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2017-10-04Merge #9937: rpc: Prevent `dumpwallet` from overwriting filesWladimir J. van der Laan
0cd9273 rpc: Prevent `dumpwallet` from overwriting files (Wladimir J. van der Laan) Pull request description: Prevent arbitrary files from being overwritten by `dumpwallet`. There have been reports that users have overwritten wallet files this way. It may also avoid other security issues. Fixes #9934. Adds mention to release notes and adds a test. Tree-SHA512: 268c98636d40924d793b55a685a0b419bafd834ad369edaec08227ebe26ed4470ddea73008d1c4beb10ea445db1b0bb8e3546ba8fc2d1a411ebd4a0de8ce9120
2017-09-26rpc: Prevent `dumpwallet` from overwriting filesWladimir J. van der Laan
Prevent arbitrary files from being overwritten. There have been reports that users have overwritten wallet files this way. It may also avoid other security issues. Fixes #9934. Adds mention to release notes and adds a test.
2017-09-25doc: move gitian building to external repoMarcoFalke
This reduces the overhead in the git repo due to binary blobs of the png files. Also, the documentation can be updated independent of any tags and release cycles.
2017-09-25Merge #11392: Fix stale link in gitian-building.mdWladimir J. van der Laan
204cc98 fix link error (Shooter) Pull request description: The `perform-gitian-builds` is not exist, replace `perform-gitian-builds` with `setup-and-perform-gitian-builds`. Tree-SHA512: c4f3fb4b6ae502a2e7a6857d3075734d493f549871b80ec00a2733ee689b00f98aa67ce7c3b7facf1ae4949b7845e1e2ef6f727aeca0c88c00b46d77b4d7e570
2017-09-24Merge #11390: [docs] document scripted-diffPieter Wuille
90ab62c45 [docs] document scripted-diff (John Newbery) Pull request description: Document scripted-diffs in developer-notes.md I sometimes comment on PRs that a scripted-diff would be appropriate, but I don't have any documentation to point to. Fix that. Tree-SHA512: 7d4a14b9217c812e4c27601e5e6dd8054cf5104cd20ecbe1ec0a84c217cc4b0645b7c0d2e3a89fdd4d059cafbc388acbddba75a430308f8279200b9383e009de
2017-09-24[docs] document scripted-diffJohn Newbery
2017-09-24fix link errorShooter
The `perform-gitian-builds` is not exists, repalce `perform-gitian-builds` with `setup-and-perform-gitian-builds`.
2017-09-23Merge #11338: qt: Backup former GUI settings on `-resetguisettings`Wladimir J. van der Laan
723aa1b qt: Backup former GUI settings on `-resetguisettings` (Wladimir J. van der Laan) Pull request description: Writes the GUI settings to `guisettings.bak` in the data directory before wiping them. This can be used to retroactively troubleshoot issues (e.g. #11262) where `-resetguisettings` solves the problem. (as discussed in yesterday's IRC meeting) Tree-SHA512: c64f5052d992eb02057ba285435f143c42d0cc456144a4c565e1c87be833737f9df750d0aee10810f85047c820d9b4f9f22fd94a6f09f4b28a9cf41b63a56586
2017-09-23qt: Backup former GUI settings on `-resetguisettings`Wladimir J. van der Laan
Writes the GUI settings to `guisettings.bak` in the data directory before wiping them. This can be used to retroactively troubleshoot issues (e.g. #11262) where `-resetguisettings` solves the problem.
