65bc38d1c1 [doc] add notes on release notes (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
Explains when and how release notes should be written.
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All dbcache-related values in the code are measured in MiB (not in
megabytes, MB) or in bytes.
The GUI "-prune" values in GB are translated to the node values in MiB
correctly. The maximum of the "-prune" QSpinBox is not limited by the
default value of 99 (GB).
Also, this improves log readability.
44de1561a Remove remaining chainActive references from CWallet (Russell Yanofsky)
db21f0264 Convert CWallet::ScanForWalletTransactions and SyncTransaction to the new Chain apis (Russell Yanofsky)
2ffb07929 Add findFork and findBlock to the Chain interface (Russell Yanofsky)
d93c4c1d6 Add time methods to the Chain interface (Russell Yanofsky)
700c42b85 Add height, depth, and hash methods to the Chain interface (Russell Yanofsky)
Pull request description:
This change removes uses of `chainActive` and `mapBlockIndex` globals in wallet code. It is a refactoring change which does not affect external behavior.
This is the next step in the larger #10973 refactoring change, which removes all other accesses to node global variables from wallet code. Doing this is useful to provide a better defined interface between the wallet and node, and necessary to allow wallet and node code to run in separate processes in #10102.
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0297be61a Allow connections from misbehavior banned peers. (Gregory Maxwell)
Pull request description:
This allows incoming connections from peers which are only banned
due to an automatic misbehavior ban if doing so won't fill inbound.
These peers are preferred for eviction when inbound fills, but may
still be kept if they fall into the protected classes. This
eviction preference lasts the entire life of the connection even
if the ban expires.
If they misbehave again they'll still get disconnected.
The main purpose of banning on misbehavior is to prevent our
connections from being wasted on unhelpful peers such as ones
running incompatible consensus rules. For inbound peers this
can be better accomplished with eviction preferences.
A secondary purpose was to reduce resource waste from repeated
abuse but virtually any attacker can get a nearly unlimited
supply of addresses, so disconnection is about the best we can
do.
This can reduce the potential from negative impact due to incorrect misbehaviour bans.
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faa1522e5e RPCHelpMan: Pass through Result and Examples (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Passing the rpc result and rpc examples through `RPCHelpMan` makes it clear in what order they appear in the stringified version. Future improvements could then autoformat or autogenerate them.
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fa5f890aeb rpc: Compile on GCC4.8 (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
GCC 4.8 is lacking some C++11 signatures (see "Adjust C++11 signatures to take a const_iterator." in GCC 4.9: 3d2b2f494d)
Fix that by changing the code to use the pre-GCC 4.9 signature.
Can be reverted after #13356.
Fixes#15172 (reports on `Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa` and `CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)`)
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ad5e5a105e Scripts and tools: Drop no-longer-relevant copyright holder names (Ben Woosley)
2434ab5c2a Scripts and tools: Fix devtools/copyright_header.py to always honor exclusions (Ben Woosley)
Pull request description:
This script compared paths relative to the report directory to test for exclusion,
meaning the `EXCLUDE_DIRS` directory exclusions did not work properly, as
they were relative to the project root.
Fix this by creating absolute paths through the combination of:
'git ls-files --full-name' and 'git rev-parse --show-toplevel'
Once this is done, we can stop testing for the names that would otherwise
appear when exclusion of leveldb, secp256k1, etc., did not work as intended.
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f545dfabff Merge #18: Use utf-8 to decode filename
f8e797a058 Use utf-8 to decode filename
2fc114812a Merge #14: Fixes to allow building with msvc.
d6eab93138 Fixes to allow building with msvc.
git-subtree-dir: src/leveldb
git-subtree-split: f545dfabff4c2e9836efed094dba99a34fbc6b88
f618c58b75 Docs: Update python docs to reflect that wildcard imports are disallowed (Ben Woosley)
Pull request description:
These have been disallowed via flake8 since: #13054
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This script compared paths relative to the report directory to test for exclusion,
meaning the directory exclusions did not work properly, as they were relative to
the project root.
Fix this by creating absolute paths through the combination of:
'git ls-files --full-name' and 'git rev-parse --show-toplevel'
b09dab0f2d Prevent mutex lock fail even if --enable-debug (Akio Nakamura)
Pull request description:
This PR intends to resolve#15227.
```configure --enable-debug``` enables ```#ifdef DEBUG_LOCKORDER```.
Then ```lockdata``` (in sync.cpp) will be initialized same as other static objects.
But unfortunately, ```lockdata.push_lock()``` was called before its initialization (via initializing ```signatureCache``` which is declared in ```script/sigcache.cpp```) on macOS.
This PR apply the "Construct On First Use Idiom" to ```lockdata``` to prevent it.
edited --- fix typo.
