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Compatibility
==============
-Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on [April 8th, 2014](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/end-of-xp-support),
-an OS initially released in 2001. This means that not even critical security
-updates will be released anymore. Without security updates, using a bitcoin
-wallet on a XP machine is irresponsible at least.
+Bitcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using
+the Linux kernel, macOS 10.8+, and Windows Vista and later.
-In addition to that, with 0.12.x there have been varied reports of Bitcoin Core
-randomly crashing on Windows XP. It is [not clear](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/7681#issuecomment-217439891)
-what the source of these crashes is, but it is likely that upstream
-libraries such as Qt are no longer being tested on XP.
+Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on [April 8th, 2014](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/end-of-xp-support).
+No attempt is made to prevent installing or running the software on Windows XP, you
+can still do so at your own risk but be aware that there are known instabilities.
+Please do not report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker.
-We do not have time nor resources to provide support for an OS that is
-end-of-life. From 0.13.0 on, Windows XP is no longer supported. Users are
-suggested to upgrade to a newer version of Windows, or install an alternative OS
-that is supported.
-
-No attempt is made to prevent installing or running the software on Windows XP,
-you can still do so at your own risk, but do not expect it to work: do not
-report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker.
+Bitcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not
+frequently tested on them.
Notable changes
===============
@@ -48,6 +40,17 @@ Low-level RPC changes
an optional third arg, which was always ignored. Make sure to never pass more
than two arguments.
+Fee Estimation Changes
+----------------------
+
+- Since 0.13.2 fee estimation for a confirmation target of 1 block has been
+ disabled. This is only a minor behavior change as there was often insufficient
+ data for this target anyway. `estimatefee 1` will now always return -1 and
+ `estimatesmartfee 1` will start searching at a target of 2.
+
+- The default target for fee estimation is changed to 6 blocks in both the GUI
+ (previously 25) and for RPC calls (previously 2).
+
Removal of Priority Estimation
-------------------------------
@@ -58,9 +61,11 @@ Removal of Priority Estimation
converted to the new format which is not readable by prior versions of the
software.
-- The concept of "priority" transactions is planned to be removed in the next
- major version. To prepare for this, the default for the rate limit of priority
- transactions (`-limitfreerelay`) has been set to `0` kB/minute.
+- The concept of "priority" (coin age) transactions is planned to be removed in
+ the next major version. To prepare for this, the default for the rate limit of
+ priority transactions (`-limitfreerelay`) has been set to `0` kB/minute. This
+ is not to be confused with the `prioritisetransaction` RPC which will remain
+ supported for adding fee deltas to transactions.
P2P connection management
--------------------------