From fa0a391b35eacb01678eedbf489a457da90435d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MarcoFalke Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:18:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add Replace-by-fee to release-notes --- doc/release-notes.md | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 953258f41..65150808a 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -169,6 +169,17 @@ a connection to Tor can be made. It can be configured with the `-listenonion`, `-torcontrol` and `-torpassword` settings. To show verbose debugging information, pass `-debug=tor`. +Replace-by-fee transactions +--------------------------- + +It is now possible to replace transactions in the transaction memory pool of +Bitcoin Core 0.12 nodes. Bitcoin Core will only replace transactions which +have any of their inputs' `nSequence` number set to less than `0xffffffff - 1`. +Moreover, a replacement transaction may only be accepted when it pays +sufficient fee, as described in [BIP 125] +(https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0125.mediawiki). + + Reduce upload traffic --------------------- @@ -229,7 +240,7 @@ relay fee. Bitcoin Core 0.12 will have a strict maximum size on the mempool. The default value is 300 MB and can be configured with the `-maxmempool` parameter. Whenever a transaction would cause the mempool to exceed -it's maximum size, the transaction with the lowest feerate will be +its maximum size, the transaction with the lowest feerate will be evicted and the node's minimum relay fee will be increased to match this feerate. The initial minimum relay fee is set to 1000 satoshis per kB.