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(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to |
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release-notes at release time) |
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Bitcoin Core version *0.15.1* is now available from: |
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<https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.15.1/> |
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or |
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<https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.15.1/> |
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This is a new minor version release, including various bugfixes and |
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@@ -60,18 +61,6 @@ frequently tested on them. |
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Notable changes |
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=============== |
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0.15.1 Change log |
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================= |
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- `dumpwallet` no longer allows overwriting files. This is a security measure |
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as well as prevents dangerous user mistakes. |
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- `listsinceblock` will now throw an error if an unknown `blockhash` argument |
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value is passed, instead of returning a list of all wallet transactions since |
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the genesis block. |
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Miner block size limiting deprecated |
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- The "currentblocksize" value in getmininginfo has been removed. |
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- `dumpwallet` no longer allows overwriting files. This is a security measure |
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as well as prevents dangerous user mistakes. |
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- `listsinceblock` will now throw an error if an unknown `blockhash` argument |
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value is passed, instead of returning a list of all wallet transactions since |
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the genesis block. |
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0.15.1 Change log |
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================= |
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### Mining |
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- #11100 `7871a7d` Fix confusing blockmax{size,weight} options, dont default to throwing away money (TheBlueMatt) |
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### RPC and other APIs |
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- #10859 `2a5d099` gettxout: Slightly improve doc and tests (jtimon) |
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- #11267 `b1a6c94` update cli for estimate\*fee argument rename (laanwj) |
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- #11483 `20cdc2b` Fix importmulti bug when importing an already imported key (pedrobranco) |
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- #9937 `a43be5b` Prevent `dumpwallet` from overwriting files (laanwj) |
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- #11465 `405e069` Update named args documentation for importprivkey (dusty-wil) |
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- #11131 `b278a43` Write authcookie atomically (laanwj) |
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- #11565 `7d4546f` Make listsinceblock refuse unknown block hash (ryanofsky) |
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- #11593 `8195cb0` Work-around an upstream libevent bug (theuni) |
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### P2P protocol and network code |
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- #11397 `27e861a` Improve and document SOCKS code (laanwj) |
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- #11252 `0fe2a9a` When clearing addrman clear mapInfo and mapAddr (instagibbs) |
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- #11527 `a2bd86a` Remove my testnet DNS seed (schildbach) |
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- #10756 `0a5477c` net processing: swap out signals for an interface class (theuni) |
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- #11531 `55b7abf` Check that new headers are not a descendant of an invalid block (more effeciently) (TheBlueMatt) |
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- #11560 `49bf090` Connect to a new outbound peer if our tip is stale (sdaftuar) |
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- #11568 `fc966bb` Disconnect outbound peers on invalid chains (sdaftuar) |
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- #11578 `ec8dedf` Add missing lock in ProcessHeadersMessage(...) (practicalswift) |
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- #11456 `6f27965` Replace relevant services logic with a function suite (TheBlueMatt) |
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- #11490 `bf191a7` Disconnect from outbound peers with bad headers chains (sdaftuar) |
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### Validation |
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- #10357 `da4908c` Allow setting nMinimumChainWork on command line (sdaftuar) |
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- #11458 `2df65ee` Don't process unrequested, low-work blocks (sdaftuar) |
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### Build system |
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- #11440 `b6c0209` Fix validationinterface build on super old boost/clang (TheBlueMatt) |
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- #11530 `265bb21` Add share/rpcuser to dist. source code archive (MarcoFalke) |
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### GUI |
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- #11334 `19d63e8` Remove custom fee radio group and remove nCustomFeeRadio setting (achow101) |
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- #11198 `7310f1f` Fix display of package name on 'open config file' tooltip (esotericnonsense) |
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- #11015 `6642558` Add delay before filtering transactions (lclc) |
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- #11338 `6a62c74` Backup former GUI settings on `-resetguisettings` (laanwj) |
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- #11335 `8d13b42` Replace save|restoreWindowGeometry with Qt functions (MeshCollider) |
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- #11237 `2e31b1d` Fixing division by zero in time remaining (MeshCollider) |
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- #11247 `47c02a8` Use IsMine to validate custom change address (MarcoFalke) |
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### Wallet |
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- #11017 `9e8aae3` Close DB on error (kallewoof) |
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- #11225 `6b4d9f2` Update stored witness in AddToWallet (sdaftuar) |
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- #11126 `2cb720a` Acquire cs_main lock before cs_wallet during wallet initialization (ryanofsky) |
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- #11476 `9c8006d` Avoid opening copied wallet databases simultaneously (ryanofsky) |
