Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.9.0 release candidate two

From: James Hartig <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 13:34:46 -0500

Heads up... downloaded the linux tar.gz to my OVH box and got my server
terminated. Screenshot from the email:
http://cl.ly/image/3q0C2a3Y0T0V

They claimed I was attacking 88.198.199.140 over port 443.

Thanks,
--
James Hartig
Software Engineer @ Grooveshark.com
http://twitter.com/jameshartig

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Gavin Andresen <[email-masked]>wrote:

> Please download and help test 0.9.0rc2; binaries are available from:
>    https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/test/
>
> If no serious bugs are found in this release candidate, it will be the
> final 0.9.0 release.
>
> Release notes (please help proofread/improve these, too):
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0rc2 is now available from:
>
>   https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/test/
>
> This is a release candidate for a new major version. A major version brings
> both new features and bug fixes.
>
> Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
>
>   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
>
> How to Upgrade
> --------------
>
> If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has
> completely
> shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), uninstall
> all
> earlier versions of Bitcoin, then run the installer (on Windows) or just
> copy
> over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
>
> If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you run
> 0.9.0 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere
> from
> 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine.
>
> On Windows, do not forget to uninstall all earlier versions of the Bitcoin
> client first, especially if you are switching to the 64-bit version.
>
> Windows 64-bit installer
> -------------------------
>
> New in 0.9.0 is the Windows 64-bit version of the client. There have been
> frequent reports of users running out of virtual memory on 32-bit systems
> during the initial sync. Because of this it is recommended to install the
> 64-bit version if your system supports it.
>
> NOTE: Release candidate 2 windows binaries are not code-signed; use pgp
> and the SHA256SUMS.asc file to make sure your binaries are correct.
> The final 0.9.0 release Windows setup.exe binaries will be code-signed.
>
> OSX 10.5 / 32-bit no longer supported
> -------------------------------------
>
> 0.9.0 drops support for older Macs. The minimum requirements are now
> a 64-bit-capable CPU running OSX 10.6 or later.
>
> Rebranding to Bitcoin Core
> ---------------------------
>
> To reduce confusion between Bitcoin-the-network and Bitcoin-the-software we
> have renamed the reference client to Bitcoin Core.
>
> Autotools build system
> -----------------------
>
> For 0.9.0 we switched to an autotools-based build system instead of
> individual
> (q)makefiles.
>
> Using the standard “./autogen.sh; ./configure; make” to build Bitcoin-Qt
> and
> bitcoind makes it easier for experienced open source developers to
> contribute
> to the project.
>
> Be sure to check doc/build-*.md for your platform before building from
> source.
>
> Bitcoin-cli
> -------------
>
> Another change in the 0.9 release is moving away from the bitcoind
> executable
> functioning both as a server and as a RPC client. The RPC client
> functionality
> (“tell the running bitcoin daemon to do THIS”) was split into a separate
> executable, 'bitcoin-cli'. The RPC client code will eventually be removed
> from
> bitcoind, but will be kept for backwards compatibility for a release or
> two.
>
> `walletpassphrase` RPC
> -----------------------
>
> The behavior of the `walletpassphrase` RPC when the wallet is already
> unlocked
> has changed between 0.8 and 0.9.
>
> The 0.8 behavior of `walletpassphrase` is to fail when the wallet is
> already unlocked:
>
>     > walletpassphrase 1000
>     walletunlocktime = now + 1000
>     > walletpassphrase 10
>     Error: Wallet is already unlocked (old unlock time stays)
>
> The new behavior of `walletpassphrase` is to set a new unlock time
> overriding
> the old one:
>
>     > walletpassphrase 1000
>     walletunlocktime = now + 1000
>     > walletpassphrase 10
>     walletunlocktime = now + 10 (overriding the old unlock time)
>
> Transaction malleability-related fixes
> --------------------------------------
>
> This release contains a few fixes for transaction id malleability issues:
>
> - -nospendzeroconfchange command-line option, to avoid spending
>   zero-confirmation change
> - IsStandard() transaction rules tightened to prevent relaying and mining
> of
>   mutated transactions
