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2014-06-08Update translation_process.mdsandakersmann
Qt changed to Bitcoin Core
2014-06-06Merge pull request #4295Wladimir J. van der Laan
6e7c4d1 gitian: upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1h (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-06-06estimatefee / estimatepriority RPC methodsGavin Andresen
New RPC methods: return an estimate of the fee (or priority) a transaction needs to be likely to confirm in a given number of blocks. Mike Hearn created the first version of this method for estimating fees. It works as follows: For transactions that took 1 to N (I picked N=25) blocks to confirm, keep N buckets with at most 100 entries in each recording the fees-per-kilobyte paid by those transactions. (separate buckets are kept for transactions that confirmed because they are high-priority) The buckets are filled as blocks are found, and are saved/restored in a new fee_estiamtes.dat file in the data directory. A few variations on Mike's initial scheme: To estimate the fee needed for a transaction to confirm in X buckets, all of the samples in all of the buckets are used and a median of all of the data is used to make the estimate. For example, imagine 25 buckets each containing the full 100 entries. Those 2,500 samples are sorted, and the estimate of the fee needed to confirm in the very next block is the 50'th-highest-fee-entry in that sorted list; the estimate of the fee needed to confirm in the next two blocks is the 150'th-highest-fee-entry, etc. That algorithm has the nice property that estimates of how much fee you need to pay to get confirmed in block N will always be greater than or equal to the estimate for block N+1. It would clearly be wrong to say "pay 11 uBTC and you'll get confirmed in 3 blocks, but pay 12 uBTC and it will take LONGER". A single block will not contribute more than 10 entries to any one bucket, so a single miner and a large block cannot overwhelm the estimates.
2014-06-05gitian: upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1hWladimir J. van der Laan
Upgrade for https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt Just in case - there is no vulnerability that affects ecdsa signing or verification. The MITM attack vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224) may have some effect on our usage of SSL/TLS. As long as payment requests are signed (which is the common case), usage of the payment protocol should also not be affected. The TLS usage in RPC may be at risk for MITM attacks. If you have `-rpcssl` enabled, be sure to update OpenSSL as soon as possible.
2014-06-04Merge pull request #4270Wladimir J. van der Laan
1411a51 doc: Update hash in release process for new windows deps intermediate (Wladimir J. van der Laan) 386e732 gitian: make linux qt intermediate deterministic (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-06-03Some documentation fixes + link to my Docker/LXC guideGiuseppe Mazzotta
I added a link to my guide about using docker containers + LXC (I am planning to maintain this at work for future bitcoin versions), then I mentioned other virtualization options (KVM, LXC). This commit includes a fix issue for documentation issue #4269 that consists in telling users to checkout correct bitcoin version before using the gitian descriptors (otherwise all hell can break loose). Also, I replaced URL for Debian 7.4 ISO with a correct one and added link to official Debian ISO sources.
2014-06-02doc: Update hash in release process for new windows deps intermediateWladimir J. van der Laan
This was forgotten in 25d4911.
2014-06-02gitian: make linux qt intermediate deterministicWladimir J. van der Laan
A qt installation date snuck into the host utils (lrelease etc) This doesn't affect the end product, so no dependency version bump. It also doesn't explain why gavin's and mine build is different
2014-05-29Merge pull request #4229Wladimir J. van der Laan
2869b13 release: Bump the OSX SDK to 10.7 for gitian builds (Cory Fields)
2014-05-28Merge pull request #4195Wladimir J. van der Laan
f701da8 Doc: Always use absolute paths (Kosta Zertsekel)
2014-05-24release: Bump the OSX SDK to 10.7 for gitian buildsCory Fields
This fixes the display on Retina Macbooks. It also moves us away from depending on the ancient XCode3 sdk.
2014-05-23doc: Add historical release notes for 0.9.1Wladimir J. van der Laan
2014-05-21gitian: Add OSX build descriptorsCory Fields
Github-Pull: #4185 Rebased-By: Wladimir J. van der Laan Rebased-From: bb5da27, 2288206, 7fe8fe6, f76db78, ebcf375, fa1ed7c, 397e9b8
2014-05-21Doc: Always use absolute pathsKosta Zertsekel
2014-05-04doc: remove specific mention of boost 1.55Wladimir J. van der Laan
There is no need to use any specific version of boost on Linux/Unix. Even 1.37 should still work. Also the mention of boost-dev doesn't belong after adding oldstable. Remove it. libboost-all-dev is already mentioned earlier.
2014-05-02Merge pull request #4114Wladimir J. van der Laan
bfb154e Update build instructions for Berkeley DB (Wladimir J. van der Laan) d0a2e2e Log BerkeleyDB version at startup (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-05-02Merge pull request #4110Wladimir J. van der Laan
3a54ad9 Full translation update (Wladimir J. van der Laan) 9dd5d79 devtools: add a script to fetch and postprocess translations (Wladimir J. van der Laan) 58c01a3 qt: add transifex configuration file (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-05-02Merge pull request #4094Wladimir J. van der Laan
202c95c devtools: have symbol check script check for exported symbols (Wladimir J. van der Laan) 92e3022 gitian: don't export any symbols from executable (Wladimir J. van der Laan) 3ab1664 gitian: build against Qt 4.6 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-05-02Merge pull request #4116Wladimir J. van der Laan
188674d Wording (richierichrawr)
2014-05-01Wordingrichierichrawr
Cleaned up wording and spacing for readability.
