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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 6f7d8d19a6..629ea85d2a 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, 9) -define(_CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION, 0) +define(_CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION, 1) define(_CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD, 0) define(_CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, true) define(_COPYRIGHT_YEAR, 2014) diff --git a/contrib/verifysfbinaries/verify.sh b/contrib/verifysfbinaries/verify.sh index e92295661c..fbf2e06379 100755 --- a/contrib/verifysfbinaries/verify.sh +++ b/contrib/verifysfbinaries/verify.sh @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ WORKINGDIR="/tmp/bitcoin" TMPFILE="hashes.tmp" #this URL is used if a version number is not specified as an argument to the script -SIGNATUREFILE="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bitcoin/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.9.0rc1/SHA256SUMS.asc" +SIGNATUREFILE="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bitcoin/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.9.1/SHA256SUMS.asc" SIGNATUREFILENAME="SHA256SUMS.asc" RCSUBDIR="test/" diff --git a/doc/Doxyfile b/doc/Doxyfile index 9bad2d0759..2171e19911 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 = 0.9.0 +PROJECT_NUMBER = 0.9.1 # 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 148db94214..7dbf4d503b 100644 --- a/doc/README.md +++ b/doc/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Bitcoin 0.9.0rc1 BETA +Bitcoin 0.9.1 BETA ===================== Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Developers diff --git a/doc/README_windows.txt b/doc/README_windows.txt index abca4894e2..1b38a5eb7d 100644 --- a/doc/README_windows.txt +++ b/doc/README_windows.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Bitcoin 0.9.0rc1 BETA
+Bitcoin 0.9.1 BETA
Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Core Developers
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index dab87ebda8..90037372b9 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ -Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0rc3 is now available from: +Bitcoin Core version 0.9.1 is now available from: - https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/test/ + https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.1/test/ -This is a release candidate for a new major version. A major version brings -both new features and bug fixes. +This is a security update. It is recommended to upgrade to this release +as soon as possible. + +It is especially important to upgrade if you currently have version 0.9.0 +installed and are using the graphical interface OR you are using bitcoind from +any pre-0.9.1 version, and have enabled SSL for RPC. Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: @@ -13,385 +17,36 @@ How to Upgrade -------------- If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely -shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), uninstall all -earlier versions of Bitcoin, then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy -over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux). +shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the +installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or +bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux). If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you run -0.9.0 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from +0.9.1 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine. -On Windows, do not forget to uninstall all earlier versions of the Bitcoin -client first, especially if you are switching to the 64-bit version. - -Windows 64-bit installer -------------------------- - -New in 0.9.0 is the Windows 64-bit version of the client. There have been -frequent reports of users running out of virtual memory on 32-bit systems -during the initial sync. Because of this it is recommended to install the -64-bit version if your system supports it. - -NOTE: Release candidate 2 Windows binaries are not code-signed; use PGP -and the SHA256SUMS.asc file to make sure your binaries are correct. -In the final 0.9.0 release, Windows setup.exe binaries will be code-signed. - -OSX 10.5 / 32-bit no longer supported -------------------------------------- - -0.9.0 drops support for older Macs. The minimum requirements are now: -* A 64-bit-capable CPU (see http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3696); -* Mac OS 10.6 or later (see https://support.apple.com/kb/ht1633). - -Downgrading