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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-23.0.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-23.0.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b1467a0f71 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-23.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,373 @@ +23.0 Release Notes +================== + +Bitcoin Core version 23.0 is now available from: + + <https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-23.0/> + +This release includes new features, various bug fixes 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 in some cases), then run the +installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt` (on Mac) +or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux). + +Upgrading directly from a version of Bitcoin Core that has reached its EOL is +possible, but it might take some time if the data directory needs to be migrated. Old +wallet versions of Bitcoin Core are generally supported. + +Compatibility +============== + +Bitcoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems +using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.15+, and Windows 7 and newer. Bitcoin +Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not as +frequently tested on them. It is not recommended to use Bitcoin Core on +unsupported systems. + +Notable changes +=============== + +P2P and network changes +----------------------- + +- A bitcoind node will no longer rumour addresses to inbound peers by default. + They will become eligible for address gossip after sending an ADDR, ADDRV2, + or GETADDR message. (#21528) + +- Before this release, Bitcoin Core had a strong preference to try to connect only to peers that listen on port 8333. As a result of that, Bitcoin nodes listening on non-standard ports would likely not get any Bitcoin Core peers connecting to them. This preference has been removed. (#23542) + +- Full support has been added for the CJDNS network. See the new option `-cjdnsreachable` and [doc/cjdns.md](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/23.x/doc/cjdns.md) (#23077) + +Fee estimation changes +---------------------- + +- Fee estimation now takes the feerate of replacement (RBF) transactions into + account. (#22539) + +Rescan startup parameter removed +-------------------------------- + +The `-rescan` startup parameter has been removed. Wallets which require +rescanning due to corruption will still be rescanned on startup. +Otherwise, please use the `rescanblockchain` RPC to trigger a rescan. (#23123) + +Tracepoints and Userspace, Statically Defined Tracing support +------------------------------------------------------------- + +Bitcoin Core release binaries for Linux now include experimental tracepoints which +act as an interface for process-internal events. These can be used for review, +debugging, monitoring, and more. The tracepoint API is semi-stable. While the API +is tested, process internals might change between releases requiring changes to the +tracepoints. Information about the existing tracepoints can be found under +[doc/tracing.md](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/23.x/doc/tracing.md) and +usage examples are provided in [contrib/tracing/](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/23.x/contrib/tracing). + +Updated RPCs +------------ + +- The `validateaddress` RPC now returns an `error_locations` array for invalid + addresses, with the indices of invalid character locations in the address (if + known). For example, this will attempt to locate up to two Bech32 errors, and + return their locations if successful. Success and correctness are only guaranteed + if fewer than two substitution errors have been made. + The error message returned in the `error` field now also returns more specific + errors when decoding fails. (#16807) + +- The `-deprecatedrpc=addresses` configuration option has been removed. RPCs + `gettxout`, `getrawtransaction`, `decoderawtransaction`, `decodescript`, + `gettransaction verbose=true` and REST endpoints `/rest/tx`, `/rest/getutxos`, + `/rest/block` no longer return the `addresses` and `reqSigs` fields, which + were previously deprecated in 22.0. (#22650) +- The `getblock` RPC command now supports verbosity level 3 containing transaction inputs' + `prevout` information. The