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| author | Pieter Wuille <pieter@wuille.net> | 2021-01-05 13:36:42 -0800 |
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| committer | Pieter Wuille <pieter@wuille.net> | 2021-03-27 12:08:28 -0700 |
| commit | 1a4e88e0e885cfcb91196840a958e7c9fa09c3b5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2321404c68c1943a7f2a3a2806beec760fcad483 /doc | |
| parent | cf18ac9665a13ea701f4410287e6ad10ae1f1c30 (diff) | |
Use Bech32m encoding for v1+ segwit addresses
This also includes updates to the Python test framework implementation,
test vectors, and release notes.
Github-Pull: #20861
Rebased-From: fe5e495c31de47b0ec732b943db11fe345d874af
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bips.md | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release-notes-20861.md | 12 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bips.md b/doc/bips.md index b96862297f..793ff29a26 100644 --- a/doc/bips.md +++ b/doc/bips.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -BIPs that are implemented by Bitcoin Core (up-to-date up to **v0.19.0**): +BIPs that are implemented by Bitcoin Core (up-to-date up to **v0.20.2**): * [`BIP 9`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0009.mediawiki): The changes allowing multiple soft-forks to be deployed in parallel have been implemented since **v0.12.1** ([PR #7575](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7575)) * [`BIP 11`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0011.mediawiki): Multisig outputs are standard since **v0.6.0** ([PR #669](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/669)). @@ -42,3 +42,4 @@ BIPs that are implemented by Bitcoin Core (up-to-date up to **v0.19.0**): * [`BIP 173`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawiki): Bech32 addresses for native Segregated Witness outputs are supported as of **v0.16.0** ([PR 11167](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11167)). Bech32 addresses are generated by default as of **v0.20.0** ([PR 16884](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16884)). * [`BIP 174`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0174.mediawiki): RPCs to operate on Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) are present as of **v0.17.0** ([PR 13557](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13557)). * [`BIP 176`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0176.mediawiki): Bits Denomination [QT only] is supported as of **v0.16.0** ([PR 12035](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12035)). +* [`BIP 350`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0350.mediawiki): Addresses for native v1+ segregated Witness outputs use Bech32m instead of Bech32 as of **v0.20.2** ([PR 20861](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20861)). diff --git a/doc/release-notes-20861.md b/doc/release-notes-20861.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..66c92699c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes-20861.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Updated RPCs +------------ + +- Due to [BIP 350](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0350.mediawiki) + being implemented, behavior for all RPCs that accept addresses is changed when + a native witness version 1 (or higher) is passed. These now require a Bech32m + encoding instead of a Bech32 one, and Bech32m encoding will be used for such + addresses in RPC output as well. No version 1 addresses should be created + for mainnet until consensus rules are adopted that give them meaning + (e.g. through [BIP 341](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki)). + Once that happens, Bech32m is expected to be used for them, so this shouldn't + affect any production systems, but may be observed on other networks. |