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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index e190c78609..ad0c42ab31 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -48,14 +48,22 @@ Compatibility ============== Bitcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using -the Linux kernel, macOS 10.8+, and Windows 7 and newer (Windows XP is not supported). +the Linux kernel, macOS 10.10+, and Windows 7 and newer (Windows XP is not supported). Bitcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not frequently tested on them. +From 0.17.0 onwards macOS <10.10 is no longer supported. 0.17.0 is built using Qt 5.9.x, which doesn't +support versions of macOS older than 10.10. + Notable changes =============== +GUI changes +----------- + +- Block storage can be limited under Preferences, in the Main tab. Undoing this setting requires downloading the full blockchain again. This mode is incompatible with -txindex and -rescan. + RPC changes ------------ @@ -72,8 +80,10 @@ RPC changes `getrawtransaction` RPC commands. - New `fees` field introduced in `getrawmempool`, `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants` and `getmempoolentry` when verbosity is set to `true` with sub-fields `ancestor`, `base`, `modified` - and `descendent` denominated in BTC. This new field deprecates previous fee fields, such as - `fee`, `modifiedfee`, `ancestorfee` and `descendentfee`. + and `descendant` denominated in BTC. This new field deprecates previous fee fields, such as + `fee`, `modifiedfee`, `ancestorfee` and `descendantfee`. +- The new RPC `getzmqnotifications` returns information about active ZMQ + notifications. External wallet files --------------------- @@ -104,11 +114,31 @@ Low-level RPC changes now the empty string `""` instead of `"wallet.dat"`. If bitcoin is started with any `-wallet=<path>` options, there is no change in behavior, and the name of any wallet is just its `<path>` string. +- Passing an empty string (`""`) as the `address_type` parameter to + `getnewaddress`, `getrawchangeaddress`, `addmultisigaddress`, + `fundrawtransaction` RPCs is now an error. Previously, this would fall back + to using the default address type. It is still possible to pass null or leave + the parameter unset to use the default address type. + +- Bare multisig outputs to our keys are no longer automatically treated as + incoming payments. As this feature was only available for multisig outputs for + which you had all private keys in your wallet, there was generally no use for + them compared to single-key schemes. Furthermore, no address format for such + outputs is defined, and wallet software can't easily send to it. These outputs + will no longer show up in `listtransactions`, `listunspent`, or contribute to + your balance, unless they are explicitly watched (using `importaddress` or + `importmulti` with hex script argument). `signrawtransaction*` also still + works for them. ### Logging - The log timestamp format is now ISO 8601 (e.g. "2018-02-28T12:34:56Z"). +- When running bitcoind with `-debug` but without `-daemon`, logging to stdout + is now the default behavior. Setting `-printtoconsole=1` no longer implicitly + disables logging to debug.log. Instead, logging to file can be explicitly disabled + by setting `-debuglogfile=0`. + Miner block size removed ------------------------ |