existing `/rest/block/` REST endpoint is modified to contain + this information too. Every `vin` field will contain an additional `prevout` subfield + describing the spent output. `prevout` contains the following keys: + - `generated` - true if the spent coins was a coinbase. + - `height` + - `value` + - `scriptPubKey` + +- The top-level fee fields `fee`, `modifiedfee`, `ancestorfees` and `descendantfees` + returned by RPCs `getmempoolentry`,`getrawmempool(verbose=true)`, + `getmempoolancestors(verbose=true)` and `getmempooldescendants(verbose=true)` + are deprecated and will be removed in the next major version (use + `-deprecated=fees` if needed in this version). The same fee fields can be accessed + through the `fees` object in the result. WARNING: deprecated + fields `ancestorfees` and `descendantfees` are denominated in sats, whereas all + fields in the `fees` object are denominated in BTC. (#22689) + +- Both `createmultisig` and `addmultisigaddress` now include a `warnings` + field, which will show a warning if a non-legacy address type is requested + when using uncompressed public keys. (#23113) + +Changes to wallet related RPCs can be found in the Wallet section below. + +New RPCs +-------- + +- Information on soft fork status has been moved from `getblockchaininfo` + to the new `getdeploymentinfo` RPC which allows querying soft fork status at any + block, rather than just at the chain tip. Inclusion of soft fork + status in `getblockchaininfo` can currently be restored using the + configuration `-deprecatedrpc=softforks`, but this will be removed in + a future release. Note that in either case, the `status` field + now reflects the status of the current block rather than the next + block. (#23508) + +Files +----- + +* On startup, the list of banned hosts and networks (via `setban` RPC) in + `banlist.dat` is ignored and only `banlist.json` is considered. Bitcoin Core + version 22.x is the only version that can read `banlist.dat` and also write + it to `banlist.json`. If `banlist.json` already exists, version 22.x will not + try to translate the `banlist.dat` into json. After an upgrade, `listbanned` + can be used to double check the parsed entries. (#22570) + +Updated settings +---------------- + +- In previous releases, the meaning of the command line option + `-persistmempool` (without a value provided) incorrectly disabled mempool + persistence. `-persistmempool` is now treated like other boolean options to + mean `-persistmempool=1`. Passing `-persistmempool=0`, `-persistmempool=1` + and `-nopersistmempool` is unaffected. (#23061) + +- `-maxuploadtarget` now allows human readable byte units [k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T]. + E.g. `-maxuploadtarget=500g`. No whitespace, +- or fractions allowed. + Default is `M` if no suffix provided. (#23249) + +- If `-proxy=` is given together with `-noonion` then the provided proxy will + not be set as a proxy for reaching the Tor network. So it will not be + possible to open manual connections to the Tor network for example with the + `addnode` RPC. To mimic the old behavior use `-proxy=` together with + `-onlynet=` listing all relevant networks except `onion`. (#22834) + +Tools and Utilities +------------------- + +- Update `-getinfo` to return data in a user-friendly format that also reduces vertical space. (#21832) + +- CLI `-addrinfo` now returns a single field for the number of `onion` addresses + known to the node instead of separate `torv2` and `torv3` fields, as support + for Tor V2 addresses was removed from Bitcoin Core in 22.0. (#22544) + +Wallet +------ + +- Descriptor wallets are now the default wallet type. Newly created wallets + will use descriptors unless `descriptors=false` is set during `createwallet`, or + the `Descriptor wallet` checkbox is unchecked in the GUI. + + Note that wallet RPC commands like `importmulti` and `dumpprivkey` cannot be + used with descriptor wallets, so if your client code relies on these commands + without specifying `descriptors=false` during wallet creation, you will need + to update your code. + +- Newly created descriptor wallets will contain an automatically generated `tr()` + descriptor which allows for creating single key Taproot receiving addresses. + +- `upgradewallet` will now automatically flush the keypool if