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.
Tree-SHA512: edb64c691a31a8a2e6c45f87886912d429a3fd600ebc0de2b16d44efd9d38bb92fea33c5fed207ad684b75d3247218912cab67661466a5538d534845e0808c9f
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)
d19583f improved gen-manpages.sh, includes bitcoin-tx and strips commit tag, now also runs binaries from build dir by default, added variables for more control (nomnombtc)
09546ca regenerated all manpages with commit tag stripped, also add bitcoin-tx (nomnombtc)
ae6e754 change help string --enable-man to --disable-man (nomnombtc)
a32c102 add conditional for --enable-man, default is yes (nomnombtc)
dc84b6f add doc/man to subdir if configure flag --enable-man is set (nomnombtc)
00dba72 add doc/man/Makefile.am to include manpages (nomnombtc)
eb5643b add autogenerated manpages by help2man (nomnombtc)
6edf2fd add gen-manpages.sh description to README.md (nomnombtc)
d2cd9c0 add script to generate manpages with help2man (nomnombtc)
- Python 3 now supported.
- Bump boost version to 1.61 - one boost patch no longer needed.
- All checked with OpenBSD 5.9, except for the clang part, I left this
as-is for someone adventurous.
- Mention overriding resource limits, OpenBSD's default ulimit does not
suffice for building Bitcoin Core with gcc 4.9.3.
06f40ef depends: Mention aarch64 as common cross-compile target (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
05f64c9 doc: Mention Linux ARM builds in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
b7bf037 doc: Mention ARM executables in release process (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
48efec8 Fix some minor compact block issues that came up in review (Matt Corallo)
ccd06b9 Elaborate bucket size math (Pieter Wuille)
0d4cb48 Use vTxHashes to optimize InitData significantly (Matt Corallo)
8119026 Provide a flat list of txid/terators to txn in CTxMemPool (Matt Corallo)
678ee97 Add BIP 152 to implemented BIPs list (Matt Corallo)
56ba516 Add reconstruction debug logging (Matt Corallo)
2f34a2e Get our "best three" peers to announce blocks using cmpctblocks (Matt Corallo)
927f8ee Add ability to fetch CNode by NodeId (Matt Corallo)
d25cd3e Add receiver-side protocol implementation for CMPCTBLOCK stuff (Matt Corallo)
9c837d5 Add sender-side protocol implementation for CMPCTBLOCK stuff (Matt Corallo)
00c4078 Add protocol messages for short-ids blocks (Matt Corallo)
e3b2222 Add some blockencodings tests (Matt Corallo)
f4f8f14 Add TestMemPoolEntryHelper::FromTx version for CTransaction (Matt Corallo)
85ad31e Add partial-block block encodings API (Matt Corallo)
5249dac Add COMPACTSIZE wrapper similar to VARINT for serialization (Matt Corallo)
cbda71c Move context-required checks from CheckBlockHeader to Contextual... (Matt Corallo)
7c29ec9 If AcceptBlockHeader returns true, pindex will be set. (Matt Corallo)
96806c3 Stop trimming when mapTx is empty (Pieter Wuille)
Mention ARM executables in the release process documentation
(these were introduced in #8188).
As well as that Linux tarballs have changed name to contain an
architecture tuple, instead of `linux32`/`linux64`.
Also mention that `-debug` files should not be uploaded (these were
introduced in #8167).
7982fce doc: Mention full UTF-8 support in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6bbb4ef test: test utf-8 for labels in wallet (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a406fcb test: add ensure_ascii setting to AuthServiceProxy (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
60ab9b2 Squashed 'src/univalue/' changes from 2740c4f..f32df99 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Add error and range-checking parsers for unsigned 32 and 64 bit numbers.
The 32-bit variant is required for parsing sequence numbers from the
command line in `bitcoin-tx` (see #8164 for discussion). I've thrown in
the 64-bit variant as a bonus, as I'm sure it will be needed at some
point.
Also adds tests, and updates `developer-notes.md`.
6075bc4 doc: 32 and 64 bit packages are seperate (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
e5764e6 doc: Remove outdated qt4 install information from README.md (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
The example local paths for "Building fully offline" have an extraneous ".git". This caused an error when trying to run gbuild, like this
fatal: '/home/user/bitcoin.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
This commit fixes that.
f154470 [contrib] Remove reference to sf and add doc to verify.sh (MarcoFalke)
182bec4 contrib: remove hardcoded version from verify.sh (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
c907f4d doc: Update release process (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Tor Browser Bundle spawns the Tor process and listens on port 9150, it doesn't randomly pick a port.
[ci skip]
(cherry picked from commit 1b63cf98347b2a62915425576930f55c2126c2ff)
Fixed formatting as requested on https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7589
Description:
Documentation was unclear in this section and could be interpreted to mean that boost was not a hard requirement for older Ubuntu versions.
Related: #7587
f22f14c doc: mention bitcoin-cli -stdin in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
92bcca3 rpc: Input-from-stdin mode for bitcoin-cli (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Instruct people to "git fetch" so that if this is their 2nd+ gitian build they will have a fresh bitcoin repo.
