Inserts some notes related to testnet deployment
Should satisfy #959 for now. I don't want to get too detailed here, since the infrastructure automation is in a still non-public repository, but instead supply a basic overview. We can write more detailed documentation and attach it to that repo.
Update payment-api.md
Add z_getoperationresult to documentation.
@ebfull This document might be updated again with a few notes, so let's merge closer to release. Thanks.
Fix formatting of first paragraph of payment API document
The description of taddr and zaddr were bunched up one line. This PR fixes the issue.
Self-ACK. Please merge.
af6edac *: alias -h for --help (Daniel Cousens)
131d7f9 Change URLs to https in debian/control (Matt Corallo)
7ce2c91 Update debian/changelog and slight tweak to debian/control (Matt Corallo)
4fbfebe Correct spelling mistakes in doc folder (Mitchell Cash)
e42bf16 Clarification of unit test build instructions. (Eric Lombrozo)
54f9dee Update bluematt-key, the old one is long-since revoked (Matt Corallo)
bfc6154 [Trivial] Fixed typo when referring to a previous section in depends/README.md [skip ci] (Chris Kleeschulte)
9e45157 build: disable -Wself-assign (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
33d6825 Bugfix: Allow mining on top of old tip blocks for testnet (fixes testnet-in-a-box use case) (Luke Dashjr)
87a797a build: Remove dependency of bitcoin-cli on secp256k1 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a33cd5b [trivial] Fix rpc message "help generate" (MarcoFalke)
6fd0019 Drop "with minimal dependencies" from description (Zak Wilcox)
2394f4d Split bitcoin-tx into its own package (Zak Wilcox)
1e672ae Include bitcoin-tx binary on Debian/Ubuntu (Zak Wilcox)
b3eaa30 [Qt] Raise debug window when requested (MarcoFalke)
01878c9 Fix locking in GetTransaction. (Alex Morcos)
9b9acc2 Fix spelling of Qt (Diego Viola)
45bfa13 PARTIAL: typofixes (found by misspell_fixer) (Veres Lajos)
21c406e add support for miniupnpc api version 14 (Pavel Vasin)
13bd5a7 rpc-tests: re-enable rpc-tests for Windows (Cory Fields)
ccc4ad6 net: Set SO_REUSEADDR for Windows too (Cory Fields)
1f6772e add unit test for CNetAddr::GetGroup. (Alex Morcos)
13642a5 Fix masking of irrelevant bits in address groups. (Alex Morcos)
6b51b9b Replace boost::reverse_lock with our own. (Casey Rodarmor)
626c5e6 Make sure we re-acquire lock if a task throws (Casey Rodarmor)
4877053 Add missing files to files.md (fanquake)
f171fee Handle leveldb::DestroyDB() errors on wipe failure (Adam Weiss)
c5b89fe Fix race condition on test node shutdown (Casey Rodarmor)
4a37410 Handle no chain tip available in InvalidChainFound() (Ross Nicoll)
f6d29a6 Use unique name for AlertNotify tempfile (Casey Rodarmor)
e6adac7 Delay initial pruning until after wallet init (Adam Weiss)
e0020d4 Make sure LogPrint strings are line-terminated (J Ross Nicoll)
7ff9d12 Make sure LogPrintf strings are line-terminated (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
5a39133 build: fix libressl detection (Cory Fields)
f6355e6 Avoid leaking file descriptors in RegisterLoad (Casey Rodarmor)
60457d3 locking: fix a few small issues uncovered by -Wthread-safety (Cory Fields)
a496e11 Remove bash test note from rpc-tests readme (fanquake)
49c6a64 tests: Remove old sh-based test framework (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a37567d Add autogen.sh to source tarball. (randy-waterhouse)
1f4d7cf travis: for travis generating an extra build (Cory Fields)
It is unreasonable to ask to change the global package configuration
just to build a package. Not only that, this is potentially harmful to the system.
Also do a few punctuation fixes in REST-interface.md.
Github-Pull: #6413
Rebased-From: 9fbca205d4eaaf82be718b69c6533078aeb3081c
stephenhutchings commented 3 Jul 2015, 6:35 GMT:
> Hi Luke, happy for these to be distributed under the terms of the MIT licence.
> Let me know if you need anything further from me.
This is an ideal version of what the release process should look like,
making it more consistent with the OS X process. Some of the changes
described here would need to be made in the descriptors, which is somewhat
beyond what I would feel comfortable doing, not really understanding the signature process in depth.
[skip ci]
Github-Pull: #6354
Rebased-From: 6e849b8309558ec83710d86c0f784566996da58b
Move from sourceforge to linux foundation.
Also get rid of some other stale mentions of sourceforge.
Github-Pull: #6319
Rebased-From: 88d8525ca2ff2afc171cd0f625a098371f3a6af5
"brew install berkeley-db4" appears to be working again. simplified instructions by removing the berkeley-db4 workaround.
Github-Pull: #6286
Rebased-From: a3a80c253cdd0299f92b9e1ba9888f0f9421f245
Rather than fetching a signature.tar.gz from somewhere on the net, instruct
Gitian to use a signature from a tag in the bitcoin-detached-sigs repository
which corresponds to the tag of the release being built.
This changes detached-sig-apply.sh to take a dirname rather than a tarball as
an argument, though detached-sig-create.sh still outputs a tarball for
convenience.
