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-(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to
-release-notes at release time)
+Bitcoin Core version 0.9.2rc1 is now available from:
+
+  https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.2rc1/
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing mostly bug fixes and
+some minor improvements.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+Upgrading and downgrading
+==========================
+
+How to Upgrade
+--------------
+
+If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
+shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
+installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or
+bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
+
+If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you run
+0.9.0 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from 
+30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine.
+
+Downgrading warnings
+--------------------
+
+The 'chainstate' for this release is not always compatible with previous
+releases, so if you run 0.9.x and then decide to switch back to a
+0.8.x release you might get a blockchain validation error when starting the
+old release (due to 'pruned outputs' being omitted from the index of
+unspent transaction outputs).
+
+Running the old release with the -reindex option will rebuild the chainstate
+data structures and correct the problem.
+
+Also, the first time you run a 0.8.x release on a 0.9 wallet it will rescan
+the blockchain for missing spent coins, which will take a long time (tens
+of minutes on a typical machine).
+
+Important changes
+==================
+
+Gitian OSX build
+-----------------
+
+The deterministic build system that was already used for Windows and Linux
+builds is now used for OSX as well. Although the resulting executables have
+been tested quite a bit, there could be possible regressions. Be sure to report
+these on the Github bug tracker mentioned above.
+
+Compatibility of Linux build
+-----------------------------
+
+For Linux we now build against Qt 4.6, and filter the symbols for libstdc++ and glibc.
+This brings back compatibility with
+
+- Debian 6+ / Tails
+- Ubuntu 10.04
+- CentOS 6.5
+
+0.9.2 Release notes
+=======================
+
+RPC:
+- Add `getwalletinfo`, `getblockchaininfo` and `getnetworkinfo` calls (will replace hodge-podge `getinfo` at some point)
+- Add a `relayfee` field to `getnetworkinfo`
+- Fix RPC related shutdown hangs and leaks
+- Always show syncnode in `getpeerinfo`
+- `sendrawtransaction`: report the reject code and reason, and make it possible to re-send transactions that are already in the mempool
+- `getmininginfo` show right genproclimit
+
+Command-line options:
+- Fix `-printblocktree` output
+- Show error message if ReadConfigFile fails
+
+Block-chain handling and storage:
+- Fix for GetBlockValue() after block 13,440,000 (BIP42)
+- Upgrade leveldb to 1.17
+
+Protocol and network code:
+- Per-peer block download tracking and stalled download detection
+- Add new DNS seed from bitnodes.io
+- Prevent socket leak in ThreadSocketHandler and correct some proxy related socket leaks
+
+Wallet:
+- Make GetAvailableCredit run GetHash() only once per transaction (performance improvement)
+- Lower paytxfee warning threshold from 0.25 BTC to 0.01 BTC
+- Fix importwallet nTimeFirstKey (trigger necessary rescans)
+- Log BerkeleyDB version at startup
+
+Build system:
+- Add OSX build descriptors to gitian
+- Fix explicit --disable-qt-dbus
+- Don't require db_cxx.h when compiling with wallet disabled and GUI enabled
+- Improve missing boost error reporting
+- Upgrade miniupnpc version to 1.9
+- gitian-linux: --enable-glibc-back-compat for binary compatibility with old distributions
+- gitian: don't export any symbols from executable
+- gitian: build against Qt 4.6
+- devtools: add script to check symbols from Linux gitian executables
+- Remove build-time no-IPv6 setting
+
+GUI:
+- Fix various coin control visual issues
+- Show number of in/out connections in debug console
+- Show weeks as well as years behind for long timespans behind
+- Enable and disable the Show and Remove buttons for requested payments history based on whether any entry is selected.
+- Show also value for options overridden on command line in options dialog
+- Fill in label from address book also for URIs
+- Fixes feel when resizing the last column on tables (issue #2862)
+- Fix ESC in disablewallet mode
+- Add expert section to wallet tab in optionsdialog
+- Do proper boost::path conversion (fixes unicode in datadir)
+- Only override -datadir if different from the default (fixes -datadir in config file)
+- Show rescan progress at start-up
+- Show importwallet progress
+- Get required locks upfront in polling functions (avoids hanging on locks)
+- Catch Windows shutdown events while client is running
+- Optionally add third party links to transaction context menu
+- Check for !pixmap() before trying to export QR code (avoids crashes when no QR code could be generated)
+
+Miscellaneous:
+
+- Replace non-threadsafe C functions (gmtime, strerror and setlocale)
+- Add missing cs_main and wallet locks
+- Avoid exception at startup when system locale not recognized
+- Changed bitrpc.py's raw_input to getpass for passwords to conceal characters during command line input
+- devtools: add a script to fetch and postprocess translations
+
+Credits
+--------
+
+Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
+
+- Addy Yeow
+- Altoidnerd
+- Andrea D'Amore
+- Andreas Schildbach
+- Bardi Harborow
+- Brandon Dahler
+- Bryan Bishop
+- Chris Beams
+- Christian von Roques
+- Cory Fields
+- Cozz Lovan
+- daniel
+- Daniel Newton
+- David A. Harding
+- ditto-b
+- duanemoody
+- Eric S. Bullington
+- Fabian Raetz
+- Gavin Andresen
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- gubatron
+- Haakon Nilsen
+- harry
+- Hector Jusforgues
+- Isidoro Ghezzi
+- Jeff Garzik
+- Johnathan Corgan
+- jtimon
+- Kamil Domanski
+- langerhans
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Manuel Araoz
+- Mark Friedenbach
+- Matt Corallo
+- Matthew Bogosian
+- Meeh
+- Michael Ford
+- Michagogo
+- Mikael Wikman
+- Mike Hearn
+- olalonde
+- paveljanik
+- peryaudo
+- Philip Kaufmann
+- philsong
+- Pieter Wuille
+- R E Broadley
+- richierichrawr
+- Rune K. Svendsen
+- rxl
+- shshshsh
+- Simon de la Rouviere
+- Stuart Cardall
+- super3
+- Telepatheic
+- Thomas Zander
+- Torstein Husebø
+- Warren Togami
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+- Yoichi Hirai
+