db983beba6 tests: Add lint-tests.sh which checks the test suite naming convention (practicalswift)
5fd864fe8a tests: Rename test suits not following the test suite naming convention (practicalswift)
7b4a296a71 tests: Add note about test suite naming convention (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
Changes:
* Add note about test suite naming convention
* Fix exceptions
* Add regression test
Rationale:
* Consistent naming of test suites makes programmatic test running of specific tests/subsets of tests easier
* Explicit is better than implicit
Before this commit:
```
$ contrib/devtools/lint-tests.sh
The test suite in file src/test/foo_tests.cpp should be named
"foo_tests". Please make sure the following test suites follow
that convention:
src/test/blockchain_tests.cpp:BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE(blockchain_difficulty_tests, BasicTestingSetup)
src/test/prevector_tests.cpp:BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE(PrevectorTests, TestingSetup)
src/wallet/test/coinselector_tests.cpp:BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE(coin_selection_tests, WalletTestingSetup)
src/wallet/test/crypto_tests.cpp:BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE(wallet_crypto, BasicTestingSetup)
$
```
After this commit:
```
$ contrib/devtools/lint-tests.sh
$
```
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6feb46c Add --with-sanitizers option to configure (Evan Klitzke)
Pull request description:
This adds configure options for `-fsanitize=address`, `-fsanitize=thread`, and `-fsanitize=undefined` which are all disabled by default. These flags are useful for developers who wish to do additional safety checking. Note that some of these are mutually incompatible, and these may have a large performance overhead.
There's some kind of strange logic required to properly check for the availability of these flags in a way that works on both GCC and Clang, hopefully the comments make it clear what's going on.
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0bd2ec5 Improve formatting of developer notes (Evan Klitzke)
Pull request description:
The developer notes file has gotten pretty large and unwieldly. This reorganizes some content, most notably by adding a TOC to the page. Compare how the page looks in [my branch](https://github.com/eklitzke/bitcoin/blob/developer-notes/doc/developer-notes.md) vs [master](https://github.com/eklitzke/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/developer-notes.md).
I know there's long-term interest in moving a lot of this content to the bitcoin-core/docs repo on GitHub, but this makes things better now.
The TOC format here is a semi-standard extension to Markdown files that you may have seen on GitHub pages in other projects. The `<!-- markdown-toc -->` comments used by these tools to know where the TOC starts/ends. The following tools all understand this format:
* [Sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/)
* [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/)
* [markdown-toc.el](https://github.com/ardumont/markdown-toc) (what I used)
* various plugins for [vim](https://github.com/mzlogin/vim-markdown-toc) and other editors
I used this TOC extension at a previous job, and my observation is that it's fine if people just edit the TOC manually. It's just text and it's not a huge deal if it gets a little out of sync. It can also be regenerated at any time by anyone with any of these tools.
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This change significantly increases IBD performance by increasing the
amount of the UTXO index that can remain in memory. To ensure this
doesn't cause problems in the future, a static_assert on the LevelDB
version has been added, which must be updated by anyone upgrading
LevelDB.
1874058 Make base58 python contrib code work with python3 (Evan Klitzke)
bc6fdf2 Change all python files to use Python3 (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
Following discussion here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11843#issuecomment-351033742
It's easier for maintainers if all python tools/scripts support only a single version of Python. There are only a few scripts that aren't explicitly python3 at this point, so this PR changes those remaining scripts to explicitly require python3.
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f381299 Move CKeyStore::cs_KeyStore to CBasicKeyStore (João Barbosa)
25eb9f5 Inline CKeyStore::AddKey(const CKey &) in CBasicKeyStore (João Barbosa)
Pull request description:
Made these simplifications while reviewing #12714. This aims to make `CKeyStore` a *pure* interface:
- no variable members - the mutex is moved to `CBasicKeyStore` which is where it is used;
- no method implementations - `AddKey(const CKey &)` is moved to `CBasicKeyStore` which is where it is needed.
