Now that 0.15 branch has been split off, master is 0.15.99 (pre-0.16).
Also clean out release notes.
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A few "a->an" and "an->a".
"Shows, if the supplied default SOCKS5 proxy" -> "Shows if the supplied default SOCKS5 proxy". Change made on 3 occurrences.
"without fully understanding the ramification of a command" -> "without fully understanding the ramifications of a command".
Removed duplicate words such as "the the".
196962ff0 Add AcceleratedCRC32C to port_win.h
1bdf1c34c Merge upstream LevelDB v1.20
d31721eb0 Merge #17: Fixed file sharing errors
fecd44902 Fixed file sharing error in Win32Env::GetFileSize(), Win32SequentialFile::_Init(), Win32RandomAccessFile::_Init() Fixed error checking in Win32SequentialFile::_Init()
5b7510f1b Merge #14: Merge upstream LevelDB 1.19
0d969fd57 Merge #16: [LevelDB] Do no crash if filesystem can't fsync
c8c029b5b [LevelDB] Do no crash if filesystem can't fsync
a53934a3a Increase leveldb version to 1.20.
f3f139737 Separate Env tests from PosixEnv tests.
eb4f0972f leveldb: Fix compilation warnings in port_posix_sse.cc on x86 (32-bit).
d0883b600 Fixed path to doc file: index.md.
7fa20948d Convert documentation to markdown.
ea175e28f Implement support for Intel crc32 instruction (SSE 4.2)
95cd743e5 Including <limits> for std::numeric_limits.
646c3588d Limit the number of read-only files the POSIX Env will have open.
d40bc3fa5 Merge #13: Typo
ebbd772d3 Typo
a2fb086d0 Add option for max file size. The currend hard-coded value of 2M is inefficient in colossus.
git-subtree-dir: src/leveldb
git-subtree-split: 196962ff01c39b4705d8117df5c3f8c205349950
This makes the following changes:
* In undo data and the chainstate database, the transaction nVersion
field is removed from the data structures, always written as 0, and
ignored when reading.
* The definition of hash_serialized in gettxoutsetinfo is changed to no
longer incude the nVersion field. It is renamed to hash_serialized_2
to avoid confusion. The new definition also includes transaction
height and coinbase information, as this information was missing
before.
This depends on having a CHashVerifier-based undo data checksum
verifier.
Apart from changing the definition of serialized_hash, downgrading
after using this patch is supported, as no release ever used the value
of nVersion field in UTXO entries.
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.
Wladimir J. van der Laan