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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.10.0.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.10.0.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..986b8832ec --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.10.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,762 @@ +Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 is now available from: + + https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.10.0/ + +This is a new major version release, bringing both new features and +bug fixes. + +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: + + https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues + +Upgrading and downgrading +========================= + +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). + +Downgrading warning +--------------------- + +Because release 0.10.0 makes use of headers-first synchronization and parallel +block download (see further), the block files and databases are not +backwards-compatible with older versions of Bitcoin Core or other software: + +* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are +received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or +other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work +anymore as a result of this. + +* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is +stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support. + +If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data +directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from +bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely +synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not +supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex. + +This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility. + + +Notable changes +=============== + +Faster synchronization +---------------------- + +Bitcoin Core now uses 'headers-first synchronization'. This means that we first +ask peers for block headers (a total of 27 megabytes, as of December 2014) and +validate those. In a second stage, when the headers have been discovered, we +download the blocks. However, as we already know about the whole chain in +advance, the blocks can be downloaded in parallel from all available peers. + +In practice, this means a much faster and more robust synchronization. On +recent hardware with a decent network link, it can be as little as 3 hours +for an initial full synchronization. You may notice a slower progress in the +very first few minutes, when headers are still being fetched and verified, but +it should gain speed afterwards. + +A few RPCs were added/updated as a result of this: +- `getblockchaininfo` now returns the number of validated headers in addition to +the number of validated blocks. +- `getpeerinfo` lists both the number of blocks and headers we know we have in +common with each peer. While synchronizing, the heights of the blocks that we +have requested from peers (but haven't received yet) are also listed as +'inflight'. +- A new RPC `getchaintips` lists all known branches of the block chain, +including those we only have headers for. + +Transaction fee changes +----------------------- + +This release automatically estimates how high a transaction fee (or how +high a priority) transactions require to be confirmed quickly. The default +settings will create transactions that confirm quickly; see the new +'txconfirmtarget' setting to control the tradeoff between fees and +confirmation times. Fees are added by default unless the 'sendfreetransactions' +setting is enabled. + +Prior releases used hard-coded fees (and priorities), and would +sometimes create transactions that took a very long time to confirm. + +Statistics used to estimate fees and priorities are saved in the +data directory in the `fee_estimates.dat` file just before +program shutdown, and are read in at startup. + +New command line options for transaction fee changes: +- `-txconfirmtarget=n` : create transactions that have enough fees (or priority) +so they are likely to begin confirmation within n blocks (default: 1). This setting +is over-ridden by the -paytxfee option. +- `-sendfreetransactions` : Send transactions as zero-fee transactions if possible +(default: 0) + +New RPC commands for fee estimation: +- `estimatefee nblocks` : Returns approximate fee-per-1,000-bytes needed for +a transaction to begin confirmation within nblocks. Returns -1 if not enough +transactions have been observed to compute a good estimate. +- `estimatepriority nblocks` : Returns approximate priority needed for +a zero-fee transaction to begin