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- #11492 `de7053f` Fix leak in CDB constructor (promag) |
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- #11376 `fd79ed6` Ensure backupwallet fails when attempting to backup to source file (tomasvdw) |
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- #11326 `d570aa4` Fix crash on shutdown with invalid wallet (MeshCollider) |
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### Tests and QA |
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- #11399 `a825d4a` Fix bip68-sequence rpc test (jl2012) |
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- #11150 `847c75e` Add getmininginfo test (mess110) |
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- #11407 `806c78f` add functional test for mempoolreplacement command line arg (instagibbs) |
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- #11433 `e169349` Restore bitcoin-util-test py2 compatibility (MarcoFalke) |
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- #11308 `2e1ac70` zapwallettxes: Wait up to 3s for mempool reload (MarcoFalke) |
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- #10798 `716066d` test bitcoin-cli (jnewbery) |
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- #11443 `019c492` Allow "make cov" out-of-tree; Fix rpc mapping check (MarcoFalke) |
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- #11445 `51bad91` 0.15.1 Backports (MarcoFalke) |
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- #11319 `2f0b30a` Fix error introduced into p2p-segwit.py, and prevent future similar errors (sdaftuar) |
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- #10552 `e4605d9` Tests for zmqpubrawtx and zmqpubrawblock (achow101) |
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- #11067 `eeb24a3` TestNode: Add wait_until_stopped helper method (MarcoFalke) |
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- #11068 `5398f20` Move wait_until to util (MarcoFalke) |
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- #11125 `812c870` Add bitcoin-cli -stdin and -stdinrpcpass functional tests (promag) |
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- #11077 `1d80d1e` fix timeout issues from TestNode (jnewbery) |
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- #11078 `f1ced0d` Make p2p-leaktests.py more robust (jnewbery) |
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- #11210 `f3f7891` Stop test_bitcoin-qt touching ~/.bitcoin (MeshCollider) |
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- #11234 `f0b6795` Remove redundant testutil.cpp|h files (MeshCollider) |
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- #11215 `cef0319` fixups from set_test_params() (jnewbery) |
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- #11345 `f9cf7b5` Check connectivity before sending in assumevalid.py (jnewbery) |
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- #11091 `c276c1e` Increase initial RPC timeout to 60 seconds (laanwj) |
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- #10711 `fc2aa09` Introduce TestNode (jnewbery) |
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- #11230 `d8dd8e7` Fixup dbcrash interaction with add_nodes() (jnewbery) |
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- #11241 `4424176` Improve signmessages functional test (mess110) |
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- #11116 `2c4ff35` Unit tests for script/standard and IsMine functions (jimpo) |
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- #11422 `a36f332` Verify DBWrapper iterators are taking snapshots (TheBlueMatt) |
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- #11121 `bb5e7cb` TestNode tidyups (jnewbery) |
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- #11521 `ca0f3f7` travis: move back to the minimal image (theuni) |
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- #11538 `adbc9d1` Fix race condition failures in replace-by-fee.py, sendheaders.py (sdaftuar) |
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- #11472 `4108879` Make tmpdir option an absolute path, misc cleanup (MarcoFalke) |
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- #10853 `5b728c8` Fix RPC failure testing (again) (jnewbery) |
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- #11310 `b6468d3` Test listwallets RPC (mess110) |
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### Miscellaneous |
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- #11377 `75997c3` Disallow uncompressed pubkeys in bitcoin-tx [multisig] output adds (TheBlueMatt) |
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- #11437 `dea3b87` [Docs] Update Windows build instructions for using WSL and Ubuntu 17.04 (fanquake) |
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- #11318 `8b61aee` Put back inadvertently removed copyright notices (gmaxwell) |
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- #11442 `cf18f42` [Docs] Update OpenBSD Build Instructions for OpenBSD 6.2 (fanquake) |
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- #10957 `50bd3f6` Avoid returning a BIP9Stats object with uninitialized values (practicalswift) |
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- #11539 `01223a0` [verify-commits] Allow revoked keys to expire (TheBlueMatt) |
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Credits |
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======= |
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Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: |
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(fill this in) |
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- Andreas Schildbach |
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- Andrew Chow |
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- Chris Moore |
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- Cory Fields |
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- Cristian Mircea Messel |
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- Daniel Edgecumbe |
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- Donal OConnor |
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- Dusty Williams |
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- fanquake |
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- Gregory Sanders |
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- Jim Posen |
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- John Newbery |
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- Johnson Lau |
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- João Barbosa |
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- Jorge Timón |
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- Karl-Johan Alm |
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- Lucas Betschart |
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- MarcoFalke |
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- Matt Corallo |
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- MeshCollider |
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- Paul Berg |
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- Pedro Branco |
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- Pieter Wuille |
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- practicalswift |
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- Russell Yanofsky |
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- Suhas Daftuar |
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- Tomas van der Wansem |
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- Wladimir J. van der Laan |
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As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/). |