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User visible changes for btcd
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A full-node bitcoin implementation written in Go
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Changes in 0.9.0 (Sat Sep 20 2014)
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- Protocol and network related changes:
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- Add a new checkpoint at block height 319400
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- Add support for BIP0037 bloom filters
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/132)
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- Implement BIP0061 reject handling and hence support for protocol
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version 70002 (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/133)
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- Add testnet DNS seeds for peer discovery (testnet-seed.alexykot.me
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and testnet-seed.bitcoin.schildbach.de)
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- Add mainnet DNS seed for peer discovery (seeds.bitcoin.open-nodes.org)
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- Make multisig transactions with non-null dummy data nonstandard
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/131)
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- Make transactions with an excessive number of signature operations
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nonstandard
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- Perform initial DNS lookups concurrently which allows connections
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more quickly
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- Improve the address manager to significantly reduce memory usage and
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add tests
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- Remove orphan transactions when they appear in a mined block
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/166)
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- Apply incremental back off on connection retries for persistent peers
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that give invalid replies to mirror the logic used for failed
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connections (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/103)
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- Correct rate-limiting of free and low-fee transactions
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- Mining support changes:
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- Implement getblocktemplate RPC with the following support:
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/124)
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- BIP0022 Non-Optional Sections
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- BIP0022 Long Polling
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- BIP0023 Basic Pool Extensions
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- BIP0023 Mutation coinbase/append
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- BIP0023 Mutations time, time/increment, and time/decrement
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- BIP0023 Mutation transactions/add
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- BIP0023 Mutations prevblock, coinbase, and generation
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- BIP0023 Block Proposals
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- Implement built-in concurrent CPU miner
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/137)
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NOTE: CPU mining on mainnet is pointless. This has been provided
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for testing purposes such as for the new simulation test network
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- Add --generate flag to enable CPU mining
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- Deprecate the --getworkkey flag in favor of --miningaddr which
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specifies which addresses generated blocks will choose from to pay
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the subsidy to
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- RPC changes:
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- Implement gettxout command
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/141)
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- Implement validateaddress command
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- Implement verifymessage command
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- Mark getunconfirmedbalance RPC as wallet-only
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- Mark getwalletinfo RPC as wallet-only
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- Update getgenerate, setgenerate, gethashespersec, and getmininginfo
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to return the appropriate information about new CPU mining status
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- Modify getpeerinfo pingtime and pingwait field types to float64 so
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they are compatible
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- Improve disconnect handling for normal HTTP clients
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- Make error code returns for invalid hex more consistent
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- Websocket changes:
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- Switch to a new more efficient websocket package
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/134)
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- Add rescanfinished notification
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- Modify the rescanprogress notification to include block hash as well
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as height (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/151)
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- btcctl utility changes:
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- Accept --simnet flag which automatically selects the appropriate port
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and TLS certificates needed to communicate with btcd and btcwallet on
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the simulation test network
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- Fix createrawtransaction command to send amounts denominated in BTC
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- Add estimatefee command
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- Add estimatepriority command
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- Add getmininginfo command
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- Add getnetworkinfo command
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- Add gettxout command
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- Add lockunspent command
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- Add signrawtransaction command
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- addblock utility changes:
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- Accept --simnet flag which automatically selects the appropriate port
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and TLS certificates needed to communicate with btcd and btcwallet on
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the simulation test network
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- Notable developer-related package changes:
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- Provide a new bloom package in btcutil which allows creating and
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working with BIP0037 bloom filters
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- Provide a new hdkeychain package in btcutil which allows working with
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BIP0032 hierarchical deterministic key chains
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- Introduce a new btcnet package which houses network parameters
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- Provide new simnet network (--simnet) which is useful for private
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simulation testing
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- Enforce low S values in serialized signatures as detailed in BIP0062
