Some 0.13 release notes about p2p changes

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@ -115,6 +115,17 @@ version is bumped to 70013. Upon receiving a feefilter message from a peer,
a node will not send invs for any transactions which do not meet the filter
feerate. [BIP 133](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0133.mediawiki)
Compact Block support (BIP 152)
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Support for block relay using the Compact Blocks protocol has been implemented
in PR 8068.
The primary goal is reducing the bandwidth spikes at relay time, though in many
cases it also reduces propagation relay. It is automatically enabled between
compatible peers.
[BIP 152](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0152.mediawiki)
Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation
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Newly created wallets will use hierarchical deterministic key generation
@ -139,6 +150,28 @@ Low-level P2P changes
- The P2P alert system has been removed in PR #7692 and the `alert` P2P message
is no longer supported.
- The transaction relay mechanism used to relay one quarter of all transactions
instantly, while queueing up the rest and sending them out in batch. As
this resulted in chains of dependent transactions being reordered, it
systematically hurt transaction relay. The relay code was redesigned in PRs
#7840 and #8082, and now always batches transactions announcements while also
sorting them according to dependency order. This significantly reduces orphan
transactions. To compensate for the removal of instant relay, the frequency of
batch sending was doubled for outgoing peers.
- Since PR 7840 the BIP35 mempool command is also subject to batch processing.
- The maximum size of orphan transactions that are kept in memory until their
ancestors arrive has been raised in PR 8179 from 5000 to 99999 bytes. They
are now also removed from memory when they are included in a block, conflict
with a block, and time out after 20 minutes.
- We respond at most once to a getaddr request during the lifetime of a
connection since PR 7856.
- Connections to peers who have recently been the first one to give us a valid
new block or transaction are protected from disconnections since PR 8084.
Low-level RPC changes
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