diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.13.2.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.13.2.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..45fff5c8bbd --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.13.2.md @@ -0,0 +1,178 @@ +Bitcoin Core version 0.13.2 is now available from: + + + +This is a new minor version release, including various bugfixes and +performance improvements, as well as updated translations. + +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: + + + +To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to: + + + +Compatibility +============== + +Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on [April 8th, 2014](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/end-of-xp-support), +an OS initially released in 2001. This means that not even critical security +updates will be released anymore. Without security updates, using a bitcoin +wallet on a XP machine is irresponsible at least. + +In addition to that, with 0.12.x there have been varied reports of Bitcoin Core +randomly crashing on Windows XP. It is [not clear](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/7681#issuecomment-217439891) +what the source of these crashes is, but it is likely that upstream +libraries such as Qt are no longer being tested on XP. + +We do not have time nor resources to provide support for an OS that is +end-of-life. From 0.13.0 on, Windows XP is no longer supported. Users are +suggested to upgrade to a newer version of Windows, or install an alternative OS +that is supported. + +No attempt is made to prevent installing or running the software on Windows XP, +you can still do so at your own risk, but do not expect it to work: do not +report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker. + +From 0.13.1 onwards OS X 10.7 is no longer supported. 0.13.0 was intended to work on 10.7+, +but severe issues with the libc++ version on 10.7.x keep it from running reliably. +0.13.1 now requires 10.8+, and will communicate that to 10.7 users, rather than crashing unexpectedly. + +Notable changes +=============== + +Change to wallet handling of mempool rejection +----------------------------------------------- + +When a newly created transaction failed to enter the mempool due to +the limits on chains of unconfirmed transactions the sending RPC +calls would return an error. The transaction would still be queued +in the wallet and, once some of the parent transactions were +confirmed, broadcast after the software was restarted. + +This behavior has been changed to return success and to reattempt +mempool insertion at the same time transaction rebroadcast is +attempted, avoiding a need for a restart. + +Transactions in the wallet which cannot be accepted into the mempool +can be abandoned with the previously existing abandontransaction RPC +(or in the GUI via a context menu on the transaction). + + +0.13.2 Change log +================= + +Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect +behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating +the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and +git merge commit are mentioned. + +### Consensus +- #9293 `e591c10` [0.13 Backport #9053] IBD using chainwork instead of height and not using header timestamp (gmaxwell) +- #9053 `5b93eee` IBD using chainwork instead of height and not using header timestamps (gmaxwell) + +### RPC and other APIs +- #8845 `1d048b9` Don't return the address of a P2SH of a P2SH (jnewbery) +- #9041 `87fbced` keypoololdest denote Unix epoch, not GMT (s-matthew-english) +- #9122 `f82c81b` fix getnettotals RPC description about timemillis (visvirial) +- #9042 `5bcb05d` [rpc] ParseHash: Fail when length is not 64 (MarcoFalke) +- #9194 `f26dab7` Add option to return non-segwit serialization via rpc (instagibbs) +- #9347 `b711390` [0.13.2] wallet/rpc backports (MarcoFalke) +- #9292 `c365556` Complain when unknown rpcserialversion is specified (sipa) +- #9322 `49a612f` [qa] Don't set unknown rpcserialversion (MarcoFalke) + +### Block and transaction handling +- #8357 `ce0d817` [mempool] Fix relaypriority calculation error (maiiz) +- #9267 `0a4aa87` [0.13 