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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 491c82b693..6e4f390cbc 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -16,6 +16,28 @@ To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to: <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/> +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. + +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. + +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 verion 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. + Notable changes =============== @@ -43,6 +65,11 @@ RPC low-level changes 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 ------------------- @@ -56,6 +83,26 @@ When cross-compiling for a target that doesn't have C++11 libraries, configure w For running the functional tests in `qa/rpc-tests`, Python3.4 or higher is now required. +Linux ARM builds +------------------ + +Due to popular request, Linux ARM builds have been added to the uploaded +executables. + +The following extra files can be found in the download directory or torrent: + +- `bitcoin-${VERSION}-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz`: Linux binaries for the most + common 32-bit ARM architecture. +- `bitcoin-${VERSION}-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz`: Linux binaries for the most + common 64-bit ARM architecture. + +ARM builds are still experimental. If you have problems on a certain device or +Linux distribution combination please report them on the bug tracker, it may be +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 ================= |