2017-09-20Merge #11305: [doc] Update release notes and manpages for 0.16Wladimir J. van der Laan
fa65dcd doc: Update release notes for 0.16.0 (MarcoFalke) fa2c3b6 doc: Bump manpages to 0.15.99 (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: This updates the release notes for the breaking changes to `-usehd` option and the `getinfo` rpc. Also, bumps the manpages to current master. Tree-SHA512: 55b74375fa680d6043882e3cc37bc655840c9e719d67f60d4d615c10399d570cf6ed4dc338635be80d4044d4ed12cebde1370729ccb6794182e6d9c9910dab04
2017-09-19doc: Add release notes for 0.15.0.1Wladimir J. van der Laan
Tree-SHA512: 488ee6fda9f9d2eb1c4d78f37d7b21c019ca70dc1899ef7dd275b5ef615fb5afebd6805147649753dd3497e2e98bfb2c601d8c3cffed04781652f84c9c0d32e5
2017-09-14doc: add release-notes for 0.15.0 to masterWladimir J. van der Laan
Tree-SHA512: 0f72b10ac60c3da0847fb9c3b20015566c3bd05f121fa588527828de66cb87e2fe18d463f3cc92b582ab12e4c9362fdd71f3f9a7b014fedb463925d3fa51a7f7
2017-09-12Merge #11264: [doc] Fix broken Markdown table in dependencies.mdMarcoFalke
b8d91e03a [Docs] Fix broken Markdown table in dependencies.md. Cleanups. (practicalswift) Pull request description: Changes made to `dependencies.md`: * Fix broken table Markdown. * Use correct capitalization. * Sort dependencies. * Minor cleanups. Tree-SHA512: ff3826dd779a8593738ef5297889a7d28a716220f75af77f63f425206441537738cc589d67f387b9356577b227673b028a61849ee08dd757a311923033fe7271
2017-09-12doc: Update release notes for 0.16.0MarcoFalke
2017-09-12doc: Bump manpages to 0.15.99MarcoFalke
2017-09-11Add release notes describing blockmaxweight deprecationMatt Corallo
2017-09-08[Docs] Fix broken Markdown table in dependencies.md. Cleanups.practicalswift
Use the correct capitalization for the dependencies Sort dependencies Fix header formatting. Minor style cleanups.
2017-09-07Merge #10779: Create dependencies.mdWladimir J. van der Laan
e91b96192 Create dependencies.md, and link dependencies file from README & build docs (flack) Pull request description: As @fanquake mentioned in #8639, this should probably be a file in `doc/`, so I went ahead and pulled the issue text via the github API and dumped it into a file. No modifications made, except one spelling fix. This makes the info easier to find, and it will get a proper version history, too. Tree-SHA512: 6ba4c37c97200972a74724e0e346d6ad5947c01ad18638e15250f2b4cd747dd744aba16e306c98d59f35736542a5eded7a17b6a5ce6aebc63c0a9dc969b365ef
2017-09-06(finally) remove getinfo in favor of more module-specific infosMatt Corallo
2017-09-07Create dependencies.md, and link dependencies file from README & build docsflack
2017-09-06Merge #11135: Update developer notes with RPC response guidelinesWladimir J. van der Laan
62ecce75e [doc] Add RPC response notes (João Barbosa) Pull request description: Tree-SHA512: 795969813eefab47ac03050bd70762fc36d86edb00bdfe1ba76837a810370d61dc88749c51153bd3949eb3885f084b4ba8736b4bbf90dfef65e3fe1939304bd8
2017-09-06Merge #10825: net: set regtest JSON-RPC port to 18443 to avoid conflict with ↵Wladimir J. van der Laan
testnet 18332 ce3baa193 changed regtest RPCport to 18443 to avoid conflict with testnet 18332 (Ferdinando M. Ametrano) Pull request description: using the same JSON-RPC default port for both testnet and regtest prevents running both at the same time on the same machine. Since RPCport=P2Pport-1 for both mainnet and testnet, and regtest P2Pport being 18444, 18443 is proposed for regtest RPCport Documentation has been updated (or created where missing); manpages doc/man/bitcoin*.1 could include information for regtest too Tree-SHA512: d42185f7ef54dc918ece19b543c8681d08bb9c5a971394e21f2d9a1091734b091b08df69fab622c207b46f402cf9323ded5b7a33fbd0af722388930169124e7f
2017-08-30Add python3 to list of dependencies on some platformsdanra
python3 is required for running the unit tests on macOS, Ubuntu and Fedora. Without python3 installed, 'make check' fails because /test/util/bitcoin-util-test.py fails to find python3.
