From e3ed6a9785894279fbc2ebfa4ffc9e8e5a9d4c59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 14:35:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add preliminary changelog for 0.11 to release notes --- doc/release-notes.md | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 173 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 1cb517e5c..0617f0a25 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -1,3 +1,176 @@ (note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to release-notes at release time) +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=`) + +### 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]