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Wladimir J. van der Laan e3ed6a9785 doc: Add preliminary changelog for 0.11 to release notes

2015-05-26 14:35:48 +02:00

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(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to release-notes at release time)

0.11.0 Change log

Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.

RPC and REST

#5461 5f7279a signrawtransaction: validate private key
#5444 103f66b Add /rest/headers//.
#4964 95ecc0a Add scriptPubKey field to validateaddress RPC call
#5476 c986972 Add time offset into getpeerinfo output
#5540 84eba47 Add unconfirmed and immature balances to getwalletinfo
#5599 40e96a3 Get rid of the internal miner's hashmeter
#5711 87ecfb0 Push down RPC locks
#5754 1c4e3f9 fix getblocktemplate lock issue
#5756 5d901d8 Fix getblocktemplate_proposals test by mining one block
#5548 d48ce48 Add /rest/chaininfos
#5992 4c4f1b4 Push down RPC reqWallet flag
#6036 585b5db Show zero value txouts in listunspent
#5199 6364408 Add RPC call gettxoutproof to generate and verify merkle blocks
#5418 16341cc Report missing inputs in sendrawtransaction
#5937 40f5e8d show script verification errors in signrawtransaction result
#5420 1fd2d39 [REST] getutxos REST command (based on Bip64)

Configuration and command-line options

#5636 a353ad4 Add option -allowselfsignedrootcertificate to allow self signed root certs (for testing payment requests)
#5900 3e8a1f2 Add a consistency check -checkblockindex for the block chain data structures
#5951 7efc9cf Make it possible to disable wallet transaction broadcast (using -walletbroadcast=0)
#5911 b6ea3bc privacy: Stream isolation for Tor (on by default, use -proxyrandomize=0 to disable)
#5863 c271304 Add autoprune functionality (-prune=<size>)

Block and transaction handling

#5367 dcc1304 Do all block index writes in a batch
#5253 203632d Check against MANDATORY flags prior to accepting to mempool
#5459 4406c3e Reject headers that build on an invalid parent
#5481 055f3ae Apply AreSane() checks to the fees from the network
#5580 40d65eb Preemptively catch a few potential bugs
#5349 f55c5e9 Implement test for merkle tree malleability in CPartialMerkleTree
#5564 a89b837 clarify obscure uses of EvalScript()
#5521 8e4578a Reject non-final txs even in testnet/regtest
#5707 6af674e Change hardcoded character constants to descriptive named constants for db keys
#5286 fcf646c Change the default maximum OP_RETURN size to 80 bytes
#5710 175d86e Add more information to errors in ReadBlockFromDisk
#5948 b36f1ce Use GetAncestor to compute new target
#5959 a0bfc69 Add additional block index consistency checks
#6058 7e0e7f8 autoprune minor post-merge improvements
#5159 2cc1372 New fee estimation code
#6102 6fb90d8 Implement accurate UTXO cache size accounting
#6129 2a82298 Bug fix for clearing fCheckForPruning
#5947 e9af4e6 Alert if it is very likely we are getting a bad chain

P2P protocol and network code

#5507 844ace9 Prevent DOS attacks on in-flight data structures
#5770 32a8b6a Sanitize command strings before logging them
#5859 dd4ffce Add correct bool combiner for net signals
#5876 8e4fd0c Add a NODE_GETUTXO service bit and document NODE_NETWORK.
#6028 b9311fb Move nLastTry from CAddress to CAddrInfo
#5662 5048465 Change download logic to allow calling getdata on inbound peers
#5971 18d2832 replace absolute sleep with conditional wait
#5918 7bf5d5e Use equivalent PoW for non-main-chain requests
#6059 f026ab6 chainparams: use SeedSpec6's rather than CAddress's for fixed seeds
#6080 31c0bf1 Add jonasschnellis dns seeder
#5976 9f7809f Reduce download timeouts as blocks arrive

Validation

#5143 48e1765 Implement BIP62 rule 6
#5713 41e6e4c Implement BIP66

Build system

#5501 c76c9d2 Add mips, mipsel and aarch64 to depends platforms
#5334 cf87536 libbitcoinconsensus: Add pkg-config support
#5514 ed11d53 Fix 'make distcheck'
#5505 a99ef7d Build winshutdownmonitor.cpp on Windows only
#5582 e8a6639 Osx toolchain update
#5684 ab64022 osx: bump build sdk to 10.9
#5695 23ef5b7 depends: latest config.guess and config.sub
#5509 31dedb4 Fixes when compiling in c++11 mode
#5819 f8e68f7 release: use static libstdc++ and disable reduced exports by default
#5510 7c3fbc3 Big endian support
#5149 c7abfa5 Add script to verify all merge commits are signed
#6082 7abbb7e qt: disable qt tests when one of the checks for the gui fails

Wallet

#2340 811c71d Discourage fee sniping with nLockTime
#5485 d01bcc4 Enforce minRelayTxFee on wallet created tx and add a maxtxfee option.
#5508 9a5cabf Add RandAddSeedPerfmon to MakeNewKey
#4805 8204e19 Do not flush the wallet in AddToWalletIfInvolvingMe(..)
#5319 93b7544 Clean up wallet encryption code
#5831 df5c246 Subtract fee from amount
#6076 6c97fd1 wallet: fix boost::get usage with boost 1.58
#5511 23c998d Sort pending wallet transactions before reaccepting
#6126 26e08a1 Change default nTxConfirmTarget to 2

