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doc: Add historical release notes
Add all known release notes for versions since 0.3.12, thanks to Matt Corallo for collecting them on the wiki.
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Bitcoin version 0.6.0 is now available for download at:
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/
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This release includes more than 20 language localizations.
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More translations are welcome; join the
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project at Transifex to help:
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https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
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https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
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Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer
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distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them
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directly from github:
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https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.0 # .tar.gz
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https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.6.0 # .zip
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For Ubuntu users, there is a ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which
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you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep
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bitcoin up-to-date. Just type
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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
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in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.
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KNOWN ISSUES
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Shutting down while synchronizing with the network
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(downloading the blockchain) can take more than a minute,
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because database writes are queued to speed up download
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time.
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NEW FEATURES SINCE BITCOIN VERSION 0.5
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Initial network synchronization should be much faster
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(one or two hours on a typical machine instead of ten or more
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hours).
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Backup Wallet menu option.
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Bitcoin-Qt can display and save QR codes for sending
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and receiving addresses.
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New context menu on addresses to copy/edit/delete them.
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New Sign Message dialog that allows you to prove that you
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own a bitcoin address by creating a digital
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signature.
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New wallets created with this version will
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use 33-byte 'compressed' public keys instead of
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65-byte public keys, resulting in smaller
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transactions and less traffic on the bitcoin
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network. The shorter keys are already supported
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by the network but wallet.dat files containing
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short keys are not compatible with earlier
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versions of Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind.
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New command-line argument -blocknotify=<command>
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that will spawn a shell process to run <command>
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when a new block is accepted.
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New command-line argument -splash=0 to disable
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Bitcoin-Qt's initial splash screen
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validateaddress JSON-RPC api command output includes
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two new fields for addresses in the wallet:
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pubkey : hexadecimal public key
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iscompressed : true if pubkey is a short 33-byte key
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New JSON-RPC api commands for dumping/importing
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private keys from the wallet (dumprivkey, importprivkey).
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New JSON-RPC api command for getting information about
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blocks (getblock, getblockhash).
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New JSON-RPC api command (getmininginfo) for getting
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extra information related to mining. The getinfo
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JSON-RPC command no longer includes mining-related
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information (generate/genproclimit/hashespersec).
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NOTABLE CHANGES
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BIP30 implemented (security fix for an attack involving
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duplicate "coinbase transactions").
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The -nolisten, -noupnp and -nodnsseed command-line
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options were renamed to -listen, -upnp and -dnsseed,
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with a default value of 1. The old names are still
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supported for compatibility (so specifying -nolisten
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is automatically interpreted as -listen=0; every
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boolean argument can now be specified as either
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-foo or -nofoo).
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The -noirc command-line options was renamed to
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-irc, with a default value of 0. Run -irc=1 to
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get the old behavior.
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Three fill-up-available-memory denial-of-service
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attacks were fixed.
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NOT YET IMPLEMENTED FEATURES
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Support for clicking on bitcoin: URIs and
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opening/launching Bitcoin-Qt is available only on Linux,
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and only if you configure your desktop to launch
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Bitcoin-Qt. All platforms support dragging and dropping
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bitcoin: URIs onto the Bitcoin-Qt window to start
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payment.
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PRELIMINARY SUPPORT FOR MULTISIGNATURE TRANSACTIONS
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This release has preliminary support for multisignature
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transactions-- transactions that require authorization
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from more than one person or device before they
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will be accepted by the bitcoin network.
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Prior to this release, multisignature transactions
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were considered 'non-standard' and were ignored;
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with this release multisignature transactions are
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considered standard and will start to be relayed
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and accepted into blocks.
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It is expected that future releases of Bitcoin-Qt
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will support the creation of multisignature transactions,
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once enough of the network has upgraded so relaying
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and validating them is robust.
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For this release, creation and testing of multisignature
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transactions is limited to the bitcoin test network using
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the "addmultisigaddress" JSON-RPC api call.
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Short multisignature address support is included in this
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release, as specified in BIP 13 and BIP 16.
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