bitcoin/doc/release-notes.md

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0.11.0 Change log

Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.

RPC and REST

  • #5461 5f7279a signrawtransaction: validate private key
  • #5444 103f66b Add /rest/headers//.
  • #4964 95ecc0a Add scriptPubKey field to validateaddress RPC call
  • #5476 c986972 Add time offset into getpeerinfo output
  • #5540 84eba47 Add unconfirmed and immature balances to getwalletinfo
  • #5599 40e96a3 Get rid of the internal miner's hashmeter
  • #5711 87ecfb0 Push down RPC locks
  • #5754 1c4e3f9 fix getblocktemplate lock issue
  • #5756 5d901d8 Fix getblocktemplate_proposals test by mining one block
  • #5548 d48ce48 Add /rest/chaininfos
  • #5992 4c4f1b4 Push down RPC reqWallet flag
  • #6036 585b5db Show zero value txouts in listunspent
  • #5199 6364408 Add RPC call gettxoutproof to generate and verify merkle blocks
  • #5418 16341cc Report missing inputs in sendrawtransaction
  • #5937 40f5e8d show script verification errors in signrawtransaction result
  • #5420 1fd2d39 [REST] getutxos REST command (based on Bip64)

Configuration and command-line options

  • #5636 a353ad4 Add option -allowselfsignedrootcertificate to allow self signed root certs (for testing payment requests)
  • #5900 3e8a1f2 Add a consistency check -checkblockindex for the block chain data structures
  • #5951 7efc9cf Make it possible to disable wallet transaction broadcast (using -walletbroadcast=0)
  • #5911 b6ea3bc privacy: Stream isolation for Tor (on by default, use -proxyrandomize=0 to disable)
  • #5863 c271304 Add autoprune functionality (-prune=<size>)

Block and transaction handling

  • #5367 dcc1304 Do all block index writes in a batch
  • #5253 203632d Check against MANDATORY flags prior to accepting to mempool
  • #5459 4406c3e Reject headers that build on an invalid parent
  • #5481 055f3ae Apply AreSane() checks to the fees from the network
  • #5580 40d65eb Preemptively catch a few potential bugs
  • #5349 f55c5e9 Implement test for merkle tree malleability in CPartialMerkleTree
  • #5564 a89b837 clarify obscure uses of EvalScript()
  • #5521 8e4578a Reject non-final txs even in testnet/regtest
  • #5707 6af674e Change hardcoded character constants to descriptive named constants for db keys
  • #5286 fcf646c Change the default maximum OP_RETURN size to 80 bytes
  • #5710 175d86e Add more information to errors in ReadBlockFromDisk
  • #5948 b36f1ce Use GetAncestor to compute new target
  • #5959 a0bfc69 Add additional block index consistency checks
  • #6058 7e0e7f8 autoprune minor post-merge improvements
  • #5159 2cc1372 New fee estimation code
  • #6102 6fb90d8 Implement accurate UTXO cache size accounting
  • #6129 2a82298 Bug fix for clearing fCheckForPruning
  • #5947 e9af4e6 Alert if it is very likely we are getting a bad chain

P2P protocol and network code

  • #5507 844ace9 Prevent DOS attacks on in-flight data structures
  • #5770 32a8b6a Sanitize command strings before logging them
  • #5859 dd4ffce Add correct bool combiner for net signals
  • #5876 8e4fd0c Add a NODE_GETUTXO service bit and document NODE_NETWORK.
  • #6028 b9311fb Move nLastTry from CAddress to CAddrInfo
  • #5662 5048465 Change download logic to allow calling getdata on inbound peers
  • #5971 18d2832 replace absolute sleep with conditional wait
  • #5918 7bf5d5e Use equivalent PoW for non-main-chain requests
  • #6059 f026ab6 chainparams: use SeedSpec6's rather than CAddress's for fixed seeds
  • #6080 31c0bf1 Add jonasschnellis dns seeder
  • #5976 9f7809f Reduce download timeouts as blocks arrive

Validation

  • #5143 48e1765 Implement BIP62 rule 6
  • #5713 41e6e4c Implement BIP66

Build system

  • #5501 c76c9d2 Add mips, mipsel and aarch64 to depends platforms
  • #5334 cf87536 libbitcoinconsensus: Add pkg-config support
  • #5514 ed11d53 Fix 'make distcheck'
  • #5505 a99ef7d Build winshutdownmonitor.cpp on Windows only
  • #5582 e8a6639 Osx toolchain update
  • #5684 ab64022 osx: bump build sdk to 10.9
  • #5695 23ef5b7 depends: latest config.guess and config.sub
  • #5509 31dedb4 Fixes when compiling in c++11 mode
  • #5819 f8e68f7 release: use static libstdc++ and disable reduced exports by default
  • #5510 7c3fbc3 Big endian support
  • #5149 c7abfa5 Add script to verify all merge commits are signed
  • #6082 7abbb7e qt: disable qt tests when one of the checks for the gui fails

Wallet

  • #2340 811c71d Discourage fee sniping with nLockTime
  • #5485 d01bcc4 Enforce minRelayTxFee on wallet created tx and add a maxtxfee option.
  • #5508 9a5cabf Add RandAddSeedPerfmon to MakeNewKey
  • #4805 8204e19 Do not flush the wallet in AddToWalletIfInvolvingMe(..)
  • #5319 93b7544 Clean up wallet encryption code
  • #5831 df5c246 Subtract fee from amount
  • #6076 6c97fd1 wallet: fix boost::get usage with boost 1.58
  • #5511 23c998d Sort pending wallet transactions before reaccepting
  • #6126 26e08a1 Change default nTxConfirmTarget to 2