2014-05-01Remove build-time no-IPv6 settingWladimir J. van der Laan
The year is 2014. All supported operating systems have IPv6 support, most certainly at build time (this doesn't mean that IPv6 is configured, of course). If noone is exercising the functionality to disable it, that means it doesn't get tested, and IMO it's better to get rid of it. (it's also not used consistently in RPC/boost and Net code...)
2014-05-01devtools: add a script to fetch and postprocess translationsWladimir J. van der Laan
Run this script from the root of the repository to update all translations from transifex. It will do the following automatically: - create a transifex configuration file - fetch all translations - post-process them into valid and committable format
2014-05-01qt: add transifex configuration fileWladimir J. van der Laan
This is a project-wide configuration file and should be the same for everyone. Also remove mention of creating it yourself from the translation process.
2014-05-01Update build instructions for Berkeley DBWladimir J. van der Laan
- People were having problems with the .so when installing in alternative locations. Like gitian, build a static library with -fPIC that can be embedded into the executables. - Add some missing steps - Add reminder that BerkeleyDB is only needed when wallet support is enabled
2014-04-30gitian: build against Qt 4.6Wladimir J. van der Laan
Should make it possible to run the resulting GUI executable on Linux distributions that use Qt 4.6, such as Debian Wheezy and Tails. Builds a mini-SDK for building against Qt 4.6. This includes the headers as well as host utilities such as `lrelease`, `qrc` and `moc`. This speeds up the gitian build a bit - libqt4-dev pulled in a lot of packages, and is no longer needed as this provides a replacement of our own. Note: This does not replace the Qt build with at static library. After this commit we still build dynamically against the system Qt library. The only difference is that compatibility with an older version is maintained. This loses minor GUI functionality (such as setPlaceholderText) but still allows integration into the window management of the host OS, unlike when statically linking.
2014-04-16Pointed to location of BDB 4.8 in procedure for unix build.Altoidnerd
2014-04-16Update doc/gitian-building.md for new gitianWladimir J. van der Laan
The patch to make it possible to configure the LXC IPs has been merged upstream. This means that it is no longer needed to patch gitian. Remove that workaround.
2014-04-15VERSION obtained from source instead of the previous git tag.Warren Togami
Drawback: The version string is no longer a valid git identifier. For this reason the 'g' short hash prefix has been removed. Exception: When building directly from a tag this behaves exactly like the previous behavior. This allows formatting release versions with precision i.e. v0.9.2 This also allows arbitrary topicbranch names i.e. v0.9.1-glibc-compat
2014-04-12Merge pull request #3747Wladimir J. van der Laan
b698417 Added Blockchain Bootstraping Tutorial (super3)
2014-04-12Added Blockchain Bootstraping Tutorialsuper3
Per @laanwj request in #3724 Fixing Checkpoints Comment Fixed Image Paths Removed requirement. Update Torrent Links. Update Links 2 Link would not work. 2 Small Fixes Changed in to from @laanwj suggestion on safety
2014-04-11Merge pull request #4009Wladimir J. van der Laan
7328898 Added instructions for when wrong openssl detected after brew link (olalonde)
2014-04-11Merge pull request #4016Wladimir J. van der Laan
8414cb0 Doxygen-compatible comments in coding style (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-04-09doc: update expected intermediate dependency hashesWladimir J. van der Laan
Also move them to release-process.md from gitian-building.md for more visibility.
2014-04-09gitian: upgrade miniupnpc input to 1.9Wladimir J. van der Laan
Bumps deps-linux, deps-win dependency versions as well. qt-win does not need to be bumped, as although it depends on deps-win, Qt doesn't use miniupnp. I verified this by rebuilding the dependency and checking the the output is the same. Not having to rebuild Qt is a good thing as it is huge.
2014-04-09doc: remove versions from build-unix.md, just refer to release-process.mdWladimir J. van der Laan
No one bothers to keep this up to date. Better to refer to another file than give wrong information.
2014-04-08Merge pull request #4023Wladimir J. van der Laan
4a811b0 gitian: upgrade openssl to 1.0.1g for both win and linux (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-04-08gitian: upgrade openssl to 1.0.1g for both win and linuxWladimir J. van der Laan
OpenSSL 1.0.1g fixes CVE-2014-0160. Also bump dependency versions.
2014-04-08Fixes the broken image in the Gitian Build GuideMichael Ford
2014-04-07Doxygen-compatible comments in coding styleWladimir J. van der Laan
2014-04-06Added instructions for when wrong openssl detected after brew linkolalonde
2014-04-02Add gitian build guideWladimir J. van der Laan
Work in progress...
2014-03-31doc: Add note about memory reqs for compilationWladimir J. van der Laan
2014-03-24Update moved and dead linksLuke Dashjr
2014-03-21doc: version bump DoxyfileWladimir J. van der Laan
- bump version to 0.9.99 - exclude leveldb and json - include call and caller graphs in the documentation.
2014-03-19Consistent use of 'sudo' in unix build docMikael Wikman
2014-03-190.9.0 release notesGavin Andresen
2014-03-19doc/README.md: remove 'rc' label for 0.9.0 version, in titleJeff Garzik
2014-03-14Update docs about boost on unixThomas Zander
2014-03-12Merge pull request #3808 from paveljanik/masterGavin Andresen
DOC: Update the list of threads to the current state.
2014-03-10doc/build-unix.md use github flavored md for tableTorstein Husebø