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4757c04 [config] Remove blockmaxsize option (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
The blockmaxsize option was marked as deprecated in V0.15.1, and code
was added to convert provided blockmaxsize into blockmaxweight. However,
this code was incorrectly implemented, and blockmaxsize was silently
ignored.
No users have complained about blockmaxsize being ignored, so just
remove it in V0.17.
Fixes#12640
cc @ajtowns
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d2527bd Rename wallet_accounts.py test (Russell Yanofsky)
045eeb8 Rename account to label where appropriate (Russell Yanofsky)
Pull request description:
Rename account to label where appropriate
This change only updates strings and adds RPC aliases, but should simplify the implementation of address labels in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7729, by getting renaming out of the way and letting that change focus on semantics.
The difference between accounts and labels is that labels apply only to addresses, while accounts apply to both addresses and transactions (transactions have "from" and "to" accounts). The code associating accounts with transactions is clumsy and unreliable so we would like get rid of it.
---
There is a rebased version of #7729 atop this PR at https://github.com/ryanofsky/bitcoin/commits/pr/label, see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7729#issuecomment-338417139.
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The blockmaxsize option was marked as deprecated in V0.15.1, and code
was added to convert provided blockmaxsize into blockmaxweight. However,
this code was incorrectly implemented, and blockmaxsize was silently
ignored.
No users have complained about blockmaxsize being ignored, so just
remove it in V0.17.
This change only updates strings and adds RPC aliases, but should simplify the
implementation of address labels in
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7729, by getting renaming out of the
way and letting it focus on semantics.
The difference between accounts and labels is that labels apply only to
addresses, while accounts apply to both addresses and transactions
(transactions have "from" and "to" accounts). The code associating accounts
with transactions is clumsy and unreliable so we would like get rid of it.
e29c6c8 Ubuntu xenial first dependencies (Nick Vercammen)
Pull request description:
Add update and upgrade commands to enable the installation of the first dependencies on ubuntu xenial. If those are not executed some packages can not be found.
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fac70134a rpc: Update createrawtransaction examples (MarcoFalke)
fa06dfce0 [rpc] createrawtransaction: Accept sorted outputs (MarcoFalke)
8acd25d85 rpc: Allow typeAny in RPCTypeCheck (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
The second parameter of the `createrawtransaction` is a dictionary of the outputs. This comes with at least two drawbacks:
* In case of duplicate keys, either of them might silently disappear, with no user feedback at all. A user needs to make other mistakes, but this could eventually lead to abnormal tx fees.
* A dictionary does not guarantee that keys are sorted. Again, a user needs to keep this in mind, as it could eventually lead to excessive tx fees.
Even though my scenario of loss-of-funds is unlikely to happen, I see it as a inconvenience that should be fixed.
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Add update and upgrade commands to enable the installation of the first dependencies on ubuntu xenial. If those are not executed some packages can not be found.
* Z is the zone designator for the zero UTC offset.
* T is the delimiter used to separate date and time.
This makes it clear for the end-user that the date/time logged is
specified in UTC and not in the local time zone.
cc879675e1 depends: Remove ccache (fanquake)
Pull request description:
After discussion with @theuni, we can possibly just remove ccache from depends entirely.
Related to #12606
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be8ab7d08 Create new wallet databases as directories rather than files (Russell Yanofsky)
26c06f24e Allow wallet files not in -walletdir directory (Russell Yanofsky)
d8a99f65e Allow wallet files in multiple directories (Russell Yanofsky)
Pull request description:
This change consists of three commits:
* The first commit is a pure refactoring that removes the restriction that two wallets can only be opened at the same time if they are contained in the same directory.
* The second commit removes the restriction that `-wallet` filenames can only refer to files in the `-walletdir` directory.
* The third commit makes second commit a little safer by changing bitcoin to create wallet databases as directories rather than files, so they can be safely backed up.