warnings --------------------- - -The 'chainstate' for this release is not always compatible with previous -releases, so if you run 0.9 and then decide to switch back to a -0.8.x release you might get a blockchain validation error when starting the -old release (due to 'pruned outputs' being omitted from the index of -unspent transaction outputs). - -Running the old release with the -reindex option will rebuild the chainstate -data structures and correct the problem. - -Also, the first time you run a 0.8.x release on a 0.9 wallet it will rescan -the blockchain for missing spent coins, which will take a long time (tens -of minutes on a typical machine). - -Rebranding to Bitcoin Core ---------------------------- - -To reduce confusion between Bitcoin-the-network and Bitcoin-the-software we -have renamed the reference client to Bitcoin Core. - -Autotools build system ------------------------ - -For 0.9.0 we switched to an autotools-based build system instead of individual -(q)makefiles. - -Using the standard "./autogen.sh; ./configure; make" to build Bitcoin-Qt and -bitcoind makes it easier for experienced open source developers to contribute -to the project. - -Be sure to check doc/build-*.md for your platform before building from source. - -Bitcoin-cli -------------- - -Another change in the 0.9 release is moving away from the bitcoind executable -functioning both as a server and as a RPC client. The RPC client functionality -("tell the running bitcoin daemon to do THIS") was split into a separate -executable, 'bitcoin-cli'. The RPC client code will eventually be removed from -bitcoind, but will be kept for backwards compatibility for a release or two. - -`walletpassphrase` RPC ------------------------ - -The behavior of the `walletpassphrase` RPC when the wallet is already unlocked -has changed between 0.8 and 0.9. - -The 0.8 behavior of `walletpassphrase` is to fail when the wallet is already unlocked: - - > walletpassphrase 1000 - walletunlocktime = now + 1000 - > walletpassphrase 10 - Error: Wallet is already unlocked (old unlock time stays) - -The new behavior of `walletpassphrase` is to set a new unlock time overriding -the old one: - - > walletpassphrase 1000 - walletunlocktime = now + 1000 - > walletpassphrase 10 - walletunlocktime = now + 10 (overriding the old unlock time) - -Transaction malleability-related fixes --------------------------------------- - -This release contains a few fixes for transaction ID (TXID) malleability -issues: - -- -spendzeroconfchange=0 command-line option, to avoid spending - zero-confirmation change -- IsStandard() transaction rules tightened to prevent relaying and mining of - mutated transactions -- Additional information in listtransactions/gettransaction output to - report wallet transactions that conflict with each other because - they spend the same outputs. -- Bug fixes to the getbalance/listaccounts RPC commands, which would report - incorrect balances for double-spent (or mutated) transactions. -- New option: -zapwallettxes to rebuild the wallet's transaction information - -Transaction Fees ----------------- - -This release drops the default fee required to relay transactions across the -network and for miners to consider the transaction in their blocks to -0.01mBTC per kilobyte. - -Note that getting a transaction relayed across the network does NOT guarantee -that the transaction will be accepted by a miner; by default, miners fill -their blocks with 50 kilobytes of high-priority transactions, and then with -700 kilobytes of the highest-fee-per-kilobyte transactions. - -The minimum relay/mining fee-per-kilobyte may be changed with the -minrelaytxfee option. Note that previous releases incorrectly used -the mintxfee setting to determine which low-priority transactions should -be considered for inclusion in blocks. - -The wallet code still uses a default fee for low-priority transactions of -0.1mBTC per kilobyte. During periods of heavy transaction volume, even this -fee may not be enough to get transactions confirmed quickly; the mintxfee -option may be used to override the default. - -0.9.0rc3 Release notes +0.9.1 Release notes ======================= -RPC: - -- New notion of 'conflicted' transactions, reported as confirmations: -1 -- 'listreceivedbyaddress' now provides tx ids -- Add raw transaction hex to 'gettransaction' output -- Updated help and tests for 'getreceivedby(account|address)' -- In 'getblock', accept 2nd 'verbose' parameter, similar to getrawtransaction, - but defaulting to 1 for backward compatibility -- Add 'verifychain', to verify chain database at