Update release notes for 1.14 (#1464)

* Move old release notes out of the way
* Removed very old Bitcoin release notes as of minimal value in the context of Dogecoin.
* Move remaining Bitcoin release notes into their own folder.
* Move Bitcoin 0.9 release notes into Bitcoin release notes folder.
* Start cleaning up release notes to reflect Doge

doc/release-notes.md

@@ -1,33 +1,45 @@
 (note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to
 release-notes at release time)
 
-Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 is now available from:
+Dogecoin Core version 1.14.0 is now available from:
 
-  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.14.0/>
+  <https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/releases/tag/v1.14.0/>
 
 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>
+  <https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/issues>
 
-To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
+To receive security and update notifications, please watch reddit or Twitter:
 
-  <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/>
+  * https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/
+  * @Dogecoin on Twitter for high priority announcements
+  * @dogecoin\_devs on Twitter for updates on development work
+
+The developers also maintain personal Twitter accounts:
+
+  * @langer\_hans
+  * @JRossNicoll
+
+Lastly the founders are on Twitter, although as of the time of writing not involved in
+maintaining Dogecoin:
+
+  * @ummjackson
+  * @BillyM2k
 
 Compatibility
 ==============
 
-Bitcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using
-the Linux kernel, macOS 10.8+, and Windows Vista and later.
+Dogecoin Core is extensively tested on Ubuntu Server LTS, Mac OS X and Windows 10.
 
 Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on [April 8th, 2014](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/end-of-xp-support),
 No attempt is made to prevent installing or running the software on Windows XP, you
 can still do so at your own risk but be aware that there are known instabilities and issues.
 Please do not report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker.
 
-Bitcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not
+Dogecoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not
 frequently tested on them.
 
 Notable changes
@@ -58,7 +70,7 @@ improved, leading to much shorter sync and initial block download times.
 Manual Pruning
 --------------
 
-Bitcoin Core has supported automatically pruning the blockchain since 0.11. Pruning
+Dogecoin Core introduces pruning the blockchain in 1.14. Pruning
 the blockchain allows for significant storage space savings as the vast majority of
 the downloaded data can be discarded after processing so very little of it remains
 on the disk.
@@ -132,7 +144,7 @@ the same thing as the GUI icon. The command takes one boolean parameter,
 Out-of-sync Modal Info Layer
 ----------------------------
 
-When Bitcoin Core is out-of-sync on startup, a semi-transparent information
+When Dogecoin Core is out-of-sync on startup, a semi-transparent information
 layer will be shown over top of the normal display. This layer contains
 details about the current sync progress and estimates the amount of time
 remaining to finish syncing. This layer can also be hidden and subsequently
@@ -189,14 +201,11 @@ restarts the mempool can be filled with transactions without waiting for new tra
 to be created. This will also preserve any changes made to a transaction through
 commands such as `prioritisetransaction` so that those changes will not be lost.
 
-Final Alert
------------
+Alerts Deprecated
+-----------------
 
-The Alert System was [disabled and deprecated](https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2016-11-01-alert-retirement) in Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 and removed in 0.13.0. 
-The Alert System was retired with a maximum sequence final alert which causes any nodes
-supporting the Alert System to display a static hard-coded "Alert Key Compromised" message which also
-prevents any other alerts from overriding it. This final alert is hard-coded into this release
-so that all old nodes receive the final alert.
+The Alert System has been removed in 1.14.0 due to it's
+[removal upstream in Bitcoin Core](https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2016-11-01-alert-retirement).
 
 GUI Changes
 -----------
@@ -244,7 +253,7 @@ Low-level RPC changes
    the mempool or if `txindex` is enabled.
 
  - A new RPC command `getmemoryinfo` has been added which will return information
-   about the memory usage of Bitcoin Core. This was added in conjunction with
+   about the memory usage of Dogecoin Core. This was added in conjunction with
    optimizations to memory management. See [Pull #8753](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8753)
    for more information.
 
