Many changes:
* Do not use 'getblocks', but 'getheaders', and use it to build a headers tree.
* Blocks are fetched in parallel from all available outbound peers, using a
limited moving window. When one peer stalls the movement of the window, it is
disconnected.
* No more orphan blocks. At all. We only ever request a block for which we have
verified the headers, and store it to disk immediately. This means that a
disk-fill attack would require PoW.
* Require protocol version 31800 for every peer (released in december 2010).
* No more syncnode (we sync from everyone we can, though limited to 1 during
initial *headers* sync).
* Introduce some extra named constants, comments and asserts.
d5fd094 build: fix qt test build when libprotobuf is in a non-standard path (Cory Fields)
a7d1f03 build: fix dynamic boost check when --with-boost= is used (Cory Fields)
There's a brief race here, the process might've already exited and cleaned up
after itself. If that's the case, reading from the pidfile will harmlessly
fail. Keep those quiet.
6fd546d Remove CChainParams::NetworkID() (jtimon)
cc97210 Add fTestnetToBeDeprecatedFieldRPC to CChainParams (jtimon)
e11712d Move checkpoint data selection to chainparams (jtimon)
6de50c3 qt: add network-specific style object (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Mainly cleanups: Gets rid of isTestNet everywhere, by keeping track
of network-specific theming in a central place.
Also makes GUI no longer dependent on the network ID enumeration, which
alleviates concerns about #4802.
This adds a -regetest-only undocumented (for regression testing only)
command-line option -blockversion=N to set block.nVersion.
Adds to the "has the rest of the network upgraded to a
block.nVersion we don't understand" code so it calls
-alertnotify when 51 of the last 100 blocks are up-version.
But it only alerts once, not with every subsequent new, upversion
block.
And adds a forknotify.py regression test to make sure it works.
Tested using forknotify.py:
Before adding CAlert::Notify, get:
Assertion failed: -alertnotify did not warn of up-version blocks
Before adding code to only alert once:
Assertion failed: -alertnotify excessive warning of up-version blocks
After final code in this pull:
Tests successful
d0c4197 change exit(1) to an assert in CWallet::EncryptWallet (Philip Kaufmann)
870da77 fix possible memory leaks in CWallet::EncryptWallet (Philip Kaufmann)
f606bb9 fix a possible memory leak in CWalletDB::Recover (Philip Kaufmann)
* Delete canonical_tests.cpp, and move the tests to script_tests.cpp.
* Split off SCRIPT_VERIFY_DERSIG from SCRIPT_VERIFY_STRICTENC (the BIP62 part of it).
* Change signature STRICTENC/DERSIG semantics to fail the script entirely rather than the CHECKSIG result (softfork safety, and BIP62 requirement).
* Add many autogenerated tests for several odd cases.
* Mention specific BIP62 rules in the script verification flags.
7c70438 Get rid of the dummy CCoinsViewCache constructor arg (Pieter Wuille)
ed27e53 Add coins_tests with a large randomized CCoinViewCache test. (Pieter Wuille)
058b08c Do not keep fully spent but unwritten CCoins entries cached. (Pieter Wuille)
c9d1a81 Get rid of CCoinsView's SetCoins and SetBestBlock. (Pieter Wuille)
f28aec0 Use ModifyCoins instead of mutable GetCoins. (Pieter Wuille)
0b17964 Bugfix: Replace bashisms with standard sh in tests/tools (Luke Dashjr)
ab72068 Bugfix: Replace bashisms with standard sh in gitian descriptors (Luke Dashjr)
b77b4ed Bugfix: Replace bashisms with standard sh to fix build on non-BASH systems (Luke Dashjr)
d6b0539 travis: add non-default shell testing to travis. (Cory Fields)
R E Broadley