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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.9.2.1.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.9.2.1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3168ad1a5a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.9.2.1.md @@ -0,0 +1,207 @@ +Bitcoin Core version 0.9.2.1 is now available from: + + https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.2.1/ + +This is a new minor version release, bringing mostly bug fixes and some minor +improvements. OpenSSL has been updated because of a security issue (CVE-2014-0224). +Upgrading to this release is recommended. + +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: + + https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues + +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), 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 +0.9.2.1 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from +30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine. + +Downgrading warnings +-------------------- + +The 'chainstate' for this release is not always compatible with previous +releases, so if you run 0.9.x 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). + +Important changes +================== + +Gitian OSX build +----------------- + +The deterministic build system that was already used for Windows and Linux +builds is now used for OSX as well. Although the resulting executables have +been tested quite a bit, there could be possible regressions. Be sure to report +these on the Github bug tracker mentioned above. + +Compatibility of Linux build +----------------------------- + +For Linux we now build against Qt 4.6, and filter the symbols for libstdc++ and glibc. +This brings back compatibility with + +- Debian 6+ / Tails +- Ubuntu 10.04 +- CentOS 6.5 + +0.9.2 - 0.9.2.1 Release notes +======================= + +The OpenSSL dependency in the gitian builds has been upgraded to 1.0.1h because of CVE-2014-0224. + +RPC: + +- Add `getwalletinfo`, `getblockchaininfo` and `getnetworkinfo` calls (will replace hodge-podge `getinfo` at some point) +- Add a `relayfee` field to `getnetworkinfo` +- Fix RPC related shutdown hangs and leaks +- Always show syncnode in `getpeerinfo` +- `sendrawtransaction`: report the reject code and reason, and make it possible to re-send transactions that are already in the mempool +- `getmininginfo` show right genproclimit + +Command-line options: + +- Fix `-printblocktree` output +- Show error message if ReadConfigFile fails + +Block-chain handling and storage: + +- Fix for GetBlockValue() after block 13,440,000 (BIP42) +- Upgrade leveldb to 1.17 + +Protocol and network code: + +- Per-peer block download tracking and stalled download detection +- Add new DNS seed from bitnodes.io +- Prevent socket leak in ThreadSocketHandler and correct some proxy related socket leaks +- Use pnode->nLastRecv as sync score (was the wrong way around) + +Wallet: + +- Make GetAvailableCredit run GetHash() only once per transaction (performance improvement) +- Lower paytxfee warning threshold from 0.25 BTC to 0.01 BTC +- Fix importwallet nTimeFirstKey (trigger necessary rescans) +- Log BerkeleyDB version at startup +- CWallet init fix + +Build system: + +- Add OSX build descriptors to gitian +- Fix explicit --disable-qt-dbus +- Don't require db_cxx.h when compiling with wallet disabled and GUI enabled +- Improve missing boost error reporting +- Upgrade miniupnpc version to 1.9 +- gitian-linux: --enable-glibc-back-compat for binary compatibility with old distributions +- gitian: don't export any symbols from executable +- gitian: build against Qt 4.6 +- devtools: add script to check symbols from Linux gitian executables +- Remove build-time no-IPv6 setting + +GUI: + +- Fix various coin control visual issues +- Show number of in/out connections in debug console +- Show weeks as well as years behind for long timespans behind +- Enable and disable the Show and Remove buttons for requested payments history based on whether any entry is selected. +- Show also value for options overridden on command line in options dialog +- Fill in label from address book also for URIs +- Fixes feel when resizing the last column on tables (issue #2862) +- Fix ESC in disablewallet mode +- Add expert section to wallet tab in optionsdialog +- Do proper boost::path conversion (fixes unicode in datadir) +- Only override -datadir if different from the default (fixes -datadir in config file) +- Show rescan progress at start-up +- Show importwallet progress +- Get required locks upfront in polling functions (avoids hanging on locks) +- Catch Windows shutdown events while client is running +- Optionally add third party links to transaction context menu +- Check for !pixmap() before trying to export QR code (avoids crashes when no QR code could be generated) +- Fix "Start bitcoin on system login" + +Miscellaneous: + +- Replace non-threadsafe C functions (gmtime, strerror and setlocale) +- Add missing cs_main and wallet locks +- Avoid exception at startup when system locale not recognized +- Changed bitrpc.py's raw_input to getpass for passwords to conceal characters during command line input +- devtools: add a script to fetch and postprocess translations + +Credits +-------- + +Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: + +- Addy Yeow +- Altoidnerd +- Andrea D'Amore +- Andreas Schildbach +- Bardi Harborow +- Brandon Dahler +- Bryan Bishop +- Chris Beams +- Christian von Roques +- Cory Fields +- Cozz Lovan +- daniel +- Daniel Newton +- David A. Harding +- ditto-b +- duanemoody +- Eric S. Bullington +- Fabian Raetz +- Gavin Andresen +- Gregory Maxwell +- gubatron +- Haakon Nilsen +- harry +- Hector Jusforgues +- Isidoro Ghezzi +- Jeff Garzik +- Johnathan Corgan +- jtimon +- Kamil Domanski +- langerhans +- Luke Dashjr +- Manuel Araoz +- Mark Friedenbach +- Matt Corallo +- Matthew Bogosian +- Meeh +- Michael Ford +- Michagogo +- Mikael Wikman +- Mike Hearn +- olalonde +- paveljanik +- peryaudo +- Philip Kaufmann +- philsong +- Pieter Wuille +- R E Broadley +- richierichrawr +- Rune K. Svendsen +- rxl +- shshshsh +- Simon de la Rouviere +- Stuart Cardall +- super3 +- Telepatheic +- Thomas Zander +- Torstein Husebø +- Warren Togami +- Wladimir J. van der Laan +- Yoichi Hirai diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.9.2.