[also sent to bitcoin-development@]<br><br>I&#39;m pleased to announce BitCoinJ v0.2. There have been over 100 commits since the first release back in March, which have added:<br><ul><li>Full support for block chain re-orgs, including recognition of dead transactions (that will never be included in the chain).</li>
<li>Persistence of the block chain using multiple, pluggable stores. A BoundedOverheadBlockStore is provided that is suitable for usage on mobile devices where low memory usage and instant startup time are requirements.</li>
<li>A much larger test suite</li><li>IRC, DNS  and seed list peer discovery</li><li>ASN.1 key export</li><li>Many many bugfixes and minor API improvements.</li></ul><div>This release represents the work of many people. In particular I&#39;d like to thank:</div>
<div><ul><li>Andreas Schildbach</li><li>Miron Cuperman</li><li>Gary Rowe</li><li>Thilo Planz</li><li>Micheal Swiggs</li><li>Noa Resare</li><li>John Sample</li><li>Xiaofeng Guo</li></ul></div>-- <br>Google Switzerland GmbH<br>
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