All three commits should be straightforward:
* The first commit adds around 20 lines of new code and then updates a bunch of function signatures (generally updating them to take plain fs::path parameters, instead of combinations of strings, fs::paths, and objects like CDBEnv and CWalletDBWrapper).
* The second commit removes two `-wallet` filename checks and adds some test cases to the multiwallet unit test.
* The third commit just changes the mapping from specified wallet paths to bdb environment & data paths.
---
**Note:** For anybody looking at this PR for the first time, I think you can skip the comments before _20 Nov_ and start reading at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11687#issuecomment-345625565. Comments before _20 Nov_ were about an earlier version of the PR that didn't include the third commit, and then confusion from not seeing the first commit.
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08e0855b9 Give hint about gitian not able to download (kallewoof)
Pull request description:
Gitian fails to perform downloads right now on my set up. This can be circumvented by first checking out the tag being built and then doing the depends download step before running `gbuild`.
This should of course be fixed in gitian, but having this note until it's fixed is definitely useful.
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Gitian fails to perform downloads right now on my set up. This can be circumvented by first checking out the tag being built and then doing the depends download step before running `gbuild`.
cfaac2a60 Add build support for 'gprof' profiling. (murrayn)
Pull request description:
Support for profiling build: `./configure --enable-profiling`
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13a399a46 depends: patch pthread_set_name_np out of zeromq (Cory Fields)
8f7922636 depends: zeromq 4.2.3 (fanquake)
Pull request description:
This is a followup to #9254 and #11981. Zeromq 4.2.3 was released just after #9254 was merged, and contains a years worth of improvements/bug fixes. See the release notes [here](https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/releases/tag/v4.2.3).
Todo:
- [ ] Add zeromq-4.2.3.tar.gz to /depends-sources on bitcoincore.org
- [ ] Verify gitian builds are still OK
- [ ] Check: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/2787
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7eb665fc8 [Trivial] link mentioned scripted-diff-commit (Felix Wolfsteller)
Pull request description:
Make it easier for people who do not operate on a cloned repository to access the example mentioned.
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4d14d06fc docs: clarified systemd installation instructions in init.md for Ubuntu users. (DaveFromBinary)
Pull request description:
Added a note to init.md to clarify the .service copy path for Ubuntu because it differs from the described copy path.
Also noted which version of Ubuntu switched to systemd for the default system init to clarify when the systemd installation steps should be used instead of the upstart installation steps for Ubuntu users.
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fa9461473 [doc] dev-notes: Members should be initialized (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Also, remove mention of threads that were removed long ago.
Motivation:
Make it easier to spot bugs such as #11654 and #12426
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This change should make it easier for users to make complete backups of wallets
because they can now just back up the specified `-wallet=<path>` path directly,
instead of having to back up the specified path as well as the transaction log
directory (for incompletely flushed wallets).
Another advantage of this change is that if two wallets are located in the same
directory, they will now use their own BerkeleyDB environments instead using a
shared environment. Using a shared environment makes it difficult to manage and
back up wallets separately because transaction log files will contain a mix of
data from all wallets in the environment.
Added a note to init.md to clarify the .service copy path for newer versions of Ubuntu because it differs from the described copy path.
Also noted what version of Ubuntu switched to systemd for the default system init.
a777244e4 Build: Add a makefile target for Doxygen documentation (Andrea Comand)
Pull request description:
You can now build the doxygen documentation with `make docs` and clean it with `make clean-docs`.
Fixes: #11949
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9b6454c Improve "Turn Windows Features On or Off" step (Ernest Hemingway)
Pull request description:
Originally, this readme suggests searching for 'turn' to open this dialog but this will not necessarily work on all windows 10 PCs. It's better to use the executable name instead, which is consistent across installations.
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c8edc2c [docs] initial QT documentation, move Qt Creator instructions (Sjors Provoost)
Pull request description:
I'll update this as I figure out how everything is tied together, but I think it's a useful enough start.
