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authorfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2017-11-23 08:02:06 +0800
committerfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2017-11-23 08:02:06 +0800
commitfae98f66fe5a7cee12f1b01cb9c1545ec479cf02 (patch)
treee587c2edd7433531fda943ad6f760fda9fc344b6 /doc
parent3d6ad407770e13958e157bf026cae0bfb9254899 (diff)
[Docs] Bump minimum required version of GCC to 4.8
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-rw-r--r--doc/dependencies.md2
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes.md5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dependencies.md b/doc/dependencies.md
index 964c03ba88..6e1d1ee992 100644
--- a/doc/dependencies.md
+++ b/doc/dependencies.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ These are the dependencies currently used by Bitcoin Core. You can find instruct
| Expat | [2.2.1](https://libexpat.github.io/) | | No | Yes | |
| fontconfig | [2.12.1](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/) | | No | Yes | |
| FreeType | [2.7.1](http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype) | | No | | |
-| GCC | | [4.7+](https://gcc.gnu.org/) | | | |
+| GCC | | [4.8+](https://gcc.gnu.org/) | | | |
| HarfBuzz-NG | | | | | |
| libevent | [2.1.8-stable](https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases) | 2.0.22 | No | | |
| libjpeg | | | | | [Yes](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/depends/packages/qt.mk#L75) |
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index 32f1bef62c..2c63b1f88e 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ frequently tested on them.
Notable changes
===============
+GCC 4.8.x
+--------------
+The minimum version of GCC required to compile Bitcoin Core is now 4.8. No effort will be
+made to support older versions of GCC. See discussion in issue #11732 for more information.
+
HD-wallets by default
---------------------
Due to a backward-incompatible change in the wallet database, wallets created