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authorMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2020-03-04 10:05:57 -0500
committerMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2020-03-04 10:06:23 -0500
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downloadbitcoin-fa8b6020ec9350c5ddf05018eb390ff565cefca3.tar.xz
doc: Merge release notes for 0.20.0 release
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-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes-15437.md53
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes-15954.md4
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes-17056.md4
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes-17264.md4
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes-17410.md5
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes-17437.md5
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes-17578.md13
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes.md79
8 files changed, 75 insertions, 92 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-15437.md b/doc/release-notes-15437.md
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index 6614207757..0000000000
--- a/doc/release-notes-15437.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-P2P and network changes
------------------------
-
-#### Removal of reject network messages from Bitcoin Core (BIP61)
-
-The command line option to enable BIP61 (`-enablebip61`) has been removed.
-
-This feature has been disabled by default since Bitcoin Core version 0.18.0.
-Nodes on the network can not generally be trusted to send valid ("reject")
-messages, so this should only ever be used when connected to a trusted node.
-Please use the recommended alternatives if you rely on this deprecated feature:
-
-* Testing or debugging of implementations of the Bitcoin P2P network protocol
- should be done by inspecting the log messages that are produced by a recent
- version of Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin Core logs debug messages
- (`-debug=<category>`) to a stream (`-printtoconsole`) or to a file
- (`-debuglogfile=<debug.log>`).
-
-* Testing the validity of a block can be achieved by specific RPCs:
- - `submitblock`
- - `getblocktemplate` with `'mode'` set to `'proposal'` for blocks with
- potentially invalid POW
-
-* Testing the validity of a transaction can be achieved by specific RPCs:
- - `sendrawtransaction`
- - `testmempoolaccept`
-
-* Wallets should not use the absence of "reject" messages to indicate a
- transaction has propagated the network, nor should wallets use "reject"
- messages to set transaction fees. Wallets should rather use fee estimation
- to determine transaction fees and set replace-by-fee if desired. Thus, they
- could wait until the transaction has confirmed (taking into account the fee
- target they set (compare the RPC `estimatesmartfee`)) or listen for the
- transaction announcement by other network peers to check for propagation.
-
-The removal of BIP61 REJECT message support also has the following minor RPC
-and logging implications:
-
-* `testmempoolaccept` and `sendrawtransaction` no longer return the P2P REJECT
- code when a transaction is not accepted to the mempool. They still return the
- verbal reject reason.
-
-* Log messages that previously reported the REJECT code when a transaction was
- not accepted to the mempool now no longer report the REJECT code. The reason
- for rejection is still reported.
-
-Updated RPCs
-------------
-
-- `testmempoolaccept` and `sendrawtransaction` no longer return the P2P REJECT
- code when a transaction is not accepted to the mempool. See the Section
- _Removal of reject network messages from Bitcoin Core (BIP61)_ for details on
- the removal of BIP61 REJECT message support.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-15954.md b/doc/release-notes-15954.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f4d2c5688c..0000000000
--- a/doc/release-notes-15954.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Configuration option changes
------------------------------
-
-Importing blocks upon startup via the `bootstrap.dat` file no longer occurs by default. The file must now be specified with `-loadblock=<file>`.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-17056.md b/doc/release-notes-17056.md
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index 23d5a8c8cd..0000000000
--- a/doc/release-notes-17056.md
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Low-level RPC Changes
-===
-
-- A new descriptor type `sortedmulti(...)` has been added to support multisig scripts where the public keys are sorted lexicographically in the resulting script.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-17264.md b/doc/release-notes-17264.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f6e0979596..0000000000
--- a/doc/release-notes-17264.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Updated RPCs
-------------
-
-- `walletprocesspsbt` and `walletcreatefundedpsbt` now include BIP 32 derivation paths by default for public keys if we know them. This can be disabled by setting `bip32derivs` to `false`.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-17410.md b/doc/release-notes-17410.md
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index 08ed353889..0000000000
--- a/doc/release-notes-17410.md
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@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Command-line options
---------------------
-
-- The `-debug=db` logging category has been renamed to `-debug=walletdb`, to distinguish it from `coindb`.
- `-debug=db` has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major release.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-17437.md b/doc/release-notes-17437.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3edfd00a38..0000000000
--- a/doc/release-notes-17437.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Low-level RPC Changes
-===
-
-- The RPC gettransaction, listtransactions and listsinceblock responses now also
-includes the height of the block that contains the wallet transaction, if any.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-17578.md b/doc/release-notes-17578.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 664d17fd78..0000000000
--- a/doc/release-notes-17578.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Deprecated or removed RPCs
---------------------------
-
-- RPC `getaddressinfo` changes:
-
- - the `label` field has been deprecated in favor of the `labels` field and
- will be removed in 0.21. It can be re-enabled in the interim by launching
- with `-deprecatedrpc=label`.
