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Merge #8035: [Wallet] Add simplest BIP32/deterministic key generation implementation 
afcd77e Detect -usehd mismatches when wallet.dat already exists (Jonas Schnelli)
17c0131 [Docs] Add release notes and bip update for Bip32/HD wallets (Jonas Schnelli)
c022e5b [Wallet] use constant for bip32 hardened key limit (Jonas Schnelli)
f190251 [Wallet] Add simplest BIP32/deterministic key generation implementation (Jonas Schnelli)
2016-06-14 11:44:22 +02:00

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(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to release-notes at release time)

Bitcoin Core version version is now available from:

https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-*version*/

This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues

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Notable changes

Example item

bitcoin-cli: arguments privacy

The RPC command line client gained a new argument, -stdin to read extra arguments from standard input, one per line until EOF/Ctrl-D. For example:

$ echo -e "mysecretcode\n120" | src/bitcoin-cli -stdin walletpassphrase

It is recommended to use this for sensitive information such as wallet passphrases, as command-line arguments can usually be read from the process table by any user on the system.

RPC low-level changes

  • gettxoutsetinfo UTXO hash (hash_serialized) has changed. There was a divergence between 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and the txids were missing in the hashed data. This has been fixed, but this means that the output will be different than from previous versions.

C++11 and Python 3

Various code modernizations have been done. The Bitcoin Core code base has started using C++11. This means that a C++11-capable compiler is now needed for building. Effectively this means GCC 4.7 or higher, or Clang 3.3 or higher.

When cross-compiling for a target that doesn't have C++11 libraries, configure with ./configure --enable-glibc-back-compat ... LDFLAGS=-static-libstdc++.

For running the functional tests in qa/rpc-tests, Python3.4 or higher is now required.

0.13.0 Change log

Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and git merge commit are mentioned.

RPC and REST

Asm script outputs now contain OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY in place of OP_NOP2

OP_NOP2 has been renamed to OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY by BIP 65

The following outputs are affected by this change:

  • RPC getrawtransaction (in verbose mode)
  • RPC decoderawtransaction
  • RPC decodescript
  • REST /rest/tx/ (JSON format)
  • REST /rest/block/ (JSON format when including extended tx details)
  • bitcoin-tx -json

New mempool information RPC calls

RPC calls have been added to output detailed statistics for individual mempool entries, as well as to calculate the in-mempool ancestors or descendants of a transaction: see getmempoolentry, getmempoolancestors, getmempooldescendants.

ZMQ

Each ZMQ notification now contains an up-counting sequence number that allows listeners to detect lost notifications. The sequence number is always the last element in a multi-part ZMQ notification and therefore backward compatible. Each message type has its own counter. (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7762)

Configuration and command-line options

Block and transaction handling

P2P protocol and network code

The p2p alert system has been removed in #7692 and the 'alert' message is no longer supported.

Fee filtering of invs (BIP 133)

The optional new p2p message "feefilter" is implemented and the protocol version is bumped to 70013. Upon receiving a feefilter message from a peer, a node will not send invs for any transactions which do not meet the filter feerate. BIP 133

Validation

Build system

Wallet

Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation

Newly created wallets will use hierarchical deterministic key generation according to BIP32 (keypath m/0'/0'/k'). Existing wallets will still use traditional key generation.

Backups of HD wallets, regardless of when they have been created, can therefore be used to re-generate all possible private keys, even the ones which haven't already been generated during the time of the backup.

HD key generation for new wallets can be disabled by -usehd=0. Keep in mind that this flag only has affect on newly created wallets. You can't disable HD key generation once you have created a HD wallet.

There is no distinction between internal (change) and external keys.

Pull request, BIP 32

GUI

Tests

Miscellaneous