Github-Pull: #6269
Rebased-From: c110575a92ebe2e9a58b53d56aafa1f1ae37dbb2
Add information about further notable changes:
- Big endian support
- Memory usage optimization
- Disable wallet transaction broadcast
- Stream isolation for Tor
ca5f688 [QT] don't colorize icons on win and mac (Jonas Schnelli)
7247d10 [QT] use alert icon with tooltip insted of "(out of sync)" text (Jonas Schnelli)
51c7c70 [QT] remove frame to avoid double-frame situation in sendcoinsentry.ui (Jonas Schnelli)
2a6b844 [QT] change transaction amount and height in overview page (Jonas Schnelli)
- Split linux32/linux64 releases
- Split win32/win64 zips
- Post-processing should no longer be required. The deterministic outputs are
ready for consumption.
- switching release builds to 10.7
- release binary looks like 64bit only
- tested up to 10.10
- gitian builder builds against 10.7. The docs should be consistant.
- remove 32bit text because nowadays it's obvious to support 64bit only on OSX.
Start the RPC server before doing all the (expensive) startup
initialisations like loading the block index. Until the node is ready,
return all calls immediately with a new error signalling "in warmup"
with an appropriate status message (similar to the init message).
This is useful for RPC clients to know that the server is there (e. g.,
they don't have to start it) but not yet available. It is used in
Namecoin and Huntercoin already for some time, and there exists a UI
hooked onto the RPC interface that actively uses this to its advantage.
The homebrew instructions were outdated - berkeley-db4 hasn't worked for months, based on the questions I'm seeing on Google/SO. So I added a section explaining how to install berkeley-db4 using homebrew and move on with your life. Thanks for the rest of the documentation!
Bitcoin core should work with any remotely recent boost version
if a proper build environment is present. Remove a confusing comment
from the build documentation.
Anyone building bitcoind/-qt on windows is welcome to contribute
a new one. The current information in this document is outdated,
or otherwise mostly worthless.
The wallet now uses the mempool fee estimator with a new
command-line option: -txconfirmtarget (default: 1) instead
of using hard-coded fees or priorities.
A new bitcoind that hasn't seen enough transactions to estimate
will fall back to the old hard-coded minimum priority or
transaction fee.
-paytxfee option overrides -txconfirmtarget.
Relaying and mining code isn't changed.
For Qt, the coin control dialog now uses priority estimates to
label transaction priority (instead of hard-coded constants);
unspent outputs were consistently labeled with a much higher
priority than is justified by the free transactions actually
being accepted into blocks.
I did not implement any GUI for setting -txconfirmtarget; I would
suggest getting rid of the "Pay transaction fee" GUI and replace
it with either "target number of confirmations" or maybe
a "faster confirmation <--> lower fee" slider or select box.
This is PR #4271, but with the changes to the descriptors, both the names of the
files and the names of the intermediate build artifact archives, removed.
This also closes#3775 if it goes in, because it covers the changes in
that PR.
New RPC methods: return an estimate of the fee (or priority) a
transaction needs to be likely to confirm in a given number of
blocks.
Mike Hearn created the first version of this method for estimating fees.
It works as follows:
For transactions that took 1 to N (I picked N=25) blocks to confirm,
keep N buckets with at most 100 entries in each recording the
fees-per-kilobyte paid by those transactions.
(separate buckets are kept for transactions that confirmed because
they are high-priority)
The buckets are filled as blocks are found, and are saved/restored
in a new fee_estiamtes.dat file in the data directory.
A few variations on Mike's initial scheme:
To estimate the fee needed for a transaction to confirm in X buckets,
all of the samples in all of the buckets are used and a median of
all of the data is used to make the estimate. For example, imagine
25 buckets each containing the full 100 entries. Those 2,500 samples
are sorted, and the estimate of the fee needed to confirm in the very
next block is the 50'th-highest-fee-entry in that sorted list; the
estimate of the fee needed to confirm in the next two blocks is the
150'th-highest-fee-entry, etc.
That algorithm has the nice property that estimates of how much fee
you need to pay to get confirmed in block N will always be greater
than or equal to the estimate for block N+1. It would clearly be wrong
to say "pay 11 uBTC and you'll get confirmed in 3 blocks, but pay
12 uBTC and it will take LONGER".
A single block will not contribute more than 10 entries to any one
bucket, so a single miner and a large block cannot overwhelm
the estimates.
Upgrade for https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt
Just in case - there is no vulnerability that affects ecdsa signing or
verification.
The MITM attack vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224) may have some effect on
our usage of SSL/TLS.
As long as payment requests are signed (which is the common case), usage
of the payment protocol should also not be affected.
The TLS usage in RPC may be at risk for MITM attacks. If you have
`-rpcssl` enabled, be sure to update OpenSSL as soon as possible.
1411a51 doc: Update hash in release process for new windows deps intermediate (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
386e732 gitian: make linux qt intermediate deterministic (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
I added a link to my guide about using docker containers + LXC (I am planning to maintain this at work
for future bitcoin versions), then I mentioned other virtualization options (KVM, LXC).
This commit includes a fix issue for documentation issue #4269 that consists in telling users to
checkout correct bitcoin version before using the gitian descriptors (otherwise all hell can break loose).
Also, I replaced URL for Debian 7.4 ISO with a correct one and added link to official Debian ISO sources.
A qt installation date snuck into the host utils (lrelease etc)
This doesn't affect the end product, so no dependency version bump.
It also doesn't explain why gavin's and mine build is different
There is no need to use any specific version of boost on Linux/Unix.
Even 1.37 should still work.
Also the mention of boost-dev doesn't belong after adding oldstable.
Remove it. libboost-all-dev is already mentioned earlier.