Prepare for release 0.6.0.

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A wallet daemon for btcd, written in Go
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Changes in 0.6.0 (Wed May 27 2015)
- New features:
- Add initial account support (#155):
- Add account names for each account number
- Create initial account with the "default" name
- Create new accounts using the createnewaccount RPC
- All accounts (with the exception of the imported account) may be
renamed using the renameaccount RPC
- RPC requests with an unspecified account that default to the unnamed
account in Bitcoin Core Wallet default to "default", the name of the
initial account
- Several RPCs with account parameters do not work with btcwallet
accounts due to concerns over expectations of API compatibility with
Bitcoin Core Wallet. A new RPC API is being planned to rectify this
(#220).
- Store transactions, transaction history, and spend tracking in the
database (#217, #234)
- A full rescan is required when updating from previous wallet
versions to rebuild the transaction history
- Add utility (cmd/dropwtxmgr) to drop transaction history and force a
rescan (#234)
- Implement the help RPC to return single line usages of all wallet and
btcd server requests as well as detailed usage for a single request
- Bug fixes:
- Handle chain reorgs by unconfirming transactions from removed blocks
(#248)
- Rollback all transaction history when none of the saved recently seen
block hashes are known to btcd (#234, #281)
- Prevent the situation where the default account was renamed but cannot
be renamed back to "" or "default" by removing the special case naming
policy for the default account (#253)
- Create the initial account address if needed when calling the
getaccountaddress RPC (#238)
- Prevent listsinceblock RPC from including all listtransactions result
objects for all transactions since the genesis block (fix included in
#227)
- Add missing fields to listtransactions and gettransaction RPC results
(#265)
- Remove target confirmations limit on listsinceblock results (#266)
- Add JSON array to report errors creating input signature for
signrawtransaction RPC (#267)
- Use negative fees with listtransactions result types (#272)
- Prevent duplicate wallet lock attempt after timeout if explicitly
locked (#275)
- Use correct RPC server JSON-RPC error code for incorrect passphrases
with a walletpassphrase request (#284)
- Regressions:
- Inserting transactions and marking outputs as controlled by wallet in
the new transaction database is extremely slow compared to the previous
in-memory implementation. Later versions may improve this performance
regression by using write-ahead logging (WAL) and performing more
updates at a time under a single database transaction.
- Notable developer-related changes:
- Relicense all code to the btcsuite developers (#258)
- Replace txstore package with wtxmgr, the walletdb-based transaction
store (#217, #234)
- Add Cursor API to walletdb for forwards and backwards iteration over
a bucket (included in #234)
- Factor out much of main's wallet.go into a wallet package (#213,
#276, #255)
- Convert RPC server and client to btcjson v2 API (#233, #227)
- Help text and single line usages for the help RPC are pregenerated
from descriptions in the internal/rpchelp package and saved as
globals in main. Help text must be regenerated (using `go generate`)
each time the btcjson struct tags change or the help definitions are
modified.
- Add additional features to the votingpool package:
- Implement StartWithdrawal API to begin an Open Transactions
withdrawal (#178)
- Add internal APIs to store withdrawal transactions in the wallet's
transaction database (#221)
- Addresses marked as used after appearing publicly on the blockchain or
in mempool; required for future single-use address support (#207)
- Modified waddrmgr APIs to use ForEach functions to iterate over
address strings and managed addresses to improve scability (#216)
- Move legacy directory under internal directory to prevent importing
of unmaintained packages (enforced since Go 1.5) (#285)
- Improve test coverage in the waddrmgr and wtxmgr packages (#239, #217)
- Contributors (alphabetical order):
- Dave Collins
- Guilherme Salgado
- Javed Khan
- Josh Rickmar
- Manan Patel
Changes in 0.5.1 (Fri Mar 06 2015)
- New features:
- Add flag (--createtemp) to create a temporary simnet wallet