Litecoin: Update release notes for v0.16.3

6 years ago · 23705f3bfa
1 changed files with 11 additions and 95 deletions
--- a/doc/release-notes-litecoin.md
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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Litecoin Core version 0.16.2 is now available from:
+Litecoin Core version 0.16.3 is now available from:
-  <https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.16.2/>
+  <https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.16.3/>
 This is a new minor version release, with various bugfixes
 as well as updated translations.
@ -49,101 +49,18 @@ frequently tested on them.
 Notable changes
 ===============
-Miner block size removed
+Denial-of-Service vulnerability
------------------------
+-------------------------------
-The `-blockmaxsize` option for miners to limit their blocks' sizes was
+A denial-of-service vulnerability exploitable by miners has been discovered in
-deprecated in version 0.15.1, and has now been removed. Miners should use the
+Litecoin Core versions 0.14.0 up to 0.16.2. It is recommended to upgrade any of
-`-blockmaxweight` option if they want to limit the weight of their blocks'
+the vulnerable versions to 0.16.3 as soon as possible.
 weights.
-0.16.2 change log
+0.16.3 change log
 ------------------
-### Policy
+### Consensus
- #11423 `d353dd1` [Policy] Several transaction standardness rules (jl2012)
+- #14249 `696b936` Fix crash bug with duplicate inputs within a transaction (TheBlueMatt, sdaftuar)
 ### Mining
 - #12756 `e802c22` [config] Remove blockmaxsize option (jnewbery)
 ### Block and transaction handling
 - #13199 `c71e535` Bugfix: ensure consistency of m_failed_blocks after reconsiderblock (sdaftuar)
 - #13023 `bb79aaf` Fix some concurrency issues in ActivateBestChain() (skeees)
 ### P2P protocol and network code
 - #12626 `f60e84d` Limit the number of IPs addrman learns from each DNS seeder (EthanHeilman)
 ### Wallet
 - #13265 `5d8de76` Exit SyncMetaData if there are no transactions to sync (laanwj)
 - #13030 `5ff571e` Fix zapwallettxes/multiwallet interaction. (jnewbery)
 - #13622 `c04a4a5` Remove mapRequest tracking that just effects Qt display. (TheBlueMatt)
 - #12905 `cfc6f74` [rpcwallet] Clamp walletpassphrase value at 100M seconds (sdaftuar)
 - #13437 `ed82e71` wallet: Erase wtxOrderd wtx pointer on removeprunedfunds (MarcoFalke)
 ### RPC and other APIs
 - #13451 `cbd2f70` rpc: expose CBlockIndex::nTx in getblock(header) (instagibbs)
 - #13507 `f7401c8` RPC: Fix parameter count check for importpubkey (kristapsk)
 - #13452 `6b9dc8c` rpc: have verifytxoutproof check the number of txns in proof structure (instagibbs)
 - #12837 `bf1f150` rpc: fix type mistmatch in `listreceivedbyaddress` (joemphilips)
 - #12743 `657dfc5` Fix csBestBlock/cvBlockChange waiting in rpc/mining (sipa)
 ### GUI
 - #12999 `1720eb3` Show the Window when double clicking the taskbar icon (ken2812221)
 - #12650 `f118a7a` Fix issue: "default port not shown correctly in settings dialog" (251Labs)
 - #13251 `ea487f9` Rephrase Bech32 checkbox texts, and enable it with legacy address default (fanquake)
 - #12432 `f78e7f6` [qt] send: Clear All also resets coin control options (Sjors)
 - #12617 `21dd512` gui: Show messages as text not html (laanwj)
 - #12793 `cf6feb7` qt: Avoid reseting on resetguisettigs=0 (MarcoFalke)
 ### Build system
 - #12474 `b0f692f` Allow depends system to support armv7l (hkjn)
 - #12585 `72a3290` depends: Switch to downloading expat from GitHub (fanquake)
