- Merge release notes fragments into release-notes.md
- Remove downgrading notes (as I understand this pertains to `<0.15`,
this doesn't warrant mentioning anymore)
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5d35d4384a Update release notes through to cb35f1d3 (David A. Harding)
9ad5ca17d9 Release notes: integrate detached & rm backports (David A. Harding)
Pull request description:
Monthly release notes update. ~~In addition to a few new notes, this removes from the master branch two notes about things that have been backported to the 0.17 branch (though not released yet): `unloadwallet` RPC now being blocking (0.17 has a detached release note for that) and the PSBT doc (0.17 does not have a release note for that; I'll open a PR).~~
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04da9f4834 [RPC] Update getrawtransaction interface (Amiti Uttarwar)
Pull request description:
- stop checking unspent UTXOs for a transaction when txindex is not enabled, as per conversation here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3220#issuecomment-377458383
- code contributed by sipa
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a36d97d866 Default -whitelistforcerelay to off (Suhas Daftuar)
Pull request description:
No one seems to use this "feature", and at any rate the behavior of relaying transactions when they violate local policy is error-prone, if we ever consider changing the ban behavior of our software from one version to the next.
Defaulting this to off means that users who use -whitelist won't be unexpectedly surprised by this interaction. If anyone is still relying on this feature, it can still be explicitly turned on.
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3019ba28d1 Making supported operating systems more clear (Ben Carman)
Pull request description:
With the doc saying that we only support Windows 7+ stating that XP isn't supported is redundant and can be removed. Bitcoin stop supporting Windows XP in 0.13 so users should have had plenty of time to learn that XP is no longer supported.
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Now that 0.17 branch has been split off, master is 0.17.99 (pre-0.18).
Also clean out release notes.
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This adds a new RPC method "getzmqnotifications", which returns
information about all active ZMQ notification endpoints. This is useful
for software that layers on top of bitcoind, so it can verify that
ZeroMQ is enabled and also figure out where it should listen.
See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/13526.
1e46d8a Get rid of ambiguous OutputType::NONE value (Russell Yanofsky)
Pull request description:
Based on suggestion by @sipa https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12119#issuecomment-357982763
After #12119, the NONE output type was overloaded to refer to either an output type that couldn't be parsed, or to an automatic change output mode. This change drops the NONE enum and uses a simple bool to indicate parse failure, and a new CHANGE_AUTO enum to refer the change output type.
This change is almost a pure refactoring except it makes RPCs reject empty string ("") address types instead of treating them like they were unset. This simplifies the parsing code a little bit and could prevent RPC usage mistakes. It's noted in the release notes.
Follows up #12408 by @MarcoFalke
Followups for future PRs:
- [ ] Add explicit support for specifying "auto" in `ParseOutputType` as suggested by promag and sipa: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12729#issuecomment-374799567 and https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12729#discussion_r175969481
- [ ] Add wallet `AddressChangeType` method to complement `TransactionChangeType`: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12729#discussion_r175969618.
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7d0f80b Use anonymous namespace instead of static functions (Pieter Wuille)
b61fb71 Mention removal of bare multisig IsMine in release notes (Pieter Wuille)
9c2a8b8 Do not treat bare multisig as IsMine (Pieter Wuille)
08f3228 Optimization: only test for witness scripts at top level (Pieter Wuille)
3619735 Track difference between scriptPubKey and P2SH execution in IsMine (Pieter Wuille)
ac6ec62 Switch to a private version of SigVersion inside IsMine (Pieter Wuille)
19fc973 Do not expose SigVersion argument to IsMine (Pieter Wuille)
fb1dfbb Remove unused IsMine overload (Pieter Wuille)
952d821 Make CScript -> CScriptID conversion explicit (Pieter Wuille)
Pull request description:
Currently our wallet code will treat bare multisig outputs (meaning scriptPubKeys with multiple public keys + `OP_CHECKMULTISIG` operator in it) as ours without the user asking for it, as long as all private keys in it are in our wallet.
