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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 171880a77b..8fcd2a9163 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -67,10 +67,31 @@ External wallet files --------------------- The `-wallet=<path>` option now accepts full paths instead of requiring wallets -to be located in the -walletdir directory. When wallets are located in -different directories, wallet data will be stored independently, so data from -every wallet is not mixed into the same <walletdir>/database/log.?????????? -files. +to be located in the -walletdir directory. + +Newly created wallet format +--------------------------- + +If `-wallet=<path>` is specified with a path that does not exist, it will now +create a wallet directory at the specified location (containing a wallet.dat +data file, a db.log file, and database/log.?????????? files) instead of just +creating a data file at the path and storing log files in the parent +directory. This should make backing up wallets more straightforward than +before because the specified wallet path can just be directly archived without +having to look in the parent directory for transaction log files. + +For backwards compatibility, wallet paths that are names of existing data files +in the `-walletdir` directory will continue to be accepted and interpreted the +same as before. + +Low-level RPC changes +--------------------- + +- When bitcoin is not started with any `-wallet=<path>` options, the name of + the default wallet returned by `getwalletinfo` and `listwallets` RPCs is + 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. Credits ======= |