kevacoin/doc/release-notes-litecoin.md

(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to
release-notes at release time)

Litecoin Core version *0.15.0* is now available from:

  <https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.15.0/>

This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes
and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:

  <https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/issues>

To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:

  <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/litecoin-dev>

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), then run the 
installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Litecoin-Qt` (on Mac)
or `litecoind`/`litecoin-qt` (on Linux).

The first time you run version 0.15.0, your chainstate database will be converted to a
new format, which will take anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour,
depending on the speed of your machine.

The file format of `fee_estimates.dat` changed in version 0.15.0. Hence, a
downgrade from version 0.15.0 or upgrade to version 0.15.0 will cause all fee
estimates to be discarded.

Note that the block database format also changed in version 0.8.0 and there is no
automatic upgrade code from before version 0.8 to version 0.15.0. Upgrading
directly from 0.7.x and earlier without redownloading the blockchain is not supported.
However, as usual, old wallet versions are still supported.

Downgrading warning
-------------------

The chainstate database for this release is not compatible with previous
releases, so if you run 0.15 and then decide to switch back to any
older version, you will need to run the old release with the `-reindex-chainstate`
option to rebuild the chainstate data structures in the old format.

If your node has pruning enabled, this will entail re-downloading and
processing the entire blockchain.

Compatibility
==============

Litecoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using
the Linux kernel, macOS 10.8+, and Windows Vista and later. Windows XP is not supported.

Litecoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not
frequently tested on them.

Notable changes
===============

Performance Improvements
------------------------

Version 0.15 contains a number of significant performance improvements, which make
Initial Block Download, startup, transaction and block validation much faster:

- The chainstate database (which is used for tracking UTXOs) has been changed
  from a per-transaction model to a per-output model (See [PR 10195](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10195)). Advantages of this model
  are that it:
    - avoids the CPU overhead of deserializing and serializing the unused outputs;
    - has more predictable memory usage;
    - uses simpler code;
    - is adaptable to various future cache flushing strategies.

  As a result, validating the blockchain during Initial Block Download (IBD) and reindex
  is ~30-40% faster, uses 10-20% less memory, and flushes to disk far less frequently.
  The only downside is that the on-disk database is 15% larger. During the conversion from the previous format
  a few extra gigabytes may be used.
- Earlier versions experienced a spike in memory usage while flushing UTXO updates to disk.
  As a result, only half of the available memory was actually used as cache, and the other half was
  reserved to accommodate flushing. This is no longer the case (See [PR 10148](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10148)), and the entirety of
  the available cache (see `-dbcache`) is now actually used as cache. This reduces the flushing
  frequency by a factor 2 or more.
- In previous versions, signature validation for transactions has been cached when the
  transaction is accepted to the mempool. Version 0.15 extends this to cache the entire script
  validity (See [PR 10192](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10192)). This means that if a transaction in a block has already been accepted to the
  mempool, the scriptSig does not need to be re-evaluated. Empirical tests show that
  this results in new block validation being 40-50% faster.
- LevelDB has been upgraded to version 1.20 (See [PR 10544](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10544)). This version contains hardware acceleration for CRC
  on architectures supporting SSE 4.2. As a result, synchronization and block validation are now faster.
- SHA256 hashing has been optimized for architectures supporting SSE 4 (See [PR 10821](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10821)). SHA256 is around
  50% faster on supported hardware, which results in around 5% faster IBD and block
  validation. In version 0.15, SHA256 hardware optimization is disabled in release builds by
  default, but can be enabled by using `--enable-experimental-asm` when building.
- Refill of the keypool no longer flushes the wallet between each key which resulted in a ~20x speedup in creating a new wallet. Part of this speedup was used to increase the default keypool to 1000 keys to make recovery more robust. (See [PR 10831](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10831)).
- Scrypt hashing has been optimized for architectures supporting SSE 2 (See [PR 362](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/pull/362)). This boosts scrypt hashing performance by a factor of 2. In version 0.15, scrypt hardware optimization is disabled in release builds by default, but can be enabled by using `--enable-sse2` when building.

Fee Estimation Improvements
---------------------------

Fee estimation has been significantly improved in version 0.15, with more accurate fee estimates used by the wallet and a wider range of options for advanced users of the `estimatesmartfee` and `estimaterawfee` RPCs (See [PR 10199](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10199)).

### Changes to internal logic and wallet behavior

- Internally, estimates are now tracked on 3 different time horizons. This allows for longer targets and means estimates adjust more quickly to changes in conditions.
- Estimates can now be *conservative* or *economical*. *Conservative* estimates use longer time horizons to produce an estimate which is less susceptible to rapid changes in fee conditions. *Economical* estimates use shorter time horizons and will be more affected by short-term changes in fee conditions. Economical estimates may be considerably lower during periods of low transaction activity (for example over weekends), but may result in transactions being unconfirmed if prevailing fees increase rapidly.
- By default, the wallet will use conservative fee estimates to increase the reliability of transactions being confirmed within the desired target. For transactions that are marked as replaceable, the wallet will use an economical estimate by default, since the fee can be 'bumped' if the fee conditions change rapidly (See [PR 10589](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10589)).
- Estimates can now be made for confirmation targets up to 1008 blocks (one week).
- More data on historical fee rates is stored, leading to more precise fee estimates.
- Transactions which leave the mempool due to eviction or other non-confirmed reasons are now taken into account by the fee estimation logic, leading to more accurate fee estimates.
- The fee estimation logic will make sure enough data has been gathered to return a meaningful estimate. If there is insufficient data, a fallback default fee is used.

### Changes to fee estimate RPCs

- The `estimatefee` RPC is now deprecated in favor of using only `estimatesmartfee` (which is the implementation used by the GUI)
- The `estimatesmartfee` RPC interface has been changed (See [PR 10707](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10707)):
    - The `nblocks` argument has been renamed to `conf_target` (to be consistent with other RPC methods).
    - An `estimate_mode` argument has been added. This argument takes one of the following strings: `CONSERVATIVE`, `ECONOMICAL` or `UNSET` (which defaults to `CONSERVATIVE`).
    - The RPC return object now contains an `errors` member, which returns errors encountered during processing.
    - If Litecoin Core has not been running for long enough and has not seen enough blocks or transactions to produce an accurate fee estimation, an error will be returned (previously a value of -1 was used to indicate an error, which could be confused for a feerate).
- A new `estimaterawfee` RPC is added to provide raw fee data. External clients can query and use this data in their own fee estimation logic.

Opt into RBF When Sending
-------------------------

A new startup option, `-walletrbf`, has been added to allow users to have all
transactions sent opt into RBF support. The default value for this option is
currently `false`, so transactions will not opt into RBF by default. The new
`bumpfee` RPC can be used to replace transactions that opt into RBF.

Replace-by-fee control in the GUI
---------------------------------

In version 0.15, creating an opt-in RBF transaction and replacing the unconfirmed transaction with a higher-fee transaction are both supported in the GUI (See PR 9592).

Multi-wallet support
--------------------

Litecoin Core now supports loading multiple, separate wallets (See [PR 8694](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8694), [PR 10849](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10849)). The wallets are completely separated, with individual balances, keys and received transactions.

Multi-wallet is enabled by using more than one `-wallet` argument when starting Litecoin, either on the command line or in the Litecoin config file.

**In Litecoin-Qt, only the first wallet will be displayed and accessible for creating and signing transactions.** GUI selectable multiple wallets will be supported in a future version. However, even in 0.15 other loaded wallets will remain synchronized to the node's current tip in the background. This can be useful if running a pruned node, since loading a wallet where the most recent sync is beyond the pruned height results in having to download and revalidate the whole blockchain. Continuing to synchronize all wallets in the background avoids this problem.

