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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-0.6.2.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.
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.2.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bb85fb23a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.2.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Bitcoin version 0.6.2 is now available for download at: +http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.2/ + +This is a bug-fix and code-cleanup release, with no major new features. + +Please report bugs using the github issue tracker at: +https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues + + +NOTABLE CHANGES + +Much faster shutdowns. However, the blkindex.dat file is no longer +portable to different data directories by default. If you need a +portable blkindex.dat file then run with the new -detachdb=1 option +or the "Detach databases at shutdown" GUI preference. + +Fixed https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/1065, a bug that +could cause long-running nodes to crash. + +Mac and Windows binaries are compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1b (Linux +binaries are dynamically linked to the version of OpenSSL on the system). + + +CHANGE SUMMARY + +Use 'git shortlog --no-merges v0.6.0..' for a summary of this release. + +Source codebase changes: +- Many source code cleanups and warnings fixes. Close to building with -Wall +- Locking overhaul, and several minor locking fixes +- Several source code portability fixes, e.g. FreeBSD + +JSON-RPC interface changes: +- addmultisigaddress enabled for mainnet (previously only enabled for testnet) + +Network protocol changes: +- protocol version 60001 +- added nonce value to "ping" message (BIP 31) +- added new "pong" message (BIP 31) + +Backend storage changes: +- Less redundant database flushing, especially during initial block download +- Shutdown improvements (see above) + +Qt user interface: +- minor URI handling improvements +- progressbar improvements +- error handling improvements (show message box rather than console exception, +etc.) +- by popular request, make 4th bar of connection icon green |