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- Return errors from all methods on the btcdb.Db interface
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcdb/issues/5)
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- Allow behavior flags to alter btcchain.ProcessBlock
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcchain/issues/5)
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- Provide a new SerializeSize API for blocks
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcwire/issues/19)
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- Several of the core packages now work with Google App Engine
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- Misc changes:
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- Correct an issue where the database could corrupt under certain
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circumstances which would require a new chain download
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- Slightly optimize deserialization
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- Use the correct IP block for he.net
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- Fix an issue where it was possible the block manager could hang on
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shutdown
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- Update sample config file so the comments are on a separate line
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rather than the end of a line so they are not interpreted as settings
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/135)
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- Correct an issue where getdata requests were not being properly
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throttled which could lead to larger than necessary memory usage
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- Always show help when given the help flag even when the config file
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contains invalid entries
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- General code cleanup and minor optimizations
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Changes in 0.8.0-beta (Sun May 25 2014)
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- Btcd is now Beta (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/130)
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- Add a new checkpoint at block height 300255
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- Protocol and network related changes:
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- Lower the minimum transaction relay fee to 1000 satoshi to match
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recent reference client changes
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/100)
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- Raise the maximum signature script size to support standard 15-of-15
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multi-signature pay-to-sript-hash transactions with compressed pubkeys
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to remain compatible with the reference client
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/128)
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- Reduce max bytes allowed for a standard nulldata transaction to 40 for
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compatibility with the reference client
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- Introduce a new btcnet package which houses all of the network params
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for each network (mainnet, testnet3, regtest) to ultimately enable
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easier addition and tweaking of networks without needing to change
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several packages
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- Fix several script discrepancies found by reference client test data
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- Add new DNS seed for peer discovery (seed.bitnodes.io)
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- Reduce the max known inventory cache from 20000 items to 1000 items
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- Fix an issue where unknown inventory types could lead to a hung peer
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- Implement inventory rebroadcast handler for sendrawtransaction
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/99)
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- Update user agent to fully support BIP0014
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcwire/issues/10)
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- Implement initial mining support:
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- Add a new logging subsystem for mining related operations
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- Implement infrastructure for creating block templates
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- Provide options to control block template creation settings
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- Support the getwork RPC
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- Allow address identifiers to apply to more than one network since both
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testnet3 and the regression test network unfortunately use the same
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identifier
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- RPC changes:
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- Set the content type for HTTP POST RPC connections to application/json
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/121)
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- Modified the RPC server startup so it only requires at least one valid
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listen interface
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- Correct an error path where it was possible certain errors would not
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be returned
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- Implement getwork command
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/125)
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- Update sendrawtransaction command to reject orphans
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- Update sendrawtransaction command to include the reason a transaction
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was rejected
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- Update getinfo command to populate connection count field
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- Update getinfo command to include relay fee field
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/107)
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- Allow transactions submitted with sendrawtransaction to bypass the
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rate limiter
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- Allow the getcurrentnet and getbestblock extensions to be accessed via
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HTTP POST in addition to Websockets
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/127)
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- Websocket changes:
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- Rework notifications to ensure they are delivered in the order they
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occur
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- Rename notifynewtxs command to notifyreceived (funds received)
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- Rename notifyallnewtxs command to notifynewtransactions
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- Rename alltx notification to txaccepted
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- Rename allverbosetx notification to txacceptedverbose
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/98)
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- Add rescan progress notification
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- Add recvtx notification
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- Add redeemingtx notification
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- Modify notifyspent command to accept an array of outpoints
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/123)
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- Significantly optimize the rescan command to yield up to a 60x speed