Litecoin Core 0.15.0 contains the following changes to the RPC interface and `litecoin-cli` for multi-wallet:

* When running Litecoin Core with a single wallet, there are **no** changes to the RPC interface or `litecoin-cli`. All RPC calls and `litecoin-cli` commands continue to work as before.
* When running Litecoin Core with multi-wallet, all *node-level* RPC methods continue to work as before. HTTP RPC requests should be send to the normal `<RPC IP address>:<RPC port>/` endpoint, and `litecoin-cli` commands should be run as before. A *node-level* RPC method is any method which does not require access to the wallet.
* When running Litecoin Core with multi-wallet, *wallet-level* RPC methods must specify the wallet for which they're intended in every request. HTTP RPC requests should be send to the `<RPC IP address>:<RPC port>/wallet/<wallet name>/` endpoint, for example `127.0.0.1:9332/wallet/wallet1.dat/`. `litecoin-cli` commands should be run with a `-rpcwallet` option, for example `litecoin-cli -rpcwallet=wallet1.dat getbalance`.
* A new *node-level* `listwallets` RPC method is added to display which wallets are currently loaded. The names returned by this method are the same as those used in the HTTP endpoint and for the `rpcwallet` argument.

Note that while multi-wallet is now fully supported, the RPC multi-wallet interface should be considered unstable for version 0.15.0, and there may backwards-incompatible changes in future versions.

Removal of Coin Age Priority
----------------------------

In previous versions of Litecoin Core, a portion of each block could be reserved for transactions based on the age and value of UTXOs they spent. This concept (Coin Age Priority) is a policy choice by miners, and there are no consensus rules around the inclusion of Coin Age Priority transactions in blocks. In practice, only a few miners continue to use Coin Age Priority for transaction selection in blocks. Litecoin Core 0.15 removes all remaining support for Coin Age Priority (See [PR 9602](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9602)). This has the following implications:

- The concept of *free transactions* has been removed. High Coin Age Priority transactions would previously be allowed to be relayed even if they didn't attach a miner fee. This is no longer possible since there is no concept of Coin Age Priority. The `-limitfreerelay` and `-relaypriority` options which controlled relay of free transactions have therefore been removed.
- The `-sendfreetransactions` option has been removed, since almost all miners do not include transactions which do not attach a transaction fee.
- The `-blockprioritysize` option has been removed.
- The `estimatepriority` and `estimatesmartpriority` RPCs have been removed.
- The `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants`, `getmempoolentry` and `getrawmempool` RPCs no longer return `startingpriority` and `currentpriority`.
- The `prioritisetransaction` RPC no longer takes a `priority_delta` argument, which is replaced by a `dummy` argument for backwards compatibility with clients using positional arguments. The RPC is still used to change the apparent fee-rate of the transaction by using the `fee_delta` argument.
- `-minrelaytxfee` can now be set to 0. If `minrelaytxfee` is set, then fees smaller than `minrelaytxfee` (per kB) are rejected from relaying, mining and transaction creation. This defaults to 1000 satoshi/kB.
- The `-printpriority` option has been updated to only output the fee rate and hash of transactions included in a block by the mining code.

Mempool Persistence Across Restarts
-----------------------------------

Version 0.14 introduced mempool persistence across restarts (the mempool is saved to a `mempool.dat` file in the data directory prior to shutdown and restores the mempool when the node is restarted). Version 0.15 allows this feature to be switched on or off using the `-persistmempool` command-line option (See [PR 9966](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9966)). By default, the option is set to true, and the mempool is saved on shutdown and reloaded on startup. If set to false, the `mempool.dat` file will not be loaded on startup or saved on shutdown.

New RPC methods
---------------

Version 0.15 introduces several new RPC methods:

- `abortrescan` stops current wallet rescan, e.g. when triggered by an `importprivkey` call (See [PR 10208](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10208)).
- `combinerawtransaction` accepts a JSON array of raw transactions and combines them into a single raw transaction (See [PR 10571](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10571)).
- `estimaterawfee` returns raw fee data so that customized logic can be implemented to analyze the data and calculate estimates. See [Fee Estimation Improvements](#fee-estimation-improvements) for full details on changes to the fee estimation logic and interface.
- `getchaintxstats` returns statistics about the total number and rate of transactions
  in the chain (See [PR 9733](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9733)).
- `listwallets` lists wallets which are currently loaded. See the *Multi-wallet* section
  of these release notes for full details (See [Multi-wallet support](#multi-wallet-support)).
- `uptime` returns the total runtime of the `bitcoind` server since its last start (See [PR 10400](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10400)).

Low-level RPC changes
---------------------

- When using Litecoin Core in multi-wallet mode, RPC requests for wallet methods must specify
  the wallet that they're intended for. See [Multi-wallet support](#multi-wallet-support) for full details.

- The new database model no longer stores information about transaction
  versions of unspent outputs (See [Performance improvements](#performance-improvements)). This means that:
  - The `gettxout` RPC no longer has a `version` field in the response.
  - The `gettxoutsetinfo` RPC reports `hash_serialized_2` instead of `hash_serialized`,
    which does not commit to the transaction versions of unspent outputs, but does
    commit to the height and coinbase information.
  - The `getutxos` REST path no longer reports the `txvers` field in JSON format,
    and always reports 0 for transaction versions in the binary format

- The `estimatefee` RPC is deprecated. Clients should switch to using the `estimatesmartfee` RPC, which returns better fee estimates. See [Fee Estimation Improvements](#fee-estimation-improvements) for full details on changes to the fee estimation logic and interface.

- The `gettxoutsetinfo` response now contains `disk_size` and `bogosize` instead of
  `bytes_serialized`. The first is a more accurate estimate of actual disk usage, but
  is not deterministic. The second is unrelated to disk usage, but is a
  database-independent metric of UTXO set size: it counts every UTXO entry as 50 + the
  length of its scriptPubKey (See [PR 10426](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10426)).

- `signrawtransaction` can no longer be used to combine multiple transactions into a single transaction. Instead, use the new `combinerawtransaction` RPC (See [PR 10571](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10571)).

- `fundrawtransaction` no longer accepts a `reserveChangeKey` option. This option used to allow RPC users to fund a raw transaction using an key from the keypool for the change address without removing it from the available keys in the keypool. The key could then be re-used for a `getnewaddress` call, which could potentially result in confusing or dangerous behaviour (See [PR 10784](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10784)).

- `estimatepriority` and `estimatesmartpriority` have been removed. See [Removal of Coin Age Priority](#removal-of-coin-age-priority).

- The `listunspent` RPC now takes a `query_options` argument (see [PR 8952](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8952)), which is a JSON object
  containing one or more of the following members:
  - `minimumAmount` - a number specifying the minimum value of each UTXO
  - `maximumAmount` - a number specifying the maximum value of each UTXO
  - `maximumCount` - a number specifying the minimum number of UTXOs
  - `minimumSumAmount` - a number specifying the minimum sum value of all UTXOs

- The `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants`, `getmempoolentry` and `getrawmempool` RPCs no longer return `startingpriority` and `currentpriority`. See [Removal of Coin Age Priority](#removal-of-coin-age-priority).

- The `dumpwallet` RPC now returns the full absolute path to the dumped wallet. It
  used to return no value, even if successful (See [PR 9740](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9740)).

- In the `getpeerinfo` RPC, the return object for each peer now returns an `addrbind` member, which contains the ip address and port of the connection to the peer. This is in addition to the `addrlocal` member which contains the ip address and port of the local node as reported by the peer (See [PR 10478](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10478)).

- The `disconnectnode` RPC can now disconnect a node specified by node ID (as well as by IP address/port). To disconnect a node based on node ID, call the RPC with the new `nodeid` argument (See [PR 10143](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10143)).

- The second argument in `prioritisetransaction` has been renamed from `priority_delta` to `dummy` since Bitcoin Core no longer has a concept of coin age priority. The `dummy` argument has no functional effect, but is retained for positional argument compatibility. See [Removal of Coin Age Priority](#removal-of-coin-age-priority).