@@ -261,20 +270,10 @@ HTTP REST Changes
    code `HTTP_BAD_REQUEST` (400) instead of `HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR` (500)
    when requests contain invalid parameters.
 
-Minimum Fee Rate Policies
--------------------------
-
-Since the changes in 0.12 to automatically limit the size of the mempool and improve the performance of block creation in mining code it has not been important for relay nodes or miners to set `-minrelaytxfee`. With this release the following concepts that were tied to this option have been separated out:
-- incremental relay fee used for calculating BIP 125 replacement and mempool limiting. (1000 satoshis/kB)
-- calculation of threshold for a dust output. (effectively 3 * 1000 satoshis/kB)
-- minimum fee rate of a package of transactions to be included in a block created by the mining code. If miners wish to set this minimum they can use the new `-blockmintxfee` option.  (defaults to 1000 satoshis/kB)
-
-The `-minrelaytxfee` option continues to exist but is recommended to be left unset.
-
 Fee Estimation Changes
 ----------------------
 
-- Since 0.13.2 fee estimation for a confirmation target of 1 block has been
+- Fee estimation for a confirmation target of 1 block has been
   disabled. The fee slider will no longer be able to choose a target of 1 block.
   This is only a minor behavior change as there was often insufficient
   data for this target anyway. `estimatefee 1` will now always return -1 and
@@ -333,11 +332,11 @@ Introduction of assumed-valid blocks
 Fundrawtransaction change address reuse
 ----------------------------------------
 
-- Before 0.14, `fundrawtransaction` was by default wallet stateless. In
+- Before 1.14, `fundrawtransaction` was by default wallet stateless. In
   almost all cases `fundrawtransaction` does add a change-output to the
-  outputs of the funded transaction. Before 0.14, the used keypool key was
+  outputs of the funded transaction. Before 1.14, the used keypool key was
   never marked as change-address key and directly returned to the keypool
-  (leading to address reuse).  Before 0.14, calling `getnewaddress`
+  (leading to address reuse).  Before 1.14, calling `getnewaddress`
   directly after `fundrawtransaction` did generate the same address as
   the change-output address.
 
@@ -351,421 +350,13 @@ Fundrawtransaction change address reuse
 Unused mempool memory used by coincache
 ----------------------------------------
 
-- Before 0.14, memory reserved for mempool (using the `-maxmempool` option)
+- Before 1.14, memory reserved for mempool (using the `-maxmempool` option)
   went unused during initial block download, or IBD. In 0.14, the UTXO DB cache
   (controlled with the `-dbcache` option) borrows memory from the mempool
   when there is extra memory available. This may result in an increase in
   memory usage during IBD for those previously relying on only the `-dbcache`
   option to limit memory during that time.
 