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increase
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- btcctl utility changes:
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- Add createencryptedwallet command
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- Add getblockchaininfo command
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- Add importwallet commmand
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- Add addmultisigaddress commmand
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- Add setgenerate command
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- Accept --testnet and --wallet flags which automatically select
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the appropriate port and TLS certificates needed to communicate
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with btcd and btcwallet (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/112)
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- Allow path expansion from config file entries
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/113)
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- Minor refactor simplify handling of options
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- addblock utility changes:
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- Improve logging by making it consistent with the logging provided by
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btcd (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/90)
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- Improve several package APIs for developers:
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- Add new amount type for consistently handling monetary values
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- Add new coin selector API
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- Add new WIF (Wallet Import Format) API
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- Add new crypto types for private keys and signatures
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- Add new API to sign transactions including script merging and hash
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types
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- Expose function to extract all pushed data from a script
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcscript/issues/8)
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- Misc changes:
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- Optimize address manager shuffling to do 67% less work on average
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- Resolve a couple of benign data races found by the race detector
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/101)
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- Add IP address to all peer related errors to clarify which peer is the
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cause (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/102)
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- Fix a UPNP case issue that prevented the --upnp option from working
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with some UPNP servers
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- Update documentation in the sample config file regarding debug levels
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- Adjust some logging levels to improve debug messages
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- Improve the throughput of query messages to the block manager
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- Several minor optimizations to reduce GC churn and enhance speed
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- Other minor refactoring
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- General code cleanup
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Changes in 0.7.0 (Thu Feb 20 2014)
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- Fix an issue when parsing scripts which contain a multi-signature script
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which require zero signatures such as testnet block
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000000001881dccfeda317393c261f76d09e399e15e27d280e5368420f442632
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcscript/issues/7)
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- Add check to ensure all transactions accepted to mempool only contain
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canonical data pushes (https://github.com/conformal/btcscript/issues/6)
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- Fix an issue causing excessive memory consumption
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- Significantly rework and improve the websocket notification system:
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- Each client is now independent so slow clients no longer limit the
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speed of other connected clients
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- Potentially long-running operations such as rescans are now run in
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their own handler and rate-limited to one operation at a time without
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preventing simultaneous requests from the same client for the faster
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requests or notifications
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- A couple of scenarios which could cause shutdown to hang have been
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resolved
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- Update notifynewtx notifications to support all address types instead
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of only pay-to-pubkey-hash
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- Provide a --rpcmaxwebsockets option to allow limiting the number of
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concurrent websocket clients
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- Add a new websocket command notifyallnewtxs to request notifications
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/86) (thanks @flammit)
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- Improve btcctl utility in the following ways:
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- Add getnetworkhashps command
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- Add gettransaction command (wallet-specific)
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- Add signmessage command (wallet-specific)
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- Update getwork command to accept
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- Continue cleanup and work on implementing the RPC API:
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- Implement getnettotals command
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/84)
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- Implement networkhashps command
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/87)
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- Update getpeerinfo to always include syncnode field even when false
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- Remove help addenda for getpeerinfo now that it supports all fields
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- Close standard RPC connections on auth failure
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- Provide a --rpcmaxclients option to allow limiting the number of
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concurrent RPC clients (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/68)
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- Include IP address in RPC auth failure log messages
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- Resolve a rather harmless data races found by the race detector
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/94)
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- Increase block priority size and max standard transaction size to 50k
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and 100k, respectively (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/71)
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- Add rate limiting of free transactions to the memory pool to prevent
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penny flooding (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/40)
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- Provide a --logdir option (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/95)
