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-0.8.2.md | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 137 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.8.2.md (limited to 'doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.8.2.md') diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.8.2.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.8.2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..596ce8835f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.8.2.md @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 is now available from: + http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.2/ + +This is a maintenance release that fixes many bugs and includes +a few small new features. + +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: + https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues + + +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). + +If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you +run 0.8.2 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take +anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of +your machine. + +0.8.2 Release notes + +Fee Policy changes + +The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC +(for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is +about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC. + +Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee +(0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them +costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually +cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth. + +Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included +in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are +included in a block. + +The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee +command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees +with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the +0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from +the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm. + +Bitcoin-Qt changes + +* New icon and splash screen +* Improve reporting of synchronization process +* Remove hardcoded fee recommendations +* Improve metadata of executable on MacOSX and Windows +* Move export button to individual tabs instead of toolbar +* Add "send coins" command to context menu in address book +* Add "copy txid" command to copy transaction IDs from transaction overview +* Save & restore window size and position when showing & hiding window +* New translations: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Welsh (cy), + Esperanto (eo), Interlingua (la), Latvian (lv) and many improvements + to current translations + +MacOSX: +* OSX support for click-to-pay (bitcoin:) links +* Fix GUI disappearing problem on MacOSX (issue #1522) + +Linux/Unix: +* Copy addresses to middle-mouse-button clipboard + + +Command-line options + +* -walletnotify will call a command on receiving transactions that affect the wallet. +* -alertnotify will call a command on receiving an alert from the network. +* -par now takes a negative number, to leave a certain amount of cores free. + +JSON-RPC API changes + +* fixed a getblocktemplate bug that caused excessive CPU creating blocks. +* listunspent now lists account and address infromation. +* getinfo now also returns the time adjustment estimated from your peers. +* getpeerinfo now returns bytessent, bytesrecv and syncnode. +* gettxoutsetinfo returns statistics about the unspent transaction output database. +* gettxout returns information about a specific unspent transaction output. + + +Networking changes + +* Significant changes to the networking code, reducing latency and memory consumption. +* Avoid initial block download stalling. +* Remove IRC seeding support. +* Performance tweaks. +* Added testnet DNS seeds. + +Wallet compatibility/rescuing + +* Cases where wallets cannot be opened in another version/installation should be reduced. +* -salvagewallet now works for encrypted wallets. + + +Known Bugs + +* Entering the 'getblocktemplate' or 'getwork' RPC commands into the Bitcoin-Qt debug +console will cause Bitcoin-Qt to crash. Run Bitcoin-Qt with the -server command-line +option to workaround. + +Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.2 release! + +APerson241 +Andrew Poelstra +Calvin Owens +Chuck LeDuc Díaz +Colin Dean +David Griffith +David Serrano +Eric Lombrozo +Gavin Andresen +Gregory Maxwell +Jeff Garzik +Jonas Schnelli +Larry Gilbert +Luke Dashjr +Matt Corallo +Michael Ford +Mike Hearn +Patrick Brown +Peter Todd +Philip Kaufmann +Pieter Wuille +Richard Schwab +Roman Mindalev +Scott Howard +Tariq Bashir +Warren Togami +Wladimir J. van der Laan +freewil +gladoscc +kjj2 +mb300sd +super3 -- cgit v1.2.3