confirmation within nblocks. Returns -1 if not +enough free transactions have been observed to compute a good +estimate. + +RPC access control changes +-------------------------- + +Subnet matching for the purpose of access control is now done +by matching the binary network address, instead of with string wildcard matching. +For the user this means that `-rpcallowip` takes a subnet specification, which can be + +- a single IP address (e.g. `1.2.3.4` or `fe80::0012:3456:789a:bcde`) +- a network/CIDR (e.g. `1.2.3.0/24` or `fe80::0000/64`) +- a network/netmask (e.g. `1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0` or `fe80::0012:3456:789a:bcde/ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff`) + +An arbitrary number of `-rpcallow` arguments can be given. An incoming connection will be accepted if its origin address +matches one of them. + +For example: + +| 0.9.x and before | 0.10.x | +|--------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------| +| `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.1` | `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.1` (unchanged) | +| `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.*` | `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.0/24` | +| `-rpcallowip=192.168.*` | `-rpcallowip=192.168.0.0/16` | +| `-rpcallowip=*` (dangerous!) | `-rpcallowip=::/0` (still dangerous!) | + +Using wildcards will result in the rule being rejected with the following error in debug.log: + + Error: Invalid -rpcallowip subnet specification: *. Valid are a single IP (e.g. 1.2.3.4), a network/netmask (e.g. 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0) or a network/CIDR (e.g. 1.2.3.4/24). + + +REST interface +-------------- + +A new HTTP API is exposed when running with the `-rest` flag, which allows +unauthenticated access to public node data. + +It is served on the same port as RPC, but does not need a password, and uses +plain HTTP instead of JSON-RPC. + +Assuming a local RPC server running on port 8332, it is possible to request: +- Blocks: http://localhost:8332/rest/block/*HASH*.*EXT* +- Blocks without transactions: http://localhost:8332/rest/block/notxdetails/*HASH*.*EXT* +- Transactions (requires `-txindex`): http://localhost:8332/rest/tx/*HASH*.*EXT* + +In every case, *EXT* can be `bin` (for raw binary data), `hex` (for hex-encoded +binary) or `json`. + +For more details, see the `doc/REST-interface.md` document in the repository. + +RPC Server "Warm-Up" Mode +------------------------- + +The RPC server is started earlier now, before most of the expensive +intialisations like loading the block index. It is available now almost +immediately after starting the process. However, until all initialisations +are done, it always returns an immediate error with code -28 to all calls. + +This new behaviour can be useful for clients to know that a server is already +started and will be available soon (for instance, so that they do not +have to start it themselves). + +Improved signing security +------------------------- + +For 0.10 the security of signing against unusual attacks has been +improved by making the signatures constant time and deterministic. + +This change is a result of switching signing to use libsecp256k1 +instead of OpenSSL. Libsecp256k1 is a cryptographic library +optimized for the curve Bitcoin uses which was created by Bitcoin +Core developer Pieter Wuille. + +There exist attacks[1] against most ECC implementations where an +attacker on shared virtual machine hardware could extract a private +key if they could cause a target to sign using the same key hundreds +of times. While using shared hosts and reusing keys are inadvisable +for other reasons, it's a better practice to avoid the exposure. + +OpenSSL has code in their source repository for derandomization +and reduction in timing leaks that we've eagerly wanted to use for a +long time, but this functionality has still not made its +way into a released version of OpenSSL. Libsecp256k1 achieves +significantly stronger protection: As far as we're aware this is +the only deployed implementation of constant time signing for +the curve Bitcoin uses and we have reason to believe that +libsecp256k1 is better tested and more thoroughly reviewed +than the implementation in OpenSSL. + +[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/161.pdf + +Watch-only wallet support +------------------------- + +The wallet can now track transactions to and from wallets for which you know +all addresses (or scripts), even without the private keys. + +This can be used to track payments without needing the private keys online on a +possibly vulnerable