-
- - the `labels` behavior of returning an array of JSON objects containing name
- and purpose key/value pairs has been deprecated in favor of an array of
- label names and will be removed in 0.21. The previous behavior can be
- re-enabled in the interim by launching with `-deprecatedrpc=labelspurpose`.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index 99ca53c597..cb46408d94 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -62,6 +62,64 @@ distribution provides binaries for the RISC-V platform.
Notable changes
===============
+P2P and network changes
+-----------------------
+
+#### Removal of reject network messages from Bitcoin Core (BIP61)
+
+The command line option to enable BIP61 (`-enablebip61`) has been removed.
+
+This feature has been disabled by default since Bitcoin Core version 0.18.0.
+Nodes on the network can not generally be trusted to send valid ("reject")
+messages, so this should only ever be used when connected to a trusted node.
+Please use the recommended alternatives if you rely on this deprecated feature:
+
+* Testing or debugging of implementations of the Bitcoin P2P network protocol
+ should be done by inspecting the log messages that are produced by a recent
+ version of Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin Core logs debug messages
+ (`-debug=<category>`) to a stream (`-printtoconsole`) or to a file
+ (`-debuglogfile=<debug.log>`).
+
+* Testing the validity of a block can be achieved by specific RPCs:
+ - `submitblock`
+ - `getblocktemplate` with `'mode'` set to `'proposal'` for blocks with
+ potentially invalid POW
+
+* Testing the validity of a transaction can be achieved by specific RPCs:
+ - `sendrawtransaction`
+ - `testmempoolaccept`
+
+* Wallets should not use the absence of "reject" messages to indicate a
+ transaction has propagated the network, nor should wallets use "reject"
+ messages to set transaction fees. Wallets should rather use fee estimation
+ to determine transaction fees and set replace-by-fee if desired. Thus, they
+ could wait until the transaction has confirmed (taking into account the fee
+ target they set (compare the RPC `estimatesmartfee`)) or listen for the
+ transaction announcement by other network peers to check for propagation.
+
+The removal of BIP61 REJECT message support also has the following minor RPC
+and logging implications:
+
+* `testmempoolaccept` and `sendrawtransaction` no longer return the P2P REJECT
+ code when a transaction is not accepted to the mempool. They still return the
+ verbal reject reason.
+
+* Log messages that previously reported the REJECT code when a transaction was
+ not accepted to the mempool now no longer report the REJECT code. The reason
+ for rejection is still reported.
+
+Updated RPCs
+------------
+
+- `testmempoolaccept` and `sendrawtransaction` no longer return the P2P REJECT
+ code when a transaction is not accepted to the mempool. See the Section
+ _Removal of reject network messages from Bitcoin Core (BIP61)_ for details on
+ the removal of BIP61 REJECT message support.
+
+- A new descriptor type `sortedmulti(...)` has been added to support multisig scripts where the public keys are sorted lexicographically in the resulting script.
+
+- `walletprocesspsbt` and `walletcreatefundedpsbt` now include BIP 32 derivation paths by default for public keys if we know them. This can be disabled by setting `bip32derivs` to `false`.
+
Build System
------------
@@ -84,11 +142,10 @@ It can be set with two command line arguments (`rpcwhitelist` and `rpcwhitelistd
Updated settings
----------------
-Updated RPCs
-------------
+Importing blocks upon startup via the `bootstrap.dat` file no longer occurs by default. The file must now be specified with `-loadblock=<file>`.
-Note: some low-level RPC changes mainly useful for testing are described in the
-Low-level Changes section below.
+- The `-debug=db` logging category has been renamed to `-debug=walletdb`, to distinguish it from `coindb`.
+ `-debug=db` has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major release.
GUI changes
-----------
@@ -101,6 +158,20 @@ Wallet
- The wallet now by default uses bech32 addresses when using RPC, and creates native segwit change outputs.
- The way that output trust was computed has been fixed in #16766, which impacts confirmed/unconfirmed balance status and coin selection.
+- The RPC gettransaction, listtransactions and listsinceblock responses now also
+includes the height of the block that contains the wallet transaction, if any.
+
+- RPC `getaddressinfo` changes:
+
+ - the `label` field has been deprecated in favor of the `labels` field and
+ will be removed in 0.21. It can be re-enabled in the interim by launching
+ with `-deprecatedrpc=label`.
+
+ - the `labels` behavior of returning an array of JSON objects containing name
+ and purpose key/value pairs has been deprecated in favor of an array of
+ label names and will be removed in 0.21. The previous behavior can be
+ re-enabled in the interim by launching with `-deprecatedrpc=labelspurpose`.
+
Low-level changes
=================