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- Change the default log file path to include the network
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- Add a new ScriptBuilder interface to btcscript to support creation of
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custom scripts (https://github.com/conformal/btcscript/issues/5)
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- General code cleanup
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Changes in 0.6.0 (Tue Feb 04 2014)
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- Fix an issue when parsing scripts which contain invalid signatures that
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caused a chain fork on block
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0000000000000001e4241fd0b3469a713f41c5682605451c05d3033288fb2244
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- Correct an issue which could lead to an error in removeBlockNode
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcchain/issues/4)
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- Improve addblock utility as follows:
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- Check imported blocks against all chain rules and checkpoints
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- Skip blocks which are already known so you can stop and restart the
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import or start the import after you have already downloaded a portion
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of the chain
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- Correct an issue where the utility did not shutdown cleanly after
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processing all blocks
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- Add error on attempt to import orphan blocks
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- Improve error handling and reporting
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- Display statistics after input file has been fully processed
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- Rework, optimize, and improve headers-first mode:
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- Resuming the chain sync from any point before the final checkpoint
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will now use headers-first mode
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/69)
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- Verify all checkpoints as opposed to only the final one
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- Reduce and bound memory usage
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- Rollback to the last known good point when a header does not match a
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checkpoint
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- Log information about what is happening with headers
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- Improve btcctl utility in the following ways:
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- Add getaddednodeinfo command
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- Add getnettotals command
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- Add getblocktemplate command (wallet-specific)
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- Add getwork command (wallet-specific)
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- Add getnewaddress command (wallet-specific)
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- Add walletpassphrasechange command (wallet-specific)
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- Add walletlock command (wallet-specific)
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- Add sendfrom command (wallet-specific)
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- Add sendmany command (wallet-specific)
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- Add settxfee command (wallet-specific)
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- Add listsinceblock command (wallet-specific)
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- Add listaccounts command (wallet-specific)
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- Add keypoolrefill command (wallet-specific)
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- Add getreceivedbyaccount command (wallet-specific)
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- Add getrawchangeaddress command (wallet-specific)
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- Add gettxoutsetinfo command (wallet-specific)
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- Add listaddressgroupings command (wallet-specific)
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- Add listlockunspent command (wallet-specific)
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- Add listlock command (wallet-specific)
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- Add listreceivedbyaccount command (wallet-specific)
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- Add validateaddress command (wallet-specific)
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- Add verifymessage command (wallet-specific)
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- Add sendtoaddress command (wallet-specific)
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- Continue cleanup and work on implementing the RPC API:
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- Implement submitblock command
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/61)
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- Implement help command
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- Implement ping command
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- Implement getaddednodeinfo command
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/78)
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- Implement getinfo command
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- Update getpeerinfo to support bytesrecv and bytessent
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/83)
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- Improve and correct several RPC server and websocket areas:
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- Change the connection endpoint for websockets from /wallet to /ws
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/80)
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- Implement an alternative authentication for websockets so clients
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such as javascript from browsers that don't support setting HTTP
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headers can authenticate (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/77)
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- Add an authentication deadline for RPC connections
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/68)
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- Use standard authentication failure responses for RPC connections
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- Make automatically generated certificate more standard so it works
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from client such as node.js and Firefox
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- Correct some minor issues which could prevent the RPC server from
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shutting down in an orderly fashion
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- Make all websocket notifications require registration
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- Change the data sent over websockets to text since it is JSON-RPC
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- Allow connections that do not have an Origin header set
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- Expose and track the number of bytes read and written per peer
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcwire/issues/6)
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- Correct an issue with sendrawtransaction when invoked via websockets
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which prevented a minedtx notification from being added
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- Rescan operations issued from remote wallets are no stopped when
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the wallet disconnects mid-operation
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/66)
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- Several optimizations related to fetching block information from the
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database
