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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 1cb517e5c7..40bb26e28e 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -1,3 +1,283 @@ -(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to -release-notes at release time) +Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0rc1 is now available from: + http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.9.0rc1/ + +This is a release candidate for a new major version. A major version brings +both new features and bug fixes. + +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), 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). + +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 +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. + +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. + +0.9.0rc1 Release notes +======================= + +RPC: + +- 'listreceivedbyaddress' now provides tx ids +- 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: + +- 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: + +- 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 + +Protocol and network: + +- 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 + +GUI: + +- 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 +- osx: Make use of the 10.8+ user notification center to display growl like + notifications +- osx: Added NSHighResolutionCapable flag to Info.plist for better font + rendering on Retina displays. +- osx: Fix bitcoin-qt startup crash when clicking dock icon +- linux: Fix Gnome bitcoin: URI handler + +Miscellaneous: + +- 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 + +Credits +-------- + +Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: + +- Andrey +- bitsofproof +- Brandon Dahler +- Christian Decker +- Christopher Latham +- Chuck +- coblee +- constantined +- Cory Fields +- Cozz Lovan +- Daniel Larimer +- David Hill +- Dmitry Smirnov +- Eric Lombrozo +- fanquake +- fcicq +- Florin +- Gavin Andresen +- Gregory Maxwell +- Guillermo Céspedes Tabárez +- HaltingState +- Han Lin Yap +- harry +- 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 +- Mike Hearn +- Nils Schneider +- Olivier Langlois +- patrick s +- Patrick Strateman +- Peter Todd +- phantomcircuit +- phelixbtc +- Philip Kaufmann +- Pieter Wuille +- Rav3nPL +- regergregregerrge +- Robert Backhaus +- Roman Mindalev +- Rune K. Svendsen +- Ryan Niebur +- Scott Ellis +- Scott Willeke +- Sergey Kazenyuk +- Shawn Wilkinson +- Sined +- sje +- super3 +- Tamas Blummer +- theuni +- Thomas Holenstein +- Timon Rapp +- Timothy Stranex +- Vaclav Vobornik +- vhf / victor felder +- Vinnie Falco +- Warren Togami +- Wladimir J. van der Laan |