From fa65dcdda07746d2e5149367a193e361249873b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MarcoFalke Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:04:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Update release notes for 0.16.0 --- doc/release-notes.md | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 46fbae042..04fb0f333 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Bitcoin Core version *version* is now available from: This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations. -Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub: @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ How to Upgrade If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the -installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) +installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt` (on Mac) or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux). The first time you run version 0.15.0, your chainstate database will be converted to a @@ -68,9 +68,20 @@ implied blockmaxweight, instead of limiting block size directly. Any miners who to limit their blocks by size, instead of by weight, will have to do so manually by removing transactions from their block template directly. +HD-wallets by default +--------------------- +Due to a backward-incompatible change in the wallet database, wallets created +with version 0.16.0 will be rejected by previous versions. Also, version 0.16.0 +will only create hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets. + Low-level RPC changes ---------------------- - The "currentblocksize" value in getmininginfo has been removed. +- The deprecated RPC `getinfo` was removed. It is recommended that the more specific RPCs are used: + * `getblockchaininfo` + * `getnetworkinfo` + * `getwalletinfo` + * `getmininginfo` Credits =======