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- General code cleanup
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Changes in 0.5.0 (Mon Jan 13 2014)
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- Optimize initial block download by introducing a new mode which
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downloads the block headers first (up to the final checkpoint)
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- Improve peer handling to remove the potential for slow peers to cause
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sluggishness amongst all peers
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/63)
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- Fix an issue where the initial block sync could stall when the sync peer
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disconnects (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/62)
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- Correct an issue where --externalip was doing a DNS lookup on the full
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host:port instead of just the host portion
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/38)
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- Fix an issue which could lead to a panic on chain switches
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/70)
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- Improve btcctl utility in the following ways:
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- Show getdifficulty output as floating point to 6 digits of precision
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- Show all JSON object replies formatted as standard JSON
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- Allow btcctl getblock to accept optional params
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- Add getaccount command (wallet-specific)
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- Add getaccountaddress command (wallet-specific)
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- Add sendrawtransaction command
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- Continue cleanup and work on implementing RPC API calls
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- Update getrawmempool to support new optional verbose flag
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- Update getrawtransaction to match the reference client
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- Update getblock to support new optional verbose flag
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- Update raw transactions to fully match the reference client including
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support for all transaction types and address types
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- Correct getrawmempool fee field to return BTC instead of Satoshi
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- Correct getpeerinfo service flag to return 8 digit string so it
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matches the reference client
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- Correct verifychain to return a boolean
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- Implement decoderawtransaction command
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- Implement createrawtransaction command
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- Implement decodescript command
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- Implement gethashespersec command
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- Allow RPC handler overrides when invoked via a websocket versus
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legacy connection
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- Add new DNS seed for peer discovery
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- Display user agent on new valid peer log message
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/64)
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- Notify wallet when new transactions that pay to registered addresses
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show up in the mempool before being mined into a block
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- Support a tor-specific proxy in addition to a normal proxy
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/47)
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- Remove deprecated sqlite3 imports from utilities
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- Remove leftover profile write from addblock utility
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- Quite a bit of code cleanup and refactoring to improve maintainability
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Changes in 0.4.0 (Thu Dec 12 2013)
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- Allow listen interfaces to be specified via --listen instead of only the
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port (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/33)
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- Allow listen interfaces for the RPC server to be specified via
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--rpclisten instead of only the port
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/34)
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- Only disable listening when --connect or --proxy are used when no
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--listen interface are specified
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/10)
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- Add several new standard transaction checks to transaction memory pool:
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- Support nulldata scripts as standard
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- Only allow a max of one nulldata output per transaction
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- Enforce a maximum of 3 public keys in multi-signature transactions
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- The number of signatures in multi-signature transactions must not
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exceed the number of public keys
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- The number of inputs to a signature script must match the expected
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number of inputs for the script type
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- The number of inputs pushed onto the stack by a redeeming signature
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script must match the number of inputs consumed by the referenced
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public key script
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- When a block is connected, remove any transactions from the memory pool
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which are now double spends as a result of the newly connected
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transactions
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- Don't relay transactions resurrected during a chain switch since
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other peers will also be switching chains and therefore already know
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about them
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- Cleanup a few cases where rejected transactions showed as an error
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rather than as a rejected transaction
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- Ignore the default configuration file when --regtest (regression test
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mode) is specified
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- Implement TLS support for RPC including automatic certificate generation
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- Support HTTP authentication headers for web sockets
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- Update address manager to recognize and properly work with Tor
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addresses (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/36) and
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/37)
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- Improve btcctl utility in the following ways:
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- Add the ability to specify a configuration file
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- Add a default entry for the RPC cert to point to the location
