diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.15.1.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.15.1.md | 277 |
1 files changed, 277 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.15.1.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.15.1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..75d2e09714 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.15.1.md @@ -0,0 +1,277 @@ +Bitcoin Core version *0.15.1* is now available from: + + <https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.15.1/> + +or + + <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.15.1/> + +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/> + +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). + +The first time you run version 0.15.0 or higher, your chainstate database will +be converted to a new format, which will take anywhere from a few minutes to +half an hour, depending on the speed of your machine. + +The file format of `fee_estimates.dat` changed in version 0.15.0. Hence, a +downgrade from version 0.15 or upgrade to version 0.15 will cause all fee +estimates to be discarded. + +Note that the block database format also changed in version 0.8.0 and there is no +automatic upgrade code from before version 0.8 to version 0.15.0. Upgrading +directly from 0.7.x and earlier without redownloading the blockchain is not supported. +However, as usual, old wallet versions are still supported. + +Downgrading warning +------------------- + +The chainstate database for this release is not compatible with previous +releases, so if you run 0.15 and then decide to switch back to any +older version, you will need to run the old release with the `-reindex-chainstate` +option to rebuild the chainstate data structures in the old format. + +If your node has pruning enabled, this will entail re-downloading and +processing the entire blockchain. + +Compatibility +============== + +Bitcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using +the Linux kernel, macOS 10.8+, and Windows Vista and later. Windows XP is not supported. + +Bitcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not +frequently tested on them. + + +Notable changes +=============== + +Network fork safety enhancements +-------------------------------- + +A number of changes to the way Bitcoin Core deals with peer connections and invalid blocks +have been made, as a safety precaution against blockchain forks and misbehaving peers. + +- Unrequested blocks with less work than the minimum-chain-work are now no longer processed even +if they have more work than the tip (a potential issue during IBD where the tip may have low-work). +This prevents peers wasting the resources of a node. + +- Peers which provide a chain with less work than the minimum-chain-work during IBD will now be disconnected. + +- For a given outbound peer, we now check whether their best known block has at least as much work as our tip. If it +doesn't, and if we still haven't heard about a block with sufficient work after a 20 minute timeout, then we send +a single getheaders message, and wait 2 more minutes. If after two minutes their best known block has insufficient +work, we disconnect that peer. We protect 4 of our outbound peers from being disconnected by this logic to prevent +excessive network topology changes as a result of this algorithm, while still ensuring that we have a reasonable +number of nodes not known to be on bogus chains. + +- Outbound (non-manual) peers that serve us block headers that are already known to be invalid (other than compact +block announcements, because BIP 152 explicitly permits nodes to relay compact blocks before fully validating them) +will now be disconnected. + +- If the chain tip has not been advanced for over 30 minutes, we now assume the tip may be stale and will try to connect +to an additional outbound peer. A periodic check ensures that if this extra peer connection is in use, we will disconnect +the peer that least recently announced a new block. + +- The set of all known invalid-themselves blocks (i.e. blocks which we attempted to connect but which were found to be +invalid) are now tracked and used to check if new headers build on an invalid chain. This ensures that everything that +descends from an invalid block is marked as such. + + +Miner block size limiting