A few "a->an" and "an->a".
"Shows, if the supplied default SOCKS5 proxy" -> "Shows if the supplied default SOCKS5 proxy". Change made on 3 occurrences.
"without fully understanding the ramification of a command" -> "without fully understanding the ramifications of a command".
Removed duplicate words such as "the the".
589827975 scripted-diff: various renames for per-utxo consistency (Pieter Wuille)
a5e02bc7f Increase travis unit test timeout (Pieter Wuille)
73de2c1ff Rename CCoinsCacheEntry::coins to coin (Pieter Wuille)
119e552f7 Merge CCoinsViewCache's GetOutputFor and AccessCoin (Pieter Wuille)
580b02309 [MOVEONLY] Move old CCoins class to txdb.cpp (Pieter Wuille)
8b25d2c0c Upgrade from per-tx database to per-txout (Pieter Wuille)
b2af357f3 Reduce reserved memory space for flushing (Pieter Wuille)
41aa5b79a Pack Coin more tightly (Pieter Wuille)
97072d668 Remove unused CCoins methods (Pieter Wuille)
ce23efaa5 Extend coins_tests (Pieter Wuille)
508307968 Switch CCoinsView and chainstate db from per-txid to per-txout (Pieter Wuille)
4ec0d9e79 Refactor GetUTXOStats in preparation for per-COutPoint iteration (Pieter Wuille)
13870b56f Replace CCoins-based CTxMemPool::pruneSpent with isSpent (Pieter Wuille)
05293f3cb Remove ModifyCoins/ModifyNewCoins (Pieter Wuille)
961e48397 Switch tests from ModifyCoins to AddCoin/SpendCoin (Pieter Wuille)
8b3868c1b Switch CScriptCheck to use Coin instead of CCoins (Pieter Wuille)
c87b957a3 Only pass things committed to by tx's witness hash to CScriptCheck (Matt Corallo)
f68cdfe92 Switch from per-tx to per-txout CCoinsViewCache methods in some places (Pieter Wuille)
000391132 Introduce new per-txout CCoinsViewCache functions (Pieter Wuille)
bd83111a0 Optimization: Coin&& to ApplyTxInUndo (Pieter Wuille)
cb2c7fdac Replace CTxInUndo with Coin (Pieter Wuille)
422634e2f Introduce Coin, a single unspent output (Pieter Wuille)
7d991b55d Store/allow tx metadata in all undo records (Pieter Wuille)
c3aa0c119 Report on-disk size in gettxoutsetinfo (Pieter Wuille)
d34242430 Remove/ignore tx version in utxo and undo (Pieter Wuille)
7e0032290 Add specialization of SipHash for 256 + 32 bit data (Pieter Wuille)
e484652fc Introduce CHashVerifier to hash read data (Pieter Wuille)
f54580e7e error() in disconnect for disk corruption, not inconsistency (Pieter Wuille)
e66dbde6d Add SizeEstimate to CDBBatch (Pieter Wuille)
Tree-SHA512: ce1fb1e40c77d38915cd02189fab7a8b125c7f44d425c85579d872c3bede3a437760997907c99d7b3017ced1c2de54b2ac7223d99d83a6658fe5ef61edef1de3
This makes the following changes:
* In undo data and the chainstate database, the transaction nVersion
field is removed from the data structures, always written as 0, and
ignored when reading.
* The definition of hash_serialized in gettxoutsetinfo is changed to no
longer incude the nVersion field. It is renamed to hash_serialized_2
to avoid confusion. The new definition also includes transaction
height and coinbase information, as this information was missing
before.
This depends on having a CHashVerifier-based undo data checksum
verifier.
Apart from changing the definition of serialized_hash, downgrading
after using this patch is supported, as no release ever used the value
of nVersion field in UTXO entries.