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fabb72b contrib: Remove xpired 522739F6 key (MarcoFalke)
faeab66 contrib: Replace developer keys with list of pgp fingerprints (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Having to host a copy of the keys in this repo was a common source of discussion and distraction, caused by problems such as:
* Outdated keys. Unclear whether and when to replace by fresh copies.
* Unclear when to add a key of a new developer or Gitian builder.
The problems are solved by
* Having no keys but only the fingerprints
* Adding a rule of thumb, when to add a new key
<strike>Moving the keys to a different repo solves none of these issues, but since the keys are not bound to releases or git branches of Bitcoin Core, they should live somewhere else.
Obviously, all keys are hosted and distributed on key servers, but were added to the repo solely for convenience and redundancy.
Moving the mirror of those keys to a different repo makes it less distracting to update them -- let's say -- prior to every major release.
I updated our `doc/release-process.md` to reflect the new location.
DEPENDS_ON https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gitian.sigs/pull/621
</strike>
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eeeb416 Remove suggestion to make cloned repository world-writable for Windows build. (murrayn)
Pull request description:
Current documentation for Windows build on Ubuntu suggests cloning the repository into /usr/src, as root, and making the tree world-writable(!). I can see no problem this solves, and it introduces obvious security issues.
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7444149 Document method for reviewers to verify chainTxData (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
This commit adds the final block hash of the window to getchaintxstats
and documents how reviewers can verify changes to chainTxData.
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Master was bumped to 0.16.99, so update the man pages too to avoid
confusion.
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Also clean out release notes.
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Also warn if bitcoind is configured to use a relative -datadir path.
Specifying paths relative to the current working directory in a daemon process
can be dangerous, because files can fail to be located even if the
configuration doesn't change, but the daemon is started up differently.
Specifying a relative -datadir now adds a warning to the debug log. It would
not be backwards-compatible to forbid relative -datadir paths entirely, and it
could also be also inconvenient for command line testing.
Specifying a relative -walletdir now results in a startup error. But since the
-walletdir option is new in 0.16.0, there should be no compatibility issues.
Another reason not to use working directory paths for -walletdir specifically
is that the default -walletdir is a "wallets" subdirectory inside the datadir,
so it could be surprising that setting -walletdir manually would choose a
directory rooted in a completely different location.
97c3cad [docs] Clarify -walletdir usage (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
After discussion with @ryanofsky around #11687 , I think this documentation is a bit clearer for how the new `-walletdir` argument works.
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2be2b5d Remove the ending slashes from RPC URI format. (Jacky C)
Pull request description:
This resolves#11861 (A confusion caused by incorrect information in the release notes).
More information can be found at #11861.
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ebcee1de2 bips: add bip176 (Bits Denomination) (William Casarin)
275b2eeed [qt] change µBTC to bits (William Casarin)
Pull request description:
Now that we have bip176, change "µBTC" to the more colloquial "bits"
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5ec3eae remove brew c++ flag (Pablo Fernandez)
Pull request description:
the c++ is not needed since the listed brew formulas no longer have this option. It also raises a warning that may generate confusion.
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6915f93 doc: Update OpenBSD build instructions for 6.2 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
(this continues #11442)
There is no more need to install a new compiler. This simplifies instructions a lot.
From discussion with @fanquake on IRC I first wanted to add a new section for 6.2, but that made the document a complex mess. I think it's good enough (and more maintainable too) to only support the most recent release.
Includes #11976.
I moved the "resource limits" section to the end as I didn't seem to need it with clang, but this may vary based on source changes and the phase of the moon so it's good to keep it as optional extra information.
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GUI wallet uses RBF by default, regardless of -walletrbf.
RPC and debug console in the GUI remain unchanged; they don't
use RBF by default, unless launched with -walletrbf=1.