deprecated +------------------------------------ + +Though blockmaxweight has been preferred for limiting the size of blocks returned by +getblocktemplate since 0.13.0, blockmaxsize remained as an option for those who wished +to limit their block size directly. Using this option resulted in a few UI issues as +well as non-optimal fee selection and ever-so-slightly worse performance, and has thus +now been deprecated. Further, the blockmaxsize option is now used only to calculate an +implied blockmaxweight, instead of limiting block size directly. Any miners who wish +to limit their blocks by size, instead of by weight, will have to do so manually by +removing transactions from their block template directly. + + +GUI settings backed up on reset +------------------------------- + +The GUI settings will now be written to `guisettings.ini.bak` in the data directory before wiping them when +the `-resetguisettings` argument is used. This can be used to retroactively troubleshoot issues due to the +GUI settings. + + +Duplicate wallets disallowed +---------------------------- + +Previously, it was possible to open the same wallet twice by manually copying the wallet file, causing +issues when both were opened simultaneously. It is no longer possible to open copies of the same wallet. + + +Debug `-minimumchainwork` argument added +---------------------------------------- + +A hidden debug argument `-minimumchainwork` has been added to allow a custom minimum work value to be used +when validating a chain. + + +Low-level RPC changes +---------------------- + +- The "currentblocksize" value in getmininginfo has been removed. + +- `dumpwallet` no longer allows overwriting files. This is a security measure + as well as prevents dangerous user mistakes. + +- `backupwallet` will now fail when attempting to backup to source file, rather than + destroying the wallet. + +- `listsinceblock` will now throw an error if an unknown `blockhash` argument + value is passed, instead of returning a list of all wallet transactions since + the genesis block. The behaviour is unchanged when an empty string is provided. + +0.15.1 Change log +================= + +### Mining +- #11100 `7871a7d` Fix confusing blockmax{size,weight} options, dont default to throwing away money (TheBlueMatt) + +### RPC and other APIs +- #10859 `2a5d099` gettxout: Slightly improve doc and tests (jtimon) +- #11267 `b1a6c94` update cli for estimate\*fee argument rename (laanwj) +- #11483 `20cdc2b` Fix importmulti bug when importing an already imported key (pedrobranco) +- #9937 `a43be5b` Prevent `dumpwallet` from overwriting files (laanwj) +- #11465 `405e069` Update named args documentation for importprivkey (dusty-wil) +- #11131 `b278a43` Write authcookie atomically (laanwj) +- #11565 `7d4546f` Make listsinceblock refuse unknown block hash (ryanofsky) +- #11593 `8195cb0` Work-around an upstream libevent bug (theuni) + +### P2P protocol and network code +- #11397 `27e861a` Improve and document SOCKS code (laanwj) +- #11252 `0fe2a9a` When clearing addrman clear mapInfo and mapAddr (instagibbs) +- #11527 `a2bd86a` Remove my testnet DNS seed (schildbach) +- #10756 `0a5477c` net processing: swap out signals for an interface class (theuni) +- #11531 `55b7abf` Check that new headers are not a descendant of an invalid block (more effeciently) (TheBlueMatt) +- #11560 `49bf090` Connect to a new outbound peer if our tip is stale (sdaftuar) +- #11568 `fc966bb` Disconnect outbound peers on invalid chains (sdaftuar) +- #11578 `ec8dedf` Add missing lock in ProcessHeadersMessage(...) (practicalswift) +- #11456 `6f27965` Replace relevant services logic with a function suite (TheBlueMatt) +- #11490 `bf191a7` Disconnect from outbound peers with bad headers chains (sdaftuar) + +### Validation +- #10357 `da4908c` Allow setting nMinimumChainWork on command line (sdaftuar) +- #11458 `2df65ee` Don't process unrequested, low-work blocks (sdaftuar) + +### Build system +- #11440 `b6c0209` Fix validationinterface build on super old boost/clang (TheBlueMatt) +- #11530 `265bb21` Add share/rpcuser to dist. source code archive (MarcoFalke) + +### GUI +- #11334 `19d63e8` Remove custom fee radio group and remove nCustomFeeRadio setting (achow101) +- #11198 `7310f1f` Fix display of package name on 'open config file' tooltip (esotericnonsense) +- #11015 `6642558` Add