-0.14.0 Change log
-=================
-
-Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
-behavior, not code moves, minor refactors and string updates. For convenience
-in locating the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request
-and git merge commit are mentioned.
-
-### RPC and other APIs
-- #8421 `b77bb95` httpserver: drop boost dependency (theuni)
-- #8638 `f061415` rest.cpp: change `HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR` to `HTTP_BAD_REQUEST` (djpnewton)
-- #8272 `91990ee` Make the dummy argument to getaddednodeinfo optional (sipa)
-- #8722 `bb843ad` bitcoin-cli: More detailed error reporting (laanwj)
-- #6996 `7f71a3c` Add preciousblock RPC (sipa)
-- #8788 `97c7f73` Give RPC commands more information about the RPC request (jonasschnelli)
-- #7948 `5d2c8e5` Augment getblockchaininfo bip9\_softforks data (mruddy)
-- #8980 `0e22855` importmulti: Avoid using boost::variant::operator!=, which is only in newer boost versions (luke-jr)
-- #9025 `4d8558a` Getrawtransaction should take a bool for verbose (jnewbery)
-- #8811 `5754e03` Add support for JSON-RPC named arguments (laanwj)
-- #9520 `2456a83` Deprecate non-txindex getrawtransaction and better warning (sipa)
-- #9518 `a65ced1` Return height of last block pruned by pruneblockchain RPC (ryanofsky)
-- #9222 `7cb024e` Add 'subtractFeeFromAmount' option to 'fundrawtransaction' (dooglus)
-- #8456 `2ef52d3` Simplified `bumpfee` command (mrbandrews)
-- #9516 `727a798` Bug-fix: listsinceblock: use fork point as reference for blocks in reorg'd chains (kallewoof)
-- #9640 `7bfb770` Bumpfee: bugfixes for error handling and feerate calculation (sdaftuar)
-- #9673 `8d6447e` Set correct metadata on bumpfee wallet transactions (ryanofsky)
-- #9650 `40f7e27` Better handle invalid parameters to signrawtransaction (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9682 `edc9e63` Require timestamps for importmulti keys (ryanofsky)
-- #9108 `d8e8b06` Use importmulti timestamp when importing watch only keys (on top of #9682) (ryanofsky)
-- #9756 `7a93af8` Return error when importmulti called with invalid address (ryanofsky)
-- #9778 `ad168ef` Add two hour buffer to manual pruning (morcos)
-- #9761 `9828f9a` Use 2 hour grace period for key timestamps in importmulti rescans (ryanofsky)
-- #9474 `48d7e0d` Mark the minconf parameter to move as ignored (sipa)
-- #9619 `861cb0c` Bugfix: RPC/Mining: GBT should return 1 MB sizelimit before segwit activates (luke-jr)
-- #9773 `9072395` Return errors from importmulti if complete rescans are not successful (ryanofsky)
-
-### Block and transaction handling
-- #8391 `37d83bb` Consensus: Remove ISM (NicolasDorier)
-- #8365 `618c9dd` Treat high-sigop transactions as larger rather than rejecting them (sipa)
-- #8814 `14b7b3f` wallet, policy: ParameterInteraction: Don't allow 0 fee (MarcoFalke)
-- #8515 `9bdf526` A few mempool removal optimizations (sipa)
-- #8448 `101c642` Store mempool and prioritization data to disk (sipa)
-- #7730 `3c03dc2` Remove priority estimation (morcos)
-- #9111 `fb15610` Remove unused variable `UNLIKELY_PCT` from fees.h (fanquake)
-- #9133 `434e683` Unset fImporting for loading mempool (morcos)
-- #9179 `b9a87b4` Set `DEFAULT_LIMITFREERELAY` = 0 kB/minute (MarcoFalke)
-- #9239 `3fbf079` Disable fee estimates for 1-block target (morcos)
-- #7562 `1eef038` Bump transaction version default to 2 (btcdrak)
-- #9313,#9367 If we don't allow free txs, always send a fee filter (morcos)
-- #9346 `b99a093` Batch construct batches (sipa)
-- #9262 `5a70572` Prefer coins that have fewer ancestors, sanity check txn before ATMP (instagibbs)
-- #9288 `1ce7ede` Fix a bug if the min fee is 0 for FeeFilterRounder (morcos)
-- #9395 `0fc1c31` Add test for `-walletrejectlongchains` (morcos)