runtime -- Add 'dumpwallet' and 'importwallet' RPCs -- 'keypoolrefill' gains optional size parameter -- Add 'getbestblockhash', to return tip of best chain -- Add 'chainwork' (the total work done by all blocks since the genesis block) - to 'getblock' output -- Make RPC password resistant to timing attacks -- Clarify help messages and add examples -- Add 'getrawchangeaddress' call for raw transaction change destinations -- Reject insanely high fees by default in 'sendrawtransaction' -- Add RPC call 'decodescript' to decode a hex-encoded transaction script -- Make 'validateaddress' provide redeemScript -- Add 'getnetworkhashps' to get the calculated network hashrate -- New RPC 'ping' command to request ping, new 'pingtime' and 'pingwait' fields - in 'getpeerinfo' output -- Adding new 'addrlocal' field to 'getpeerinfo' output -- Add verbose boolean to 'getrawmempool' -- Add rpc command 'getunconfirmedbalance' to obtain total unconfirmed balance -- Explicitly ensure that wallet is unlocked in `importprivkey` -- Add check for valid keys in `importprivkey` - -Command-line options: - -- New option: -nospendzeroconfchange to never spend unconfirmed change outputs -- New option: -zapwallettxes to rebuild the wallet's transaction information -- Rename option '-tor' to '-onion' to better reflect what it does -- Add '-disablewallet' mode to let bitcoind run entirely without wallet (when - built with wallet) -- Update default '-rpcsslciphers' to include TLSv1.2 -- make '-logtimestamps' default on and rework help-message -- RPC client option: '-rpcwait', to wait for server start -- Remove '-logtodebugger' -- Allow `-noserver` with bitcoind - -Block-chain handling and storage: - -- Update leveldb to 1.15 -- Check for correct genesis (prevent cases where a datadir from the wrong - network is accidentally loaded) -- Allow txindex to be removed and add a reindex dialog -- Log aborted block database rebuilds -- Store orphan blocks in serialized form, to save memory -- Limit the number of orphan blocks in memory to 750 -- Fix non-standard disconnected transactions causing mempool orphans -- Add a new checkpoint at block 279,000 - -Wallet: - -- Bug fixes and new regression tests to correctly compute - the balance of wallets containing double-spent (or mutated) transactions -- Store key creation time. Calculate whole-wallet birthday. -- Optimize rescan to skip blocks prior to birthday -- Let user select wallet file with -wallet=foo.dat -- Consider generated coins mature at 101 instead of 120 blocks -- Improve wallet load time -- Don't count txins for priority to encourage sweeping -- Don't create empty transactions when reading a corrupted wallet -- Fix rescan to start from beginning after importprivkey -- Only create signatures with low S values - -Mining: - -- Increase default -blockmaxsize/prioritysize to 750K/50K -- 'getblocktemplate' does not require a key to create a block template -- Mining code fee policy now matches relay fee policy - -Protocol and network: - -- Drop the fee required to relay a transaction to 0.01mBTC per kilobyte -- Send tx relay flag with version -- New 'reject' P2P message (BIP 0061, see - https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7079034 for draft) -- Dump addresses every 15 minutes instead of 10 seconds -- Relay OP_RETURN data TxOut as standard transaction type -- Remove CENT-output free transaction rule when relaying -- Lower maximum size for free transaction creation -- Send multiple inv messages if mempool.size > MAX_INV_SZ -- Split MIN_PROTO_VERSION into INIT_PROTO_VERSION and MIN_PEER_PROTO_VERSION -- Do not treat fFromMe transaction differently when broadcasting -- Process received messages one at a time without sleeping between messages -- Improve logging of failed connections -- Bump protocol version to 70002 -- Add some additional logging to give extra network insight -- Added new DNS seed from bitcoinstats.com - -Validation: - -- Log reason for non-standard transaction rejection -- Prune provably-unspendable outputs, and adapt consistency check for it. -- Detect any sufficiently long fork and add a warning -- Call the -alertnotify script when we see a long or invalid fork -- Fix multi-block reorg transaction resurrection -- Reject non-canonically-encoded serialization sizes -- Reject dust amounts during validation -- Accept nLockTime transactions that finalize in the next block - -Build system: - -- Switch to autotools-based build system -- Build without wallet by passing `--disable-wallet` to configure, this - removes the BerkeleyDB dependency -- Upgrade gitian dependencies (libpng, libz, libupnpc, boost, openssl) to more - recent versions -- Windows 64-bit build support -- Solaris compatibility fixes -- Check integrity of gitian input source tarballs -- Enable full GCC Stack-smashing protection for all OSes +No code changes were made between 0.9.0 and 0.9.1. Only the dependencies were changed. -GUI: +- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1g. This release fixes the following vulnerabilities which can + affect the Bitcoin Core software: -- Switch to Qt 5.2.0 for Windows build -- Add payment request (BIP 0070) support -- Improve options dialog -- Show transaction fee in new send confirmation dialog -- Add total balance in overview page -- Allow user to choose data directory on first start, when data directory is - missing, or when the -choosedatadir option is passed -- Save and restore window positions -- Add vout index to transaction id in transactions details dialog -- Add network traffic graph in debug window -- Add open URI dialog -- Add Coin Control Features -- Improve receive coins workflow: make the 'Receive' tab into a form to request - payments, and move historical address list functionality to File menu. -- Rebrand to `Bitcoin Core` -- Move initialization/shutdown to a thread. This prevents "Not responding" - messages during startup. Also show a window during shutdown. -- Don't regenerate autostart link on every client startup -- Show and store message of normal bitcoin:URI -- Fix richtext detection hang issue on very old Qt versions -- OS X: Make use of the 10.8+ user notification center to display Growl-like - notifications -- OS X: Added NSHighResolutionCapable flag to Info.plist for better font - rendering on Retina displays. -- OS X: Fix bitcoin-qt startup crash when clicking dock icon -- Linux: Fix Gnome bitcoin: URI handler + - CVE-2014-0160 ("heartbleed") + A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension can + be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or server. -Miscellaneous: + - CVE-2014-0076 + The Montgomery ladder implementation in OpenSSL does not ensure that + certain swap operations have a constant-time behavior, which makes it + easier for local users to obtain ECDSA nonces via a FLUSH+RELOAD cache + side-channel attack. -- Add Linux script (contrib/qos/tc.sh) to limit outgoing bandwidth -- Add '-regtest' mode, similar to testnet but private with instant block - generation with 'setgenerate' RPC. -- Add 'linearize.py' script to contrib, for creating bootstrap.dat -- Add separate bitcoin-cli client +- Add statically built executables to Linux build Credits -------- -Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: +Credits go to the OpenSSL team for fixing the vulnerabilities quickly. -- Andrey -- Ashley Holman -- b6393ce9-d324-4fe1-996b-acf82dbc3d53 -- bitsofproof -- Brandon Dahler -- Calvin Tam -- Christian Decker -- Christian von Roques -- Christopher Latham -- Chuck -- coblee -- constantined -- Cory Fields -- Cozz Lovan -- daniel -- Daniel Larimer -- David Hill -- Dmitry Smirnov -- Drak -- Eric Lombrozo -- fanquake -- fcicq -- Florin -- frewil -- Gavin Andresen -- Gregory Maxwell -- gubatron -- Guillermo Céspedes Tabárez -- Haakon Nilsen -- HaltingState -- Han Lin Yap -- harry -- Ian Kelling -- Jeff Garzik -- Johnathan Corgan -- Jonas Schnelli -- Josh Lehan -- Josh Triplett -- Julian Langschaedel -- Kangmo -- Lake Denman -- Luke Dashjr -- Mark Friedenbach -- Matt Corallo -- Michael Bauer -- Michael Ford -- Michagogo -- Midnight Magic -- Mike Hearn -- Nils Schneider -- Noel Tiernan -- Olivier Langlois -- patrick s -- Patrick Strateman -- paveljanik -- Peter Todd -- phantomcircuit -- phelixbtc -- Philip Kaufmann -- Pieter Wuille -- Rav3nPL -- R E Broadley -- regergregregerrge -- Robert Backhaus -- Roman Mindalev -- Rune K. Svendsen -- Ryan Niebur -- Scott Ellis -- Scott Willeke -- Sergey Kazenyuk -- Shawn Wilkinson -- Sined -- sje -- Subo1978 -- super3 -- Tamas Blummer -- theuni -- Thomas Holenstein -- Timon Rapp -- Timothy Stranex -- Tom Geller -- Torstein Husebø -- Vaclav Vobornik -- vhf / victor felder -- Vinnie Falco -- Warren Togami -- Wil Bown -- Wladimir J. van der Laan diff --git a/src/clientversion.h b/src/clientversion.h index 3c69e028b5..8d514b3a66 100644 --- a/src/clientversion.h +++ b/src/clientversion.h @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ // These need to be macros, as version.cpp's and bitcoin-qt.rc's voodoo requires it #define CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR 0 #define CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR 9 -#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 |