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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index d84f21c9a4..953258f41d 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ Memory pool limiting Previous versions of Bitcoin Core had their mempool limited by checking a transaction's fees against the node's minimum relay fee. There was no -upper bound on the size of the mempool and attackers could send massive -amounts of transactions paying just slighly more than the default minimum +upper bound on the size of the mempool and attackers could send a large +number of transactions paying just slighly more than the default minimum relay fee to crash nodes with relatively low RAM. A temporary workaround for previous versions of Bitcoin Core was to raise the default minimum relay fee. @@ -240,20 +240,39 @@ Priority transactions Transactions that do not pay the minimum relay fee, are called "free transactions" or priority transactions. Previous versions of Bitcoin Core would relay and mine priority transactions depending on their -setting of `-limitfreerelay=15` (kB per minute) and -`-blockprioritysize=50000` (bytes of a block's priority space). +setting of `-limitfreerelay=<r>` (default: `r=15` kB per minute) and +`-blockprioritysize=<s>` (default: `50000` bytes of a block's +priority space). Priority code is planned to get moved out of from Bitcoin Core 0.13 -and the default block priority size was set to `0` in Bitcoin Core +and the default block priority size has been set to `0` in Bitcoin Core 0.12. Wallet transaction fees ----------------------- -Various impromements were made how the wallet calculates transaction +Various improvements have been made to how the wallet calculates +transaction fees. + +Users can decide to pay a predefined fee rate by setting `-paytxfee=<n>` +(or `settxfee <n>` rpc during runtime). A value of `n=0` signals Bitcoin +Core to use floating fees. By default, Bitcoin Core will use floating fees. -... +Based on past transaction data, floating fees approximate the fees +required to get into the `m`th block from now. This is configurable +with `-txconfirmtarget=<m>` (default: `2`). + +Sometimes, it is not possible to give good estimates, or an estimate +at all. Therefore, a fallback value can be set with `-fallbackfee=<f>` +(default: `FIXME`). + +At all times, Bitcoin Core will cap fees at `-maxtxfee=<x>` (default: +0.10) BTC. +Furthermore, Bitcoin Core will never create transactions smaller than +the current minimum relay fee. +Finally, a user can set the minimum fee rate for all transactions with +`-mintxfee=<i>`, which defaults to 1000 satoshis per kB. Negative confirmations and conflict detection --------------------------------------------- @@ -283,8 +302,7 @@ git merge commit are mentioned. ### RPC and REST -Asm representations of scriptSig signatures now contain SIGHASH type decodes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +- **Asm representations of scriptSig signatures now contain SIGHASH type decodes** The `asm` property of each scriptSig now contains the decoded signature hash type for each signature that provides a valid defined hash type. @@ -328,10 +346,9 @@ configured specifically to process scriptPubKey and not scriptSig scripts. ### Miscellaneous -- Removed bitrpc.py from contrib +- **Removed bitrpc.py from contrib** -Addition of ZMQ-based Notifications -================================== +- **Addition of ZMQ-based Notifications** Bitcoind can now (optionally) asynchronously notify clients through a ZMQ-based PUB socket of the arrival of new transactions and blocks. |