> - Additional information in listtransactions/gettransaction output to
>   report wallet transactions that conflict with each other because
>   they spend the same outputs.
> - Bug fixes to the getbalance/listaccounts RPC commands, which would report
>   incorrect balances for double-spent (or mutated) transactions.
> - New option: -zapwallettxes to rebuild the wallet's transaction
> information
>
> Transaction Fees
> ----------------
>
> This release drops the default fee required to relay transactions across
> the
> network to 0.01mBTC per kilobyte. Note that getting a transaction relayed
> across the network does NOT guarantee that the transaction will be
> accepted by a miner and included in a block, and the default fee accepted
> by miners remains 0.1mBTC per kilobyte.
>
> As in previous releases, the relay fee may be changed with the
> -minrelaytxfee
> command-line option, and miners may change the default minimum fee they
> accept
> with the -mintxfee command-line option.
>
> 0.9.0rc2 Release notes
> =======================
>
> RPC:
>
> - New notion of 'conflicted' transactions, reported as
>   confirmations: -1
> - 'listreceivedbyaddress' now provides tx ids
> - Add raw transaction hex to 'gettransaction' output
> - Updated help and tests for 'getreceivedby(account|address)'
> - In 'getblock', accept 2nd 'verbose' parameter, similar to
> getrawtransaction,
>   but defaulting to 1 for backward compatibility
> - Add 'verifychain', to verify chain database at runtime
> - Add 'dumpwallet' and 'importwallet' RPCs
> - 'keypoolrefill' gains optional size parameter
> - Add 'getbestblockhash', to return tip of best chain
> - Add 'chainwork' (the total work done by all blocks since the genesis
> block)
>   to 'getblock' output
> - Make RPC password resistant to timing attacks
> - Clarify help messages and add examples
> - Add 'getrawchangeaddress' call for raw transaction change destinations
> - Reject insanely high fees by default in 'sendrawtransaction'
> - Add RPC call 'decodescript' to decode a hex-encoded transaction script
> - Make 'validateaddress' provide redeemScript
> - Add 'getnetworkhashps' to get the calculated network hashrate
> - New RPC 'ping' command to request ping, new 'pingtime' and 'pingwait'
> fields
>   in 'getpeerinfo' output
> - Adding new 'addrlocal' field to 'getpeerinfo' output
> - Add verbose boolean to 'getrawmempool'
> - Add rpc command 'getunconfirmedbalance' to obtain total unconfirmed
> balance
> - Explicitly ensure that wallet is unlocked in `importprivkey`
> - Add check for valid keys in `importprivkey`
>
> Command-line options:
>
> - New option: -nospendzeroconfchange to never spend unconfirmed change
> outputs
> - New option: -zapwallettxes to rebuild the wallet's transaction
> information
> - Rename option '-tor' to '-onion' to better reflect what it does
> - Add '-disablewallet' mode to let bitcoind run entirely without wallet
> (when
>   built with wallet)
> - Update default '-rpcsslciphers' to include TLSv1.2
> - make '-logtimestamps' default on and rework help-message
> - RPC client option: '-rpcwait', to wait for server start
> - Remove '-logtodebugger'
> - Allow `-noserver` with bitcoind
>
> Block-chain handling and storage:
>
> - Update leveldb to 1.15
> - Check for correct genesis (prevent cases where a datadir from the wrong
>   network is accidentally loaded)
> - Allow txindex to be removed and add a reindex dialog
> - Log aborted block database rebuilds
> - Store orphan blocks in serialized form, to save memory
> - Limit the number of orphan blocks in memory to 750
> - Fix non-standard disconnected transactions causing mempool orphans
> - Add a new checkpoint at block 279,000
>
> Wallet:
>
> - Bug fixes and new regression tests to correctly compute
>   the balance of wallets containing double-spent (or mutated) transactions
> - Store key creation time. Calculate whole-wallet birthday.
> - Optimize rescan to skip blocks prior to birthday
> - Let user select wallet file with -wallet=foo.dat
> - Consider generated coins mature at 101 instead of 120 blocks
> - Improve wallet load time
> - Don't count txins for priority to encourage sweeping
> - Don't create empty transactions when reading a corrupted wallet
> - Fix rescan to start from beginning after importprivkey
> - Only create signatures with low S values.
>
> Mining:
>
> - Increase default -blockmaxsize/prioritysize to 750K/50K
> - 'getblocktemplate' does not require a key to create a block template
>
> Protocol and network:
>
> - Drop the fee required to relay a transaction to 0.01mBTC per kilobyte
> - Send tx relay flag with version
> - New 'reject' P2P message (BIP 0061, see
> https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7079034 for draft)
> - Dump addresses every 15 minutes instead of 10 seconds
