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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.
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
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