2017-08-25[doc] Add RPC response notesJoão Barbosa
2017-08-24Merge #11112: [developer-notes] By default, declare single-argument ↵MarcoFalke
constructors "explicit" f1708ef89 Add recommendation: By default, declare single-argument constructors `explicit` (practicalswift) Pull request description: This is a follow-up to the now merged #10969. Add recommendation: > By default, declare single-argument constructors `explicit`. > > - *Rationale*: This is a precaution to avoid unintended conversions that might arise when single-argument constructors are used as implicit conversion functions. > Tree-SHA512: 1ceb1008a7863ebd0f09ba9c06b4e28b3b03265d7381f9d0c8bd4be1663d5d0392de0ecd811027aa27c0d962723674b245b3c165a437942a776f3525db39d36b
2017-08-24Merge #11119: [doc] build-windows: Mention that only trusty worksWladimir J. van der Laan
fa14b67 [doc] build-windows: Mention that only trusty works (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: This should prevent people from running into the issues to later find that there is no solution yet. Tree-SHA512: c0512bb15ebd62113a4195a9577fec4ddacf164509673e178c6b5445c16ab7b110a13ba829e6eebb2a66dff61eeac6ec77f7c5f60bd64685a0c0d99f71f4edf7
2017-08-23[doc] build-windows: Mention that only trusty worksMarcoFalke
2017-08-22Add recommendation: By default, declare single-argument constructors `explicit`practicalswift
2017-08-22Merge #11050: Avoid treating null RPC arguments different from missing argumentsWladimir J. van der Laan
745d2e3 Clean up getbalance RPC parameter handling (Russell Yanofsky) fd5d71e Update developer notes after params.size() cleanup (Russell Yanofsky) e067673 Avoid treating null RPC arguments different from missing arguments (Russell Yanofsky) e666efc Get rid of redundant RPC params.size() checks (Russell Yanofsky) Pull request description: This is a followup to #10783. - The first commit doesn't change behavior at all, just simplifies code. - The second commit just changes RPC methods to treat null arguments the same as missing arguments instead of throwing type errors. - The third commit updates developer notes after the cleanup. - The forth commit does some additional code cleanup in `getbalance`. Followup changes that should happen in future PRs: - [ ] Replace uses of `.isTrue()` with calls to `.get_bool()` so numbers, objects, and strings cause type errors instead of being interpreted as false. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11050#discussion_r133850525 - [ ] Add braces around if statements. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11050#discussion_r133851133 - [ ] Maybe improve UniValue type error exceptions and eliminate RPCTypeCheck and RPCTypeCheckArgument functions. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11050#discussion_r133829303 Tree-SHA512: e72f696011d20acc0778e996659e41f9426bffce387b29ff63bf59ad1163d5146761e4445b2b9b9e069a80596a57c7f4402b75a15d5d20f69f775ae558cf67e9
2017-08-19Docs: Hash in ZMQ hash is raw bytes, not hexKarel Bílek
Transaction hash cannot be in hexadecimal, that would be 64 bytes. In reality it's just raw bytes.
2017-08-18Merge #11066: Document the preference of nullptr over NULL or (void*)0Wladimir J. van der Laan
bea8e9e Document the preference of nullptr over NULL or (void*)0 (practicalswift) Pull request description: Document the preference of `nullptr` over `NULL` or `(void*)0`. After this commit: ``` $ git grep "[^A-Za-z_]NULL[^A-Za-z_]" | grep -vE '(leveldb|univalue|secp256k1|torcontrol|NULL certificates|ctaes|release-notes|patches|configure.ac|developer-notes)' $ ``` Some context: * `NULL → nullptr` was handled in the recently merged PR #10483 * `0 → nullptr` was handled in the recently merged PR #10645 Tree-SHA512: f863096aa4eb21705910f89713ca9cc0d83c6df2147e3d3530c3e1589b96f6c68de8755dcf37d8ce99ebda3cfb69805e00eab13bf65424aaf16170e9dda3958a
2017-08-18Merge #11080: doc: Update build-openbsd for 6.1Wladimir J. van der Laan
5be6e9b doc: Update build-openbsd for 6.1 (Wladimir J. van der Laan) Pull request description: - Bump "updated for" - Fix link to boost (haenet mirror is broken) - Upgrade boost version to 1.64 Ref: closes #10796 Tree-SHA512: 14d5e6a21c7079f5b16d763dd27abe6971c47b4ea2b563e10aafad52515d1d64abe395ecef6f2c00d41c1f852946831fb58737dcabf769b21a69b31d98727ad6
