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d5067651991f3e6daf456ba13c7036ddc4545352 [refactor] Remove compat.h from kernel headers (TheCharlatan) 36193af47c8dcff53e59498c416b85b59e0d0f91 [refactor] Remove netaddress.h from kernel headers (TheCharlatan) 2b08c55f01996e0b05763f05eac50b83ba9d5a8e [refactor] Add CChainParams member to CConnman (TheCharlatan) f0d1d8b35c3aa9f2f923f74e3dbbf1e5ece4cd2f [refactor] Add missing includes for next commit (TheCharlatan) 534b314a7401d44f51aabd4565f97be9ee411740 kernel: Move MessageStartChars to its own file (TheCharlatan) 9be330b654cfbd792620295f3867f592059d6a7a [refactor] Define MessageStartChars as std::array (TheCharlatan) 37e2b011136ca1cf00dfb9e575d12f0d035a6a2c [refactor] Allow std::array<std::byte, N> in serialize.h (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: This removes the non-consensus critical `protocol.h` and `netaddress.h` headers from the kernel headers. With this patch, they are no longer required to include in order to use the libbitcoinkernel library. This also allows for the removal of the `compat.h` header from the kernel headers. As an added future benefit it also reduces the number of of kernel headers that include the platform specific `bitcoin-config.h`. For those interested, the currently required kernel headers can be inspected visually with the [sourcetrail](https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail) tool by looking at the required includes of `bitcoin-chainstate.cpp`. --- This is part of the [libbitcoinkernel project](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27587), namely its stage 1 step 3: Decouple most non-consensus headers from libbitcoinkernel. ACKs for top commit: stickies-v: re-ACK d506765 hebasto: ACK d5067651991f3e6daf456ba13c7036ddc4545352. ajtowns: utACK d5067651991f3e6daf456ba13c7036ddc4545352 MarcoFalke: lgtm ACK d5067651991f3e6daf456ba13c7036ddc4545352 🍛 Tree-SHA512: 6f90ea510a302c2927e84d16900e89997c39b8ff3ce9d4effeb8a134bd29cc52bd9e81e51aaa11f7496bad00025b78a58b88c5a9e0bb3f4ebbe9a76309215fb7
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.