Release candidate 1 of a new major Bitcoin Knots release, version 0.14.0, has
been made available.

This is a release candidate for a new major version release, including new
features, various bugfixes and performance improvements.

Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here:

    https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/v0.14.0.knots20170218.rc1/doc/release-notes.md

Binaries can be downloaded from:

    http://bitcoinknots.org/files/0.14.x/0.14.0.knots20170218.rc1/

Please take care to verify the PGP signature of all downloads.

Source code can be found on GitHub under the signed tag

    https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/tree/v0.14.0.knots20170218.rc1

Release candidates are test versions for releases. When no critical problems
are found, this release candidate will be tagged as 0.14.0 final, otherwise
a new rc will be made available after these are solved.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:

    https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/issues