system. In addition, it can help for (manual) construction +of multisig transactions where you are only one of the signers. + +One new RPC, `importaddress`, is added which functions similarly to +`importprivkey`, but instead takes an address or script (in hexadecimal) as +argument. After using it, outputs credited to this address or script are +considered to be received, and transactions consuming these outputs will be +considered to be sent. + +The following RPCs have optional support for watch-only: +`getbalance`, `listreceivedbyaddress`, `listreceivedbyaccount`, +`listtransactions`, `listaccounts`, `listsinceblock`, `gettransaction`. See the +RPC documentation for those methods for more information. + +Compared to using `getrawtransaction`, this mechanism does not require +`-txindex`, scales better, integrates better with the wallet, and is compatible +with future block chain pruning functionality. It does mean that all relevant +addresses need to added to the wallet before the payment, though. + +Consensus library +----------------- + +Starting from 0.10.0, the Bitcoin Core distribution includes a consensus library. + +The purpose of this library is to make the verification functionality that is +critical to Bitcoin's consensus available to other applications, e.g. to language +bindings such as [python-bitcoinlib](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bitcoinlib) or +alternative node implementations. + +This library is called `libbitcoinconsensus.so` (or, `.dll` for Windows). +Its interface is defined in the C header [bitcoinconsensus.h](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.10/src/script/bitcoinconsensus.h). + +In its initial version the API includes two functions: + +- `bitcoinconsensus_verify_script` verifies a script. It returns whether the indicated input of the provided serialized transaction +correctly spends the passed scriptPubKey under additional constraints indicated by flags +- `bitcoinconsensus_version` returns the API version, currently at an experimental `0` + +The functionality is planned to be extended to e.g. UTXO management in upcoming releases, but the interface +for existing methods should remain stable. + +Standard script rules relaxed for P2SH addresses +------------------------------------------------ + +The IsStandard() rules have been almost completely removed for P2SH +redemption scripts, allowing applications to make use of any valid +script type, such as "n-of-m OR y", hash-locked oracle addresses, etc. +While the Bitcoin protocol has always supported these types of script, +actually using them on mainnet has been previously inconvenient as +standard Bitcoin Core nodes wouldn't relay them to miners, nor would +most miners include them in blocks they mined. + +bitcoin-tx +---------- + +It has been observed that many of the RPC functions offered by bitcoind are +"pure functions", and operate independently of the bitcoind wallet. This +included many of the RPC "raw transaction" API functions, such as +createrawtransaction. + +bitcoin-tx is a newly introduced command line utility designed to enable easy +manipulation of bitcoin transactions. A summary of its operation may be +obtained via "bitcoin-tx --help" Transactions may be created or signed in a +manner similar to the RPC raw tx API. Transactions may be updated, deleting +inputs or outputs, or appending new inputs and outputs. Custom scripts may be +easily composed using a simple text notation, borrowed from the bitcoin test +suite. + +This tool may be used for experimenting with new transaction types, signing +multi-party transactions, and many other uses. Long term, the goal is to +deprecate and remove "pure function" RPC API calls, as those do not require a +server round-trip to execute. + +Other utilities "bitcoin-key" and "bitcoin-script" have been proposed, making +key and script operations easily accessible via command line. + +Mining and relay policy enhancements +------------------------------------ + +Bitcoin Core's block templates are now for version 3 blocks only, and any mining +software relying on its `getblocktemplate` must be updated in parallel to use +libblkmaker either version 0.4.2 or any version from 0.5.1 onward. +If you are solo mining, this will affect you the moment you upgrade Bitcoin +Core, which must be done prior to BIP66 achieving its 951/1001 status. +If you are mining with the stratum mining protocol: this does not affect you. +If you are mining with the getblocktemplate protocol to a pool: this will affect +you at the pool operator's discretion, which must be no later than BIP66 +achieving its 951/1001 status. + +The `prioritisetransaction` RPC method has been added to enable miners to +manipulate the priority of transactions on an individual basis. + +Bitcoin Core now supports BIP 22 long polling, so mining software can be +notified immediately of new templates rather than having to poll periodically. + +Support for BIP 23 block proposals is now available in Bitcoin Core's +`getblocktemplate` method. This enables miners to check the basic validity of +their next block before expending work on it, reducing risks of accidental +hardforks or mining invalid blocks. + +Two new options to control mining policy: +- `-datacarrier=0/1` : Relay and mine "data carrier" (OP_RETURN) transactions +if this is 1. +- `-datacarriersize=n` : Maximum size, in bytes, we consider acceptable for +"data carrier" outputs. + +The relay policy has changed to more properly implement the desired behavior of not +relaying free (or very low fee) transactions unless they have a priority above the +AllowFreeThreshold(), in which case they are relayed subject to the rate limiter. + +BIP 66: strict DER encoding for signatures +------------------------------------------ + +Bitcoin Core 0.10 implements BIP 66, which introduces block version 3, and a new +consensus rule, which prohibits non-DER signatures. Such transactions have been +non-standard since Bitcoin v0.8.0 (released in February 2013), but were +technically still permitted inside blocks. + +This change breaks the dependency on OpenSSL's signature parsing, and is +required if implementations would want to remove all of OpenSSL from the +consensus code. + +The same miner-voting mechanism as in BIP 34 is used: when 751 out of a +sequence of 1001 blocks have version number 3 or higher, the new consensus +rule becomes active for those blocks. When 951 out of a sequence of 1001 +blocks have version number 3 or higher, it becomes mandatory for all blocks. + +Backward compatibility with current mining software is NOT provided, thus miners +should read the first paragraph of "Mining and relay policy enhancements" above. + +0.10.0 Change log +================= + +Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect external +behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates. + +RPC: +- `f923c07` Support IPv6 lookup in bitcoin-cli even when IPv6 only bound on localhost +- `b641c9c` Fix addnode "onetry": Connect with OpenNetworkConnection +- `171ca77` estimatefee / estimatepriority RPC methods +- `b750cf1` Remove cli functionality from bitcoind +- `f6984e8` Add "chain" to getmininginfo, improve help in getblockchaininfo +- `99ddc6c` Add nLocalServices info to RPC getinfo +- `cf0c47b` Remove getwork() RPC call +- `2a72d45` prioritisetransaction <txid> <priority delta> <priority tx fee> +- `e44fea5` Add an option `-datacarrier` to allow users to disable relaying/mining data carrier transactions +- `2ec5a3d` Prevent easy RPC memory exhaustion attack +- `d4640d7` Added argument to getbalance to include watchonly addresses and fixed errors in balance calculation +- `83f3543` Added argument to listaccounts to include watchonly addresses +- `952877e` Showing 'involvesWatchonly' property for transactions returned by 'listtransactions' and 'listsinceblock'. It is only appended when the transaction involves a watchonly address +- `d7d5d23` Added argument to listtransactions and listsinceblock to include watchonly addresses +- `f87ba3d` added includeWatchonly argument to 'gettransaction' because it affects balance calculation +- `0fa2f88` added includedWatchonly argument to listreceivedbyaddress/...account +- `6c37f7f` `getrawchangeaddress`: fail when keypool exhausted and wallet locked +- `ff6a7af` getblocktemplate: longpolling support +- `c4a321f` Add peerid to getpeerinfo to allow correlation with the logs +- `1b4568c` Add vout to ListTransactions output +- `b33bd7a` Implement "getchaintips" RPC command to monitor blockchain forks +- `733177e` Remove size limit in RPC client, keep it in server +- `6b5b7cb` Categorize rpc help overview +- `6f2c26a` Closely track mempool byte total. Add "getmempoolinfo" RPC +- `aa82795` Add detailed network info to getnetworkinfo RPC +- `01094bd` Don't reveal whether password is <20 or >20 characters in RPC +- `57153d4` rpc: Compute number of confirmations of a block from block height +- `ff36cbe` getnetworkinfo: export local node's client sub-version string +- `d14d7de` SanitizeString: allow '(' and ')' +- `31d6390` Fixed setaccount accepting foreign address +- `b5ec5fe` update getnetworkinfo help with subversion +- `ad6e601` RPC additions after headers-first +- `33dfbf5` rpc: Fix leveldb iterator leak, and flush before `gettxoutsetinfo` +- `2aa6329` Enable