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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.txt b/doc/release-notes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..99ba67690b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ + +(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and deleted at +release time) + +Building this from + + $ git shortlog --no-merges v0.6.3.. + + + +Core bitcoin handling and blockchain database +--------------------------------------------- +* Reduced CPU usage, by eliminating some redundant hash calculations +* Cache signature verifications, to eliminate redundant signature checks +* Mining: when creating new blocks, sort 'paid' area by fee-per-kb +* Database: better validation of on-disk stored data +* Database: minor optimizations and reliability improvements +* -loadblock=FILE will import an external block file + + +JSON-RPC API +------------ +* Internal HTTP server is now thread-per-connection, rather than + a single-threaded queue that would stall on network I/O. +* Internal HTTP server supports HTTP/1.1, pipelined requests and + connection keep-alive. +* Support JSON-RPC 2.0 batches, to encapsulate multiple JSON-RPC requests + within a single HTTP request. +* IPv6 support +* Added raw transaction API. See https://gist.github.com/2839617 +* Added 'getrawmempool', to list contents of TX memory pool +* Added 'getpeerinfo', to list data about each connected network peer +* Rework gettransaction, getblock calls. 'gettransaction' responds for + non-wallet TXs now. +* Remove deprecated RPC 'getblocknumber' + + +P2P networking +-------------- +* IPv6 support +* Tor/I2P hidden service support +* Attempts to fix "stuck blockchain download" problems +* Replace BDB database "addr.dat" with internally-managed "peers.dat" + file containing peer address data. +* Lower default send buffer from 10MB to 1MB +* proxy: SOCKS5 by default +* Support connecting by hostnames passed to proxy (-proxydns) +* Add -seednode connections, and use this for -dnsseed + -proxydns +* Added -externalip and -discover +* Add -onlynet to prevent connections to a given network +* Separate listening sockets, -bind=<addr> + + +Qt GUI +--------------------- +????? + + +Internal codebase +----------------- +* Additional unit tests +* Compile warning fixes + + +Miscellaneous +------------- +* Reopen debug.log upon SIGHUP +* Bash programmable completion for bitcoind(1) +* On supported OS's, each thread is given a useful name + + |