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| author | Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-05-19 17:39:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-10-09 16:42:49 +0200 |
| commit | 201a4596d92d640d5eb7e76cc8d959228fa09dbb (patch) | |
| tree | 1f0641dfee1f4d475336a32f3fea930eded9d629 /doc/release-notes.md | |
| parent | 1d3ec2a1fda7446323786a52da1fd109c01aa6fb (diff) | |
net: CAddress & CAddrMan: (un)serialize as ADDRv2
Change the serialization of `CAddrMan` to serialize its addresses
in ADDRv2/BIP155 format by default. Introduce a new `CAddrMan` format
version (3).
Add support for ADDRv2 format in `CAddress` (un)serialization.
Co-authored-by: Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/release-notes.md')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 1580bbd9ae..490100a84d 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ From Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 onwards, macOS versions earlier than 10.12 are no longer supported. Additionally, Bitcoin Core does not yet change appearance when macOS "dark mode" is activated. +The node's known peers are persisted to disk in a file called `peers.dat`. The +format of this file has been changed in a backwards-incompatible way in order to +accommodate the storage of Tor v3 and other BIP155 addresses. This means that if +the file is modified by 0.21.0 or newer then older versions will not be able to +read it. Those old versions, in the event of a downgrade, will log an error +message that deserialization has failed and will continue normal operation +as if the file was missing, creating a new empty one. (#19954) + Notable changes =============== |