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This PR intends to resolve#15227.
"configure --debug-enabled" enables "#ifdef DEBUG_LOCKORDER".
Then "lockdata" (in sync.cpp) will be initialized same as other
static objects.
But unfortunately, lockdata.push_lock() was called before its
initialization (via initializing signatureCache which is declared
in script/sigcache.cpp) on macOS.
This PR apply the "Construct On First Use Idiom" to "lockdata"
to prevent it.
When running tests with --usecli, unify the conversion from argument objects to
strings using a new function arg_to_cli(). This fixes boolean arguments when
using named arguments.
Also use json.dumps() to get the string values for arguments that are dicts and
lists so that bitcoind's JSON parser does not become confused.
a36d97d866 Default -whitelistforcerelay to off (Suhas Daftuar)
Pull request description:
No one seems to use this "feature", and at any rate the behavior of relaying transactions when they violate local policy is error-prone, if we ever consider changing the ban behavior of our software from one version to the next.
Defaulting this to off means that users who use -whitelist won't be unexpectedly surprised by this interaction. If anyone is still relying on this feature, it can still be explicitly turned on.
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5a5ea93e87 Doc: add information about security to the JSON-RPC doc (David A. Harding)
Pull request description:
This documents some information about using the RPC interface securely, as suggested in https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org/pull/637 by @luke-jr and @TheBlueMatt. I think it should fit in well with #14458, but is not dependent on it (and shouldn't have any significant merge conflicts with it).
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fdf82ba18 Update all subprocess.check_output functions in CI scripts to be Python 3.4 compatible (Graham Krizek)
Pull request description:
CI is failing the `lint` stage on every Cron run (regular PR/Push runs still pass). The failure was introduced in 74ce326 and has been broken since. The Python version running in CI was downgraded to 3.4 from 3.6. There were a couple files that were using the `encoding` argument in the `subprocess.check_output` function. This was introduced in Python 3.6 and therefore broke the scripts that were using it. The `universal_newlines` argument was used as well, but in order to use it we must be able to set encoding because of issues on some BSD systems.
To get CI to pass, I removed all `universal_newline` and `encoding` args to the `check_ouput` function. Then I decoded all `check_output` return values. This should keep the same behavior but be Python 3.4 compatible.
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Whenever the keypool changes (new keys generated, new seed set,
keypool runs out, etc.), notify the GUI that the keypool has changed. The
receive button can then be enabled and disabled as necessary.
42ff30ec6 [Docs] add short documentation for /rest/blockhashbyheight (Jonas Schnelli)
579d418f7 [QA] add rest tests for /rest/blockhashbyheight/<HEIGHT>.<FORMAT> (Jonas Schnelli)
eb9ef04c4 REST: add "blockhashbyheight" call, fetch blockhash by height (Jonas Schnelli)
Pull request description:
Completes the REST interface for trivial block exploring by adding a call that allows to fetch the blockhash in the main chain by a given height.
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da6011826a Fix macOS launch-at-startup memory issue (Jonas Schnelli)
516437a1b7 Qt: remove macOS launch-at-startup option when compiled with > macOS 10.11 (Jonas Schnelli)
Pull request description:
The launch-at-startup API Bitcoin Core uses on macOS where removed in macOS 10.11 leading to a segmentation-fault due to the weak-linking when not actively compiled against SDK 10.11 (`-mmacosx-version-min=10.11`)
This PR removes the launch-at-startup feature on macOS when compiled with macOS min version > 10.11 (the default is always the macOS version you compile on).
**The depends built binaries (Gitian) are not affected since we are building with min macOS 10.10.**
Users self compiling on macOS > 10.11 can re-enable the feature by compiling with min version <= 10.11 (`CXXFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.11" CFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.11" ./configure`)
**Isn't there a new API from Apple?**
Yes, [there is](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/CreatingLoginItems.html).
It will require to create a helper application which needs to be embedded in the .app folder (needs code signing as well). Developers willing to go down that rabbit hole are welcome.
Fixes#15142
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This allows incoming connections from peers which are only banned
due to an automatic misbehavior ban if doing so won't fill inbound.
These peers are preferred for eviction when inbound fills, but may
still be kept if they fall into the protected classes. This
eviction preference lasts the entire life of the connection even
if the ban expires.
If they misbehave again they'll still get disconnected.
The main purpose of banning on misbehavior is to prevent our
connections from being wasted on unhelpful peers such as ones
running incompatible consensus rules. For inbound peers this
can be better accomplished with eviction preferences.
A secondary purpose was to reduce resource waste from repeated
abuse but virtually any attacker can get a nearly unlimited
supply of addresses, so disconnection is about the best we can
do.
