whitelisted peers even when not accepted to the mempool. This option now
+ defaults to being off, so that changes in policy and disconnect/ban behavior
+ will not cause a node that is whitelisting another to be dropped by peers.
+ Users can still explicitly enable this behavior with the command line option
+ (and may want to consider letting the Bitcoin Core project know about their
+ use-case, as this feature could be deprecated in the future).
+
Documentation
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