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Release notes for 0.8.2rc1

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(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and deleted at (note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and deleted at
release time) release time)
Building this from Fee Policy changes
------------------
$ git shortlog --no-merges v0.7.1..
Incompatible Changes
--------------------
This release no longer maintains a full index of historical transaction ids
by default, so looking up an arbitrary transaction using the getrawtransaction
RPC call will not work. If you need that functionality, you must run once
with -txindex -reindex to rebuild block-chain indices (see below for more
details).
Improvements
------------
Mac and Windows binaries are signed with certificates owned by the Bitcoin
Foundation, to be compatible with the new security features in OSX 10.8 and
Windows 8.
LevelDB, a fast, open-source, non-relational database from Google, is
now used to store transaction and block indices. LevelDB works much better
on machines with slow I/O and is faster in general. Berkeley DB is now only
used for the wallet.dat file (public and private wallet keys and transactions
relevant to you).
Pieter Wuille implemented many optimizations to the way transactions are
verified, so a running, synchronized node uses much less memory and does
much less I/O. He also implemented parallel signature checking, so if you
have a multi-CPU machine all CPUs will be used to verify transactions.
New Features
------------
"Bloom filter" support in the network protocol for sending only relevant transactions to
lightweight clients.
contrib/verifysfbinaries is a shell-script to verify that the binary downloads The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC
at sourceforge have not been tampered with. If you are able, you can help make (for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is
everybody's downloads more secure by running this occasionally to check PGP about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC.
signatures against download file checksums.
contrib/spendfrom is a python-language command-line utility that demonstrates Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
how to use the "raw transactions" JSON-RPC api to send coins received from particular (0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them
addresses (also known as "coin control"). costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually
cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.
New/changed settings (command-line or bitcoin.conf file) Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included
-------------------------------------------------------- in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are
included in a block.
dbcache : now controls LevelDB memory usage. Running with (for example) -dbcache=1000 The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee
will use a gigabyte of memory and might make the initial blockchain download faster. command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees
with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the
0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from
the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm.
par : controls how many threads to use to validate transactions. Defaults to the number Bitcoin-Qt changes
of CPUs on your machine, use -par=1 to limit to a single CPU. ------------------
txindex : maintains an extra index of old, spent transaction ids so they will be found * New icon and splash screen
by the getrawtransaction JSON-RPC method. Can only be set when the database is * Improve reporting of synchronization process
initialized. * Remove hardcoded fee recommendations
* Improve metadata of executable on MacOSX and Windows
* Move export button to individual tabs instead of toolbar
* Add "send coins" command to context menu in address book
* Add "copy txid" command to copy transaction IDs from transaction overview
* Save & restore window size and position when showing & hiding window
* New translations: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Welsh (cy),
Esperanto (eo), Interlingua (la), Latvian (lv) and many improvements
to current translations
reindex : rebuild block and transaction indices from the downloaded block data. MacOSX:
* OSX support for click-to-pay (bitcoin:) links
* Fix GUI disappearing problem on MacOSX (issue #1522)
New JSON-RPC API Features Linux/Unix:
------------------------- * Copy addresses to middle-mouse-button clipboard
lockunspent / listlockunspent allow locking transaction outputs for a period of time so
they will not be spent by other processes that might be accessing the same wallet.
addnode / getaddednodeinfo methods, to connect to specific peers without restarting. Command-line options
--------------------
importprivkey now takes an optional boolean parameter (default true) to control whether * -walletnotify will call a command on receiving transactions that affect the wallet.
or not to rescan the blockchain for transactions after importing a new private key. * -alertnotify will call a command on receiving an alert from the network.
* -par now takes a negative number, to leave a certain amount of cores free.
gettxout retrieves a single transaction output from the current set of unspent outputs. JSON-RPC API changes
Optionally, the mempool transactions are taken into account. --------------------
gettxoutsetinfo calculates statistics about the current set of unspent outputs. * listunspent now lists account and address infromation.
* getinfo now also returns the time adjustment estimated from your peers.
* getpeerinfo now returns bytessent, bytesrecv and syncnode.
* gettxoutsetinfo returns statistics about the unspent transaction output database.
* gettxout returns information about a specific unspent transaction output.
Important Bug Fixes
-------------------
Privacy leak: the position of the "change" output in most transactions was not being Networking changes
properly randomized, making network analysis of the transaction graph to identify ------------------
users' wallets easier.
Zero-confirmation transaction vulnerability: accepting zero-confirmation transactions * Significant changes to the networking code, reducing latency and memory consumption.
(transactions that have not yet been included in a block) from somebody you do not * Avoid initial block download stalling.
trust is still not recommended, because there will always be ways for attackers to * Remove IRC seeding support.
double-spend zero-confirmation transactions. However, this release includes a bug * Performance tweaks.
fix that makes it a little bit more difficult for attackers to double-spend a * Added testnet DNS seeds.
certain type ("lockTime in the future") of zero-confirmation transaction.
Dependency Changes Wallet compatibility/rescuing
------------------ -----------------------------
Qt 4.8.3 (compiling against older versions of Qt 4 should continue to work) * Cases where wallets cannot be opened in another version/installation should be reduced.
* -salvagewallet now works for encrypted wallets.

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