customising node policy for datacarrier data size with a -datacarriersize option +- `f877aaa` submitblock: Use a temporary CValidationState to determine accurately the outcome of ProcessBlock +- `e69a587` submitblock: Support for returning specific rejection reasons +- `af82884` Add "warmup mode" for RPC server +- `e2655e0` Add unauthenticated HTTP REST interface to public blockchain data +- `683dc40` Disable SSLv3 (in favor of TLS) for the RPC client and server +- `44b4c0d` signrawtransaction: validate private key +- `9765a50` Implement BIP 23 Block Proposal +- `f9de17e` Add warning comment to getinfo + +Command-line options: +- `ee21912` Use netmasks instead of wildcards for IP address matching +- `deb3572` Add `-rpcbind` option to allow binding RPC port on a specific interface +- `96b733e` Add `-version` option to get just the version +- `1569353` Add `-stopafterblockimport` option +- `77cbd46` Let -zapwallettxes recover transaction meta data +- `1c750db` remove -tor compatibility code (only allow -onion) +- `4aaa017` rework help messages for fee-related options +- `4278b1d` Clarify error message when invalid -rpcallowip +- `6b407e4` -datadir is now allowed in config files +- `bdd5b58` Add option `-sysperms` to disable 077 umask (create new files with system default umask) +- `cbe39a3` Add "bitcoin-tx" command line utility and supporting modules +- `dbca89b` Trigger -alertnotify if network is upgrading without you +- `ad96e7c` Make -reindex cope with out-of-order blocks +- `16d5194` Skip reindexed blocks individually +- `ec01243` --tracerpc option for regression tests +- `f654f00` Change -genproclimit default to 1 +- `3c77714` Make -proxy set all network types, avoiding a connect leak +- `57be955` Remove -printblock, -printblocktree, and -printblockindex +- `ad3d208` remove -maxorphanblocks config parameter since it is no longer functional + +Block and transaction handling: +- `7a0e84d` ProcessGetData(): abort if a block file is missing from disk +- `8c93bf4` LoadBlockIndexDB(): Require block db reindex if any `blk*.dat` files are missing +- `77339e5` Get rid of the static chainMostWork (optimization) +- `4e0eed8` Allow ActivateBestChain to release its lock on cs_main +- `18e7216` Push cs_mains down in ProcessBlock +- `fa126ef` Avoid undefined behavior using CFlatData in CScript serialization +- `7f3b4e9` Relax IsStandard rules for pay-to-script-hash transactions +- `c9a0918` Add a skiplist to the CBlockIndex structure +- `bc42503` Use unordered_map for CCoinsViewCache with salted hash (optimization) +- `d4d3fbd` Do not flush the cache after every block outside of IBD (optimization) +- `ad08d0b` Bugfix: make CCoinsViewMemPool support pruned entries in underlying cache +- `5734d4d` Only remove actualy failed blocks from setBlockIndexValid +- `d70bc52` Rework block processing benchmark code +- `714a3e6` Only keep setBlockIndexValid entries that are possible improvements +- `ea100c7` Reduce maximum coinscache size during verification (reduce memory usage) +- `4fad8e6` Reject transactions with excessive numbers of sigops +- `b0875eb` Allow BatchWrite to destroy its input, reducing copying (optimization) +- `92bb6f2` Bypass reloading blocks from disk (optimization) +- `2e28031` Perform CVerifyDB on pcoinsdbview instead of pcoinsTip (reduce memory usage) +- `ab15b2e` Avoid copying undo data (optimization) +- `341735e` Headers-first synchronization +- `afc32c5` Fix rebuild-chainstate feature and improve its performance +- `e11b2ce` Fix large reorgs +- `ed6d1a2` Keep information about all block files in memory +- `a48f2d6` Abstract context-dependent block checking from acceptance +- `7e615f5` Fixed mempool sync after sending a transaction +- `51ce901` Improve chainstate/blockindex disk writing policy +- `a206950` Introduce separate flushing modes +- `9ec75c5` Add a locking mechanism to IsInitialBlockDownload to ensure it never goes from false to true +- `868d041` Remove coinbase-dependant transactions during reorg +- `723d12c` Remove txn which are invalidated by coinbase maturity during reorg +- `0cb8763` Check against MANDATORY flags prior to accepting to mempool +- `8446262` Reject headers that build on an invalid parent +- `008138c` Bugfix: only track UTXO modification after lookup + +P2P protocol and network code: +- `f80cffa` Do not trigger a DoS ban if SCRIPT_VERIFY_NULLDUMMY fails +- `c30329a` Add testnet DNS seed of Alex Kotenko +- `45a4baf` Add testnet DNS seed of Andreas Schildbach +- `f1920e8` Ping automatically every 2 minutes (unconditionally) +- `806fd19` Allocate receive buffers in on the fly +- `6ecf3ed` Display unknown commands received +- `aa81564` Track