From fd5c95cc4ec8d7d8a49539e9143eab29281c00f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:25:26 +0200 Subject: doc: Add historical release notes for 0.16.3 --- doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.3.md | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.3.md (limited to 'doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.3.md') diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.3.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2e52d309c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.3.md @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +Bitcoin Core version 0.16.3 is now available from: + + + +This is a new minor version release, with various bugfixes. + +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub: + + + +To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to: + + + +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). + +The first time you run version 0.15.0 or newer, your chainstate database will be converted to a +new format, which will take anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour, +depending on the speed of your machine. + +Note that the block database format also changed in version 0.8.0 and there is no +automatic upgrade code from before version 0.8 to version 0.15.0 or higher. Upgrading +directly from 0.7.x and earlier without re-downloading the blockchain is not supported. +However, as usual, old wallet versions are still supported. + +Downgrading warning +------------------- + +Wallets created in 0.16 and later are not compatible with versions prior to 0.16 +and will not work if you try to use newly created wallets in older versions. Existing +wallets that were created with older versions are not affected by this. + +Compatibility +============== + +Bitcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using +the Linux kernel, macOS 10.8+, and Windows Vista and later. Windows XP is not supported. + +Bitcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not +frequently tested on them. + +Notable changes +=============== + +Denial-of-Service vulnerability +------------------------------- + +A denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2018-17144) exploitable by miners has +been discovered in Bitcoin Core versions 0.14.0 up to 0.16.2. It is recommended +to upgrade any of the vulnerable versions to 0.16.3 as soon as possible. + +0.16.3 change log +------------------ + +### Consensus +- #14249 `696b936` Fix crash bug with duplicate inputs within a transaction (TheBlueMatt, sdaftuar) + +### RPC and other APIs +- #13547 `212ef1f` Make `signrawtransaction*` give an error when amount is needed but missing (ajtowns) + +### Miscellaneous +- #13655 `1cdbea7` bitcoinconsensus: invalid flags error should be set to `bitcoinconsensus_err` (afk11) + +### Documentation +- #13844 `11b9dbb` correct the help output for -prune (hebasto) + +Credits +======= + +Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: + +- Anthony Towns +- Hennadii Stepanov +- Matt Corallo +- Suhas Daftuar +- Thomas Kerin +- Wladimir J. van der Laan + +And to those that reported security issues: + +- (anonymous reporter) + -- cgit v1.2.3