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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 is now available from:
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.2/
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This is a maintenance release that fixes many bugs and includes
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a few small new features.
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
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https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
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How to Upgrade
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If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
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until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
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versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
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/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
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If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you
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run 0.8.2 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
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anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
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your machine.
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0.8.2 Release notes
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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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* fixed a getblocktemplate bug that caused excessive CPU creating blocks.
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* listunspent now lists account and address information.
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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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Known Bugs
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* Entering the 'getblocktemplate' or 'getwork' RPC commands into the Bitcoin-Qt debug
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console will cause Bitcoin-Qt to crash. Run Bitcoin-Qt with the -server command-line
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option to workaround.
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Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.2 release!
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APerson241
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Andrew Poelstra
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Calvin Owens
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Chuck LeDuc Díaz
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Colin Dean
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David Griffith
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David Serrano
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Eric Lombrozo
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Gavin Andresen
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Gregory Maxwell
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Jeff Garzik
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Jonas Schnelli
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Larry Gilbert
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Luke Dashjr
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Matt Corallo
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Michael Ford
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Mike Hearn
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Patrick Brown
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Peter Todd
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Philip Kaufmann
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Pieter Wuille
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Richard Schwab
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Roman Mindalev
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Scott Howard
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Tariq Bashir
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Warren Togami
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Wladimir J. van der Laan
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freewil
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