- The `resendwallettransactions` RPC throws an error if the `-walletbroadcast` option is set to false (See [PR 10995](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10995)).

- The second argument in the `submitblock` RPC argument has been renamed from `parameters` to `dummy`. This argument never had any effect, and the renaming is simply to communicate this fact to the user (See [PR 10191](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10191))
  (Clients should, however, use positional arguments for `submitblock` in order to be compatible with BIP 22.)

- The `verbose` argument of `getblock` has been renamed to `verbosity` and now takes an integer from 0 to 2. Verbose level 0 is equivalent to `verbose=false`. Verbose level 1 is equivalent to `verbose=true`. Verbose level 2 will give the full transaction details of each transaction in the output as given by `getrawtransaction`. The old behavior of using the `verbose` named argument and a boolean value is still maintained for compatibility.

- Error codes have been updated to be more accurate for the following error cases (See [PR 9853](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9853)):
  - `getblock` now returns RPC_MISC_ERROR if the block can't be found on disk (for
  example if the block has been pruned). Previously returned RPC_INTERNAL_ERROR.
  - `pruneblockchain` now returns RPC_MISC_ERROR if the blocks cannot be pruned
  because the node is not in pruned mode. Previously returned RPC_METHOD_NOT_FOUND.
  - `pruneblockchain` now returns RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER if the blocks cannot be pruned
  because the supplied timestamp is too late. Previously returned RPC_INTERNAL_ERROR.
  - `pruneblockchain` now returns RPC_MISC_ERROR if the blocks cannot be pruned
  because the blockchain is too short. Previously returned RPC_INTERNAL_ERROR.
  - `setban` now returns RPC_CLIENT_INVALID_IP_OR_SUBNET if the supplied IP address
  or subnet is invalid. Previously returned RPC_CLIENT_NODE_ALREADY_ADDED.
  - `setban` now returns RPC_CLIENT_INVALID_IP_OR_SUBNET if the user tries to unban
  a node that has not previously been banned. Previously returned RPC_MISC_ERROR.
  - `removeprunedfunds` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if `bitcoind` is unable to remove
  the transaction. Previously returned RPC_INTERNAL_ERROR.
  - `removeprunedfunds` now returns RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER if the transaction does not
  exist in the wallet. Previously returned RPC_INTERNAL_ERROR.
  - `fundrawtransaction` now returns RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY if an invalid change
  address is provided. Previously returned RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER.
  - `fundrawtransaction` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if `bitcoind` is unable to create
  the transaction. The error message provides further details. Previously returned
  RPC_INTERNAL_ERROR.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER if the provided transaction has
  descendants in the wallet. Previously returned RPC_MISC_ERROR.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER if the provided transaction has
  descendants in the mempool. Previously returned RPC_MISC_ERROR.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if the provided transaction has
  has been mined or conflicts with a mined transaction. Previously returned
  RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if the provided transaction is not
  BIP 125 replaceable. Previously returned RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if the provided transaction has already
  been bumped by a different transaction. Previously returned RPC_INVALID_REQUEST.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if the provided transaction contains
  inputs which don't belong to this wallet. Previously returned RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if the provided transaction has multiple change
  outputs. Previously returned RPC_MISC_ERROR.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if the provided transaction has no change
  output. Previously returned RPC_MISC_ERROR.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if the fee is too high. Previously returned
  RPC_MISC_ERROR.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if the fee is too low. Previously returned
  RPC_MISC_ERROR.
  - `bumpfee` now returns RPC_WALLET_ERROR if the change output is too small to bump the
  fee. Previously returned RPC_MISC_ERROR.

0.15.0 Change log
=================

### RPC and other APIs
- #9485 `61a640e` ZMQ example using python3 and asyncio (mcelrath)
- #9894 `0496e15` remove 'label' filter for rpc command help (instagibbs)
- #9853 `02bd6e9` Fix error codes from various RPCs (jnewbery)
- #9842 `598ef9c` Fix RPC failure testing (continuation of #9707) (jnewbery)
- #10038 `d34995a` Add mallocinfo mode to `getmemoryinfo` RPC (laanwj)
- #9500 `3568b30` [Qt][RPC] Autocomplete commands for 'help' command in debug console (achow101)
- #10056 `e6156a0` [zmq] Call va_end() on va_start()ed args (kallewoof)
- #10086 `7438cea` Trivial: move rpcserialversion into RPC option group (jlopp)
- #10150 `350b224` [rpc] Add logging rpc (jnewbery)
- #10208 `393160c` [wallet] Rescan abortability (kallewoof)
- #10143 `a987def` [net] Allow disconnectnode RPC to be called with node id (jnewbery)
- #10281 `0e8499c` doc: Add RPC interface guidelines (laanwj)
- #9733 `d4732f3` Add getchaintxstats RPC (sipa)
- #10310 `f4b15e2` [doc] Add hint about getmempoolentry to getrawmempool help (kallewoof)
- #8704 `96c850c` [RPC] Transaction details in getblock (achow101)
- #8952 `9390845` Add query options to listunspent RPC call (pedrobranco)
- #10413 `08ac35a` Fix docs (there's no rpc command setpaytxfee) (RHavar)
- #8384 `e317c0d` Add witness data output to TxInError messages (instagibbs)
- #9571 `4677151` RPC: getblockchaininfo returns BIP signaling statistics  (pinheadmz)
- #10450 `ef2d062` Fix bumpfee rpc "errors" return value (ryanofsky)
- #10475 `39039b1` [RPC] getmempoolinfo mempoolminfee is a BTC/KB feerate (instagibbs)
- #10478 `296928e` rpc: Add listen address to incoming connections in `getpeerinfo` (laanwj)
- #10403 `08d0390` Fix importmulti failure to return rescan errors (ryanofsky)
- #9740 `9fec4da` Add friendly output to dumpwallet (aideca)
- #10426 `16f6c98` Replace bytes_serialized with bogosize (sipa)
- #10252 `980deaf` RPC/Mining: Restore API compatibility for prioritisetransaction (luke-jr)
- #9672 `46311e7` Opt-into-RBF for RPC & bitcoin-tx (luke-jr)
- #10481 `9c248e3` Decodehextx scripts sanity check  (achow101)
- #10488 `fa1f106` Note that the prioritizetransaction dummy value is deprecated, and has no meaning (TheBlueMatt)
- #9738 `c94b89e` gettxoutproof() should return consistent result (jnewbery)
- #10191 `00350bd` [trivial] Rename unused RPC arguments 'dummy' (jnewbery)
- #10627 `b62b4c8` fixed listunspent rpc convert parameter (tnakagawa)
- #10412 `bef02fb` Improve wallet rescan API (ryanofsky)
- #10400 `1680ee0` [RPC] Add an uptime command that displays the amount of time (in seconds) bitcoind has been running (rvelhote)
- #10683 `d81bec7` rpc: Move the `generate` RPC call to rpcwallet (laanwj)
- #10710 `30bc0f6` REST/RPC example update (Mirobit)
- #10747 `9edda0c` [rpc] fix verbose argument for getblock in bitcoin-cli (jnewbery)
- #10589 `104f5f2` More economical fee estimates for RBF and RPC options to control (morcos)
- #10543 `b27b004` Change API to estimaterawfee (morcos)
- #10807 `afd2fca` getbalance example covers at least 6 confirms (instagibbs)
- #10707 `75b5643` Better API for estimatesmartfee RPC  (morcos)
- #10784 `9e8d6a3` Do not allow users to get keys from keypool without reserving them (TheBlueMatt)
- #10857 `d445a2c` [RPC] Add a deprecation warning to getinfo's output (achow101)
- #10571 `adf170d` [RPC]Move transaction combining from signrawtransaction to new RPC (achow101)
- #10783 `041dad9` [RPC] Various rpc argument fixes (instagibbs)
- #9622 `6ef3c7e` [rpc] listsinceblock should include lost transactions when parameter is a reorg'd block (kallewoof)
- #10799 `8537187` Prevent user from specifying conflicting parameters to fundrawtx (TheBlueMatt)
- #10931 `0b11a07` Fix misleading "Method not found" multiwallet errors (ryanofsky)
- #10788 `f66c596` [RPC] Fix addwitnessaddress by replacing ismine with producesignature (achow101)
- #10999 `627c3c0` Fix amounts formatting in `decoderawtransaction` (laanwj)
- #11002 `4268426` [wallet] return correct error code from resendwallettransaction (jnewbery)
- #11029 `96a63a3` [RPC] trivial: gettxout no longer shows version of tx (FelixWeis)
- #11083 `6c2b008` Fix combinerawtransaction RPC help result section (jonasnick)
- #11027 `07164bb` [RPC] Only return hex field once in getrawtransaction (achow101)
- #10698 `5af6572` Be consistent in calling transactions "replaceable" for Opt-In RBF (TheBlueMatt)