656fde5 Add script birthtime metadata to dump and import wallet (MeshCollider)
1bab9b2 Add script dump note to RPC help text and release notes (MeshCollider)
68c1e00 Add test for importwallet (MeshCollider)
9e1184d Add dumpwallet scripts test (MeshCollider)
ef0c730 Add scripts to importwallet RPC (MeshCollider)
b702ae8 Add CScripts to dumpwallet RPC (MeshCollider)
cdc260a Add GetCScripts to CBasicKeyStore (MeshCollider)
Pull request description:
As discussed in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11289#issuecomment-334600457, adds the CScripts from the wallet to the `dumpwallet` RPC and then allows them to be imported with the `importwallet` RPC. Includes a basic test, and modifies the helptext of the dumpwallet RPC.
Notes:
- Reviewers: use `?w=1` to avoid the indentation-only change in commit `Add scripts to importwallet RPC `
- currently the scripts are followed with `# addr=` comments just as the other keys are, unsure if this might confuse users into thinking all the scripts are for valid P2SH addresses though, but I don't think that should be an issue.
- there are no birthtimes for scripts, so script imports don't affect rescans
- `importwallet` imports the CScripts but I'm not sure how to approach specifying whether scripts are for P2SH addresses, BIP173 addresses, etc. whether that matters or not. Otherwise the RPC helptext might just need modification.
Fixes#11715
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2712742 doc: Update FreeBSD build instructions to use bdb4 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
d95c83d contrib: FreeBSD compatibility in install_db4.sh (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
c0298b0 contrib: Make X=Y arguments work in install_db4 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
b798f9b contrib: New clang patch for install_db4 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
This PR improves the BSD compatibility of the bdb4 installer script.
See #11921, #11868.
I've tested this on OpenBSD 6.2 (clang) and Ubuntu 16.04 (gcc).
This needs testing on OSX at least, ~~and on gcc/Linux to make sure that applying the patch unconditionally doesn't negatively affect gcc~~.
~~NB: this is not yet sufficient to make `install_db4.sh` work on FreeBSD, as we need to use yet another `sha256` tool there. But it's a step in the right direction.~~
### contrib: New clang patch for install_db4
Replace the clang patch with a new and improved version that also fixes the build issues with OpenBSD and FreeBSD's clang, and apply it unconditionally.
Thanks to @fanquake for finding the patch.
### contrib: Make X=Y arguments work in install_db4
Trailing X=Y arguments are supposed to be passed through unchanged to bdb's configure. This was not the case, at least with OpenBSD 6.2's shell.
Fix this by not storing the arguments in a temporary variable but passing "$@" through directly.
### contrib: FreeBSD compatibility in install_db4.sh
Unfortunately, FreeBSD uses yet another syntax for `sha256`.
Support FreeBSD's syntax too. Using `uname` is a bit of a hack but it works and I found no way to distinguish the two.
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aac6b3f067 Update files.md for new wallets/ subdirectory (MeshCollider)
b67342906c Cleanups for walletdir PR (MeshCollider)
Pull request description:
This addresses the remaining nits from https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11466
- Updates `doc/files.md` with respect to the new default wallet directory
- Fixes @promag and @laanwj's error message nit, and Jonas' release notes nit
- ~Addresses @laanwj's net-specific wallet subdirectory concern in the case that a walletdir is specified~
- Changes the #includes from "" to <> style after #11651
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3121d76 doc: Update release notes for share/rpcauth/rpcauth.py rename (Henrik Jonsson)
3fdb297 Rename rpcuser.py to rpcauth.py (Henrik Jonsson)
Pull request description:
This script creates `rpcauth` entries for bitcoin.conf, not the deprecated `rpcuser` entry, so this changes the name of the script to match.
As discussed in #11830.
