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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.txt b/doc/release-notes.txt index babc56ff81..1fe385bd9e 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.txt +++ b/doc/release-notes.txt @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ - (note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and deleted at release time) @@ -6,7 +5,25 @@ Building this from $ git shortlog --no-merges v0.6.3.. +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), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over +/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux). + +If you were running on Linux with a version that might have been compiled +with a different version of Berkeley DB (for example, if you were using an +Ubuntu PPA version), then run the old version again with the -detachdb +argument and shut it down; if you do not, then the new version will not +be able to read the database files and will exit with an error. + +Incompatible Changes +-------------------- +* Replaced the 'getmemorypool' RPC command with 'getblocktemplate/submitblock' + and 'getrawmempool' commands. +* Remove deprecated RPC 'getblocknumber' Bitcoin Improvement Proposals implemented ----------------------------------------- @@ -24,7 +41,8 @@ Core bitcoin handling and blockchain database * Database: better validation of on-disk stored data * Database: minor optimizations and reliability improvements * -loadblock=FILE will import an external block file -* Additional DoS prevention measures +* Additional DoS (denial-of-service) prevention measures +* New blockchain checkpoint at block 193,000 JSON-RPC API @@ -44,7 +62,6 @@ JSON-RPC API non-wallet TXs now. * Remove deprecated RPC 'getblocknumber' * Remove superceded RPC 'getmemorypool' (see BIP 22, above) -* New blockchain checkpoint at block 193,000 * listtransactions output now displays "smart" times for transactions, and 'blocktime' and 'timereceived' fields were added @@ -52,7 +69,7 @@ JSON-RPC API P2P networking -------------- * IPv6 support -* Tor hidden service support +* Tor hidden service support (see doc/Tor.txt) * Attempts to fix "stuck blockchain download" problems * Replace BDB database "addr.dat" with internally-managed "peers.dat" file containing peer address data. |