### Block and transaction handling
- #9801 `a8c5751` Removed redundant parameter from mempool.PrioritiseTransaction (gubatron)
- #9819 `1efc99c` Remove harmless read of unusued priority estimates (morcos)
- #9822 `b7547fa` Remove block file location upgrade code (benma)
- #9602 `30ff3a2` Remove coin age priority and free transactions - implementation (morcos)
- #9548 `47510ad` Remove min reasonable fee (morcos)
- #10249 `c73af54` Switch CCoinsMap from boost to std unordered_map (sipa)
- #9966 `2a183de` Control mempool persistence using a command line parameter (jnewbery)
- #10199 `318ea50` Better fee estimates (morcos)
- #10196 `bee3529` Bugfix: PrioritiseTransaction updates the mempool tx counter (sdaftuar)
- #10195 `1088b02` Switch chainstate db and cache to per-txout model (sipa)
- #10284 `c2ab38b` Always log debug information for fee calculation in CreateTransaction (morcos)
- #10503 `efbcf2b` Use REJECT_DUPLICATE for already known and conflicted txn (sipa)
- #10537 `b3eb0d6` Few Minor per-utxo assert-semantics re-adds and tweak (TheBlueMatt)
- #10626 `8c841a3` doc: Remove outdated minrelaytxfee comment (MarcoFalke)
- #10559 `234ffc6` Change semantics of HaveCoinInCache to match HaveCoin (morcos)
- #10581 `7878353` Simplify return values of GetCoin/HaveCoin(InCache) (sipa)
- #10684 `a381f6a` Remove no longer used mempool.exists(outpoint) (morcos)
- #10148 `d4e551a` Use non-atomic flushing with block replay (sipa)
- #10685 `30c2130` Clarify CCoinsViewMemPool documentation (TheBlueMatt)
- #10558 `90a002e` Address nits from per-utxo change (morcos)
- #10706 `6859ad2` Improve wallet fee logic and fix GUI bugs (morcos)
- #10526 `754aa02` Force on-the-fly compaction during pertxout upgrade (sipa)
- #10985 `d896d5c` Add undocumented -forcecompactdb to force LevelDB compactions (sipa)
- #10292 `e4bbd3d` Improved efficiency in COutPoint constructors (mm-s)
- #10290 `8d6d43e` Add -stopatheight for benchmarking (sipa)

### P2P protocol and network code
- #9726 `7639d38` netbase: Do not print an error on connection timeouts through proxy (laanwj)
- #9805 `5b583ef` Add seed.btc.petertodd.org to mainnet DNS seeds (petertodd)
- #9861 `22f609f` Trivial: Debug log ambiguity fix for peer addrs (keystrike)
- #9774 `90cb2a2` Enable host lookups for -proxy and -onion parameters (jmcorgan)
- #9558 `7b585cf` Clarify assumptions made about when BlockCheck is called (TheBlueMatt)
- #10135 `e19586a` [p2p] Send the correct error code in reject messages (jnewbery)
- #9665 `eab00d9` Use cached [compact] blocks to respond to getdata messages (TheBlueMatt)
- #10215 `a077a90` Check interruptNet during dnsseed lookups (TheBlueMatt)
- #10234 `faf2dea` [net] listbanned RPC and QT should show correct banned subnets (jnewbery)
- #10134 `314ebdf` [qa] Fixes segwit block relay test after inv-direct-fetch was disabled (sdaftuar)
- #10351 `3f57c55` removed unused code in INV message (Greg-Griffith)
- #10061 `ae78609` [net] Added SetSocketNoDelay() utility function (tjps)
- #10408 `28c6e8d` Net: Improvements to Tor control port parser (str4d)
- #10460 `5c63d66` Broadcast address every day, not 9 hours (sipa)
- #10471 `400fdd0` Denote functions CNode::GetRecvVersion() and CNode::GetRefCount()  as const (pavlosantoniou)
- #10345 `67700b3` [P2P] Timeout for headers sync (sdaftuar)
- #10564 `8d9f45e` Return early in IsBanned (gmaxwell)
- #10587 `de8db47` Net: Fix resource leak in ReadBinaryFile(...) (practicalswift)
- #9549 `b33ca14` [net] Avoid possibility of NULL pointer dereference in MarkBlockAsInFlight(...) (practicalswift)
- #10446 `2772dc9` net: avoid extra dns query per seed (theuni)
- #10824 `9dd6a2b` Avoid unnecessary work in SetNetworkActive (promag)
- #10948 `df3a6f4` p2p: Hardcoded seeds update pre-0.15 branch (laanwj)
- #10977 `02f4c4a` [net] Fix use of uninitialized value in getnetworkinfo(const JSONRPCRequest&) (practicalswift)
- #10982 `c8b62c7` Disconnect network service bits 6 and 8 until Aug 1, 2018 (TheBlueMatt)
- #11012 `0e5cff6` Make sure to clean up mapBlockSource if we've already seen the block (theuni)

### Validation
- #9725 `67023e9` CValidationInterface Cleanups (TheBlueMatt)
- #10178 `2584925` Remove CValidationInterface::UpdatedTransaction (TheBlueMatt)
- #10201 `a6548a4` pass Consensus::Params& to functions in validation.cpp and make them static (mariodian)
- #10297 `431a548` Simplify DisconnectBlock arguments/return value (sipa)
- #10464 `f94b7d5` Introduce static DoWarning (simplify UpdateTip) (jtimon)
- #10569 `2e7d8f8` Fix stopatheight (achow101)
- #10192 `2935b46` Cache full script execution results in addition to signatures (TheBlueMatt)
- #10179 `21ed30a` Give CValidationInterface Support for calling notifications on the CScheduler Thread (TheBlueMatt)
- #10557 `66270a4` Make check to distinguish between orphan txs and old txs more efficient (morcos)
- #10775 `7c2400c` nCheckDepth chain height fix (romanornr)
- #10821 `16240f4` Add SSE4 optimized SHA256 (sipa)
- #10854 `04d395e` Avoid using sizes on non-fixed-width types to derive protocol constants (gmaxwell)
- #10945 `2a50b11` Update defaultAssumeValid according to release-process.md (gmaxwell)
- #10986 `2361208` Update chain transaction statistics (sipa)
- #11028 `6bdf4b3` Avoid masking of difficulty adjustment errors by checkpoints (sipa)
- #9533 `cb598cf` Allow non-power-of-2 signature cache sizes (sipa)
- #9208 `acd9957` Improve DisconnectTip performance (sdaftuar)
- #10618 `f90603a` Remove confusing MAX_BLOCK_BASE_SIZE (gmaxwell)
- #10758 `bd92424` Fix some chainstate-init-order bugs (TheBlueMatt)
- #10550 `b7296bc` Don't return stale data from CCoinsViewCache::Cursor() (ryanofsky)
- #10998 `2507fd5` Fix upgrade cancel warnings (TheBlueMatt)
- #9868 `cbdb473` Abstract out the command line options for block assembly (sipa)

