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fae63bf13033adec80c7e6d73144a21ea3cfbc6d fuzz: Clarify that only SeedRandomStateForTest(SeedRand::ZEROS) is allowed (MarcoFalke) fa18acb457e91cc0fa6b3640b6b55c6bc61572ee fuzz: Abort when using global PRNG without re-seed (MarcoFalke) fa7809aeab838752af94c52977936a8c6555d315 fuzz: Add missing SeedRandomStateForTest(SeedRand::ZEROS) (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: This is the first step toward improving fuzz stability and determinism (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/29018). A fuzz target using the global test-only PRNG will now abort if the seed is re-used across fuzz inputs. Also, temporarily add `SeedRandomStateForTest(SeedRand::ZEROS)` to all affected fuzz targets. This may slow down the libfuzzer leak detector, but it will disable itself after some time, or it can be disabled explicitly with `-detect_leaks=0`. In a follow-up, each affected fuzz target can be stripped of the global random use and a local `RandomMixin` (or similar) can be added instead. (Can be tested by removing any one of the re-seed calls and observing a fuzz abort) ACKs for top commit: hodlinator: ACK fae63bf13033adec80c7e6d73144a21ea3cfbc6d dergoegge: utACK fae63bf13033adec80c7e6d73144a21ea3cfbc6d marcofleon: Tested ACK fae63bf13033adec80c7e6d73144a21ea3cfbc6d Tree-SHA512: 4a0db69af7f715408edf4f8b08b44f34ce12ee2c79d33b336ad19a6e6bd079c4ff7c971af0a3efa428213407c1171f4e2837ec6a2577086c2f94cd15618a0892
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 during the generation of the build system) with: ctest. 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: build/test/functional/test_runner.py
(assuming build is your build directory).
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.