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.9.2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a2749e549f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.9.2.md @@ -0,0 +1,207 @@ +Bitcoin Core version 0.9.2 is now available from: + + https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.2/ + +This is a new minor version release, bringing mostly bug fixes and some minor +improvements. OpenSSL has been updated because of a security issue (CVE-2014-0224). +Upgrading to this release is recommended. + +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: + + https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues + +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), 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 +0.9.2 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from +30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine. + +Downgrading warnings +-------------------- + +The 'chainstate' for this release is not always compatible with previous +releases, so if you run 0.9.x 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). + +Important changes +================== + +Gitian OSX build +----------------- + +The deterministic build system that was already used for Windows and Linux +builds is now used for OSX as well. Although the resulting executables have +been tested quite a bit, there could be possible regressions. Be sure to report +these on the Github bug tracker mentioned above. + +Compatibility of Linux build +----------------------------- + +For Linux we now build against Qt 4.6, and filter the symbols for libstdc++ and glibc. +This brings back compatibility with + +- Debian 6+ / Tails +- Ubuntu 10.04 +- CentOS 6.5 + +0.9.2 Release notes +======================= + +The OpenSSL dependency in the gitian builds has been upgraded to 1.0.1h because of CVE-2014-0224. + +RPC: + +- Add `getwalletinfo`, `getblockchaininfo` and `getnetworkinfo` calls (will replace hodge-podge `getinfo` at some point) +- Add a `relayfee` field to `getnetworkinfo` +- Fix RPC related shutdown hangs and leaks +- Always show syncnode in `getpeerinfo` +- `sendrawtransaction`: report the reject code and reason, and make it possible to re-send transactions that are already in the mempool +- `getmininginfo` show right genproclimit + +Command-line options: + +- Fix `-printblocktree` output +- Show error message if ReadConfigFile fails + +Block-chain handling and storage: + +- Fix for GetBlockValue() after block 13,440,000 (BIP42) +- Upgrade leveldb to 1.17 + +Protocol and network code: + +- Per-peer block download tracking and stalled download detection +- Add new DNS seed from bitnodes.io +- Prevent socket leak in ThreadSocketHandler and correct some proxy related socket leaks +- Use pnode->nLastRecv as sync score (was the wrong way around) + +Wallet: + +- Make GetAvailableCredit run GetHash() only once per transaction (performance improvement) +- Lower paytxfee warning threshold from 0.25 BTC to 0.01 BTC +- Fix importwallet nTimeFirstKey (trigger necessary rescans) +- Log BerkeleyDB version at startup +- CWallet init fix + +Build system: + +- Add OSX build descriptors to gitian +- Fix explicit --disable-qt-dbus +- Don't require db_cxx.h when compiling with wallet disabled and GUI enabled +- Improve missing boost error reporting +- Upgrade miniupnpc version to 1.9 +- gitian-linux: --enable-glibc-back-compat for binary compatibility with old distributions +- gitian: don't export any symbols from executable +- gitian: build against Qt 4.6 +- devtools: add script to check symbols from Linux gitian executables +- Remove build-time no-IPv6 setting + +GUI: + +- Fix various coin control visual issues +- Show number of in/out connections in debug console +- Show weeks as well as years behind for long timespans behind +- Enable and disable the Show and Remove buttons for requested payments history based on whether any entry is selected. +- Show also value for options overridden on command line in options dialog +- Fill in label from address book also for URIs +- Fixes feel when resizing the last column on tables (issue #2862) +- Fix ESC in disablewallet mode +- Add expert section to wallet tab in optionsdialog +- Do proper boost::path conversion (fixes unicode in datadir) +- Only override -datadir if different from the default (fixes -datadir in config file) +- Show rescan progress at start-up +- Show importwallet progress +- Get required locks upfront in polling functions (avoids hanging on locks) +- Catch Windows shutdown events while client is running +- Optionally add third party links to transaction context menu +- Check for !pixmap() before trying to export QR code (avoids crashes when no QR code could be generated) +- Fix "Start bitcoin on system login" + +Miscellaneous: + +- Replace non-threadsafe C functions (gmtime, strerror and setlocale) +- Add missing cs_main and wallet locks +- Avoid exception at startup when system locale not recognized +- Changed bitrpc.py's raw_input to getpass for passwords to conceal characters during command line input +- devtools: add a script to fetch and postprocess translations + +Credits +-------- + +Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: + +- Addy Yeow +- Altoidnerd +- Andrea D'Amore +- Andreas Schildbach +- Bardi Harborow +- Brandon Dahler +- Bryan Bishop +- Chris Beams +- Christian von Roques +- Cory Fields +- Cozz Lovan +- daniel +- Daniel Newton +- David A. Harding +- ditto-b +- duanemoody +- Eric S. Bullington +- Fabian Raetz +- Gavin Andresen +- Gregory Maxwell +- gubatron +- Haakon Nilsen +- harry +- Hector Jusforgues +- Isidoro Ghezzi +- Jeff Garzik +- Johnathan Corgan +- jtimon +- Kamil Domanski +- langerhans +- Luke Dashjr +- Manuel Araoz +- Mark Friedenbach +- Matt Corallo +- Matthew Bogosian +- Meeh +- Michael Ford +- Michagogo +- Mikael Wikman +- Mike Hearn +- olalonde +- paveljanik +- peryaudo +- Philip Kaufmann +- philsong +- Pieter Wuille +- R E Broadley +- richierichrawr +- Rune K. Svendsen +- rxl +- shshshsh +- Simon de la Rouviere +- Stuart Cardall +- super3 +- Telepatheic +- Thomas Zander +- Torstein Husebø +- Warren Togami +- Wladimir J. van der Laan +- Yoichi Hirai |