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| author | Matt Corallo <git@bluematt.me> | 2019-06-08 09:19:47 -0400 |
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| committer | Matt Corallo <git@bluematt.me> | 2019-07-18 17:29:24 -0400 |
| commit | bead32e31e399090af30b2ee3539995d4105a66d (patch) | |
| tree | 446325046aa9c1b4bdae516e265b0a9cb967a613 /doc/release-notes | |
| parent | f27309f55c4fa2b115525d72abb280757a568709 (diff) | |
Add release notes for DEFAULT_BLOOM change
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release-notes/release-notes-16152.md | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-16152.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-16152.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9c77cb9ae5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-16152.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +P2P Changes +----------- +- The default value for the -peerbloomfilters configuration option (and, thus, NODE_BLOOM support) has been changed to false. + This resolves well-known DoS vectors in Bitcoin Core, especially for nodes with spinning disks. It is not anticipated that + this will result in a significant lack of availability of NODE_BLOOM-enabled nodes in the coming years, however, clients + which rely on the availability of NODE_BLOOM-supporting nodes on the P2P network should consider the process of migrating + to a more modern (and less trustful and privacy-violating) alternative over the coming years. |