peers' available blocks +- `caf6150` Use async name resolving to improve net thread responsiveness +- `9f4da19` Use pong receive time rather than processing time +- `0127a9b` remove SOCKS4 support from core and GUI, use SOCKS5 +- `40f5cb8` Send rejects and apply DoS scoring for errors in direct block validation +- `dc942e6` Introduce whitelisted peers +- `c994d2e` prevent SOCKET leak in BindListenPort() +- `a60120e` Add built-in seeds for .onion +- `60dc8e4` Allow -onlynet=onion to be used +- `3a56de7` addrman: Do not propagate obviously poor addresses onto the network +- `6050ab6` netbase: Make SOCKS5 negotiation interruptible +- `604ee2a` Remove tx from AlreadyAskedFor list once we receive it, not when we process it +- `efad808` Avoid reject message feedback loops +- `71697f9` Separate protocol versioning from clientversion +- `20a5f61` Don't relay alerts to peers before version negotiation +- `b4ee0bd` Introduce preferred download peers +- `845c86d` Do not use third party services for IP detection +- `12a49ca` Limit the number of new addressses to accumulate +- `35e408f` Regard connection failures as attempt for addrman +- `a3a7317` Introduce 10 minute block download timeout +- `3022e7d` Require sufficent priority for relay of free transactions +- `58fda4d` Update seed IPs, based on bitcoin.sipa.be crawler data +- `18021d0` Remove bitnodes.io from dnsseeds. + +Validation: +- `6fd7ef2` Also switch the (unused) verification code to low-s instead of even-s +- `584a358` Do merkle root and txid duplicates check simultaneously +- `217a5c9` When transaction outputs exceed inputs, show the offending amounts so as to aid debugging +- `f74fc9b` Print input index when signature validation fails, to aid debugging +- `6fd59ee` script.h: set_vch() should shift a >32 bit value +- `d752ba8` Add SCRIPT_VERIFY_SIGPUSHONLY (BIP62 rule 2) (test only) +- `698c6ab` Add SCRIPT_VERIFY_MINIMALDATA (BIP62 rules 3 and 4) (test only) +- `ab9edbd` script: create sane error return codes for script validation and remove logging +- `219a147` script: check ScriptError values in script tests +- `0391423` Discourage NOPs reserved for soft-fork upgrades +- `98b135f` Make STRICTENC invalid pubkeys fail the script rather than the opcode +- `307f7d4` Report script evaluation failures in log and reject messages +- `ace39db` consensus: guard against openssl's new strict DER checks +- `12b7c44` Improve robustness of DER recoding code +- `76ce5c8` fail immediately on an empty signature + +Build system: +- `f25e3ad` Fix build in OS X 10.9 +- `65e8ba4` build: Switch to non-recursive make +- `460b32d` build: fix broken boost chrono check on some platforms +- `9ce0774` build: Fix windows configure when using --with-qt-libdir +- `ea96475` build: Add mention of --disable-wallet to bdb48 error messages +- `1dec09b` depends: add shared dependency builder +- `c101c76` build: Add --with-utils (bitcoin-cli and bitcoin-tx, default=yes). Help string consistency tweaks. Target sanity check fix +- `e432a5f` build: add option for reducing exports (v2) +- `6134b43` Fixing condition 'sabotaging' MSVC build +- `af0bd5e` osx: fix signing to make Gatekeeper happy (again) +- `a7d1f03` build: fix dynamic boost check when --with-boost= is used +- `d5fd094` build: fix qt test build when libprotobuf is in a non-standard path +- `2cf5f16` Add libbitcoinconsensus library +- `914868a` build: add a deterministic dmg signer +- `2d375fe` depends: bump openssl to 1.0.1k +- `b7a4ecc` Build: Only check for boost when building code that requires it + +Wallet: +- `b33d1f5` Use fee/priority estimates in wallet CreateTransaction +- `4b7b1bb` Sanity checks for estimates +- `c898846` Add support for watch-only addresses +- `d5087d1` Use script matching rather than destination matching for watch-only +- `d88af56` Fee fixes +- `a35b55b` Dont run full check every time we decrypt wallet +- `3a7c348` Fix make_change to not create half-satoshis +- `f606bb9` fix a possible memory leak in CWalletDB::Recover +- `870da77` fix possible memory leaks in CWallet::EncryptWallet +- `ccca27a` Watch-only fixes +- `9b1627d` [Wallet] Reduce minTxFee for transaction creation to 1000 satoshis +- `a53fd41` Deterministic signing +- `15ad0b5` Apply AreSane() checks to the fees from the network +- `11855c1` Enforce minRelayTxFee on wallet created tx and add a maxtxfee option + +GUI: +- `c21c74b` osx: Fix missing dock menu with qt5 +- `b90711c` Fix Transaction details shows wrong To: +- `516053c` Make links in 'About Bitcoin Core' clickable +- `bdc83e8` Ensure payment request network matches client network +- `65f78a1` Add GUI view of peer information +- `06a91d9` VerifyDB