### Build system
- #9727 `5f0556d` Remove fallbacks for boost_filesystem < v3 (laanwj)
- #9788 `50a2265` gitian: bump descriptors for master (theuni)
- #9794 `7ca2f54` Minor update to qrencode package builder (mitchellcash)
- #9514 `2cc0df1` release: Windows signing script (theuni)
- #9921 `8b789d8` build: Probe MSG_DONTWAIT in the same way as MSG_NOSIGNAL (laanwj)
- #10011 `32d1b34` build: Fix typo s/HAVE_DONTWAIT/HAVE_MSG_DONTWAIT (laanwj)
- #9946 `90dd9e6` Fix build errors if spaces in path or parent directory (pinheadmz)
- #10136 `81da4c7` build: Disable Wshadow warning (laanwj)
- #10166 `64962ae` Ignore Doxyfile generated from Doxyfile.in template (paveljanik)
- #10239 `0416ea9` Make Boost use std::atomic internally (sipa)
- #10228 `27faa6c` build: regenerate bitcoin-config.h as necessary (theuni)
- #10273 `8979f45` [scripts] Minor improvements to `macdeployqtplus` script (chrisgavin)
- #10325 `a26280b` 0.15.0 Depends Updates (fanquake)
- #10328 `79aeff6` Update contrib/debian to latest Ubuntu PPA upload (TheBlueMatt)
- #7522 `d25449f` Bugfix: Only use git for build info if the repository is actually the right one (luke-jr)
- #10489 `e654d61` build: silence gcc7's implicit fallthrough warning (theuni)
- #10549 `ad1a13e` Avoid printing generic and duplicated "checking for QT" during ./configure (drizzt)
- #10628 `8465b68` [depends] expat 2.2.1 (fanquake)
- #10806 `db825d2` build: verify that the assembler can handle crc32 functions (theuni)
- #10766 `b4d03be` Building Environment: Set ARFLAGS to cr (ReneNyffenegger)
- #10803 `91edda8` Explicitly search for bdb5.3 (pstratem)
- #10855 `81560b0` random: only use getentropy on openbsd (theuni)
- #10508 `1caafa6` Run Qt wallet tests on travis (ryanofsky)
- #10851 `e222618` depends: fix fontconfig with newer glibc (theuni)
- #10971 `88b1e4b` build: fix missing sse42 in depends builds (theuni)
- #11097 `129b03f` gitian: quick hack to fix version string in releases (theuni)
- #10039 `919aaf6` Fix compile errors with Qt 5.3.2 and Boost 1.55.0 (ryanofsky)
- #10168 `7032021` Fix build warning from #error text (jnewbery)
- #10301 `318392c` Check if sys/random.h is required for getentropy (jameshilliard)

### GUI
- #9724 `1a9fd5c` Qt/Intro: Add explanation of IBD process (luke-jr)
- #9834 `b00ba62` qt: clean up initialize/shutdown signals (benma)
- #9481 `ce01e62` [Qt] Show more significant warning if we fall back to the default fee (jonasschnelli)
- #9974 `b9f930b` Add basic Qt wallet test (ryanofsky)
- #9690 `a387d3a` Change 'Clear' button string to 'Reset' (da2x)
- #9592 `9c7b7cf` [Qt] Add checkbox in the GUI to opt-in to RBF when creating a transaction (ryanofsky)
- #10098 `2b477e6` Make qt wallet test compatible with qt4 (ryanofsky)
- #9890 `1fa4ae6` Add a button to open the config file in a text editor (ericshawlinux)
- #10156 `51833a1` Fix for issues with startup and multiple monitors on windows (AllanDoensen)
- #10177 `de01da7` Changed "Send" button default status from true to false (KibbledJiveElkZoo)
- #10221 `e96486c` Stop treating coinbase outputs differently in GUI: show them at 1conf (TheBlueMatt)
- #10231 `987a6c0` [Qt] Reduce a significant cs_main lock freeze (jonasschnelli)
- #10242 `f6f3b58` [qt] Don't call method on null WalletModel object (ryanofsky)
- #10093 `a3e756b` [Qt] Don't add arguments of sensitive command to console window (jonasschnelli)
- #10362 `95546c8` [GUI] Add OSX keystroke to RPCConsole info (spencerlievens)
- #9697 `962cd3f` [Qt] simple fee bumper with user verification (jonasschnelli)
- #10390 `e477516` [wallet] remove minimum total fee option (instagibbs)
- #10420 `4314544` Add Qt tests for wallet spends & bumpfee (ryanofsky)
- #10454 `c1c9a95` Fix broken q4 test build (ryanofsky)
- #10449 `64beb13` Overhaul Qt fee bumper (jonasschnelli)
- #10582 `7c72fb9` Pass in smart fee slider value to coin control dialog (morcos)
- #10673 `4c72cc3` [qt] Avoid potential null pointer dereference in TransactionView::exportClicked() (practicalswift)
- #10769 `8fdd23a` [Qt] replace fee slider with a Dropdown, extend conf. targets (jonasschnelli)
- #10870 `412b466` [Qt] Use wallet 0 in rpc console if running with multiple wallets (jonasschnelli)
- #10988 `a9dd111` qt: Increase BLOCK_CHAIN_SIZE constants (laanwj)
- #10644 `e292140` Slightly overhaul NSI pixmaps (jonasschnelli)
- #10660 `0c3542e` Allow to cancel the txdb upgrade via splashscreen keypress 'q' (jonasschnelli)

