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f8866e8c324be3322fa507c2ceb1de35d148d0f1 Add roundtrip fuzz tests for CAddress serialization (Pieter Wuille) e2f0548b52a4b2ba3edf77e3f21365f1e8f270a4 Use addrv2 serialization in anchors.dat (Pieter Wuille) 8cd8f37dfe3ffb73a09f3ad773603d9d89452245 Introduce well-defined CAddress disk serialization (Pieter Wuille) Pull request description: Alternative to #20509. This makes the `CAddress` disk serialization format well defined, and uses it to enable addrv2 support in anchors.dat (in a way that's compatible with older software). The new format is: - The first 4 bytes store a format version number. Its low 19 bits are ignored (as those historically stored the `CLIENT_VERSION`), but its high 13 bits specify the actual serialization: - 0x00000000: LE64 encoding for `nServices`, V1 encoding for `CService` (like pre-BIP155 network serialization). - 0x20000000: CompactSize encoding for `nServices`, V2 encoding for `CService` (like BIP155 network serialization). - Any other value triggers an unsupported format error on deserialization, and can be used for future format changes. - The `ADDRV2_FORMAT` flag in the stream's version does not determine the actual serialization format; it only sets whether or not V2 encoding is permitted. ACKs for top commit: achow101: ACK f8866e8c324be3322fa507c2ceb1de35d148d0f1 laanwj: Code review ACK f8866e8c324be3322fa507c2ceb1de35d148d0f1 vasild: ACK f8866e8c324be3322fa507c2ceb1de35d148d0f1 jonatack: ACK f8866e8c324be3322fa507c2ceb1de35d148d0f1 tested rebased to master and built/run/restarted with DEBUG_ADDRMAN, peers.dat and anchors ser/deser seems fine hebasto: ACK f8866e8c324be3322fa507c2ceb1de35d148d0f1, tested on Linux Mint 20.1 (x86_64). Tree-SHA512: 3898f8a8c51783a46dd0aae03fa10060521f5dd6e79315fe95ba807689e78f202388ffa28c40bf156c6f7b1fc2ce806b155dcbe56027df73d039a55331723796
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information read the original Bitcoin whitepaper.
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.