This is a pointless feature. As it only works when all private keys are in one place, it's useless compared to single key outputs (P2PK, P2PKH, P2WPKH, P2SH-P2WPKH), and worse in terms of space, cost, UTXO size, and ability to test (due to lack of address format for them).
Furthermore, they are problematic in that producing a list of all `scriptPubKeys` we accept is not tractable (it involves all combinations of all public keys that are ours). In further wallet changes I'd like to move to a model where all scriptPubKeys that are treated as ours are explicit, rather than defined by whatever keys we have. The current behavior of the wallet is very hard to model in such a design, so I'd like to get rid of it.
I think there are two options:
* Remove it entirely (do not ever accept bare multisig outputs as ours, unless watched)
* Only accept bare multisig outputs in situations where the P2SH version of that output would also be acceptable
This PR implements the first option. The second option was explored in #12874.
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Based on suggestion by Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> at
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12119#issuecomment-357982763
After #12119, the NONE output type was overloaded to refer to either an output
type that couldn't be parsed, or to an automatic change output mode. This
change drops the NONE enum and uses a simple bool indicate parse failure, and a
new CHANGE_AUTO enum to refer the change output type.
This change is almost a pure refactoring except it makes RPCs reject empty
string ("") address types instead of treating them like they were unset. This
simplifies the parsing code a little bit and could prevent RPC usage mistakes.
It's noted in the release notes.
4757c04 [config] Remove blockmaxsize option (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
The blockmaxsize option was marked as deprecated in V0.15.1, and code
was added to convert provided blockmaxsize into blockmaxweight. However,
this code was incorrectly implemented, and blockmaxsize was silently
ignored.
No users have complained about blockmaxsize being ignored, so just
remove it in V0.17.
Fixes#12640
cc @ajtowns
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The blockmaxsize option was marked as deprecated in V0.15.1, and code
was added to convert provided blockmaxsize into blockmaxweight. However,
this code was incorrectly implemented, and blockmaxsize was silently
ignored.
No users have complained about blockmaxsize being ignored, so just
remove it in V0.17.
This change only updates strings and adds RPC aliases, but should simplify the
implementation of address labels in
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7729, by getting renaming out of the
way and letting it focus on semantics.
The difference between accounts and labels is that labels apply only to
addresses, while accounts apply to both addresses and transactions
(transactions have "from" and "to" accounts). The code associating accounts
with transactions is clumsy and unreliable so we would like get rid of it.
fac70134a rpc: Update createrawtransaction examples (MarcoFalke)
fa06dfce0 [rpc] createrawtransaction: Accept sorted outputs (MarcoFalke)
8acd25d85 rpc: Allow typeAny in RPCTypeCheck (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
The second parameter of the `createrawtransaction` is a dictionary of the outputs. This comes with at least two drawbacks:
* In case of duplicate keys, either of them might silently disappear, with no user feedback at all. A user needs to make other mistakes, but this could eventually lead to abnormal tx fees.
* A dictionary does not guarantee that keys are sorted. Again, a user needs to keep this in mind, as it could eventually lead to excessive tx fees.
Even though my scenario of loss-of-funds is unlikely to happen, I see it as a inconvenience that should be fixed.
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* Z is the zone designator for the zero UTC offset.
* T is the delimiter used to separate date and time.
This makes it clear for the end-user that the date/time logged is
specified in UTC and not in the local time zone.
This change should make it easier for users to make complete backups of wallets
because they can now just back up the specified `-wallet=<path>` path directly,
instead of having to back up the specified path as well as the transaction log
directory (for incompletely flushed wallets).
Another advantage of this change is that if two wallets are located in the same
directory, they will now use their own BerkeleyDB environments instead using a
shared environment. Using a shared environment makes it difficult to manage and
back up wallets separately because transaction log files will contain a mix of
data from all wallets in the environment.
Wladimir J. van der Laan