-- #9107 `7dac1e5` Safer modify new coins (morcos)
-- #9312 `a72f76c` Increase mempool expiry time to 2 weeks (morcos)
-- #8610 `c252685` Share unused mempool memory with coincache (sipa)
-- #9138 `f646275` Improve fee estimation (morcos)
-- #9408 `46b249e` Allow shutdown during LoadMempool, dump only when necessary (jonasschnelli)
-- #9310 `8c87f17` Assert FRESH validity in CCoinsViewCache::BatchWrite (ryanofsky)
-- #7871 `e2e624d` Manual block file pruning (mrbandrews)
-- #9507 `0595042` Fix use-after-free in CTxMemPool::removeConflicts() (sdaftuar)
-- #9380 `dd98f04` Separate different uses of minimum fees (morcos)
-- #9596 `71148b8` bugfix save feeDelta instead of priorityDelta in DumpMempool (morcos)
-- #9371 `4a1dc35` Notify on removal (morcos)
-- #9519 `9b4d267` Exclude RBF replacement txs from fee estimation (morcos)
-- #8606 `e2a1a1e` Fix some locks (sipa)
-- #8681 `6898213` Performance Regression Fix: Pre-Allocate txChanged vector (JeremyRubin)
-- #8223 `744d265` c++11: Use std::unique\_ptr for block creation (domob1812)
-- #9125 `7490ae8` Make CBlock a vector of shared\_ptr of CTransactions (sipa)
-- #8930 `93566e0` Move orphan processing to ActivateBestChain (TheBlueMatt)
-- #8580 `46904ee` Make CTransaction actually immutable (sipa)
-- #9240 `a1dcf2e` Remove txConflicted (morcos)
-- #8589 `e8cfe1e` Inline CTxInWitness inside CTxIn (sipa)
-- #9349 `2db4cbc` Make CScript (and prevector) c++11 movable (sipa)
-- #9252 `ce5c1f4` Release cs\_main before calling ProcessNewBlock, or processing headers (cmpctblock handling) (sdaftuar)
-- #9283 `869781c` A few more CTransactionRef optimizations (sipa)
-- #9499 `9c9af5a` Use recent-rejects, orphans, and recently-replaced txn for compact-block-reconstruction (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9813 `3972a8e` Read/write mempool.dat as a binary (paveljanik)
-
-### P2P protocol and network code
-- #8128 `1030fa7` Turn net structures into dumb storage classes (theuni)
-- #8282 `026c6ed` Feeler connections to increase online addrs in the tried table (EthanHeilman)
-- #8462 `53f8f22` Move AdvertiseLocal debug output to net category (Mirobit)
-- #8612 `84decb5` Check for compatibility with download in FindNextBlocksToDownload (sipa)
-- #8594 `5b2ea29` Do not add random inbound peers to addrman (gmaxwell)
-- #8085 `6423116` Begin encapsulation (theuni)
-- #8715 `881d7ea` only delete CConnman if it's been created (theuni)
-- #8707 `f07424a` Fix maxuploadtarget setting (theuni)
-- #8661 `d2e4655` Do not set an addr time penalty when a peer advertises itself (gmaxwell)
-- #8822 `9bc6a6b` Consistent checksum handling (laanwj)
-- #8936 `1230890` Report NodeId in misbehaving debug (rebroad)
-- #8968 `3cf496d` Don't hold cs\_main when calling ProcessNewBlock from a cmpctblock (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9002 `e1d1f57` Make connect=0 disable automatic outbound connections (gmaxwell)
-- #9050 `fcf61b8` Make a few values immutable, and use deterministic randomness for the localnonce (theuni)
-- #8969 `3665483` Decouple peer-processing-logic from block-connection-logic (#2) (TheBlueMatt)
-- #8708 `c8c572f` have CConnman handle message sending (theuni)
-- #8709 `1e50d22` Allow filterclear messages for enabling TX relay only (rebroad)
-- #9045 `9f554e0` Hash P2P messages as they are received instead of at process-time (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9026 `dc6b940` Fix handling of invalid compact blocks (sdaftuar)
-- #8996 `ab914a6` Network activity toggle (luke-jr)
-- #9131 `62af164` fNetworkActive is not protected by a lock, use an atomic (jonasschnelli)
-- #8872 `0c577f2` Remove block-request logic from INV message processing (TheBlueMatt)
