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)
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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)
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
- Changed Debian 8.5.0 ISO CD ROM URL by redirecting from current (which now has only 8.6.0) to a persistent archive link which should not change anytime soon.
- Added a link to official Debian checksum verification procedure (which is more verbose and also acts as a backup source of SHA256sum's)
- Fix capitalization (iso)
