Policy: allow transaction version 2 relay policy.

This commit introduces a way to gracefully bump the default
transaction version in a two step process.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/primitives/transaction.h b/src/primitives/transaction.h
index 07ae39e0b4..9f7d6f3943 100644
--- a/src/primitives/transaction.h
+++ b/src/primitives/transaction.h
@@ -206,8 +206,15 @@ private:
     void UpdateHash() const;
 
 public:
+    // Default transaction version.
     static const int32_t CURRENT_VERSION=1;
 
+    // Changing the default transaction version requires a two step process: first
+    // adapting relay policy by bumping MAX_STANDARD_VERSION, and then later date
+    // bumping the default CURRENT_VERSION at which point both CURRENT_VERSION and
+    // MAX_STANDARD_VERSION will be equal.
+    static const int32_t MAX_STANDARD_VERSION=2;
+
     // The local variables are made const to prevent unintended modification
     // without updating the cached hash value. However, CTransaction is not
     // actually immutable; deserialization and assignment are implemented,