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(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and deleted at
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release time)
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Fee Policy changes
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The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC
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(for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is
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about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC.
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Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
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(0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them
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costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually
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cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.
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Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included
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in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are
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included in a block.
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The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee
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command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees
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with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the
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0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from
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the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm.
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Bitcoin-Qt changes
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* New icon and splash screen
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* Improve reporting of synchronization process
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* Remove hardcoded fee recommendations
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* Improve metadata of executable on MacOSX and Windows
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* Move export button to individual tabs instead of toolbar
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* Add "send coins" command to context menu in address book
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* Add "copy txid" command to copy transaction IDs from transaction overview
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* Save & restore window size and position when showing & hiding window
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* New translations: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Welsh (cy),
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Esperanto (eo), Interlingua (la), Latvian (lv) and many improvements
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to current translations
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MacOSX:
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* OSX support for click-to-pay (bitcoin:) links
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* Fix GUI disappearing problem on MacOSX (issue #1522)
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Linux/Unix:
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* Copy addresses to middle-mouse-button clipboard
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Command-line options
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* -walletnotify will call a command on receiving transactions that affect the wallet.
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* -alertnotify will call a command on receiving an alert from the network.
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* -par now takes a negative number, to leave a certain amount of cores free.
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JSON-RPC API changes
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* listunspent now lists account and address infromation.
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* getinfo now also returns the time adjustment estimated from your peers.
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* getpeerinfo now returns bytessent, bytesrecv and syncnode.
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* gettxoutsetinfo returns statistics about the unspent transaction output database.
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* gettxout returns information about a specific unspent transaction output.
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Networking changes
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* Significant changes to the networking code, reducing latency and memory consumption.
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* Avoid initial block download stalling.
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* Remove IRC seeding support.
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* Performance tweaks.
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* Added testnet DNS seeds.
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Wallet compatibility/rescuing
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* Cases where wallets cannot be opened in another version/installation should be reduced.
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* -salvagewallet now works for encrypted wallets.
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