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-rw-r--r--configure.ac2
-rw-r--r--doc/Doxyfile2
-rw-r--r--doc/README.md2
-rw-r--r--doc/README_windows.txt2
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes.md86
-rw-r--r--src/clientversion.h2
6 files changed, 87 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a545bc57b7..97b330449f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dnl require autoconf 2.60 (AS_ECHO/AS_ECHO_N)
AC_PREREQ([2.60])
define(_CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR, 0)
define(_CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR, 13)
-define(_CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION, 0)
+define(_CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION, 1)
define(_CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD, 0)
define(_CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, true)
define(_COPYRIGHT_YEAR, 2016)
diff --git a/doc/Doxyfile b/doc/Doxyfile
index 93da55fbbe..b088c7623f 100644
--- a/doc/Doxyfile
+++ b/doc/Doxyfile
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ PROJECT_NAME = Bitcoin
# This could be handy for archiving the generated documentation or
# if some version control system is used.
-PROJECT_NUMBER = 0.13.0
+PROJECT_NUMBER = 0.13.1
# Using the PROJECT_BRIEF tag one can provide an optional one line description
# for a project that appears at the top of each page and should give viewer
diff --git a/doc/README.md b/doc/README.md
index 7aa82e1d52..25a280155c 100644
--- a/doc/README.md
+++ b/doc/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Bitcoin Core 0.13.0
+Bitcoin Core 0.13.1
=====================
Setup
diff --git a/doc/README_windows.txt b/doc/README_windows.txt
index 3f41db14b0..1127ea7665 100644
--- a/doc/README_windows.txt
+++ b/doc/README_windows.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Bitcoin Core 0.13.0
+Bitcoin Core 0.13.1
=====================
Intro
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index 3d83be9647..d107f305d6 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Bitcoin Core version 0.13.x is now available from:
+Bitcoin Core version 0.13.1 is now available from:
- <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.13.x/>
+ <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.13.1/>
This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes
and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
@@ -38,8 +38,86 @@ report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker.
Notable changes
===============
-Example item
---------------
+Segregated witness soft fork
+----------------------------
+
+Segregated witness (segwit) is a soft fork that, if activated, will
+allow transaction-producing software to separate (segregate) transaction
+signatures (witnesses) from the rest of the data in a transaction, and
+to allow miners to place those witnesses outside of the traditional
+block structure. This provides two immediate benefits:
+
+- **Elimination of malleability:** Segregating the witness allows both
+ existing software and upgraded software that receives transactions to
+ calculate the transaction identifier (txid) of segwit-using
+ transactions without referencing the witness. This solves all known
+ cases of unwanted third-party transaction malleability, which is a
+ problem that makes programming Bitcoin wallet software more difficult
+ and which seriously complicates the design of smart contracts for
+ Bitcoin.
+
+- **Capacity increase:** Moving witness data outside of the traditional
+ block structure (but still inside a new-style block structure) means
+ new-style blocks can hold more data than older-style blocks, allowing
+ a modest increase to the amount of transaction data that can fit in a
+ block.
+
+Segwit also simplifies the ability to add new features to Bitcoin and
+improves the efficiency of full nodes, which will help provide long-term
+benefits to Bitcoin users.
+
+Activation for the segwit soft fork is being managed using BIP9
+versionbits. Segwit's version bit is bit 1, and nodes will begin
+tracking which blocks signal support for segwit at the beginning of the
+first retarget period after segwit's start date of 15 November 2016. If
+95% of blocks within a 2,016-block retarget period (about two weeks)
+signal support for segwit, the soft fork will be locked in. After
+another 2,016 blocks, segwit will activate.
+
+For more information about segwit, please see the [segwit FAQ][], the
+[segwit wallet developers guide][] or BIPs [141][BIP141], [143][BIP143],
+[144][BIP144], and [145][BIP145]. If you're a miner or mining pool
+operator, please see the [versionbits FAQ][] for information about
+signaling support for a soft fork.
+
+[Segwit FAQ]: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/
+[segwit wallet developers guide]: https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_wallet_dev/
+[BIP141]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawiki
+[BIP143]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0143.mediawiki
+[BIP144]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0144.mediawiki
+[BIP145]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0145.mediawiki
+[versionbits FAQ]: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/06/08/version-bits-miners-faq/
+
+
+Null dummy soft fork
+-------------------
+
+Combined with the segwit soft fork is a soft fork that turns a
+long-existing network relay policy into a consensus rule. The
+`OP_CHECKMULTISIG` and `OP_CHECKMULTISIGVERIFY` opcodes consume an extra
+stack element ("dummy element") after signature validation. The dummy
+element is not inspected in any manner, and could be replaced by any
+value without invalidating the script.
+
+Because any value can be used for this dummy element, it's possible for
+a third-party to insert data into other people's transactions, changing
+the transaction's txid (called transaction malleability) and possibly
+causing other problems.
+
+Since Bitcoin Core 0.10.0, nodes have defaulted to only relaying and
+mining transactions whose dummy element was a null value (0x00, also
+called OP_0). The null dummy soft fork turns this relay rule into a
+consensus rule both for non-segwit transactions and segwit transactions,
+so that this method of mutating transactions is permanently eliminated
+from the network.
+
+Signaling for the null dummy soft fork is done by signaling support
+for segwit, and the null dummy soft fork will activate at the same time
+as segwit.
+
+For more information, please see [BIP147][].
+
+[BIP147]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0147.mediawiki
Low-level RPC changes
---------------------
diff --git a/src/clientversion.h b/src/clientversion.h
index 30f557526a..74d0a94bfa 100644
--- a/src/clientversion.h
+++ b/src/clientversion.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
//! These need to be macros, as clientversion.cpp's and bitcoin*-res.rc's voodoo requires it
#define CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR 0
#define CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR 13
-#define CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION 0
+#define CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION 1
#define CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD 0
//! Set to true for release, false for prerelease or test build