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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-01-30 12:31:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-01-30 12:33:03 +0100 |
| commit | 69baec96473ca2dc28ac016093770a46650a4ac9 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b716698fcd53c17a9e19639ab73310a7260cff7 /doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.1.md | |
| parent | 2df5e3427c127f69a958be4201ce543aaaf8bcc3 (diff) | |
doc: Add historical release notes
Add all known release notes for versions since 0.3.12,
thanks to Matt Corallo for collecting them on the wiki.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.1.md')
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.1.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d56bff6d95 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.1.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Bitcoin version 0.5.1 is now available for download at: +http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.1/ + +This is a bugfix-only release. + +This release includes 13 translations, including 5 new translations: +Italian, Hungarian, Ukranian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Simplified Chinese. +More translations are welcome; join the project at Transifex if you can help: +https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/ + +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: +https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues + +Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer +distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them +directly from github: +https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.5.1 # .tar.gz +https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.5.1 # .zip + +For Ubuntu users, there is a new ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which +you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep +bitcoin up-to-date. Just type +sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin +in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package. + + +BUG FIXES + +Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally +disabled for the 0.5.0 release binaries). + +The code that finds peers via "dns seeds" no longer stops bitcoin startup +if one of the dns seed machines is down. + +Tooltips on the transaction list view were rendering incorrectly (as black boxes +or with a transparent background). + +Prevent a denial-of-service attack involving flooding a bitcoin node with +orphan blocks. + +The wallet passphrase dialog now warns you if the caps lock key was pressed. + +Improved searching in addresses and labels in bitcoin-qt. |