delay before filtering transactions (lclc) +- #11338 `6a62c74` Backup former GUI settings on `-resetguisettings` (laanwj) +- #11335 `8d13b42` Replace save|restoreWindowGeometry with Qt functions (MeshCollider) +- #11237 `2e31b1d` Fixing division by zero in time remaining (MeshCollider) +- #11247 `47c02a8` Use IsMine to validate custom change address (MarcoFalke) + +### Wallet +- #11017 `9e8aae3` Close DB on error (kallewoof) +- #11225 `6b4d9f2` Update stored witness in AddToWallet (sdaftuar) +- #11126 `2cb720a` Acquire cs_main lock before cs_wallet during wallet initialization (ryanofsky) +- #11476 `9c8006d` Avoid opening copied wallet databases simultaneously (ryanofsky) +- #11492 `de7053f` Fix leak in CDB constructor (promag) +- #11376 `fd79ed6` Ensure backupwallet fails when attempting to backup to source file (tomasvdw) +- #11326 `d570aa4` Fix crash on shutdown with invalid wallet (MeshCollider) + +### Tests and QA +- #11399 `a825d4a` Fix bip68-sequence rpc test (jl2012) +- #11150 `847c75e` Add getmininginfo test (mess110) +- #11407 `806c78f` add functional test for mempoolreplacement command line arg (instagibbs) +- #11433 `e169349` Restore bitcoin-util-test py2 compatibility (MarcoFalke) +- #11308 `2e1ac70` zapwallettxes: Wait up to 3s for mempool reload (MarcoFalke) +- #10798 `716066d` test bitcoin-cli (jnewbery) +- #11443 `019c492` Allow "make cov" out-of-tree; Fix rpc mapping check (MarcoFalke) +- #11445 `51bad91` 0.15.1 Backports (MarcoFalke) +- #11319 `2f0b30a` Fix error introduced into p2p-segwit.py, and prevent future similar errors (sdaftuar) +- #10552 `e4605d9` Tests for zmqpubrawtx and zmqpubrawblock (achow101) +- #11067 `eeb24a3` TestNode: Add wait_until_stopped helper method (MarcoFalke) +- #11068 `5398f20` Move wait_until to util (MarcoFalke) +- #11125 `812c870` Add bitcoin-cli -stdin and -stdinrpcpass functional tests (promag) +- #11077 `1d80d1e` fix timeout issues from TestNode (jnewbery) +- #11078 `f1ced0d` Make p2p-leaktests.py more robust (jnewbery) +- #11210 `f3f7891` Stop test_bitcoin-qt touching ~/.bitcoin (MeshCollider) +- #11234 `f0b6795` Remove redundant testutil.cpp|h files (MeshCollider) +- #11215 `cef0319` fixups from set_test_params() (jnewbery) +- #11345 `f9cf7b5` Check connectivity before sending in assumevalid.py (jnewbery) +- #11091 `c276c1e` Increase initial RPC timeout to 60 seconds (laanwj) +- #10711 `fc2aa09` Introduce TestNode (jnewbery) +- #11230 `d8dd8e7` Fixup dbcrash interaction with add_nodes() (jnewbery) +- #11241 `4424176` Improve signmessages functional test (mess110) +- #11116 `2c4ff35` Unit tests for script/standard and IsMine functions (jimpo) +- #11422 `a36f332` Verify DBWrapper iterators are taking snapshots (TheBlueMatt) +- #11121 `bb5e7cb` TestNode tidyups (jnewbery) +- #11521 `ca0f3f7` travis: move back to the minimal image (theuni) +- #11538 `adbc9d1` Fix race condition failures in replace-by-fee.py, sendheaders.py (sdaftuar) +- #11472 `4108879` Make tmpdir option an absolute path, misc cleanup (MarcoFalke) +- #10853 `5b728c8` Fix RPC failure testing (again) (jnewbery) +- #11310 `b6468d3` Test listwallets RPC (mess110) + +### Miscellaneous +- #11377 `75997c3` Disallow uncompressed pubkeys in bitcoin-tx [multisig] output adds (TheBlueMatt) +- #11437 `dea3b87` [Docs] Update Windows build instructions for using WSL and Ubuntu 17.04 (fanquake) +- #11318 `8b61aee` Put back inadvertently removed copyright notices (gmaxwell) +- #11442 `cf18f42` [Docs] Update OpenBSD Build Instructions for OpenBSD 6.2 (fanquake) +- #10957 `50bd3f6` Avoid returning a BIP9Stats object with uninitialized values (practicalswift) +- #11539 `01223a0` [verify-commits] Allow revoked keys to expire (TheBlueMatt) + + +Credits +======= + +Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: + +- Andreas Schildbach +- Andrew Chow +- Chris Moore +- Cory Fields +- Cristian Mircea Messel +- Daniel Edgecumbe +- Donal OConnor +- Dusty Williams +- fanquake +- Gregory Sanders +- Jim Posen +- John Newbery +- Johnson Lau +- João Barbosa +- Jorge Timón +- Karl-Johan Alm +- Lucas Betschart +- MarcoFalke +- Matt Corallo +- Paul Berg +- Pedro Branco +- Pieter Wuille +- practicalswift +- Russell Yanofsky +- Samuel Dobson +- Suhas Daftuar +- Tomas van der Wansem +- Wladimir J. van der Laan + +As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/). |