progress reporting +- `fe6bff2` Add BerkeleyDB version info to RPCConsole +- `b917555` PeerTableModel: Fix potential deadlock. #4296 +- `dff0e3b` Improve rpc console history behavior +- `95a9383` Remove CENT-fee-rule from coin control completely +- `56b07d2` Allow setting listen via GUI +- `d95ba75` Log messages with type>QtDebugMsg as non-debug +- `8969828` New status bar Unit Display Control and related changes +- `674c070` seed OpenSSL PNRG with Windows event data +- `509f926` Payment request parsing on startup now only changes network if a valid network name is specified +- `acd432b` Prevent balloon-spam after rescan +- `7007402` Implement SI-style (thin space) thoudands separator +- `91cce17` Use fixed-point arithmetic in amount spinbox +- `bdba2dd` Remove an obscure option no-one cares about +- `bd0aa10` Replace the temporary file hack currently used to change Bitcoin-Qt's dock icon (OS X) with a buffer-based solution +- `94e1b9e` Re-work overviewpage UI +- `8bfdc9a` Better looking trayicon +- `b197bf3` disable tray interactions when client model set to 0 +- `1c5f0af` Add column Watch-only to transactions list +- `21f139b` Fix tablet crash. closes #4854 +- `e84843c` Broken addresses on command line no longer trigger testnet +- `a49f11d` Change splash screen to normal window +- `1f9be98` Disable App Nap on OSX 10.9+ +- `27c3e91` Add proxy to options overridden if necessary +- `4bd1185` Allow "emergency" shutdown during startup +- `d52f072` Don't show wallet options in the preferences menu when running with -disablewallet +- `6093aa1` Qt: QProgressBar CPU-Issue workaround +- `0ed9675` [Wallet] Add global boolean whether to send free transactions (default=true) +- `ed3e5e4` [Wallet] Add global boolean whether to pay at least the custom fee (default=true) +- `e7876b2` [Wallet] Prevent user from paying a non-sense fee +- `c1c9d5b` Add Smartfee to GUI +- `e0a25c5` Make askpassphrase dialog behave more sanely +- `94b362d` On close of splashscreen interrupt verifyDB +- `b790d13` English translation update +- `8543b0d` Correct tooltip on address book page + +Tests: +- `b41e594` Fix script test handling of empty scripts +- `d3a33fc` Test CHECKMULTISIG with m == 0 and n == 0 +- `29c1749` Let tx (in)valid tests use any SCRIPT_VERIFY flag +- `6380180` Add rejection of non-null CHECKMULTISIG dummy values +- `21bf3d2` Add tests for BoostAsioToCNetAddr +- `b5ad5e7` Add Python test for -rpcbind and -rpcallowip +- `9ec0306` Add CODESEPARATOR/FindAndDelete() tests +- `75ebced` Added many rpc wallet tests +- `0193fb8` Allow multiple regression tests to run at once +- `92a6220` Hook up sanity checks +- `3820e01` Extend and move all crypto tests to crypto_tests.cpp +- `3f9a019` added list/get received by address/ account tests +- `a90689f` Remove timing-based signature cache unit test +- `236982c` Add skiplist unit tests +- `f4b00be` Add CChain::GetLocator() unit test +- `b45a6e8` Add test for getblocktemplate longpolling +- `cdf305e` Set -discover=0 in regtest framework +- `ed02282` additional test for OP_SIZE in script_valid.json +- `0072d98` script tests: BOOLAND, BOOLOR decode to integer +- `833ff16` script tests: values that overflow to 0 are true +- `4cac5db` script tests: value with trailing 0x00 is true +- `89101c6` script test: test case for 5-byte bools +- `d2d9dc0` script tests: add tests for CHECKMULTISIG limits +- `d789386` Add "it works" test for bitcoin-tx +- `df4d61e` Add bitcoin-tx tests +- `aa41ac2` Test IsPushOnly() with invalid push +- `6022b5d` Make `script_{valid,invalid}.json` validation flags configurable +- `8138cbe` Add automatic script test generation, and actual checksig tests +- `ed27e53` Add coins_tests with a large randomized CCoinViewCache test +- `9df9cf5` Make SCRIPT_VERIFY_STRICTENC compatible with BIP62 +- `dcb9846` Extend getchaintips RPC test +- `554147a` Ensure MINIMALDATA invalid tests can only fail one way +- `dfeec18` Test every numeric-accepting opcode for correct handling of the numeric minimal encoding rule +- `2b62e17` Clearly separate PUSHDATA and numeric argument MINIMALDATA tests +- `16d78bd` Add valid invert of invalid every numeric opcode tests +- `f635269` tests: enable alertnotify test for Windows +- `7a41614` tests: allow rpc-tests to get filenames for bitcoind and bitcoin-cli from the environment +- `5122ea7` tests: fix forknotify.py on windows +- `fa7f8cd` tests: remove old pull-tester scripts +- `7667850` tests: replace the old (unused since Travis) tests with new rpc test scripts +- `f4e0aef` Do signature-s negation inside the tests +- `1837987` Optimize -regtest setgenerate block generation +- `2db4c8a` Fix node ranges in the