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543ab40 Docs: Bump OSX version to 10.13 in build-osx.md (Varunram Ganesh)
Pull request description:
Core works fine on macOS 10.13
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c1e5d40 Make debugging test crash easier (MeshCollider)
8263f6a Create walletdir if datadir doesn't exist and fix tests (MeshCollider)
9587a9c Default walletdir is wallets/ if it exists (MeshCollider)
d987889 Add release notes for -walletdir and wallets/ dir (MeshCollider)
80c5cbc Add test for -walletdir (MeshCollider)
0530ba0 Add -walletdir parameter to specify custom wallet dir (MeshCollider)
Pull request description:
Closes#11348
Adds a `-walletdir` parameter which specifies a directory to use for wallets, allowing them to be stored separately from the 'main' data directory. Creates a new `wallets/` directory in datadir if this is the first time running, and defaults to using it if it exists.
Includes tests and release notes. Things which might need to be considered more:
- there is no 'lock' on the wallets directory, which might be needed?
- because this uses a new wallets/ directory by default, downgrading to an earlier version won't see the wallets in that directory (not a big deal though, users can just copy them up to the main dir)
- jnewbery suggested putting each wallet in its own directory, which is a good idea, but out of scope for this PR IMO. EDIT: this is being done in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11687
- doc/files.md needs updating (will do soon)
I also considered including a cleanup by removing caching of data directory paths and instead just initialise them once on startup (c.f. #3073), but decided it wasn't super relevant here will just complicate review.
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- Added steps to specify required source location for Windows WSL
builds.
- Attempted to make the introduction and options for building on Windows
clearer.
6e4cdd6 [docs] Add reference to install_db4.sh in OS X build instructions (James O'Beirne)
af9103e [build] Add a script for installing db4 (James O'Beirne)
Pull request description:
Instead of maintaining rote instructions for building BerkeleyDB in `doc/build-{unix,openbsd}.md`, reference a script that does the same thing and can be called from unanticipated contexts, e.g. Docker builds.
The script was written with portability in mind, though I haven't tested it on openbsd.
I wasn't sure if we wanted to create a separate directory for this sort of thing (e.g. `contrib/install`) so I just stuck it in `contrib/`; happy to move it around if anyone has another preference.
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Instead of maintaining not-easily-tested instructions for building BerkeleyDB
in doc/build-unix.md, package the installation as a script in contrib/. This
allows shared usage from a number of contexts, e.g. Docker.
Thanks to @jonasschnelli, @laanwj for feedback.
89f0312 Remove redundant pwallet nullptr check (Matt Corallo)
c4784b5 Add a dev notes document describing the new wallet RPC blocking (Matt Corallo)
3ea8b75 Give ZMQ consistent order with UpdatedBlockTip on scheduler thread (Matt Corallo)
cb06edf Fix wallet RPC race by waiting for callbacks in sendrawtransaction (Matt Corallo)
e545ded Also call other wallet notify callbacks in scheduler thread (Matt Corallo)
17220d6 Use callbacks to cache whether wallet transactions are in mempool (Matt Corallo)
5d67a78 Add calls to CWallet::BlockUntilSyncedToCurrentChain() in RPCs (Matt Corallo)
5ee3172 Add CWallet::BlockUntilSyncedToCurrentChain() (Matt Corallo)
0b2f42d Add CallFunctionInQueue to wait on validation interface queue drain (Matt Corallo)
2b4b345 Add ability to assert a lock is not held in DEBUG_LOCKORDER (Matt Corallo)
0343676 Call TransactionRemovedFromMempool in the CScheduler thread (Matt Corallo)
a7d3936 Add a CValidationInterface::TransactionRemovedFromMempool (Matt Corallo)
Pull request description:
Based on #10179, this effectively reverts #9583, regaining most of the original speedups of #7946.
This concludes the work of #9725, #10178, and #10179.
See individual commit messages for more information.
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5ff01c236 [docs] Add instructions for lcov coverage report generation (James O'Beirne)
Pull request description:
After rediscovering the `lcov` report generation recipe one too many times, it seemed prudent to write some doc.
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7383d77 Updated instructions for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. (Aaron Clauson)
e0fc4a7 Updated Windows build doc for WSL/Xenial workarounds. (Aaron Clauson)
Pull request description:
An update to the Windows build document that provides workarounds for the broken 64 bit mingw32 cross compiler on WSL/Xenial.