Instruct people to add all the known pgp keys to their keyring so that gverify will print more useful info.
These are changes I needed to get gitian building to work with Debian
8.2, which is the version we tell to use.
- Set up NAT, so that container can access network beyond host
- Remove explicit cgroup setup - these are mounted automatically now
- Add new translations (finally, after a long time)
- update-translation script was not considering new translations - oops
- fixed this, also remove (nearly) empty translations
- Update translation process, it was still describing the old repository
structure
Adds 127.0.0.1:9050 for the .onion proxy if we can succesfully connect
to the control port.
Natural followup to creating hidden services automatically.
2cecb24 doc: change suite to trusty in gitian-building.md (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
957c0fd gitian: make windows build deterministic (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2e31d74 gitian: use trusty for building (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
0b416c6 depends: qt PIDLIST_ABSOLUTE patch (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
9f251b7 devtools: add libraries for bitcoin-qt to symbol check (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
I've collected these over time, mostly adding notes after
troubleshooting obscure bugs. As I hope to get the community more
involved in the whole process, I think it is useful to add to the
developer-notes.
58ef0ff doc: update docs for Tor listening (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
68ccdc4 doc: Mention Tor listening in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
09c1ae1 torcontrol improvements and fixes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2f796e5 Better error message if Tor version too old (Peter Todd)
8f4e67f net: Automatically create hidden service, listen on Tor (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
- There is no libboost-base-dev, no idea how I ended up with this
- Without that, installing separate boost packages works fine on both
Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian 7 (tested on VMs), this did not use to be
the case, AFAIK.
- Add a missing 'sudo' for consistency
- Need `bsdmainutils` for `hexdump` (for the tests)
af3208b Resolve issue 3166. These changes decode valid SIGHASH types on signatures in assembly (asm) representations of scriptSig scripts. This squashed commit incorporates substantial helpful feedback from jtimon, laanwj, and sipa. (mruddy)
Assume that when a wallet transaction has a valid block hash and transaction position
in it, the transaction is actually there. We're already trusting wallet data in a
much more fundamental way anyway.
To prevent backward compatibility issues, a new record is used for storing the
block locator in the wallet. Old wallets will see a wallet file synchronized up
to the genesis block, and rescan automatically.
done automatically.
At some point along the line, fully offline builds were no longer happening
when strictly following the release-process.md instructions.
We should ensure that users who might want to torify or build offline need
to take extra steps to remain offline.
Also, corrections to build process: including gverify examples for new builders.
Continues Johnathan Corgan's work.
Publishing multipart messages
Bugfix: Add missing zmq header includes
Bugfix: Adjust build system to link ZeroMQ code for Qt binaries
d528025 Revert "rpc-tests: re-enable rpc-tests for Windows" (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
1e700c9 doc: update deps in build-unix.md after libevent (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
26c9b83 Move windows socket init to utility function (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
4be0b08 libevent: Windows reuseaddr workaround in depends (Cory Fields)
3a174cd Fix race condition between starting HTTP server thread and setting EventBase() (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6d2bc22 Document options for new HTTP/RPC server in --help (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
be33f3f Implement RPCTimerHandler for Qt RPC console (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
57d85d9 doc: mention SSL support dropped for RPC in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
40b556d evhttpd implementation (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
ee2a42b tests: GET requests cannot have request body, use POST in rest.py (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6e996d3 tests: fix qt payment test (Cory Fields)
3140ef9 build: build-system changes for libevent (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a9af234 libevent: add depends (Cory Fields)
6a21dd5 Remove rpc_boostasiotocnetaddr test (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
8f9301c qa: Remove -rpckeepalive tests from httpbasics (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
51fcfc0 doc: remove documentation for rpcssl (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
If a user hasn't ready run autogen.sh, configure doesn't yet exist. Do the instructions seem to presume you have already built bitcoin? I don't think they do.
Would stifle beginners.
Update build-unix.md
These changes decode valid SIGHASH types on signatures in assembly (asm) representations of scriptSig scripts.
This squashed commit incorporates substantial helpful feedback from jtimon, laanwj, and sipa.
It is unreasonable to ask to change the global package configuration
just to build a package. Not only that, this is potentially harmful to the system.
Also do a few punctuation fixes in REST-interface.md.
stephenhutchings commented 3 Jul 2015, 6:35 GMT:
> Hi Luke, happy for these to be distributed under the terms of the MIT licence.
> Let me know if you need anything further from me.
This is an ideal version of what the release process should look like,
making it more consistent with the OS X process. Some of the changes
described here would need to be made in the descriptors, which is somewhat
beyond what I would feel comfortable doing, not really understanding the signature process in depth.
[skip ci]
Rather than fetching a signature.tar.gz from somewhere on the net, instruct
Gitian to use a signature from a tag in the bitcoin-detached-sigs repository
which corresponds to the tag of the release being built.
