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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 0b8339aae7..5db30c33af 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux). Downgrade warning ------------------- +----------------- ### Downgrade to a version < 0.10.0 @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ sufficient fee, as described in [BIP 125] (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0125.mediawiki). RPC: Random-cookie RPC authentication ---------------------------------------- +------------------------------------- When no `-rpcpassword` is specified, the daemon now uses a special 'cookie' file for authentication. This file is generated with random content when the @@ -169,19 +169,22 @@ Relay and Mining: 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=<r>` (default: `r=15` kB per minute) and -`-blockprioritysize=<s>` (default: `50000` bytes of a block's -priority space). - -Priority code is scheduled for removal in Bitcoin Core 0.13. In -Bitcoin Core 0.12, the default block priority size has been set to `0` -and the priority calculation has been simplified to only include the -coin age of inputs that were in the blockchain at the time the transaction -was accepted into the mempool. In addition priority transactions are not -accepted to the mempool if mempool limiting has triggered a higher effective -minimum relay fee. +transactions" or priority transactions. Bitcoin Core relays and mines +priority transactions depending on the setting of `-limitfreerelay=<r>` +(default: `r=15` kB per minute) and `-blockprioritysize=<s>`. + +In Bitcoin Core 0.12, priority transactions are not accepted to the mempool nor +relayed if mempool limiting has triggered a higher effective minimum relay fee. + +Mining of priority transactions is also now disabled by default. To re-enable +it, simply set `-blockprioritysize=<n>` where <n> is the size in bytes of your +blocks to reserve for priority transactions. The old default was 50k, so to +retain the same policy, you must set `-blockprioritysize=50000`. + +Additionally, calculation of the priority for transactions received with +unconfirmed inputs is no longer updated correctly when they are received with +unconfirmed inputs, so miners must continue to use 0.11 if accurate priority +accounting is important to them. Automatically use Tor hidden services ------------------------------------- @@ -335,7 +338,7 @@ Note that the output of the RPC `decodescript` did not change because it is configured specifically to process scriptPubKey and not scriptSig scripts. RPC: SSL support dropped ----------------------------- +------------------------ SSL support for RPC, previously enabled by the option `rpcssl` has been dropped from both the client and the server. This was done in preparation for removing |