 - #12648 `46ca8f3` test: Update trusted git root (MarcoFalke)
 - #11995 `686cb86` depends: Fix Qt build with Xcode 9 (fanquake)
 - #12636 `845838c` backport: #11995 Fix Qt build with Xcode 9 (fanquake)
 - #12946 `e055bc0` depends: Fix Qt build with XCode 9.3 (fanquake)
 - #12998 `7847b92` Default to defining endian-conversion DECLs in compat w/o config (TheBlueMatt)
 - #13544 `9fd3e00` depends: Update Qt download url (fanquake)
 - #12573 `88d1a64` Fix compilation when compiler do not support `__builtin_clz*` (532479301)
 ### Tests and QA
 - #12447 `01f931b` Add missing signal.h header (laanwj)
 - #12545 `1286f3e` Use wait_until to ensure ping goes out (Empact)
 - #12804 `4bdb0ce` Fix intermittent rpc_net.py failure. (jnewbery)
 - #12553 `0e98f96` Prefer wait_until over polling with time.sleep (Empact)
 - #12486 `cfebd40` Round target fee to 8 decimals in assert_fee_amount (kallewoof)
 - #12843 `df38b13` Test starting bitcoind with -h and -version (jnewbery)
 - #12475 `41c29f6` Fix python TypeError in script.py (MarcoFalke)
 - #12638 `0a76ed2` Cache only chain and wallet for regtest datadir (MarcoFalke)
 - #12902 `7460945` Handle potential cookie race when starting node (sdaftuar)
 - #12904 `6c26df0` Ensure bitcoind processes are cleaned up when tests end (sdaftuar)
 - #13049 `9ea62a3` Backports (MarcoFalke)
 - #13201 `b8aacd6` Handle disconnect_node race (sdaftuar)
 - #13061 `170b309` Make tests pass after 2020 (bmwiedemann)
 - #13192 `79c4fff` [tests] Fixed intermittent failure in `p2p_sendheaders.py` (lmanners)
 - #13300 `d9c5630` qa: Initialize lockstack to prevent null pointer deref (MarcoFalke)
 - #13545 `e15e3a9` tests: Fix test case `streams_serializedata_xor` Remove Boost dependency. (practicalswift)
 - #13304 `cbdabef` qa: Fix `wallet_listreceivedby` race (MarcoFalke)
 - #13852 `b64f02f` Make signrawtransaction give an error when amount is needed but missing (ajtowns)
 - #13797 `6518bcd` bitcoinconsensus: invalid flags should be set to bitcoinconsensus_error type, add test cases covering bitcoinconsensus error codes (Thomas Kerin)
 ### Miscellaneous
 - #12518 `a17fecf` Bump leveldb subtree (MarcoFalke)
 - #12442 `f3b8d85` devtools: Exclude patches from lint-whitespace (MarcoFalke)
 - #12988 `acdf433` Hold cs_main while calling UpdatedBlockTip() signal (skeees)
 - #12985 `0684cf9` Windows: Avoid launching as admin when NSIS installer ends. (JeremyRand)
 - #503 `87ec334` Fix CVE-2018-12356 by hardening the regex (jmutkawoa)
 - #12887 `2291774` Add newlines to end of log messages (jnewbery)
 - #12859 `18b0c69` Bugfix: Include <memory> for `std::unique_ptr` (luke-jr)
 - #13131 `ce8aa54` Add Windows shutdown handler (ken2812221)
 - #13652 `20461fc` rpc: Fix that CWallet::AbandonTransaction would leave the grandchildren, etc. active (Empact)
 ### Documentation
 - #12637 `60086dd` backport: #12556 fix version typo in getpeerinfo RPC call help (fanquake)
 - #13184 `4087dd0` RPC Docs: `gettxout*`: clarify bestblock and unspent counts (harding)
 - #13246 `6de7543` Bump to Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 in build-windows.md (ken2812221)
 - #12556 `e730b82` Fix version typo in getpeerinfo RPC call help (tamasblummer)
 - #13852 `9e116a6` [0.16] doc: correct the help output for -prune (hebasto)
 Credits
 =======
@ -172,5 +89,4 @@ Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
 And to those that reported security issues:
- Braydon Fuller
+- beardnboobies
 - Himanshu Mehta