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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 45d10325b5..4d7b34858e 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ Details can be found here: http://talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2015-0035/ This applies to the distributed executables only, not when building from source or using distribution provided packages. +Additionally, upnp has been disabled by default. This may result in a lower +number of reachable nodes on IPv4, however this prevents future libupnpc +vulnerabilities from being a structural risk to the network +(see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6795). + Test for LowS signatures before relaying ----------------------------------------- @@ -92,6 +97,20 @@ only eliminates the cheap and irritating DOS attack. Marcin Andrychowicz, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski, Łukasz Mazurek http://fc15.ifca.ai/preproceedings/bitcoin/paper_9.pdf +Minimum relay fee default increase +----------------------------------- + +The default for the `-minrelaytxfee` setting has been increased from `0.00001` +to `0.00005`. + +This is necessitated by the current transaction flooding, causing +outrageous memory usage on nodes due to the mempool ballooning. This is a +temporary measure, bridging the time until a dynamic method for determining +this fee is merged (which will be in 0.12). + +(see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6793, as well as the 0.11 +release notes, in which this value was suggested) + 0.11.1 Change log ================= @@ -114,6 +133,8 @@ git merge commit are mentioned. - #6789 `b4ad73f` Update miniupnpc to 1.9.20151008 - #6785 `b4dc33e` Backport to v0.11: In (strCommand == "tx"), return if AlreadyHave() - #6412 `0095b9a` Test whether created sockets are select()able +- #6795 `4dbcec0` net: Disable upnp by default +- #6793 `e7bcc4a` Bump minrelaytxfee default Credits ======= |