zcash-hackworks
/
bitcoin
mirror of https://github.com/zcash-hackworks/bitcoin.git
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Add BIP 66 notice to the 0.10 release notes. 

Conflicts:
	doc/release-notes.md

Rebased-From: 04ca082dd9c1d4221af65d945a66b87e66058f92
Github-Pull: #5757
This commit is contained in:
Pieter Wuille 2015-02-04 10:27:48 -08:00 committed by Wladimir J. van der Laan
parent 275400bfcc
commit e43f25c5b1
No known key found for this signature in database
GPG Key ID: 74810B012346C9A6
1 changed files with 16 additions and 0 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

16
doc/release-notes.md
View File

@ -300,6 +300,22 @@ The relay policy has changed to more properly implement the desired behavior of
relaying free (or very low fee) transactions unless they have a priority above the
AllowFreeThreshold(), in which case they are relayed subject to the rate limiter.
BIP 66: strict DER encoding for signatures
------------------------------------------
Bitcoin Core 0.10 implements BIP 66, which introduces block version 3, and a new
consensus rule, which prohibits non-DER signatures. Such transactions have been
non-standard since Bitcoin v0.8.0 (released in February 2013), but were
technically still permitted inside blocks.
This change breaks the dependency on OpenSSL's signature parsing, and is
required if implementations would want to remove all of OpenSSL from the
consensus code.
The same miner-voting mechanism as in BIP 34 is used: when 751 out of a
sequence of 1001 blocks have version number 3 or higher, the new consensus
rule becomes active for those blocks. When 951 out of a sequence of 1001
blocks have version number 3 or higher, it becomes mandatory for all blocks.
0.10.0 Change log
=================