Add IBD download traffic reduction to release notes

Co-authored-by: therealyingtong <yingtong@z.cash>
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Jack Grigg 2021-02-19 18:20:08 +00:00
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Notable changes
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Reduce download traffic
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We have made several changes to reduce the amount of data downloaded by `zcashd`
during initial block download (IBD):
- Significant time and bandwidth is spent in issuing `getheaders` P2P requests.
This results in noticeable bandwidth usage due to the large size of Zcash
block headers.
We now eliminate redundant requests in cases where we already know the last
header in the message. This optimization is enabled by default, but can be
disabled by setting the config option `-no-optimize-getheaders`.
- Transactions in the mempool are no longer downloaded during IBD (`zcashd` will
only request block data).
Reduce upload traffic
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