2017-08-18Merge #10878: Docs: Fix Markdown formatting issues in init.mdWladimir J. van der Laan
d201e40 Update init.md: Fix section numbering. (Carl Dong) 72a184a Update init.md: Fix line breaks in section 3b. (Carl Dong) Pull request description: Trivial commit that fixes Markdown line breaks in `docs/init.md`. Markdown line breaks take the form of two spaces, which is hard to spot when viewing raw text but visible when previewing on GitHub. Line 72-73 of `docs/init.md` did not conform to the rest the rest of the documentation, and is corrected in this PR. Tree-SHA512: e5f048bd4e9e1e68372c95881f68b157a3c205d4dbcc6ccd24f2c0171b84d8cf7907d1835c6754ce57f35f9463820353ad7ae70c2e3de20136382ea3ee8bc4ff
2017-08-18Document the preference of nullptr over NULL or (void*)0practicalswift
2017-08-17doc: Update build-openbsd for 6.1Wladimir J. van der Laan
- Bump "updated for" - Fix link to boost (haenet mirror is broken) - Upgrade boost version to 1.64
2017-08-17Prefer compile-time checking over run-time checkingpracticalswift
2017-08-16Merge #10680: Fix inconsistencies and grammar in various filesMarcoFalke
1d8df0141 Fix MD formatting in REST-interface.md and spelling mistake in test_runner.py (MeshCollider) 41f3e84aa Fix inconsistencies and grammar in various files (MeshCollider) Pull request description: Just a simple fix of some inconsistent capitalization, formatting and grammar in a few files (no code changes) Tree-SHA512: 60b12a5a5c69a1af4a25b7db0b32ed806ed62ad2966cee08b3792a7cfa7f51848fd485349b4c09e60a7eedfdf55ee730c51daa066d6e226ae404c93342bf3e13
2017-08-16Merge #10705: Trivial: spelling fixesMarcoFalke
f42fc1d50 doc: spelling fixes (klemens) Pull request description: patch contains some spelling fixes ( just in comments ) as found by a bot ( http://www.misfix.org, https://github.com/ka7/misspell_fixer ). Tree-SHA512: ba6046cfcd81b0783420daae7d776be92dd7b85a593e212f8f1b4403aca9b1b6af12cef7080d4ea5ed4a14952fd25e4300109a59c414e08f5395cdb9947bb750
2017-08-16doc: spelling fixesklemens
2017-08-14Update developer notes after params.size() cleanupRussell Yanofsky
2017-08-14build: bump version to 0.15.99Wladimir J. van der Laan
Now that 0.15 branch has been split off, master is 0.15.99 (pre-0.16). Also clean out release notes. Tree-SHA512: 160f712fae7bfc51e49e36a27ab01f5c243b79a19a70312df95f9bc5cb8067c70aa88911f741fd1625bee549a70655eaea24d98f6049d98c3c14ee1b3143f4cb
2017-08-14doc: Update release notes from wikiWladimir J. van der Laan
Update release notes from wiki, and fill in authors list from git. Additional credits: - Awemany (for #10854) - Gregory Maxwell (release notes writing) - John Newbery (release notes writing) - Kibbled Jive Elk Zoo (for https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10177#issuecomment-309244097) - Luke Dashjr (release notes writing) - Marco Falke (release notes writing) - Pieter Wuille (release notes writing) - Rusty Russell (release notes writing) - tintinweb (for early-announcing miniupnp CVE-2017-8798, forgot this for 0.14.2) Tree-SHA512: 8024eb761fcac4bb7f16ba3a9db376508f1f1bcf8a89cfb5e2928ad384675d3e912cada6ffef7d5aac181a965ebb8b823f6a63d9e976c1be753ec8eb9a8b9ef5
2017-08-14Merge #10968: Add instructions for parallel gitian builds.Wladimir J. van der Laan
e93ff71 Add instructions for multi-processor gitian builds (Charlie Lee) Pull request description: This makes builds much faster if you have a multi-core machine. Tree-SHA512: edb64c691a31a8a2e6c45f87886912d429a3fd600ebc0de2b16d44efd9d38bb92fea33c5fed207ad684b75d3247218912cab67661466a5538d534845e0808c9f
2017-08-13Add instructions for multi-processor gitian buildsCharlie Lee
2017-08-07doc: Correct AmountFromValue/ValueFromAmount namesWladimir J. van der Laan
2017-08-04changed regtest RPCport to 18443 to avoid conflict with testnet 18332Ferdinando M. Ametrano
2017-07-29Update init.md: Fix section numbering.Carl Dong
2017-07-25developer-notes: add reference to snake_case and PascalCaseMarko Bencun
CamelCase is ambiguous as it refers to both lowerCamelCase and UpperCamelCase, whereas PascalCase is only UpperCamelCase.
2017-07-18Update init.md: Fix line breaks in section 3b.Carl Dong
2017-07-01Fix MD formatting in REST-interface.md and spelling mistake inMeshCollider
test_runner.py