test framework +- `a8b2ce5` regression test only setmocktime RPC call +- `daf03e7` RPC tests: create initial chain with specific timestamps +- `8656dbb` Port/fix txnmall.sh regression test +- `ca81587` Test the exact order of CHECKMULTISIG sig/pubkey evaluation +- `7357893` Prioritize and display -testsafemode status in UI +- `f321d6b` Add key generation/verification to ECC sanity check +- `132ea9b` miner_tests: Disable checkpoints so they don't fail the subsidy-change test +- `bc6cb41` QA RPC tests: Add tests block block proposals +- `f67a9ce` Use deterministically generated script tests +- `11d7a7d` [RPC] add rpc-test for http keep-alive (persistent connections) +- `34318d7` RPC-test based on invalidateblock for mempool coinbase spends +- `76ec867` Use actually valid transactions for script tests +- `c8589bf` Add actual signature tests +- `e2677d7` Fix smartfees test for change to relay policy +- `263b65e` tests: run sanity checks in tests too + +Miscellaneous: +- `122549f` Fix incorrect checkpoint data for testnet3 +- `5bd02cf` Log used config file to debug.log on startup +- `68ba85f` Updated Debian example bitcoin.conf with config from wiki + removed some cruft and updated comments +- `e5ee8f0` Remove -beta suffix +- `38405ac` Add comment regarding experimental-use service bits +- `be873f6` Issue warning if collecting RandSeed data failed +- `8ae973c` Allocate more space if necessary in RandSeedAddPerfMon +- `675bcd5` Correct comment for 15-of-15 p2sh script size +- `fda3fed` libsecp256k1 integration +- `2e36866` Show nodeid instead of addresses in log (for anonymity) unless otherwise requested +- `cd01a5e` Enable paranoid corruption checks in LevelDB >= 1.16 +- `9365937` Add comment about never updating nTimeOffset past 199 samples +- `403c1bf` contrib: remove getwork-based pyminer (as getwork API call has been removed) +- `0c3e101` contrib: Added systemd .service file in order to help distributions integrate bitcoind +- `0a0878d` doc: Add new DNSseed policy +- `2887bff` Update coding style and add .clang-format +- `5cbda4f` Changed LevelDB cursors to use scoped pointers to ensure destruction when going out of scope +- `b4a72a7` contrib/linearize: split output files based on new-timestamp-year or max-file-size +- `e982b57` Use explicit fflush() instead of setvbuf() +- `234bfbf` contrib: Add init scripts and docs for Upstart and OpenRC +- `01c2807` Add warning about the merkle-tree algorithm duplicate txid flaw +- `d6712db` Also create pid file in non-daemon mode +- `772ab0e` contrib: use batched JSON-RPC in linarize-hashes (optimization) +- `7ab4358` Update bash-completion for v0.10 +- `6e6a36c` contrib: show pull # in prompt for github-merge script +- `5b9f842` Upgrade leveldb to 1.18, make chainstate databases compatible between ARM and x86 (issue #2293) +- `4e7c219` Catch UTXO set read errors and shutdown +- `867c600` Catch LevelDB errors during flush +- `06ca065` Fix CScriptID(const CScript& in) in empty script case + +Credits +======= + +Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: + +- 21E14 +- Adam Weiss +- Aitor Pazos +- Alexander Jeng +- Alex Morcos +- Alon Muroch +- Andreas Schildbach +- Andrew Poelstra +- Andy Alness +- Ashley Holman +- Benedict Chan +- Ben Holden-Crowther +- Bryan Bishop +- BtcDrak +- Christian von Roques +- Clinton Christian +- Cory Fields +- Cozz Lovan +- daniel +- Daniel Kraft +- David Hill +- Derek701 +- dexX7 +- dllud +- Dominyk Tiller +- Doug +- elichai +- elkingtowa +- ENikS +- Eric Shaw +- Federico Bond +- Francis GASCHET +- Gavin Andresen +- Giuseppe Mazzotta +- Glenn Willen +- Gregory Maxwell +- gubatron +- HarryWu +- himynameismartin +- Huang Le +- Ian Carroll +- imharrywu +- Jameson Lopp +- Janusz Lenar +- JaSK +- Jeff Garzik +- JL2035 +- Johnathan Corgan +- Jonas Schnelli +- jtimon +- Julian Haight +- Kamil Domanski +- kazcw +- kevin +- kiwigb +- Kosta Zertsekel +- LongShao007 +- Luke Dashjr +- Mark Friedenbach +- Mathy Vanvoorden +- Matt Corallo +- Matthew Bogosian +- Micha +- Michael Ford +- Mike Hearn +- mrbandrews +- mruddy +- ntrgn +- Otto Allmendinger +- paveljanik +- Pavel Vasin +- Peter Todd +- phantomcircuit +- Philip Kaufmann +- Pieter Wuille +- pryds +- randy-waterhouse +- R E Broadley +- Rose Toomey +- Ross Nicoll +- Roy Badami +- Ruben Dario Ponticelli +- Rune K. Svendsen +- Ryan X. Charles +- Saivann +- sandakersmann +- SergioDemianLerner +- shshshsh +- sinetek +- Stuart Cardall +- Suhas Daftuar +- Tawanda Kembo +- Teran McKinney +- tm314159 +- Tom Harding +- Trevin Hofmann +- Whit J +- Wladimir J. van der Laan +- Yoichi Hirai +- Zak Wilcox + +As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/). + |