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author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-01-31 09:30:04 +0100 |
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committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-01-31 09:30:15 +0100 |
commit | 15ec451554b5889a92651b9fe71bf01047ba9fc3 (patch) | |
tree | fb39ec53778d64c827e4afa6eb939d73df1ddb4e /doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.0.md | |
parent | 19007cf5529bc35a3baf53b14c6559bda3b2b206 (diff) | |
parent | 69baec96473ca2dc28ac016093770a46650a4ac9 (diff) | |
download | bitcoin-15ec451554b5889a92651b9fe71bf01047ba9fc3.tar.xz |
Merge pull request #3605v0.9.0rc1
69baec9 doc: Add historical release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.0.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.0.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1963a36259 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +Bitcoin version 0.6.0 is now available for download at: +http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/ + +This release includes more than 20 language localizations. +More translations are welcome; join the +project at Transifex to 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/v0.6.0 # .tar.gz +https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.6.0 # .zip + +For Ubuntu users, there is a 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. + + +KNOWN ISSUES + +Shutting down while synchronizing with the network +(downloading the blockchain) can take more than a minute, +because database writes are queued to speed up download +time. + + +NEW FEATURES SINCE BITCOIN VERSION 0.5 + +Initial network synchronization should be much faster +(one or two hours on a typical machine instead of ten or more +hours). + +Backup Wallet menu option. + +Bitcoin-Qt can display and save QR codes for sending +and receiving addresses. + +New context menu on addresses to copy/edit/delete them. + +New Sign Message dialog that allows you to prove that you +own a bitcoin address by creating a digital +signature. + +New wallets created with this version will +use 33-byte 'compressed' public keys instead of +65-byte public keys, resulting in smaller +transactions and less traffic on the bitcoin +network. The shorter keys are already supported +by the network but wallet.dat files containing +short keys are not compatible with earlier +versions of Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind. + +New command-line argument -blocknotify=<command> +that will spawn a shell process to run <command> +when a new block is accepted. + +New command-line argument -splash=0 to disable +Bitcoin-Qt's initial splash screen + +validateaddress JSON-RPC api command output includes +two new fields for addresses in the wallet: +pubkey : hexadecimal public key +iscompressed : true if pubkey is a short 33-byte key + +New JSON-RPC api commands for dumping/importing +private keys from the wallet (dumprivkey, importprivkey). + +New JSON-RPC api command for getting information about +blocks (getblock, getblockhash). + +New JSON-RPC api command (getmininginfo) for getting +extra information related to mining. The getinfo +JSON-RPC command no longer includes mining-related +information (generate/genproclimit/hashespersec). + + + +NOTABLE CHANGES + +BIP30 implemented (security fix for an attack involving +duplicate "coinbase transactions"). + +The -nolisten, -noupnp and -nodnsseed command-line +options were renamed to -listen, -upnp and -dnsseed, +with a default value of 1. The old names are still +supported for compatibility (so specifying -nolisten +is automatically interpreted as -listen=0; every +boolean argument can now be specified as either +-foo or -nofoo). + +The -noirc command-line options was renamed to +-irc, with a default value of 0. Run -irc=1 to +get the old behavior. + +Three fill-up-available-memory denial-of-service +attacks were fixed. + + +NOT YET IMPLEMENTED FEATURES + +Support for clicking on bitcoin: URIs and +opening/launching Bitcoin-Qt is available only on Linux, +and only if you configure your desktop to launch +Bitcoin-Qt. All platforms support dragging and dropping +bitcoin: URIs onto the Bitcoin-Qt window to start +payment. + + +PRELIMINARY SUPPORT FOR MULTISIGNATURE TRANSACTIONS + +This release has preliminary support for multisignature +transactions-- transactions that require authorization +from more than one person or device before they +will be accepted by the bitcoin network. + +Prior to this release, multisignature transactions +were considered 'non-standard' and were ignored; +with this release multisignature transactions are +considered standard and will start to be relayed +and accepted into blocks. + +It is expected that future releases of Bitcoin-Qt +will support the creation of multisignature transactions, +once enough of the network has upgraded so relaying +and validating them is robust. + +For this release, creation and testing of multisignature +transactions is limited to the bitcoin test network using +the "addmultisigaddress" JSON-RPC api call. + +Short multisignature address support is included in this +release, as specified in BIP 13 and BIP 16. |