> - Relay OP_RETURN data TxOut as standard transaction type
> - Remove CENT-output free transaction rule when relaying
> - Lower maximum size for free transaction creation
> - Send multiple inv messages if mempool.size > MAX_INV_SZ
> - Split MIN_PROTO_VERSION into INIT_PROTO_VERSION and
> MIN_PEER_PROTO_VERSION
> - Do not treat fFromMe transaction differently when broadcasting
> - Process received messages one at a time without sleeping between messages
> - Improve logging of failed connections
> - Bump protocol version to 70002
> - Add some additional logging to give extra network insight
> - Added new DNS seed from bitcoinstats.com
>
> Validation:
>
> - Log reason for non-standard transaction rejection
> - Prune provably-unspendable outputs, and adapt consistency check for it.
> - Detect any sufficiently long fork and add a warning
> - Call the -alertnotify script when we see a long or invalid fork
> - Fix multi-block reorg transaction resurrection
> - Reject non-canonically-encoded serialization sizes
> - Reject dust amounts during validation
> - Accept nLockTime transactions that finalize in the next block
>
> Build system:
>
> - Switch to autotools-based build system
> - Build without wallet by passing `--disable-wallet` to configure, this
> removes
>   the BerkeleyDB dependency
> - Upgrade gitian dependencies (libpng, libz, libupnpc, boost, openssl) to
> more
>   recent versions
> - Windows 64-bit build support
> - Solaris compatibility fixes
> - Check integrity of gitian input source tarballs
> - Enable full GCC Stack-smashing protection for all OSes
>
> GUI:
>
> - Switch to Qt 5.2.0 for Windows build
> - Add payment request (BIP 0070) support
> - Improve options dialog
> - Show transaction fee in new send confirmation dialog
> - Add total balance in overview page
> - Allow user to choose data directory on first start, when data directory
> is
>   missing, or when the -choosedatadir option is passed
> - Save and restore window positions
> - Add vout index to transaction id in transactions details dialog
> - Add network traffic graph in debug window
> - Add open URI dialog
> - Add Coin Control Features
> - Improve receive coins workflow: make the 'Receive' tab into a form to
> request
>   payments, and move historical address list functionality to File menu.
> - Rebrand to `Bitcoin Core`
> - Move initialization/shutdown to a thread. This prevents “Not responding”
>   messages during startup. Also show a window during shutdown.
> - Don't regenerate autostart link on every client startup
> - Show and store message of normal bitcoin:URI
> - Fix richtext detection hang issue on very old Qt versions
> - osx: Make use of the 10.8+ user notification center to display growl like
>        notifications
> - osx: Added NSHighResolutionCapable flag to Info.plist for better font
>        rendering on Retina displays.
> - osx: Fix bitcoin-qt startup crash when clicking dock icon
> - linux: Fix Gnome bitcoin: URI handler
>
> Miscellaneous:
>
> - Add Linux script (contrib/qos/tc.sh) to limit outgoing bandwidth
> - Add '-regtest' mode, similar to testnet but private with instant block
>   generation with 'setgenerate' RPC.
> - Add 'linearize.py' script to contrib, for creating bootstrap.dat
> - Add separate bitcoin-cli client
>
> Credits
> --------
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
>
> - Andrey
> - Ashley Holman
> - b6393ce9-d324-4fe1-996b-acf82dbc3d53
> - bitsofproof
> - Brandon Dahler
> - Calvin Tam
> - Christian Decker
> - Christopher Latham
> - Chuck
> - coblee
> - constantined
> - Cory Fields
> - Cozz Lovan
> - Daniel Larimer
> - David Hill
> - Dmitry Smirnov
> - Drak
> - Eric Lombrozo
> - fanquake
> - fcicq
> - Florin
> - frewil
> - Gavin Andresen
> - Gregory Maxwell
> - gubatron
> - Guillermo Céspedes Tabárez
> - Haakon Nilsen
> - HaltingState
> - Han Lin Yap
> - harry
> - Ian Kelling
> - Jeff Garzik
> - Johnathan Corgan
> - Jonas Schnelli
> - Josh Lehan
> - Josh Triplett
> - Julian Langschaedel
> - Kangmo
> - Lake Denman
> - Luke Dashjr
> - Mark Friedenbach
> - Matt Corallo
> - Michael Bauer
> - Michael Ford
> - Michagogo
> - Midnight Magic
> - Mike Hearn
> - Nils Schneider
> - Noel Tiernan
> - Olivier Langlois
> - patrick s
> - Patrick Strateman
> - Peter Todd
> - phantomcircuit
> - phelixbtc
> - Philip Kaufmann
> - Pieter Wuille
> - Rav3nPL
> - regergregregerrge
> - Robert Backhaus
> - Roman Mindalev
> - Rune K. Svendsen
> - Ryan Niebur
> - Scott Ellis
> - Scott Willeke
> - Sergey Kazenyuk
> - Shawn Wilkinson
> - Sined
> - sje
> - Subo1978
> - super3
> - Tamas Blummer
> - theuni
> - Thomas Holenstein
> - Timon Rapp
> - Timothy Stranex
> - Vaclav Vobornik
> - vhf / victor felder
> - Vinnie Falco
> - Warren Togami
> - Wil Bown
> - Wladimir J. van der Laan
>
>
>
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