GUI

#5219 f3af0c8 New icons
#5228 bb3c75b HiDPI (retina) support for splash screen
#5258 73cbf0a The RPC Console should be a QWidget to make window more independent
#5488 851dfc7 Light blue icon color for regtest
#5547 a39aa74 New icon for the debug window
#5493 e515309 Adopt style colour for button icons
#5557 70477a0 On close of splashscreen interrupt verifyDB
#5559 83be8fd Make the command-line-args dialog better
#5144 c5380a9 Elaborate on signverify message dialog warning
#5489 d1aa3c6 Optimize PNG files
#5649 e0cd2f5 Use text-color icons for system tray Send/Receive menu entries
#5651 848f55d Coin Control: Use U+2248 "ALMOST EQUAL TO" rather than a simple tilde
#5626 ab0d798 Fix icon sizes and column width
#5683 c7b22aa add new osx dmg background picture
#5620 7823598 Payment request expiration bug fix
#5729 9c4a5a5 Allow unit changes for read-only BitcoinAmountField
#5753 0f44672 Add bitcoin logo to about screen
#5629 a956586 Prevent amount overflow problem with payment requests
#5830 215475a Don't save geometry for options and about/help window
#5793 d26f0b2 Honor current network when creating autostart link
#5847 f238add Startup script for centos, with documentation
#5915 5bd3a92 Fix a static qt5 crash when using certain versions of libxcb
#5898 bb56781 Fix rpc console font size to flexible metrics
#5467 bc8535b Payment request / server work - part 2
#6161 180c164 Remove movable option for toolbar
#6160 0d862c2 Overviewpage: make sure warning icons gets colored

Tests

#5453 2f2d337 Add ability to run single test manually to RPC tests
#5421 886eb57 Test unexecuted OP_CODESEPARATOR
#5530 565b300 Additional rpc tests
#5611 37b185c Fix spurious windows test failures after 012598880c
#5613 2eda47b Fix smartfees test for change to relay policy
#5612 e3f5727 Fix zapwallettxes test
#5642 30a5b5f Prepare paymentservertests for new unit tests
#5784 e3a3cd7 Fix usage of NegateSignatureS in script_tests
#5813 ee9f2bf Add unit tests for next difficulty calculations
#5855 d7989c0 Travis: run unit tests in different orders
#5852 cdae53e Reinitialize state in between individual unit tests.
#5883 164d7b6 tests: add a BasicTestingSetup and apply to all tests
#5940 446bb70 Regression test for ResendWalletTransactions
#6052 cf7adad fix and enable bip32 unit test
#6039 734f80a tests: Error when setgenerate is used on regtest
#6074 948beaf Correct the PUSHDATA4 minimal encoding test in script_invalid.json
#6032 e08886d Stop nodes after RPC tests, even with --nocleanup
#6075 df1609f Add additional script edge condition tests
#5981 da38dc6 Python P2P testing
#5958 9ef00c3 Add multisig rpc tests
#6112 fec5c0e Add more script edge condition tests

Miscellaneous

#5457, #5506, #5952, #6047 Update libsecp256k1
#5437 84857e8 Add missing CAutoFile::IsNull() check in main
#5490 ec20fd7 Replace uint256/uint160 with opaque blobs where possible
#5654, #5764 Adding jonasschnelli's GPG key
#5477 5f04d1d OS X 10.10: LSSharedFileListItemResolve() is deprecated
#5679 beff11a Get rid of DetectShutdownThread
#5787 9bd8c9b Add fanquake PGP key
#5366 47a79bb No longer check osx compatibility in RenameThread
#5689 07f4386 openssl: abstract out OPENSSL_cleanse
#5708 8b298ca Add list of implemented BIPs
#5809 46bfbe7 Add bitcoin-cli man page
#5839 86eb461 keys: remove libsecp256k1 verification until it's actually supported
#5749 d734d87 Help messages correctly formatted (79 chars)
#5884 7077fe6 BUGFIX: Stack around the variable 'rv' was corrupted
#5849 41259ca contrib/init/bitcoind.openrc: Compatibility with previous OpenRC init script variables
#5950 41113e3 Fix locale fallback and guard tests against invalid locale settings
#5965 7c6bfb1 Add git-subtree-check.sh script
#6033 1623f6e FreeBSD, OpenBSD thread renaming
#6064 b46e7c2 Several changes to mruset
#6104 3e2559c Show an init message while activating best chain
#6125 351f73e Clean up parsing of bool command line args
#5964 b4c219b Lightweight task scheduler
#6116 30dc3c1 [OSX] rename Bitcoin-Qt.app to Bitcoin-Core.app
#6168 b3024f0 contrib/linearize: Support linearization of testnet blocks
#6098 7708fcd Update Windows resource files (and add one for bitcoin-tx)
#6159 e1412d3 Catch errors on datadir lock and pidfile delete

[up to date until #5976]

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