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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.2.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f79816668d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.2.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Bitcoin version 0.5.2 is now available for download at: +http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.2/ + +This is a bugfix-only release based on 0.5.1. + +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: +https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues + +Stable source code is hosted at Gitorious: +http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.5.2#.tar.gz + +BUG FIXES + +Check all transactions in blocks after the last checkpoint (0.5.0 and 0.5.1 skipped checking ECDSA signatures during initial blockchain download). +Cease locking memory used by non-sensitive information (this caused a huge performance hit on some platforms, especially noticable during initial blockchain download; this was +not a security vulnerability). +Fixed some address-handling deadlocks (client freezes). +No longer accept inbound connections over the internet when Bitcoin is being used with Tor (identity leak). +Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally disabled for the 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 release Linux binaries). +Use the correct base transaction fee of 0.0005 BTC for accepting transactions into mined blocks (since 0.4.0, it was incorrectly accepting 0.0001 BTC which was only meant to be relayed). +Don't show "IP" for transactions which are not necessarily IP transactions. +Add new DNS seeds (maintained by Pieter Wuille and Luke Dashjr). |