### Wallet
- #9359 `f7ec7cf` Add test for CWalletTx::GetImmatureCredit() returning stale values (ryanofsky)
- #9576 `56ab672` [wallet] Remove redundant initialization (practicalswift)
- #9333 `fa625b0` Document CWalletTx::mapValue entries and remove erase of nonexistent "version" entry (ryanofsky)
- #9906 `72fb515` Disallow copy constructor CReserveKeys (instagibbs)
- #9369 `3178b2c` Factor out CWallet::nTimeSmart computation into a method (ryanofsky)
- #9830 `afcd7c0` Add safe flag to listunspent result (NicolasDorier)
- #9993 `c49355c` Initialize nRelockTime (pstratem)
- #9818 `3d857f3` Save watch only key timestamps when reimporting keys (ryanofsky)
- #9294 `f34cdcb` Use internal HD chain for change outputs (hd split) (jonasschnelli)
- #10164 `e183ea2` Wallet: reduce excess logic InMempool() (kewde)
- #10186 `c9ff4f8` Remove SYNC_TRANSACTION_NOT_IN_BLOCK magic number (jnewbery)
- #10226 `64c45aa` wallet: Use boost to more portably ensure -wallet specifies only a filename (luke-jr)
- #9827 `c91ca0a` Improve ScanForWalletTransactions return value (ryanofsky)
- #9951 `fa1ac28` Wallet database handling abstractions/simplifications (laanwj)
- #10265 `c29a0d4` [wallet] [moveonly] Check non-null pindex before potentially referencing (kallewoof)
- #10283 `a550f6e` Cleanup: reduce to one GetMinimumFee call signature (morcos)
- #10294 `e2b99b1` [Wallet] unset change position when there is no change (instagibbs)
- #10115 `d3dce0e` Avoid reading the old hd master key during wallet encryption (TheBlueMatt)
- #10341 `18c9deb` rpc/wallet: Workaround older UniValue which returns a std::string temporary for get_str (luke-jr)
- #10308 `94e5227` [wallet] Securely erase potentially sensitive keys/values (tjps)
- #10257 `ea1fd43` [test] Add test for getmemoryinfo (jimmysong)
- #10295 `ce8176d` [qt] Move some WalletModel functions into CWallet (ryanofsky)
- #10506 `7cc2c67` Fix bumpfee test after #10449 (ryanofsky)
- #10500 `098b01d` Avoid CWalletTx copies in GetAddressBalances and GetAddressGroupings (ryanofsky)
- #10455 `0747d33` Simplify feebumper minimum fee code slightly (ryanofsky)
- #10522 `2805d60` [wallet] Remove unused variables (practicalswift)
- #8694 `177433a` Basic multiwallet support (luke-jr)
- #10598 `7a74f88` Supress struct/class mismatch warnings introduced in #10284 (paveljanik)
- #9343 `209eef6` Don't create change at dust limit (morcos)
- #10744 `ed88e31` Use method name via __func__ macro (darksh1ne)
- #10712 `e8b9523` Add change output if necessary to reduce excess fee (morcos)
- #10816 `1c011ff` Properly forbid -salvagewallet and -zapwallettxes for multi wallet (morcos)
- #10235 `5cfdda2` Track keypool entries as internal vs external in memory (TheBlueMatt)
- #10330 `bf0a08b` [wallet] fix zapwallettxes interaction with persistent mempool (jnewbery)
- #10831 `0b01935` Batch flushing operations to the walletdb during top up and increase keypool size (gmaxwell)
- #10795 `7b6e8bc` No longer ever reuse keypool indexes (TheBlueMatt)
- #10849 `bde4f93` Multiwallet: simplest endpoint support (jonasschnelli)
- #10817 `9022aa3` Redefine Dust and add a discard_rate (morcos)
- #10883 `bf3b742` Rename -usewallet to -rpcwallet (morcos)
- #10604 `420238d` [wallet] [tests] Add listwallets RPC, include wallet name in `getwalletinfo` and add multiwallet test (jnewbery)
- #10885 `70888a3` Reject invalid wallets (promag)
- #10949 `af56397` Clarify help message for -discardfee (morcos)
- #10942 `2e857bb` Eliminate fee overpaying edge case when subtracting fee from recipients (morcos)
- #10995 `fa64636` Fix resendwallettransactions assert failure if -walletbroadcast=0 (TheBlueMatt)
- #11022 `653a46d` Basic keypool topup (jnewbery)
- #11081 `9fe1f6b` Add length check for CExtKey deserialization (jonasschnelli, guidovranken)
- #11044 `4ef8374` [wallet] Keypool topup cleanups (jnewbery)
- #11145 `e51bb71` Fix rounding bug in calculation of minimum change (morcos)
- #9605 `779f2f9` Use CScheduler for wallet flushing, remove ThreadFlushWalletDB (TheBlueMatt)
- #10108 `4e3efd4` ApproximateBestSubset should take inputs by reference, not value (RHavar)

