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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 3d2baaaaea..1b69daf373 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -1,9 +1,6 @@ -(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to -release-notes at release time) +Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 is now available from: -Bitcoin Core version *version* is now available from: - - <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-*version*/> + <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.13.0/> This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations. @@ -70,18 +67,6 @@ It is recommended to use this for sensitive information such as wallet passphrases, as command-line arguments can usually be read from the process table by any user on the system. -RPC low-level changes ----------------------- - -- `gettxoutsetinfo` UTXO hash (`hash_serialized`) has changed. There was a divergence between - 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and the txids were missing in the hashed data. This has been - fixed, but this means that the output will be different than from previous versions. - -- Full UTF-8 support in the RPC API. Non-ASCII characters in, for example, - wallet labels have always been malformed because they weren't taken into account - properly in JSON RPC processing. This is no longer the case. This also affects - the GUI debug console. - C++11 and Python 3 ------------------- @@ -115,33 +100,6 @@ possible to resolve them. Note that Android is not considered ARM Linux in this context. The executables are not expected to work out of the box on Android. -0.13.0 Change log -================= - -Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect -behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating -the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and -git merge commit are mentioned. - -### RPC and REST - -Asm script outputs replacements for OP_NOP2 and OP_NOP3 -------------------------------------------------------- - -OP_NOP2 has been renamed to OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY by [BIP -65](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki) - -OP_NOP3 has been renamed to OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY by [BIP -112](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawiki) - -The following outputs are affected by this change: -- RPC `getrawtransaction` (in verbose mode) -- RPC `decoderawtransaction` -- RPC `decodescript` -- REST `/rest/tx/` (JSON format) -- REST `/rest/block/` (JSON format when including extended tx details) -- `bitcoin-tx -json` - New mempool information RPC calls --------------------------------- @@ -149,24 +107,6 @@ RPC calls have been added to output detailed statistics for individual mempool entries, as well as to calculate the in-mempool ancestors or descendants of a transaction: see `getmempoolentry`, `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants`. -### ZMQ - -Each ZMQ notification now contains an up-counting sequence number that allows -listeners to detect lost notifications. -The sequence number is always the last element in a multi-part ZMQ notification and -therefore backward compatible. -Each message type has its own counter. -(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7762) - -### Configuration and command-line options - -### Block and transaction handling - -### P2P protocol and network code - -The p2p alert system has been removed in #7692 and the 'alert' message is no longer supported. - - Fee filtering of invs (BIP 133) ------------------------------------ @@ -175,12 +115,6 @@ version is bumped to 70013. Upon receiving a feefilter message from a peer, a node will not send invs for any transactions which do not meet the filter feerate. [BIP 133](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0133.mediawiki) -### Validation - -### Build system - -### Wallet - Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation ----------------------------------------- Newly created wallets will use hierarchical deterministic key generation @@ -199,9 +133,83 @@ There is no distinction between internal (change) and external keys. [Pull request](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8035/files), [BIP 32](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki) +Low-level P2P changes +---------------------- + +- The P2P alert system has been removed in PR #7692 and the `alert` P2P message + is no longer supported. + +Low-level RPC changes +---------------------- + +- `gettxoutsetinfo` UTXO hash (`hash_serialized`) has changed. There was a divergence between + 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and the txids were missing in the hashed data. This has been + fixed, but this means that the output will be different than from previous versions. + +- Full UTF-8 support in the RPC API. Non-ASCII characters in, for example, + wallet labels have always been malformed because they weren't taken into account + properly in JSON RPC processing. This is no longer the case. This also affects + the GUI debug console. + +- Asm script outputs replacements for OP_NOP2 and OP_NOP3 + + - OP_NOP2 has been renamed to OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY by [BIP +65](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki) + + - OP_NOP3 has been renamed to OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY by [BIP +112](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawiki) + + - The following outputs are affected by this change: + + - RPC `getrawtransaction` (in verbose mode) + - RPC `decoderawtransaction` + - RPC `decodescript` + - REST `/rest/tx/` (JSON format) + - REST `/rest/block/` (JSON format when including extended tx details) + - `bitcoin-tx -json` + +Low-level ZMQ changes +---------------------- + +- Each ZMQ notification now contains an up-counting sequence number that allows + listeners to detect lost notifications. + The sequence number is always the last element in a multi-part ZMQ notification and + therefore backward compatible. Each message type has its own counter. + PR [#7762](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7762). + +0.13.0 Change log +================= + +Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect +behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating +the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and +git merge commit are mentioned. + +### RPC and REST + +### ZMQ + +### Configuration and command-line options + +### Block and transaction handling + +### P2P protocol and network code + +### Validation + +### Build system + +### Wallet + ### GUI ### Tests ### Miscellaneous +Credits +======= + +Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: + +As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/). |