This changes detached-sig-apply.sh to take a dirname rather than a tarball as
an argument, though detached-sig-create.sh still outputs a tarball for
convenience.
aa41bc8 Update help message to match the #4219 change (lpescher)
f60bb5e Update documentation to match the #4219 change (lpescher)
cb87386 Make command line option to show all debugging consistent with similar options (lpescher)
Add information about further notable changes:
- Big endian support
- Memory usage optimization
- Disable wallet transaction broadcast
- Stream isolation for Tor
ca5f688 [QT] don't colorize icons on win and mac (Jonas Schnelli)
7247d10 [QT] use alert icon with tooltip insted of "(out of sync)" text (Jonas Schnelli)
51c7c70 [QT] remove frame to avoid double-frame situation in sendcoinsentry.ui (Jonas Schnelli)
2a6b844 [QT] change transaction amount and height in overview page (Jonas Schnelli)
- Split linux32/linux64 releases
- Split win32/win64 zips
- Post-processing should no longer be required. The deterministic outputs are
ready for consumption.
- switching release builds to 10.7
- release binary looks like 64bit only
- tested up to 10.10
- gitian builder builds against 10.7. The docs should be consistant.
- remove 32bit text because nowadays it's obvious to support 64bit only on OSX.
Start the RPC server before doing all the (expensive) startup
initialisations like loading the block index. Until the node is ready,
return all calls immediately with a new error signalling "in warmup"
with an appropriate status message (similar to the init message).
This is useful for RPC clients to know that the server is there (e. g.,
they don't have to start it) but not yet available. It is used in
Namecoin and Huntercoin already for some time, and there exists a UI
hooked onto the RPC interface that actively uses this to its advantage.
The homebrew instructions were outdated - berkeley-db4 hasn't worked for months, based on the questions I'm seeing on Google/SO. So I added a section explaining how to install berkeley-db4 using homebrew and move on with your life. Thanks for the rest of the documentation!
Bitcoin core should work with any remotely recent boost version
if a proper build environment is present. Remove a confusing comment
from the build documentation.
Anyone building bitcoind/-qt on windows is welcome to contribute
a new one. The current information in this document is outdated,
or otherwise mostly worthless.
The wallet now uses the mempool fee estimator with a new
command-line option: -txconfirmtarget (default: 1) instead
of using hard-coded fees or priorities.
A new bitcoind that hasn't seen enough transactions to estimate
will fall back to the old hard-coded minimum priority or
transaction fee.
-paytxfee option overrides -txconfirmtarget.
Relaying and mining code isn't changed.
For Qt, the coin control dialog now uses priority estimates to
label transaction priority (instead of hard-coded constants);
unspent outputs were consistently labeled with a much higher
priority than is justified by the free transactions actually
being accepted into blocks.
I did not implement any GUI for setting -txconfirmtarget; I would
suggest getting rid of the "Pay transaction fee" GUI and replace
it with either "target number of confirmations" or maybe
a "faster confirmation <--> lower fee" slider or select box.
This is PR #4271, but with the changes to the descriptors, both the names of the
files and the names of the intermediate build artifact archives, removed.
This also closes#3775 if it goes in, because it covers the changes in
that PR.
New RPC methods: return an estimate of the fee (or priority) a
transaction needs to be likely to confirm in a given number of
blocks.
Mike Hearn created the first version of this method for estimating fees.
It works as follows:
For transactions that took 1 to N (I picked N=25) blocks to confirm,
keep N buckets with at most 100 entries in each recording the
fees-per-kilobyte paid by those transactions.
(separate buckets are kept for transactions that confirmed because
they are high-priority)
The buckets are filled as blocks are found, and are saved/restored
in a new fee_estiamtes.dat file in the data directory.
A few variations on Mike's initial scheme:
To estimate the fee needed for a transaction to confirm in X buckets,
all of the samples in all of the buckets are used and a median of
all of the data is used to make the estimate. For example, imagine
25 buckets each containing the full 100 entries. Those 2,500 samples
are sorted, and the estimate of the fee needed to confirm in the very
next block is the 50'th-highest-fee-entry in that sorted list; the
estimate of the fee needed to confirm in the next two blocks is the
150'th-highest-fee-entry, etc.
That algorithm has the nice property that estimates of how much fee
you need to pay to get confirmed in block N will always be greater
than or equal to the estimate for block N+1. It would clearly be wrong
to say "pay 11 uBTC and you'll get confirmed in 3 blocks, but pay
12 uBTC and it will take LONGER".
A single block will not contribute more than 10 entries to any one
bucket, so a single miner and a large block cannot overwhelm
the estimates.
Upgrade for https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt
Just in case - there is no vulnerability that affects ecdsa signing or
verification.
The MITM attack vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224) may have some effect on
our usage of SSL/TLS.
As long as payment requests are signed (which is the common case), usage
of the payment protocol should also not be affected.
The TLS usage in RPC may be at risk for MITM attacks. If you have
`-rpcssl` enabled, be sure to update OpenSSL as soon as possible.