### Tests and QA
- #9744 `8efd1c8` Remove unused module from rpc-tests (34ro)
- #9657 `7ff4a53` Improve rpc-tests.py (jnewbery)
- #9766 `7146d96` Add --exclude option to rpc-tests.py (jnewbery)
- #9577 `d6064a8` Fix docstrings in qa tests (jnewbery)
- #9823 `a13a417` qa: Set correct path for binaries in rpc tests (MarcoFalke)
- #9847 `6206252` Extra test vector for BIP32 (sipa)
- #9350 `88c2ae3` [Trivial] Adding label for amount inside of tx_valid/tx_invalid.json (Christewart)
- #9888 `36afd4d` travis: Verify commits only for one target (MarcoFalke)
- #9904 `58861ad` test: Fail if InitBlockIndex fails (laanwj)
- #9828 `67c5cc1` Avoid -Wshadow warnings in wallet_tests (ryanofsky)
- #9832 `48c3429` [qa] assert_start_raises_init_error (NicolasDorier)
- #9739 `9d5fcbf` Fix BIP68 activation test (jnewbery)
- #9547 `d32581c` bench: Assert that division by zero is unreachable (practicalswift)
- #9843 `c78adbf` Fix segwit getblocktemplate test (jnewbery)
- #9929 `d5ce14e` tests: Delete unused function _rpchost_to_args (laanwj)
- #9555 `19be26a` [test] Avoid reading a potentially uninitialized variable in tx_invalid-test (transaction_tests.cpp) (practicalswift)
- #9945 `ac23a7c` Improve logging in bctest.py if there is a formatting mismatch (jnewbery)
- #9768 `8910b47` [qa] Add logging to test_framework.py (jnewbery)
- #9972 `21833f9` Fix extended rpc tests broken by #9768 (jnewbery)
- #9977 `857d1e1` QA: getblocktemplate_longpoll.py should always use >0 fee tx (sdaftuar)
- #9970 `3cc13ea` Improve readability of segwit.py, smartfees.py (sdaftuar)
- #9497 `2c781fb` CCheckQueue Unit Tests (JeremyRubin)
- #10024 `9225de2` [trivial] Use log.info() instead of print() in remaining functional test cases (jnewbery)
- #9956 `3192e52` Reorganise qa directory (jnewbery)
- #10017 `02d64bd` combine_logs.py - aggregates log files from multiple bitcoinds during functional tests (jnewbery)
- #10047 `dfef6b6` [tests] Remove unused variables and imports (practicalswift)
- #9701 `a230b05` Make bumpfee tests less fragile (ryanofsky)
- #10053 `ca20923` [test] Allow functional test cases to be skipped (jnewbery)
- #10052 `a0b1e57` [test] Run extended tests once daily in Travis (jnewbery)
- #10069 `1118493` [QA] Fix typo in fundrawtransaction test (NicolasDorier)
- #10083 `c044f03` [QA] Renaming rawTx into rawtx (NicolasDorier)
- #10073 `b1a4f27` Actually run assumevalid.py (jnewbery)
- #9780 `c412fd8` Suppress noisy output from qa tests in Travis (jnewbery)
- #10096 `79af9fb` Check that all test scripts in test/functional are being run (jnewbery)
- #10076 `5b029aa` [qa] combine_logs: Use ordered list for logfiles (MarcoFalke)
- #10107 `f2734c2` Remove unused variable. Remove accidental trailing semicolons in Python code (practicalswift)
- #10109 `8ac8041` Remove SingleNodeConnCB (jnewbery)
- #10114 `edc62c9` [tests] sync_with_ping should assert that ping hasn't timed out (jnewbery)
- #10128 `427d2fd` Speed Up CuckooCache tests (JeremyRubin)
- #10072 `12af74b` Remove sources of unreliablility in extended functional tests (jnewbery)
- #10077 `ebfd653` [qa] Add setnetworkactive smoke test (MarcoFalke)
- #10152 `080d7c7` [trivial] remove unused line in Travis config (jnewbery)
- #10159 `df1ca9e` [tests] color test results and sort alphabetically (jnewbery)
- #10124 `88799ea` [test] Suppress test logging spam (jnewbery)
- #10142 `ed09dd3` Run bitcoin_test-qt under minimal QPA platform (ryanofsky)
- #9949 `a27dbc5` [bench] Avoid function call arguments which are pointers to uninitialized values (practicalswift)
- #10187 `b44adf9` tests: Fix test_runner return value in case of skipped test (laanwj)
- #10197 `d86bb07` [tests] Functional test warnings (jnewbery)
- #10219 `9111df9` Tests: Order Python Tests Differently (jimmysong)
- #10229 `f3db4c6` Tests: Add test for getdifficulty (jimmysong)
- #10224 `2723bcd` [test] Add test for getaddednodeinfo (jimmysong)
- #10023 `c530c15` [tests] remove maxblocksinflight.py (functionality covered by other test) (jnewbery)
- #10097 `1b25b6d` Move zmq test skipping logic into individual test case (jnewbery)
- #10272 `54e2d87` [Tests] Prevent warning: variable 'x' is uninitialized (paveljanik)
- #10225 `e0a7e19` [test] Add aborttrescan tests (kallewoof)
- #10278 `8254a8a` [test] Add Unit Test for GetListenPort (jimmysong)
- #10280 `47535d7` [test] Unit test amount.h/amount.cpp (jimmysong)
- #10256 `80c3a73` [test] Add test for gettxout to wallet.py (jimmysong)
- #10264 `492d22f` [test] Add tests for getconnectioncount, getnettotals and ping (jimmysong)
- #10169 `8f3e384` [tests] Remove func test code duplication (jnewbery)
- #10198 `dc8fc0c` [tests] Remove is_network_split from functional test framework (jnewbery)
- #10255 `3c5e6c9` [test] Add test for listaddressgroupings (jimmysong)
- #10137 `75171f0` Remove unused import. Remove accidental trailing semicolons (practicalswift)
- #10307 `83073de` [tests] allow zmq test to be run in out-of-tree builds (jnewbery)
- #10344 `e927483` [tests] Fix abandonconflict.py intermittency (jnewbery)
- #10318 `170bc2c` [tests] fix wait_for_inv() (jnewbery)
- #10171 `fff72de` [tests] Add node methods to test framework (jnewbery)
- #10352 `23d78c4` test: Add elapsed time to RPC tracing (laanwj)
- #10342 `6a796b2` [tests] Improve mempool_persist test (jnewbery)
- #10287 `776ba23` [tests] Update Unit Test for addrman.h/addrman.cpp (jimmysong)
- #10365 `7ee5236` [tests] increase timeouts in sendheaders test (jnewbery)
- #10361 `f6241b3` qa: disablewallet: Check that wallet is really disabled (MarcoFalke)
- #10371 `4b766fc` [tests] Clean up addrman_tests.cpp (jimmysong)
- #10253 `87abe20` [test] Add test for getnetworkhashps (jimmysong)
- #10376 `8bd16ee` [tests] fix disconnect_ban intermittency (jnewbery)
- #10374 `5411997` qa: Warn when specified test is not found (MarcoFalke)
- #10405 `0542978` tests: Correct testcase in script_tests.json for large number OP_EQUAL (laanwj)
- #10429 `6b99daf` tests: fix spurious addrman test failure (theuni)
- #10433 `8e57256` [tests] improve tmpdir structure (jnewbery)
- #10415 `217b416` [tests] Speed up fuzzing by ~200x when using afl-fuzz (practicalswift)
- #10445 `b4b057a` Add test for empty chain and reorg consistency for gettxoutsetinfo (gmaxwell)
- #10423 `1aefc94` [tests] skipped tests should clean up after themselves (jnewbery)
- #10359 `329fc1d` [tests] functional tests should call BitcoinTestFramework start/stop node methods (jnewbery)
- #10514 `e103b3f` Bugfix: missing == 0 after randrange (sipa)
- #10515 `c871f32` [test] Add test for getchaintxstats (jimmysong)
- #10509 `bea5b00` Remove xvfb configuration from travis (ryanofsky)
- #10535 `30853e1` [qa] fundrawtx: Fix shutdown race (MarcoFalke)
- #9909 `300f8e7` tests: Add FindEarliestAtLeast test for edge cases (ryanofsky)
- #10331 `75e898c` Share config between util and functional tests (jnewbery)
- #10321 `e801084` Use FastRandomContext for all tests (sipa)
- #10524 `6c2d81f` [tests] Remove printf(...) (practicalswift)
- #10547 `71ab6e5` [tests] Use FastRandomContext instead of boost::random::{mt19937,uniform_int_distribution} (practicalswift)
- #10551 `6702617` [Tests] Wallet encryption functional tests (achow101)
- #10555 `643fa0b` [tests] various improvements to zmq_test.py (jnewbery)
- #10533 `d083bd9` [tests] Use cookie auth instead of rpcuser and rpcpassword (achow101)
- #10632 `c68a9a6` qa: Add stopatheight test (MarcoFalke)
- #10636 `4bc853b` [qa] util: Check return code after closing bitcoind proc (MarcoFalke)
- #10662 `e0a7801` Initialize randomness in benchmarks (achow101)
- #10612 `7c87a9c` The young person's guide to the test_framework (jnewbery)
- #10659 `acb1153` [qa] blockchain: Pass on closed connection during generate call (MarcoFalke)
- #10690 `416af3e` [qa] Bugfix: allow overriding extra_args in ComparisonTestFramework (sdaftuar)
- #10556 `65cc7aa` Move stop/start functions from utils.py into BitcoinTestFramework (jnewbery)
- #10704 `dd07f47` [tests] nits in dbcrash.py (jnewbery)
- #10743 `be82498` [test] don't run dbcrash.py on Travis (jnewbery)
- #10761 `d3b5870` [tests] fix replace_by_fee.py (jnewbery)
- #10759 `1d4805c` Fix multi_rpc test for hosts that dont default to utf8 (TheBlueMatt)
- #10190 `e4f226a` [tests] mining functional tests (including regression test for submitblock) (jnewbery)
- #10739 `1fc783f` test: Move variable `state` down where it is used (paveljanik)
- #9980 `fee0d80` Fix mem access violation merkleblock (Christewart)
- #10893 `0c173a1` [QA] Avoid running multiwallet.py twice (jonasschnelli)
- #10927 `9d5e8f9` test: Make sure wallet.backup is created in temp path (laanwj)
- #10899 `f29d5db` [test] Qt: Use _putenv_s instead of setenv on Windows builds (brianmcmichael)
- #10912 `5c8eb79` [tests] Fix incorrect memory_cleanse(…) call in crypto_tests.cpp (practicalswift)
- #11001 `fa8a063` [tests] Test disconnecting unsupported service bits logic (jnewbery)
- #10695 `929fd72` [qa] Rewrite BIP65/BIP66 functional tests (sdaftuar)
- #10963 `ecd2135` [bench] Restore format state of cout after printing with std::fixed/setprecision (practicalswift)
- #11025 `e5d26e4` qa: Fix inv race in example_test (MarcoFalke)
- #10765 `2c811e0` Tests: address placement should be deterministic by default (ReneNyffenegger)
- #11000 `ac016e1` test: Add resendwallettransactions functional tests (promag)
- #11032 `aeb3175` [qa] Fix block message processing error in sendheaders.py (sdaftuar)
- #10105 `0b9fb68` [tests] fixup - make all Travis test runs quiet, non just cron job runs (jnewbery)
- #10222 `6ce7337` [tests] test_runner - check unicode (jnewbery)
- #10327 `35da2ae` [tests] remove import-abort-rescan.py (jnewbery)
- #11023 `bf74d37` [tests] Add option to attach a python debugger if functional test fails (jnewbery)
- #10565 `8c2098a` [coverage] Remove subtrees and benchmarks from coverage report (achow101)

