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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.14.1.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.14.1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ef072afd4d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.14.1.md @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +Bitcoin Core version 0.14.1 is now available from: + + <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.14.1/> + +This is a new minor version release, including various bugfixes and +performance improvements, as well as updated translations. + +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: + + <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues> + +To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to: + + <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/> + +Compatibility +============== + +Bitcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using +the Linux kernel, macOS 10.8+, and Windows Vista and later. + +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 and issues. +Please 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 +=============== + +RPC changes +----------- + +- The first positional argument of `createrawtransaction` was renamed from + `transactions` to `inputs`. + +- The argument of `disconnectnode` was renamed from `node` to `address`. + +These interface changes break compatibility with 0.14.0, when the named +arguments functionality, introduced in 0.14.0, is used. Client software +using these calls with named arguments needs to be updated. + +Mining +------ + +In previous versions, getblocktemplate required segwit support from downstream +clients/miners once the feature activated on the network. In this version, it +now supports non-segwit clients even after activation, by removing all segwit +transactions from the returned block template. This allows non-segwit miners to +continue functioning correctly even after segwit has activated. + +Due to the limitations in previous versions, getblocktemplate also recommended +non-segwit clients to not signal for the segwit version-bit. Since this is no +longer an issue, getblocktemplate now always recommends signalling segwit for +all miners. This is safe because ability to enforce the rule is the only +required criteria for safe activation, not actually producing segwit-enabled +blocks. + +UTXO memory accounting +---------------------- + +Memory usage for the UTXO cache is being calculated more accurately, so that +the configured limit (`-dbcache`) will be respected when memory usage peaks +during cache flushes. The memory accounting in prior releases is estimated to +only account for half the actual peak utilization. + +The default `-dbcache` has also been changed in this release to 450MiB. Users +who currently set `-dbcache` to a high value (e.g. to keep the UTXO more fully +cached in memory) should consider increasing this setting in order to achieve +the same cache performance as prior releases. Users on low-memory systems +(such as systems with 1GB or less) should consider specifying a lower value for +this parameter. + +Additional information relating to running on low-memory systems can be found +here: +[reducing-bitcoind-memory-usage.md](https://gist.github.com/laanwj/efe29c7661ce9b6620a7). + +0.14.1 Change log +================= + +Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect +behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating +the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and +git merge commit are mentioned. + +### RPC and other APIs +- #10084 `142fbb2` Rename first named arg of createrawtransaction (MarcoFalke) +- #10139 `f15268d` Remove auth cookie on shutdown (practicalswift) +- #10146 `2fea10a` Better error handling for submitblock (rawodb, gmaxwell) +- #10144 `d947afc` Prioritisetransaction wasn't always updating ancestor fee (sdaftuar) +- #10204 `3c79602` Rename disconnectnode argument (jnewbery) + +### Block and transaction handling +- #10126 `0b5e162` Compensate for memory peak at flush time (sipa) +- #9912 `fc3d7db` Optimize GetWitnessHash() for non-segwit transactions (sdaftuar) +- #10133 `ab864d3` Clean up calculations of pcoinsTip memory usage (morcos) + +### P2P protocol and network code +- #9953/#10013 `d2548a4` Fix shutdown hang with >= 8 -addnodes set (TheBlueMatt) +- #10176 `30fa231` net: gracefully handle NodeId wrapping (theuni) + +### Build system +- #9973 `e9611d1` depends: fix zlib build on osx (theuni) + +### GUI +- #10060 `ddc2dd1` Ensure an item exists on the rpcconsole stack before adding (achow101) + +### Mining +- #9955/#10006 `569596c` Don't require segwit in getblocktemplate for segwit signalling or mining (sdaftuar) +- #9959/#10127 `b5c3440` Prevent slowdown in CreateNewBlock on large mempools (sdaftuar) + +### Tests and QA +- #10157 `55f641c` Fix the `mempool_packages.py` test (sdaftuar) + +### Miscellaneous +- #10037 `4d8e660` Trivial: Fix typo in help getrawtransaction RPC (keystrike) +- #10120 `e4c9a90` util: Work around (virtual) memory exhaustion on 32-bit w/ glibc (laanwj) +- #10130 `ecc5232` bitcoin-tx input verification (awemany, jnewbery) + +Credits +======= + +Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: + +- Alex Morcos +- Andrew Chow +- Awemany +- Cory Fields +- Gregory Maxwell +- James Evans +- John Newbery +- MarcoFalke +- Matt Corallo +- Pieter Wuille +- practicalswift +- rawodb +- Suhas Daftuar +- Wladimir J. van der Laan + +As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/). + |