661caf8 [doc] Minor corrections to osx dependencies (fanquake)
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41b8821 Add updating of chainTxData to release process (Pieter Wuille)
Tree-SHA512: f7d6e72b19aa83fc4851a9316d6c6a236e0e914d637525cda42c0b15a94543b8072ce67b57d6b12141332a03b64b6c715dff4d61e6e58e0197b22305b35ad65d
09fe2d9 release: update docs to show basic codesigning procedure (Cory Fields)
f642753 release: create a bundle for the new signing script (Cory Fields)
0068361 release: add win detached sig creator and our cert chain (Cory Fields)
Tree-SHA512: 032ad84697c70faaf857b9187f548282722cffca95d658e36413dc048ff02d9183253373254ffcc1158afb71140753f35abfc9fc8781ea5329c04d13c98759c0
8c156b7 Bugfix: Only install manpages for built programs (Luke Dashjr)
Tree-SHA512: f4c40910b257274a05d9c842b9adb5d9d01df7dd2d34a18bd2d98c78810dc3ed98ed12c08c55352e36a845f06ddb1efba9d4ecf5f1123d2c58406a5ecf589836
The big notice at the top of the release note is not interesting
to most users now and apparently comes across poorly to some.
Better to provide more information about what we do support.
This disentangles the script validation skipping from checkpoints.
A new option is introduced "assumevalid" which specifies a block whos
ancestors we assume all have valid scriptsigs and so we do not check
them when they are also burried under the best header by two weeks
worth of work.
Unlike checkpoints this has no influence on consensus unless you set
it to a block with an invalid history. Because of this it can be
easily be updated without risk of influencing the network consensus.
This results in a massive IBD speedup.
This approach was independently recommended by Peter Todd and Luke-Jr
since POW based signature skipping (see PR#9180) does not have the
verifiable properties of a specific hash and may create bad incentives.
The downside is that, like checkpoints, the defaults bitrot and older
releases will sync slower. On the plus side users can provide their
own value here, and if they set it to something crazy all that will
happen is more time will be spend validating signatures.
Checkblocks and checklevel are also moved to the hidden debug options:
Especially now that checkblocks has a low default there is little need
to change these settings, and users frequently misunderstand them as
influencing security or IBD speed. By hiding them we offset the
space added by this new option.
2fb98f6 Fix bug in dmg builder so that it actually reads in the configuration file (Don Patterson)
b01667c Mention RSVG dependency when creating the disk image on OSX (Jonas Schnelli)
09aefb5 build: Fix 'make deploy' for OSX (Cory Fields)
I did a build on a windows 10 laptop and took notes, and tried
to improve the document:
- It's the Linux subsystem for Windows, not the other way around.
- Split out dependencies: general ones, 64-bit, 32-bit. Remove the
reference to `build-unix.md`, easy enough to be self-contained.
- Place 64-bit instructions first. 99% will want these.
- Installation instructions: recommend using `/` for prefix, same as we
do on gitian builds. This will allow copying the files to a usable
(from Windows) place using just `make DESTDIR=...`.
- Remove double spaces / consistent width reformatting.
Refer to the right file in the top-level README.md.
Having only one file with test documentation saves some confusion about
where things are documented.
This introduces a 'minimum chain work' chainparam which is intended
to be the known amount of work in the chain for the network at the
time of software release. If you don't have this much work, you're
not yet caught up.
This is used instead of the count of blocks test from checkpoints.
This criteria is trivial to keep updated as there is no element of
subjectivity, trust, or position dependence to it. It is also a more
reliable metric of sync status than a block count.
> This new feature is enabled by default if Bitcoin Core is listening, and a connection to Tor can be made. It can be configured with the -listenonion, -torcontrol and -torpassword settings. To show verbose debugging information, pass -debug=tor.
But it is correct to say that the feature is enabled *regardless* of whether a connection to Tor can be made.
I propose to clarify that so that users can eliminate these in their logs (when `listen=1` and no Tor).
And I think it's okay to clarify about the `listen` option, because on several occasions when I read this before I always assumed `listening` meant `server=1` which cost me a lot of time in troubleshooting.
```
2016-10-24 06:19:22.551029 tor: Error connecting to Tor control socket
2016-10-24 06:19:22.551700 tor: Not connected to Tor control port 127.0.0.1:9051, trying to reconnect
```
### What version of bitcoin-core are you using?
0.12.1
The new Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows a user to run a bash shell directly on Windows in an Ubuntu based environment. This can be used to cross-compile Bitcoin directly on Windows without the need for a separate Linux VM or Server. The instructions included in this commit explain how to configure the environment and build Bitcoin Core using this new feature.
* Minor formatting such as adjusting links
* Move sections of `doc/multiwallet-qt.md` to the source code and delete
the file, as it is outdated
* Fix typo in the release notes
* Amend release process to mention update of BLOCK_CHAIN_SIZE