This update is an alternative to pull request #11437. While that pull request takes a valid approach by stating building on WSL should be avoided I think it is more useful to give Windows developers a workaround option.
The instructions have been tested on:
- Ubuntu 14.04 and 64 bit mingw32 tool chain
- Ubuntu 16.04 and 64 bit mingw32 tool chain
- Ubuntu 17.04 and 64 bit mingw32 tool chain
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (Windows 10 OS Build 15063.608) and 32 bit mingw32 tool chain
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (Windows 10 OS Build 15063.608) and 64 bit mingw32 tool chain
Related items:
- Serious incompatibility problems w/ newer mingw-64 on Ubuntu #8653
- `-fstack-protector-all` triggers crashes in mingw-w64 5.3.1 #8732
- Windows build appears broken on WSL (buntu okay) #10269
- Compilation error for windows target #11437
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659b206 Make listsinceblock refuse unknown block hash (Russell Yanofsky)
Pull request description:
Change suggested by @theuni who noticed listsinceblock would ignore invalid block hashes causing it to return a completely unfiltered list of transactions.
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Change suggested by Cory Fields <cory-nospam-@coryfields.com> who noticed
listsinceblock would ignore invalid block hashes causing it to return a
completely unfiltered list of transactions.
0cd9273 rpc: Prevent `dumpwallet` from overwriting files (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
Prevent arbitrary files from being overwritten by `dumpwallet`. There have been reports that users have overwritten wallet files this way. It may also avoid other security issues.
Fixes#9934. Adds mention to release notes and adds a test.
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Prevent arbitrary files from being overwritten. There have been reports
that users have overwritten wallet files this way. It may also avoid
other security issues.
Fixes#9934. Adds mention to release notes and adds a test.
This reduces the overhead in the git repo due to binary blobs of
the png files.
Also, the documentation can be updated independent of any tags and
release cycles.
204cc98 fix link error (Shooter)
Pull request description:
The `perform-gitian-builds` is not exist,
replace `perform-gitian-builds` with `setup-and-perform-gitian-builds`.
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90ab62c45 [docs] document scripted-diff (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
Document scripted-diffs in developer-notes.md
I sometimes comment on PRs that a scripted-diff would be appropriate, but I don't have any documentation to point to. Fix that.
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723aa1b qt: Backup former GUI settings on `-resetguisettings` (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
Writes the GUI settings to `guisettings.bak` in the data directory before wiping them. This can be used to retroactively troubleshoot issues (e.g. #11262) where `-resetguisettings` solves the problem.
(as discussed in yesterday's IRC meeting)
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Writes the GUI settings to `guisettings.bak` in the data directory
before wiping them. This can be used to retroactively troubleshoot
issues (e.g. #11262) where `-resetguisettings` solves the problem.
fa65dcd doc: Update release notes for 0.16.0 (MarcoFalke)
fa2c3b6 doc: Bump manpages to 0.15.99 (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
This updates the release notes for the breaking changes to `-usehd` option and the `getinfo` rpc.
Also, bumps the manpages to current master.
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e91b96192 Create dependencies.md, and link dependencies file from README & build docs (flack)
Pull request description:
As @fanquake mentioned in #8639, this should probably be a file in `doc/`, so I went ahead and pulled the issue text via the github API and dumped it into a file. No modifications made, except one spelling fix. This makes the info easier to find, and it will get a proper version history, too.
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ce3baa193 changed regtest RPCport to 18443 to avoid conflict with testnet 18332 (Ferdinando M. Ametrano)
Pull request description:
using the same JSON-RPC default port for both testnet and regtest prevents running both at the same time on the same machine. Since RPCport=P2Pport-1 for both mainnet and testnet, and regtest P2Pport being 18444, 18443 is proposed for regtest RPCport
Documentation has been updated (or created where missing); manpages doc/man/bitcoin*.1 could include information for regtest too
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python3 is required for running the unit tests on macOS, Ubuntu and Fedora.