### Miscellaneous
- #9871 `be8ba2c` Add a tree sha512 hash to merge commits (sipa)
- #9821 `d19d45a` util: Specific GetOSRandom for Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD (laanwj)
- #9903 `ba80a68` Docs: add details to -rpcclienttimeout doc (ian-kelling)
- #9910 `53c300f` Docs: correct and elaborate -rpcbind doc (ian-kelling)
- #9905 `01b7cda` [contrib] gh-merge: Move second sha512 check to the end (MarcoFalke)
- #9880 `4df8213` Verify Tree-SHA512s in merge commits, enforce sigs are not SHA1 (TheBlueMatt)
- #9932 `00c13ea` Fix verify-commits on travis and always check top commit's tree (TheBlueMatt)
- #9952 `6996e06` Add historical release notes for 0.14.0 (laanwj)
- #9940 `fa99663` Fix verify-commits on OSX, update for new bad Tree-SHA512, point travis to different keyservers (TheBlueMatt)
- #9963 `8040ae6` util: Properly handle errors during log message formatting (laanwj)
- #9984 `cce056d` devtools: Make github-merge compute SHA512 from git, instead of worktree (laanwj)
- #9995 `8bcf934` [doc] clarify blockchain size and pruning (askmike)
- #9734 `0c17afc` Add updating of chainTxData to release process (sipa)
- #10063 `530fcbd` add missing spaces so that markdown recognizes headline (flack)
- #10085 `db1ae54` Docs: remove 'noconnect' option (jlopp)
- #10090 `8e4f7e7` Update bitcoin.conf with example for pruning (coinables)
- #9424 `1a5aaab` Change LogAcceptCategory to use uint32_t rather than sets of strings (gmaxwell)
- #10036 `fbf36ca` Fix init README format to render correctly on github (jlopp)
- #10058 `a2cd0b0` No need to use OpenSSL malloc/free (tjps)
- #10123 `471ed00` Allow debug logs to be excluded from specified component (jnewbery)
- #10104 `fadf078` linearize script: Option to use RPC cookie (achow101)
- #10162 `a3a2160` [trivial] Log calls to getblocktemplate (jnewbery)
- #10155 `928695b` build: Deduplicate version numbers (laanwj)
- #10211 `a86255b` [doc] Contributor fixes & new "finding reviewers" section (kallewoof)
- #10250 `1428f30` Fix some empty vector references (sipa)
- #10270 `95f5e44` Remove Clang workaround for Boost 1.46 (fanquake)
- #10263 `cb007e4` Trivial: fix fee estimate write error log message (CryptAxe)
- #9670 `bd9ec0e` contrib: github-merge improvements (laanwj)
- #10260 `1d75597` [doc] Minor corrections to osx dependencies (fanquake)
- #10189 `750c5a5` devtools/net: add a verifier for scriptable changes. Use it to make CNode::id private (theuni)
- #10322 `bc64b5a` Use hardware timestamps in RNG seeding (sipa)
- #10381 `7f2b9e0` Shadowing warnings are not enabled by default, update doc accordingly (paveljanik)
- #10380 `b6ee855` [doc] Removing comments about dirty entries on txmempool (madeo)
- #10383 `d0c37ee` [logging] log system time and mock time (jnewbery)
- #10404 `b45a52a` doc: Add logging to FinalizeNode() (sdaftuar)
- #10388 `526e839` Output line to debug.log when IsInitialBlockDownload latches to false (morcos)
- #10372 `15254e9` Add perf counter data to GetStrongRandBytes state in scheduler (TheBlueMatt)
- #10461 `55b72f3` Update style guide (sipa)
- #10486 `10e8c0a` devtools: Retry after signing fails in github-merge (laanwj)
- #10447 `f259263` Make bitcoind invalid argument error message specific (laanwj)
- #10495 `6a38b79` contrib: Update location of seeds.txt (laanwj)
- #10469 `b6b150b` Fixing typo in rpcdump.cpp help message (keystrike)
- #10451 `27b9931` contrib/init/bitcoind.openrcconf: Don't disable wallet by default (luke-jr)
- #10323 `00d3692` Update to latest libsecp256k1 master (sipa)
- #10422 `cec9e1e` Fix timestamp in fee estimate debug message (morcos)
- #10566 `5d034ee` [docs] Use the "domain name setup" image (previously unused) in the gitian docs (practicalswift)
- #10534 `a514ac3` Clarify prevector::erase and avoid swap-to-clear (sipa)
- #10575 `22ec768` Header include guideline (sipa)
- #10480 `fbf5d3b` Improve commit-check-script.sh (sipa)
- #10502 `1ad3d4e` scripted-diff: Remove BOOST_FOREACH, Q_FOREACH and PAIRTYPE (jtimon)
- #10377 `b63be2c` Use rdrand as entropy source on supported platforms (sipa)
- #9895 `228c319` Turn TryCreateDirectory() into TryCreateDirectories() (benma)
- #10602 `d76e84a` Make clang-format use C++11 features (e.g. A<A<int>> instead of A<A<int> >) (practicalswift)
- #10623 `c38f540` doc: Add 0.14.2 release notes (MarcoFalke)
- #10276 `b750b33` contrib/verifybinaries: allow filtering by platform (knocte)
- #10248 `01c4b14` Rewrite addrdb with less duplication using CHashVerifier (sipa)
- #10577 `232508f` Add an explanation of quickly hashing onto a non-power of two range (gmaxwell)
- #10608 `eee398f` Add a comment explaining the use of MAX_BLOCK_BASE_SIZE (gmaxwell)
- #10728 `7397af9` fix typo in help text for removeprunedfunds (AkioNak)
- #10193 `6dbcc74` scripted-diff: Remove #include <boost/foreach.hpp> (jtimon)
- #10676 `379aed0` document script-based return fields for validateaddress (instagibbs)
- #10651 `cef4b5c` Verify binaries from bitcoincore.org and bitcoin.org (TheBlueMatt)
- #10786 `ca4c545` Add PR description to merge commit in github-merge.py (sipa)
- #10812 `c5904e8` [utils] Allow bitcoin-cli's -rpcconnect option to be used with square brackets (jnewbery)
- #10842 `3895e25` Fix incorrect Doxygen tag (@ince → @since). Doxygen parameter name matching (practicalswift)
- #10681 `df0793f` add gdb attach process to test README (instagibbs)
- #10789 `1124328` Punctuation/grammer fixes in rpcwallet.cpp (stevendlander)
- #10655 `78f307b` Properly document target_confirmations in listsinceblock (RHavar)
- #10917 `5c003cb` developer-notes: add reference to snake_case and PascalCase (benma)
- #11003 `4b5a7ce` Docs: Capitalize bullet points in CONTRIBUTING guide (eklitzke)
- #10968 `98aa3f6` Add instructions for parallel gitian builds (coblee)
- #11076 `1c4b9b3` 0.15 release-notes nits: fix redundancy, remove accidental parenthesis & fix range style (practicalswift)
- #11090 `8f0121c` Update contributor names in release-notes.md (Derek701)
- #11056 `cbdd338` disable jni in builds (instagibbs)
- #11080 `2b59cfb` doc: Update build-openbsd for 6.1 (laanwj)
- #11119 `0a6af47` [doc] build-windows: Mention that only trusty works (MarcoFalke)
- #11108 `e8ad101` Changing -txindex requires -reindex, not -reindex-chainstate (TheBlueMatt)
- #9792 `342b9bc` FastRandomContext improvements and switch to ChaCha20 (sipa)
- #9505 `67ed40e` Prevector Quick Destruct (JeremyRubin)
- #10820 `ef37f20` Use cpuid intrinsics instead of asm code (sipa)
- #9999 `a328904` [LevelDB] Plug leveldb logs to bitcoin logs (NicolasDorier)
- #9693 `c5e9e42` Prevent integer overflow in ReadVarInt (gmaxwell)
- #10129 `351d0ad` scheduler: fix sub-second precision with boost < 1.50 (theuni)
- #10153 `fade788` logging: Fix off-by-one for shrinkdebugfile default (MarcoFalke)
- #10305 `c45da32` Fix potential NPD introduced in b297426c (TheBlueMatt)
- #10338 `daf3e7d` Maintain state across GetStrongRandBytes calls (sipa)
- #10544 `a4fe077` Update to LevelDB 1.20 (sipa)
- #10614 `cafe24f` random: fix crash on some 64bit platforms (theuni)
- #10714 `2a09a38` Avoid printing incorrect block indexing time due to uninitialized variable (practicalswift)
- #10837 `8bc6d1f` Fix resource leak on error in GetDevURandom (corebob)
- #10832 `89bb036` init: Factor out AppInitLockDataDirectory and fix startup core dump issue (laanwj)
- #10914 `b995a37` Add missing lock in CScheduler::AreThreadsServicingQueue() (TheBlueMatt)
- #10958 `659c096` Update to latest Bitcoin patches for LevelDB (sipa)
- #10919 `c1c671f` Fix more init bugs (TheBlueMatt)

Credits
=======

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

- [The Bitcoin Core Developers](/doc/release-notes)
- Adrian Gallagher
- aunyks
- coblee
- gabrieldov
- romanornr
- shaolinfry
- ultragtx
- voidmain
- xinxi