upgrading + from a non-HD wallet to an HD wallet, to immediately start using the + newly-generated HD keys. (#23093) + +- a new RPC `newkeypool` has been added, which will flush (entirely + clear and refill) the keypool. (#23093) + +- `listunspent` now includes `ancestorcount`, `ancestorsize`, and + `ancestorfees` for each transaction output that is still in the mempool. + (#12677) + +- `lockunspent` now optionally takes a third parameter, `persistent`, which + causes the lock to be written persistently to the wallet database. This + allows UTXOs to remain locked even after node restarts or crashes. (#23065) + +- `receivedby` RPCs now include coinbase transactions. Previously, the + following wallet RPCs excluded coinbase transactions: `getreceivedbyaddress`, + `getreceivedbylabel`, `listreceivedbyaddress`, `listreceivedbylabel`. This + release changes this behaviour and returns results accounting for received + coins from coinbase outputs. The previous behaviour can be restored using the + configuration `-deprecatedrpc=exclude_coinbase`, but may be removed in a + future release. (#14707) + +- A new option in the same `receivedby` RPCs, `include_immature_coinbase` + (default=`false`), determines whether to account for immature coinbase + transactions. Immature coinbase transactions are coinbase transactions that + have 100 or fewer confirmations, and are not spendable. (#14707) + +GUI changes +----------- + +- UTXOs which are locked via the GUI are now stored persistently in the + wallet database, so are not lost on node shutdown or crash. (#23065) + +- The Bech32 checkbox has been replaced with a dropdown for all address types, including the new Bech32m (BIP-350) standard for Taproot enabled wallets. + +Low-level changes +================= + +RPC +--- + +- `getblockchaininfo` now returns a new `time` field, that provides the chain tip time. (#22407) + +Tests +----- + +- For the `regtest` network the activation heights of several softforks were + set to block height 1. They can be changed by the runtime setting + `-testactivationheight=name@height`. (#22818) + +Credits +======= + +Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: + +- 0xb10c +- 0xree +- Aaron Clauson +- Adrian-Stefan Mares +- agroce +- aitorjs +- Alex Groce +- amadeuszpawlik +- Amiti Uttarwar +- Andrew Chow +- Andrew Poelstra +- Andrew Toth +- anouar kappitou +- Anthony Towns +- Antoine Poinsot +- Arnab Sen +- Ben Woosley +- benthecarman +- Bitcoin Hodler +- BitcoinTsunami +- brianddk +- Bruno Garcia +- CallMeMisterOwl +- Calvin Kim +- Carl Dong +- Cory Fields +- Cuong V. Nguyen +- Darius Parvin +- Dhruv Mehta +- Dimitri Deijs +- Dimitris Apostolou +- Dmitry Goncharov +- Douglas Chimento +- eugene +- Fabian Jahr +- fanquake +- Florian Baumgartl +- fyquah +- Gleb Naumenko +- glozow +- Gregory Sanders +- Heebs +- Hennadii Stepanov +- hg333 +- HiLivin +- Igor Cota +- Jadi +- James O'Beirne +- Jameson Lopp +- Jarol Rodriguez +- Jeremy Rand +- Jeremy Rubin +- Joan Karadimov +- John Newbery +- Jon Atack +- João Barbosa +- josibake +- junderw +- Karl-Johan Alm +- katesalazar +- Kennan Mell +- Kiminuo +- Kittywhiskers Van Gogh +- Klement Tan +- Kristaps Kaupe +- Kuro +- Larry Ruane +- lsilva01 +- lucash-dev +- Luke Dashjr +- MarcoFalke +- Martin Leitner-Ankerl +- Martin Zumsande +- Matt Corallo +- Matt Whitlock +- MeshCollider +- Michael Dietz +- Murch +- naiza +- Nathan Garabedian +- Nelson Galdeman +- NikhilBartwal +- Niklas Gögge +- node01 +- nthumann +- Pasta +- Patrick Kamin +- Pavel Safronov +- Pavol Rusnak +- Perlover +- Pieter Wuille +- practicalswift +- pradumnasaraf +- pranabp-bit +- Prateek Sancheti +- Prayank +- Rafael Sadowski +- rajarshimaitra +- randymcmillan +- ritickgoenka +- Rob Fielding +- Rojar Smith +- Russell Yanofsky +- S3RK +- Saibato +- Samuel Dobson +- sanket1729 +- seaona +- Sebastian Falbesoner +- sh15h4nk +- Shashwat +- Shorya +- ShubhamPalriwala +- Shubhankar Gambhir +- Sjors Provoost +- sogoagain +- sstone +- stratospher +- Suriyaa Rocky Sundararuban +- Taeik Lim +- TheCharlatan +- Tim Ruffing +- Tobin Harding +- Troy Giorshev +- Tyler Chambers +- Vasil Dimov +- W. J. van der Laan +- w0xlt +- willcl-ark +- William Casarin +- zealsham +- Zero-1729 + +As well as to everyone that helped with translations on +[Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/). |