From 9127e9766a7e8e9173ba9dacc551edaa9e243f4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:56:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention RPC strings for monetary amounts in release notes Add a section "low level RPC API changes" so that the changes with regard to error codes can be added later. --- doc/release-notes.md | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index d5ac70380..7480a7cd2 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -19,10 +19,13 @@ https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en This allows running bitcoind without having to do any manual configuration. -Example header ----------------------- +Low-level RPC API changes +-------------------------- -Example content. +- Monetary amounts can be provided as strings. This means that for example the + argument to sendtoaddress can be "0.0001" instead of 0.0001. This can be an + advantage if a JSON library insists on using a lossy floating point type for + numbers, which would be dangerous for monetary amounts. 0.12.0 Change log =================