Without python3 installed, 'make check' fails because /test/util/bitcoin-util-test.py fails to find python3.
f1708ef89 Add recommendation: By default, declare single-argument constructors `explicit` (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
This is a follow-up to the now merged #10969.
Add recommendation:
> By default, declare single-argument constructors `explicit`.
>
> - *Rationale*: This is a precaution to avoid unintended conversions that might arise when single-argument constructors are used as implicit conversion functions.
>
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fa14b67 [doc] build-windows: Mention that only trusty works (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
This should prevent people from running into the issues to later find that there is no solution yet.
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745d2e3 Clean up getbalance RPC parameter handling (Russell Yanofsky)
fd5d71e Update developer notes after params.size() cleanup (Russell Yanofsky)
e067673 Avoid treating null RPC arguments different from missing arguments (Russell Yanofsky)
e666efc Get rid of redundant RPC params.size() checks (Russell Yanofsky)
Pull request description:
This is a followup to #10783.
- The first commit doesn't change behavior at all, just simplifies code.
- The second commit just changes RPC methods to treat null arguments the same as missing arguments instead of throwing type errors.
- The third commit updates developer notes after the cleanup.
- The forth commit does some additional code cleanup in `getbalance`.
Followup changes that should happen in future PRs:
- [ ] Replace uses of `.isTrue()` with calls to `.get_bool()` so numbers, objects, and strings cause type errors instead of being interpreted as false. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11050#discussion_r133850525
- [ ] Add braces around if statements. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11050#discussion_r133851133
- [ ] Maybe improve UniValue type error exceptions and eliminate RPCTypeCheck and RPCTypeCheckArgument functions. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11050#discussion_r133829303
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bea8e9e Document the preference of nullptr over NULL or (void*)0 (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
Document the preference of `nullptr` over `NULL` or `(void*)0`.
After this commit:
```
$ git grep "[^A-Za-z_]NULL[^A-Za-z_]" | grep -vE '(leveldb|univalue|secp256k1|torcontrol|NULL certificates|ctaes|release-notes|patches|configure.ac|developer-notes)'
$
```
Some context:
* `NULL → nullptr` was handled in the recently merged PR #10483
* `0 → nullptr` was handled in the recently merged PR #10645
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5be6e9b doc: Update build-openbsd for 6.1 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
- Bump "updated for"
- Fix link to boost (haenet mirror is broken)
- Upgrade boost version to 1.64
Ref: closes#10796
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d201e40 Update init.md: Fix section numbering. (Carl Dong)
72a184a Update init.md: Fix line breaks in section 3b. (Carl Dong)
Pull request description:
Trivial commit that fixes Markdown line breaks in `docs/init.md`. Markdown line breaks take the form of two spaces, which is hard to spot when viewing raw text but visible when previewing on GitHub. Line 72-73 of `docs/init.md` did not conform to the rest the rest of the documentation, and is corrected in this PR.
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1d8df0141 Fix MD formatting in REST-interface.md and spelling mistake in test_runner.py (MeshCollider)
41f3e84aa Fix inconsistencies and grammar in various files (MeshCollider)
Pull request description:
Just a simple fix of some inconsistent capitalization, formatting and grammar in a few files (no code changes)
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f42fc1d50 doc: spelling fixes (klemens)
Pull request description:
patch contains some spelling fixes ( just in comments ) as found by a bot ( http://www.misfix.org, https://github.com/ka7/misspell_fixer ).
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Now that 0.15 branch has been split off, master is 0.15.99 (pre-0.16).
Also clean out release notes.
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e93ff71 Add instructions for multi-processor gitian builds (Charlie Lee)
Pull request description:
This makes builds much faster if you have a multi-core machine.
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5a9b508 [trivial] Add end of namespace comments (practicalswift)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