backport #9239] Disable fee estimates for a confirm target of 1 block (morcos) +- #9196 `0c09d9f` Send tip change notification from invalidateblock (ryanofsky) + +### P2P protocol and network code +- #8995 `9ef3875` Add missing cs_main lock to ::GETBLOCKTXN processing (TheBlueMatt) +- #9234 `94531b5` torcontrol: Explicitly request RSA1024 private key (laanwj) +- #8637 `2cad5db` Compact Block Tweaks (rebase of #8235) (sipa) +- #9058 `286e548` Fixes for p2p-compactblocks.py test timeouts on travis (#8842) (ryanofsky) +- #8865 `4c71fc4` Decouple peer-processing-logic from block-connection-logic (TheBlueMatt) +- #9117 `6fe3981` net: don't send feefilter messages before the version handshake is complete (theuni) +- #9188 `ca1fd75` Make orphan parent fetching ask for witnesses (gmaxwell) +- #9052 `3a3bcbf` Use RelevantServices instead of node_network in AttemptToEvict (gmaxwell) +- #9048 `9460771` [0.13 backport #9026] Fix handling of invalid compact blocks (sdaftuar) +- #9357 `03b6f62` [0.13 backport #9352] Attempt reconstruction from all compact block announcements (sdaftuar) +- #9189 `b96a8f7` Always add default_witness_commitment with GBT client support (sipa) +- #9253 `28d0f22` Fix calculation of number of bound sockets to use (TheBlueMatt) +- #9199 `da5a16b` Always drop the least preferred HB peer when adding a new one (gmaxwell) + +### Build system +- #9169 `d1b4da9` build: fix qt5.7 build under macOS (theuni) +- #9326 `a0f7ece` Update for OpenSSL 1.1 API (gmaxwell) +- #9224 `396c405` Prevent FD_SETSIZE error building on OpenBSD (ivdsangen) + +### GUI +- #8972 `6f86b53` Make warnings label selectable (jonasschnelli) (MarcoFalke) +- #9185 `6d70a73` Fix coincontrol sort issue (jonasschnelli) +- #9094 `5f3a12c` Use correct conversion function for boost::path datadir (laanwj) +- #8908 `4a974b2` Update bitcoin-qt.desktop (s-matthew-english) +- #9190 `dc46b10` Plug many memory leaks (laanwj) + +### Wallet +- #9290 `35174a0` Make RelayWalletTransaction attempt to AcceptToMemoryPool (gmaxwell) +- #9295 `43bcfca` Bugfix: Fundrawtransaction: don't terminate when keypool is empty (jonasschnelli) +- #9302 `f5d606e` Return txid even if ATMP fails for new transaction (sipa) +- #9262 `fe39f26` Prefer coins that have fewer ancestors, sanity check txn before ATMP (instagibbs) + +### Tests and QA +- #9159 `eca9b46` Wait for specific block announcement in p2p-compactblocks (ryanofsky) +- #9186 `dccdc3a` Fix use-after-free in scheduler tests (laanwj) +- #9168 `3107280` Add assert_raises_message to check specific error message (mrbandrews) +- #9191 `29435db` 0.13.2 Backports (MarcoFalke) +- #9077 `1d4c884` Increase wallet-dump RPC timeout (ryanofsky) +- #9098 `ecd7db5` Handle zombies and cluttered tmpdirs (MarcoFalke) +- #8927 `387ec9d` Add script tests for FindAndDelete in pre-segwit and segwit scripts (jl2012) +- #9200 `eebc699` bench: Fix subtle counting issue when rescaling iteration count (laanwj) + +### Miscellaneous +- #8838 `094848b` Calculate size and weight of block correctly in CreateNewBlock() (jnewbery) +- #8920 `40169dc` Set minimum required Boost to 1.47.0 (fanquake) +- #9251 `a710a43` Improvement of documentation of command line parameter 'whitelist' (wodry) +- #8932 `106da69` Allow bitcoin-tx to create v2 transactions (btcdrak) +- #8929 `12428b4` add software-properties-common (sigwo) +- #9120 `08d1c90` bug: Missed one "return false" in recent refactoring in #9067 (UdjinM6) +- #9067 `f85ee01` Fix exit codes (UdjinM6) +- #9340 `fb987b3` [0.13] Update secp256k1 subtree (MarcoFalke) +- #9229 `b172377` Remove calls to getaddrinfo_a (TheBlueMatt) + +Credits +======= + +Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: + +- Alex Morcos +- BtcDrak +- Cory Fields +- fanquake +- Gregory Maxwell +- Gregory Sanders +- instagibbs +- Ivo van der Sangen +- jnewbery +- Johnson Lau +- Jonas Schnelli +- Luke Dashjr +- maiiz +- MarcoFalke +- Masahiko Hyuga +- Matt Corallo +- matthias +- mrbandrews +- Pavel Janík +- Pieter Wuille +- randy-waterhouse +- Russell Yanofsky +- S. Matthew English +- Steven +- Suhas Daftuar +- UdjinM6 +- Wladimir J. van der Laan +- wodry + +As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).