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Bitcoin Core version 0.17.1 is now available from:
https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.17.1/
This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
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How to Upgrade
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt
(on Mac)
or bitcoind
/bitcoin-qt
(on Linux).
If your node has a txindex, the txindex db will be migrated the first time you run 0.17.0 or newer, which may take up to a few hours. Your node will not be functional until this migration completes.
The first time you run version 0.15.0 or newer, your chainstate database will be converted to a new format, which will take anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour, depending on the speed of your machine.
Note that the block database format also changed in version 0.8.0 and there is no automatic upgrade code from before version 0.8 to version 0.15.0. Upgrading directly from 0.7.x and earlier without redownloading the blockchain is not supported. However, as usual, old wallet versions are still supported.
Downgrading warning
The chainstate database for this release is not compatible with previous
releases, so if you run 0.15 and then decide to switch back to any
older version, you will need to run the old release with the -reindex-chainstate
option to rebuild the chainstate data structures in the old format.
If your node has pruning enabled, this will entail re-downloading and processing the entire blockchain.
Compatibility
Bitcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.10+, and Windows 7 and newer (Windows XP is not supported).
Bitcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not frequently tested on them.
From 0.17.0 onwards macOS <10.10 is no longer supported. 0.17.0 is built using Qt 5.9.x, which doesn't support versions of macOS older than 10.10.
Notable changes
listtransactions
label support
The listtransactions
RPC account
parameter which was deprecated in 0.17.0
and renamed to dummy
has been un-deprecated and renamed again to label
.
When bitcoin is configured with the -deprecatedrpc=accounts
setting, specifying
a label/account/dummy argument will return both outgoing and incoming
transactions. Without the -deprecatedrpc=accounts
setting, it will only return
incoming transactions (because it used to be possible to create transactions
spending from specific accounts, but this is no longer possible with labels).
When -deprecatedrpc=accounts
is set, it's possible to pass the empty string ""
to list transactions that don't have any label. Without
-deprecatedrpc=accounts
, passing the empty string is an error because returning
only non-labeled transactions is not generally useful behavior and can cause
confusion.
0.17.1 change log
P2P protocol and network code
- #14685
9406502
Fix a deserialization overflow edge case (kazcw) - #14728
b901578
Fix uninitialized read when stringifying an addrLocal (kazcw)
Wallet
- #14441
5150acc
Restore ability to list incoming transactions by label (jnewbery) - #13546
91fa15a
Fix use of uninitialized valuebnb_used
in CWallet::CreateTransaction(…) (practicalswift) - #14310
bb90695
Ensure wallet is unlocked before signing (gustavonalle) - #14690
5782fdc
Throw error if CPubKey is invalid during PSBT keypath serialization (instagibbs) - #14852
2528443
backport: [tests] Addwallet_balance.py
(MarcoFalke) - #14196
3362a95
psbt: always drop the unnecessary utxo and convert non-witness utxo to witness when necessary (achow101) - #14588
70ee1f8
Refactor PSBT signing logic to enforce invariant and fix signing bug (gwillen) - #14424
89a9a9d
Stop requiring imported pubkey to sign non-PKH schemes (sipa, MeshCollider)
RPC and other APIs
- #14417
fb9ad04
Fix listreceivedbyaddress not taking address as a string (etscrivner) - #14596
de5e48a
Bugfix: RPC: Addaddress_type
named param for createmultisig (luke-jr) - #14618
9666dba
Make HTTP RPC debug logging more informative (practicalswift) - #14197
7bee414
[psbt] Convert non-witness UTXOs to witness if witness sig created (achow101) - #14377
a3fe125
Check that a separator is found for psbt inputs, outputs, and global map (achow101) - #14356
7a590d8
Fix converttopsbt permitsigdata arg, add basic test (instagibbs) - #14453
75b5d8c
Fix wallet unload during walletpassphrase timeout (promag)
GUI
- #14403
0242b5a
Revert "Force TLS1.0+ for SSL connections" (real-or-random) - #14593
df5131b
Explicitly disable "Dark Mode" appearance on macOS (fanquake)
Build system
- #14647
7edebed
Remove illegal spacing in darwin.mk (ch4ot1c) - #14698
ec71f06
Add bitcoin-tx.exe into Windows installer (ken2812221)
Tests and QA
- #13965
29899ec
Fix extended functional tests fail (ken2812221) - #14011
9461f98
Disable wallet and address book Qt tests on macOS minimal platform (ryanofsky) - #14180
86fadee
Run all tests even if wallet is not compiled (MarcoFalke) - #14122
8bc1bad
Testrpc_help.py
failed: Check whether ZMQ is enabled or not (Kvaciral) - #14101
96dc936
Use named args in validation acceptance tests (MarcoFalke) - #14020
24d796a
Add tests for RPC help (promag) - #14052
7ff32a6
Add some actual witness inrpc_rawtransaction
(MarcoFalke) - #14215
b72fbab
Use correct python index slices in example test (sdaftuar) - #14024
06544fa
AddTestNode::assert_debug_log
(MarcoFalke) - #14658
60f7a97
Add test to ensure node can generate all rpc help texts at runtime (MarcoFalke) - #14632
96f15e8
Fix a comment (fridokus) - #14700
f9db08e
Avoid race inp2p_invalid_block
by waiting for the block request (MarcoFalke) - #14845
67225e2
Addwallet_balance.py
(jnewbery)
Documentation
- #14161
5f51fd6
doc/descriptors.md tweaks (ryanofsky) - #14276
85aacc4
Add autogen.sh in ARM Cross-compilation (walterwhite81)
Credits
Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
- Andrew Chow
- Chun Kuan Lee
- David A. Harding
- Eric Scrivner
- fanquake
- fridokus
- Glenn Willen
- Gregory Sanders
- gustavonalle
- John Newbery
- Jon Layton
- Jonas Schnelli
- João Barbosa
- Kaz Wesley
- Kvaciral
- Luke Dashjr
- MarcoFalke
- MeshCollider
- Pieter Wuille
- practicalswift
- Russell Yanofsky
- Sjors Provoost
- Suhas Daftuar
- Tim Ruffing
- Walter
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
As well as everyone that helped translating on Transifex.