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6d05c4fd138b80168d14a8cf1dbcca43782851af msvc: Specify `boost-date-time` package explicitly (Hennadii Stepanov) 1f97e51d737c1a5a3e4503db3373a792f87f3bc1 msvc: Update vcpkg manifest baseline up to "2023.08.09 Release" (Hennadii Stepanov) 2d2ef2f14f352438afab2e3251d07fd100be7076 msvc: No need to specify the default feature for `libevent` package (Hennadii Stepanov) Pull request description: Last time we updated dependency packages used when compiling with MSVC in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26891. Then we [switched](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27335) to specifying the `builtin-baseline` in the `vcpkg.json` manifest file, which made checking out the entire vcpkg repository to a specific commit or tag unneeded. This PR updates the manifest baseline from [2023.01.09](https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/releases/tag/2023.01.09) to [2023.08.09](https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/releases/tag/2023.08.09): - berkeleydb: 4.8.30#8 --> 4.8.30#9 - boost: 1.81.0 --> 1.82.0#2 - sqlite3: 3.40.0#1 --> 3.42.0#1 - zeromq: 4.3.4#6 --> 2023-06-20#1 The most recent https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/releases/tag/2023.11.20 tag is still unavailable in the vcpkg installation in the current GHA Windows image (the head commit is2b14b606ceonly). The other https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/releases/tag/2023.10.19 tag [introduces](0c42a58eac) a warning C4297 in the Boost.Process 1.83 that is [fixed](https://github.com/boostorg/process/pull/340) in the upcoming version 1.84. ACKs for top commit: fanquake: ACK 6d05c4fd138b80168d14a8cf1dbcca43782851af Tree-SHA512: c71c46c13ad5a6d39ae72982b7765f690e7391092e4983887a53dceeee507c8fc256e887351bbe35c051bf88d2babeb283e17a2588ee86ec9020c4ba426bfcd7
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.