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authorRyan Ofsky <ryan@ofsky.org>2019-04-29 15:29:00 -0400
committerRyan Ofsky <ryan@ofsky.org>2022-05-26 11:05:10 -0400
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Add release notes about unified bitcoin-qt and bitcoind persistent settings
If a bitcoind setting like pruning, port mapping, or a network proxy is enabled in the GUI, it will now be stored in the bitcoin persistent setting file and shared with bitcoind, instead of being stored as Qt settings backed by the windows registry or platform specific config files.
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+GUI changes
+-----------
+
+Configuration changes made in the bitcoin GUI (such as the pruning setting,
+proxy settings, UPNP preferences) are now saved to `<datadir>/settings.json`
+file rather than to the Qt settings backend (windows registry or unix desktop
+config files), so these settings will now apply to bitcoind, instead of being
+ignored.
+
+Also, the interaction between GUI settings and `bitcoin.conf` settings is
+simplified. Settings from `bitcoin.conf` are now displayed normally in the GUI
+settings dialog, instead of in a separate warning message ("Options set in this
+dialog are overridden by the configuration file: -setting=value"). And these
+settings can now be edited because `settings.json` values take precedence over
+`bitcoin.conf` values.