The big notice at the top of the release note is not interesting
to most users now and apparently comes across poorly to some.
Better to provide more information about what we do support.
This disentangles the script validation skipping from checkpoints.
A new option is introduced "assumevalid" which specifies a block whos
ancestors we assume all have valid scriptsigs and so we do not check
them when they are also burried under the best header by two weeks
worth of work.
Unlike checkpoints this has no influence on consensus unless you set
it to a block with an invalid history. Because of this it can be
easily be updated without risk of influencing the network consensus.
This results in a massive IBD speedup.
This approach was independently recommended by Peter Todd and Luke-Jr
since POW based signature skipping (see PR#9180) does not have the
verifiable properties of a specific hash and may create bad incentives.
The downside is that, like checkpoints, the defaults bitrot and older
releases will sync slower. On the plus side users can provide their
own value here, and if they set it to something crazy all that will
happen is more time will be spend validating signatures.
Checkblocks and checklevel are also moved to the hidden debug options:
Especially now that checkblocks has a low default there is little need
to change these settings, and users frequently misunderstand them as
influencing security or IBD speed. By hiding them we offset the
space added by this new option.
a31c8aa Add NewAppendableFile for win32 environment
1913d71 Merge upstream LevelDB 1.19
3080a45 Increase leveldb version to 1.19.
fa6dc01 A zippy change broke test assumptions about the size of compressed output. Fix the tests by allowing more slop in zippy's behavior. ------------- Created by MOE: https://github.com/google/moe MOE_MIGRATED_REVID=123432472
06a191b fix problems in LevelDB's caching code
a7bff69 Fix LevelDB build when asserts are enabled in release builds. (#367)
ea992b4 Change std::uint64_t to uint64_t (#354)
e84b5bd This CL fixes a bug encountered when reading records from leveldb files that have been split, as in a [] input task split.
3211343 Deleted redundant null ptr check prior to delete.
7306ef8 Merge pull request #348 from randomascii/master
6b18316 Fix signed/unsigned mismatch on VC++ builds
adbe3eb Putting build artifacts in subdirectory.
2d0320a Merge pull request #329 from ralphtheninja/travis-badge
dd1c3c3 add travis build badge
43fcf23 Merge pull request #328 from cmumford/master
9fcae61 Added a Travis CI build file.
dac40d2 Merge pull request #284 from ideawu/master
8ec241a Merge pull request #317 from falvojr/patch-1
5d36bed Merge pull request #272 from vapier/master
4753c9b Added a contributors section to README.md
e2446d0 Merge pull request #275 from paulirish/patch-1
706b7f8 Resolve race when getting approximate-memory-usage property
3c9ff3c Only compiling TrimSpace on linux.
f8d205c Including atomic_pointer.h in port_posix
889de31 Let LevelDB use xcrun to determine Xcode.app path instead of using a hardcoded path.
528c2bc Add "approximate-memory-usage" property to leveldb::DB::GetProperty
359b6bc Add leveldb::Cache::Prune
50e77a8 Fix size_t/int comparison/conversion issues in leveldb.
5208e79 Added leveldb::Status::IsInvalidArgument() method.
ce45404 Suppress error reporting after seeking but before a valid First or Full record is encountered.
b9afa1f include <assert> -> <cassert>
edf2939 Update README.md
65190ac Will not reuse manifest if reuse_logs options is false.
ac1d69d LevelDB now attempts to reuse the preceding MANIFEST and log file when re-opened.
76bba13 fix indent
8fcceb2 log compaction output file's level along with number
0e0f074 documentation. improved link
c85addc readme: improved documentation link
ceff6f1 Fix Android/MIPS build.
77948e7 Add benchmark that measures cost of repeatedly opening the database.
34ad72e Move header guard below copyright banner.
a75d435 Clean up layering of storage/leveldb/...
b234f65 Added a new fault injection test.
c4c38f9 Add arm64 support to leveldb.
cea9b10 Fixed incorrect comment wording for Iterator::Seek.
c00c569 Deleted old README file.
git-subtree-dir: src/leveldb
git-subtree-split: a31c8aa408d5594830f7cb20ead1ef1dff51b79e
I did a build on a windows 10 laptop and took notes, and tried
to improve the document:
- It's the Linux subsystem for Windows, not the other way around.
- Split out dependencies: general ones, 64-bit, 32-bit. Remove the
reference to `build-unix.md`, easy enough to be self-contained.
- Place 64-bit instructions first. 99% will want these.
- Installation instructions: recommend using `/` for prefix, same as we
do on gitian builds. This will allow copying the files to a usable
(from Windows) place using just `make DESTDIR=...`.
- Remove double spaces / consistent width reformatting.
Refer to the right file in the top-level README.md.
Having only one file with test documentation saves some confusion about
where things are documented.
This introduces a 'minimum chain work' chainparam which is intended
to be the known amount of work in the chain for the network at the
time of software release. If you don't have this much work, you're
not yet caught up.
This is used instead of the count of blocks test from checkpoints.
This criteria is trivial to keep updated as there is no element of
subjectivity, trust, or position dependence to it. It is also a more
reliable metric of sync status than a block count.
> This new feature is enabled by default if Bitcoin Core is listening, and a connection to Tor can be made. It can be configured with the -listenonion, -torcontrol and -torpassword settings. To show verbose debugging information, pass -debug=tor.
But it is correct to say that the feature is enabled *regardless* of whether a connection to Tor can be made.
I propose to clarify that so that users can eliminate these in their logs (when `listen=1` and no Tor).
And I think it's okay to clarify about the `listen` option, because on several occasions when I read this before I always assumed `listening` meant `server=1` which cost me a lot of time in troubleshooting.
```
2016-10-24 06:19:22.551029 tor: Error connecting to Tor control socket
2016-10-24 06:19:22.551700 tor: Not connected to Tor control port 127.0.0.1:9051, trying to reconnect
```
### What version of bitcoin-core are you using?
0.12.1
The new Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows a user to run a bash shell directly on Windows in an Ubuntu based environment. This can be used to cross-compile Bitcoin directly on Windows without the need for a separate Linux VM or Server. The instructions included in this commit explain how to configure the environment and build Bitcoin Core using this new feature.
John Newbery