From 69baec96473ca2dc28ac016093770a46650a4ac9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:31:17 +0100 Subject: doc: Add historical release notes Add all known release notes for versions since 0.3.12, thanks to Matt Corallo for collecting them on the wiki. --- doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.2.md | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.2.md (limited to 'doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.2.md') diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.2.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bb85fb23a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.6.2.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Bitcoin version 0.6.2 is now available for download at: +http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.2/ + +This is a bug-fix and code-cleanup release, with no major new features. + +Please report bugs using the github issue tracker at: +https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues + + +NOTABLE CHANGES + +Much faster shutdowns. However, the blkindex.dat file is no longer +portable to different data directories by default. If you need a +portable blkindex.dat file then run with the new -detachdb=1 option +or the "Detach databases at shutdown" GUI preference. + +Fixed https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/1065, a bug that +could cause long-running nodes to crash. + +Mac and Windows binaries are compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1b (Linux +binaries are dynamically linked to the version of OpenSSL on the system). + + +CHANGE SUMMARY + +Use 'git shortlog --no-merges v0.6.0..' for a summary of this release. + +Source codebase changes: +- Many source code cleanups and warnings fixes. Close to building with -Wall +- Locking overhaul, and several minor locking fixes +- Several source code portability fixes, e.g. FreeBSD + +JSON-RPC interface changes: +- addmultisigaddress enabled for mainnet (previously only enabled for testnet) + +Network protocol changes: +- protocol version 60001 +- added nonce value to "ping" message (BIP 31) +- added new "pong" message (BIP 31) + +Backend storage changes: +- Less redundant database flushing, especially during initial block download +- Shutdown improvements (see above) + +Qt user interface: +- minor URI handling improvements +- progressbar improvements +- error handling improvements (show message box rather than console exception, +etc.) +- by popular request, make 4th bar of connection icon green -- cgit v1.2.3