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it will likely be in the btcd home directory
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- Implement --version flag
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- Provide a --notls option to support non-TLS configurations
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- Fix a couple of minor races found by the Go race detector
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- Improve logging
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- Allow logging level to be specified on a per subsystem basis
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/48)
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- Allow logging levels to be dynamically changed via RPC
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/15)
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- Implement a rolling log file with a max of 10MB per file and a
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rotation size of 3 which results in a max logging size of 30 MB
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- Correct a minor issue with the rescanning websocket call
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/54)
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- Fix a race with pushing address messages that could lead to a panic
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/58)
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- Improve which external IP address is reported to peers based on which
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interface they are connected through
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/35)
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- Add --externalip option to allow an external IP address to be specified
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for cases such as tor hidden services or advanced network configurations
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|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/38)
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- Add --upnp option to support automatic port mapping via UPnP
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(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/51)
|
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- Update Ctrl+C interrupt handler to properly sync address manager and
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remove the UPnP port mapping (if needed)
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- Continue cleanup and work on implementing RPC API calls
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- Add importprivkey (import private key) command to btcctl
|
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- Update getrawtransaction to provide addresses properly, support
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new verbose param, and match the reference implementation with the
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exception of MULTISIG (thanks @flammit)
|
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- Update getblock with new verbose flag (thanks @flammit)
|
|
- Add listtransactions command to btcctl
|
|
- Add getbalance command to btcctl
|
|
- Add basic support for btcd to run as a native Windows service
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/42)
|
|
- Package addblock utility with Windows MSIs
|
|
- Add support for TravisCI (continuous build integration)
|
|
- Cleanup some documentation and usage
|
|
- Several other minor bug fixes and general code cleanup
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|
|
|
Changes in 0.3.3 (Wed Nov 13 2013)
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- Significantly improve initial block chain download speed
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|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/20)
|
|
- Add a new checkpoint at block height 267300
|
|
- Optimize most recently used inventory handling
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/21)
|
|
- Optimize duplicate transaction input check
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcchain/issues/2)
|
|
- Optimize transaction hashing
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/25)
|
|
- Rework and optimize wallet listener notifications
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/22)
|
|
- Optimize serialization and deserialization
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/27)
|
|
- Add support for minimum transaction fee to memory pool acceptance
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/29)
|
|
- Improve leveldb database performance by removing explicit GC call
|
|
- Fix an issue where Ctrl+C was not always finishing orderly database
|
|
shutdown
|
|
- Fix an issue in the script handling for OP_CHECKSIG
|
|
- Impose max limits on all variable length protocol entries to prevent
|
|
abuse from malicious peers
|
|
- Enforce DER signatures for transactions allowed into the memory pool
|
|
- Separate the debug profile http server from the RPC server
|
|
- Rework of the RPC code to improve performance and make the code cleaner
|
|
- The getrawtransaction RPC call now properly checks the memory pool
|
|
before consulting the db (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/26)
|
|
- Add support for the following RPC calls: getpeerinfo, getconnectedcount,
|
|
addnode, verifychain
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/13)
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/17)
|
|
- Implement rescan websocket extension to allow wallet rescans
|
|
- Use correct paths for application data storage for all supported
|
|
operating systems (https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/30)
|
|
- Add a default redirect to the http profiling page when accessing the
|
|
http profile server
|
|
- Add a new --cpuprofile option which can be used to generate CPU
|
|
profiling data on platforms that support it
|
|
- Several other minor performance optimizations
|
|
- Other minor bug fixes and general code cleanup
|
|
|
|
Changes in 0.3.2 (Tue Oct 22 2013)
|
|
- Fix an issue that could cause the download of the block chain to stall
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/12)
|
|
- Remove deprecated sqlite as an available database backend
|
|
- Close sqlite compile issue as sqlite has now been removed
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/11)
|
|
- Change default RPC ports to 8334 (mainnet) and 18334 (testnet)
|
|
- Continue cleanup and work on implementing RPC API calls
|
|
- Add support for the following RPC calls: getrawmempool,
|
|
getbestblockhash, decoderawtransaction, getdifficulty,
|
|
getconnectioncount, getpeerinfo, and addnode
|
|
- Improve the btcctl utility that is used to issue JSON-RPC commands
|
|
- Fix an issue preventing btcd from cleanly shutting down with the RPC
|
|
stop command
|
|
- Add a number of database interface tests to ensure backends implement
|
|
the expected interface
|
|
- Expose some additional information from btcscript to be used for
|
|
identifying "standard"" transactions
|
|
- Add support for plan9 - thanks @mischief
|
|
(https://github.com/conformal/btcd/pull/19)
|
|
- Other minor bug fixes and general code cleanup
|
|
|
|
Changes in 0.3.1-alpha (Tue Oct 15 2013)
|
|
- Change default database to leveldb
|
|
NOTE: This does mean you will have to redownload the block chain. Since we
|
|
are still in alpha, we didn't feel writing a converter was worth the time as
|
|
it would take away from more important issues at this stage
|
|
- Add a warning if there are multiple block chain databases of different types
|
|
- Fix issue with unexpected EOF in leveldb -- https://github.com/conformal/btcd/issues/18
|
|
- Fix issue preventing block 21066 on testnet -- https://github.com/conformal/btcchain/issues/1
|
|
- Fix issue preventing block 96464 on testnet -- https://github.com/conformal/btcscript/issues/1
|
|
- Optimize transaction lookups
|
|
- Correct a few cases of list removal that could result in improper cleanup
|
|
of no longer needed orphans
|
|
- Add functionality to increase ulimits on non-Windows platforms
|
|
- Add support for mempool command which allows remote peers to query the
|
|
transaction memory pool via the bitcoin protocol
|
|
- Clean up logging a bit
|
|
- Add a flag to disable checkpoints for developers
|
|
- Add a lot of useful debug logging such as message summaries
|
|
- Other minor bug fixes and general code cleanup
|
|
|
|
Initial Release 0.3.0-alpha (Sat Oct 05 2013):
|
|
- Initial release
|