From 3ba60fe89898f42b09db740984deaaff5b505469 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Warren Togami Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 22:42:54 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] Litecoin: Release Notes for 0.8.6.1 --- doc/release-notes.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 6e72a366b..98e3cb4ea 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -1,3 +1,36 @@ +0.8.6.1 changes +============= + +- Coin Control - experts only GUI selection of inputs before you send a transaction + +- Disable Wallet - reduces memory requirements, helpful for miner or relay nodes + +- 20x reduction in default mintxfee. + +- Up to 50% faster PoW validation, faster sync and reindexing. + +- Peers older than protocol version 70002 are disconnected. 0.8.3.7 is the oldest compatible client. + +- Internal miner added back to Litecoin. setgenerate now works, although it is generally a bad idea as it is significantly slower than external CPU miners. + +- New RPC commands: getbestblockhash and verifychain + +- Improve fairness of the high priority transaction space per block + +- OSX block chain database corruption fixes + - Update leveldb to 1.13 + - Use fcntl with `F_FULLSYNC` instead of fsync on OSX + - Use native Darwin memory barriers + - Replace use of mmap in leveldb for improved reliability (only on OSX) + +- Fix nodes forwarding transactions with empty vins and getting banned + +- Network code performance and robustness improvements + +- Additional debug.log logging for diagnosis of network problems, log timestamps by default + +- Fix rare GUI crash on send + 0.8.5.1 changes ===============