GUI

  • #5219 f3af0c8 New icons
  • #5228 bb3c75b HiDPI (retina) support for splash screen
  • #5258 73cbf0a The RPC Console should be a QWidget to make window more independent
  • #5488 851dfc7 Light blue icon color for regtest
  • #5547 a39aa74 New icon for the debug window
  • #5493 e515309 Adopt style colour for button icons
  • #5557 70477a0 On close of splashscreen interrupt verifyDB
  • #5559 83be8fd Make the command-line-args dialog better
  • #5144 c5380a9 Elaborate on signverify message dialog warning
  • #5489 d1aa3c6 Optimize PNG files
  • #5649 e0cd2f5 Use text-color icons for system tray Send/Receive menu entries
  • #5651 848f55d Coin Control: Use U+2248 "ALMOST EQUAL TO" rather than a simple tilde
  • #5626 ab0d798 Fix icon sizes and column width
  • #5683 c7b22aa add new osx dmg background picture
  • #5620 7823598 Payment request expiration bug fix
  • #5729 9c4a5a5 Allow unit changes for read-only BitcoinAmountField
  • #5753 0f44672 Add bitcoin logo to about screen
  • #5629 a956586 Prevent amount overflow problem with payment requests
  • #5830 215475a Don't save geometry for options and about/help window
  • #5793 d26f0b2 Honor current network when creating autostart link
  • #5847 f238add Startup script for centos, with documentation
  • #5915 5bd3a92 Fix a static qt5 crash when using certain versions of libxcb
  • #5898 bb56781 Fix rpc console font size to flexible metrics
  • #5467 bc8535b Payment request / server work - part 2
  • #6161 180c164 Remove movable option for toolbar
  • #6160 0d862c2 Overviewpage: make sure warning icons gets colored

Tests

  • #5453 2f2d337 Add ability to run single test manually to RPC tests
  • #5421 886eb57 Test unexecuted OP_CODESEPARATOR
  • #5530 565b300 Additional rpc tests
  • #5611 37b185c Fix spurious windows test failures after 012598880c
  • #5613 2eda47b Fix smartfees test for change to relay policy
  • #5612 e3f5727 Fix zapwallettxes test
  • #5642 30a5b5f Prepare paymentservertests for new unit tests
  • #5784 e3a3cd7 Fix usage of NegateSignatureS in script_tests
  • #5813 ee9f2bf Add unit tests for next difficulty calculations
  • #5855 d7989c0 Travis: run unit tests in different orders
  • #5852 cdae53e Reinitialize state in between individual unit tests.
  • #5883 164d7b6 tests: add a BasicTestingSetup and apply to all tests
  • #5940 446bb70 Regression test for ResendWalletTransactions
  • #6052 cf7adad fix and enable bip32 unit test
  • #6039 734f80a tests: Error when setgenerate is used on regtest
  • #6074 948beaf Correct the PUSHDATA4 minimal encoding test in script_invalid.json
  • #6032 e08886d Stop nodes after RPC tests, even with --nocleanup
  • #6075 df1609f Add additional script edge condition tests
  • #5981 da38dc6 Python P2P testing
  • #5958 9ef00c3 Add multisig rpc tests
  • #6112 fec5c0e Add more script edge condition tests

Miscellaneous

  • #5457, #5506, #5952, #6047 Update libsecp256k1
  • #5437 84857e8 Add missing CAutoFile::IsNull() check in main
  • #5490 ec20fd7 Replace uint256/uint160 with opaque blobs where possible
  • #5654, #5764 Adding jonasschnelli's GPG key
  • #5477 5f04d1d OS X 10.10: LSSharedFileListItemResolve() is deprecated
  • #5679 beff11a Get rid of DetectShutdownThread
  • #5787 9bd8c9b Add fanquake PGP key
  • #5366 47a79bb No longer check osx compatibility in RenameThread
  • #5689 07f4386 openssl: abstract out OPENSSL_cleanse
  • #5708 8b298ca Add list of implemented BIPs
  • #5809 46bfbe7 Add bitcoin-cli man page
  • #5839 86eb461 keys: remove libsecp256k1 verification until it's actually supported
  • #5749 d734d87 Help messages correctly formatted (79 chars)
  • #5884 7077fe6 BUGFIX: Stack around the variable 'rv' was corrupted
  • #5849 41259ca contrib/init/bitcoind.openrc: Compatibility with previous OpenRC init script variables
  • #5950 41113e3 Fix locale fallback and guard tests against invalid locale settings
  • #5965 7c6bfb1 Add git-subtree-check.sh script
  • #6033 1623f6e FreeBSD, OpenBSD thread renaming
  • #6064 b46e7c2 Several changes to mruset
  • #6104 3e2559c Show an init message while activating best chain
  • #6125 351f73e Clean up parsing of bool command line args
  • #5964 b4c219b Lightweight task scheduler
  • #6116 30dc3c1 [OSX] rename Bitcoin-Qt.app to Bitcoin-Core.app
  • #6168 b3024f0 contrib/linearize: Support linearization of testnet blocks
  • #6098 7708fcd Update Windows resource files (and add one for bitcoin-tx)
  • #6159 e1412d3 Catch errors on datadir lock and pidfile delete

[up to date until #5976]