-- #8690 `791b58d` Do not fully sort all nodes for addr relay (sipa)
-- #9128 `76fec09` Decouple CConnman and message serialization (theuni)
-- #9226 `3bf06e9` Remove fNetworkNode and pnodeLocalHost (gmaxwell)
-- #9352 `a7f7651` Attempt reconstruction from all compact block announcements (sdaftuar)
-- #9319 `a55716a` Break addnode out from the outbound connection limits (gmaxwell)
-- #9261 `2742568` Add unstored orphans with rejected parents to recentRejects (morcos)
-- #9441 `8b66bf7` Massive speedup. Net locks overhaul (theuni)
-- #9375 `3908fc4` Relay compact block messages prior to full block connection (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9400 `8a445c5` Set peers as HB peers upon full block validation (instagibbs)
-- #9561 `6696b46` Wake message handling thread when we receive a new block (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9535 `82274c0` Split CNode::cs\_vSend: message processing and message sending (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9606 `3f9f962` Consistently use GetTimeMicros() for inactivity checks (sdaftuar)
-- #9594 `fd70211` Send final alert message to older peers after connecting (gmaxwell)
-- #9626 `36966a1` Clean up a few CConnman cs\_vNodes/CNode things (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9609 `4966917` Fix remaining net assertions (theuni)
-- #9671 `7821db3` Fix super-unlikely race introduced in 236618061a445d2cb11e72 (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9730 `33f3b21` Remove bitseed.xf2.org form the dns seed list (jonasschnelli)
-- #9698 `2447c10` Fix socket close race (theuni)
-- #9708 `a06ede9` Clean up all known races/platform-specific UB at the time PR was opened (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9715 `b08656e` Disconnect peers which we do not receive VERACKs from within 60 sec (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9720 `e87ce95` Fix banning and disallow sending messages before receiving verack (theuni)
-- #9268 `09c4fd1` Fix rounding privacy leak introduced in #9260 (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9075 `9346f84` Decouple peer-processing-logic from block-connection-logic (#3) (TheBlueMatt)
-- #8688 `047ded0` Move static global randomizer seeds into CConnman (sipa)
-- #9289 `d9ae1ce` net: drop boost::thread\_group (theuni)
-
-### Validation
-- #9014 `d04aeba` Fix block-connection performance regression (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9299 `d52ce89` Remove no longer needed check for premature v2 txs (morcos)
-- #9273 `b68685a` Remove unused `CDiskBlockPos*` argument from ProcessNewBlock (TheBlueMatt)
-- #8895 `b83264d` Better SigCache Implementation (JeremyRubin)
-- #9490 `e126d0c` Replace FindLatestBefore used by importmulti with FindEarliestAtLeast (gmaxwell)
-- #9484 `812714f` Introduce assumevalid setting to skip validation presumed valid scripts (gmaxwell)
-- #9511 `7884956` Don't overwrite validation state with corruption check (morcos)
-- #9765 `1e92e04` Harden against mistakes handling invalid blocks (sdaftuar)
-- #9779 `3c02b95` Update nMinimumChainWork and defaultAssumeValid (gmaxwell)
-- #8524 `19b0f33` Precompute sighashes (sipa)
-- #9791 `1825a03` Avoid VLA in hash.h (sipa)
-
-### Build system
-- #8238 `6caf3ee` ZeroMQ 4.1.5 && ZMQ on Windows (fanquake)
-- #8520 `b40e19c` Remove check for `openssl/ec.h` (laanwj)
-- #8617 `de07fdc` Include instructions to extract Mac OS X SDK on Linux using 7zip and SleuthKit (luke-jr)
-- #8566 `7b98895` Easy to use gitian building script (achow101)
-- #8604 `f256843` build,doc: Update for 0.13.0+ and OpenBSD 5.9 (laanwj)
-- #8640 `2663e51` depends: Remove Qt46 package (fanquake)
-- #8645 `8ea4440` Remove unused Qt 4.6 patch (droark)
-- #8608 `7e9ab95` Install manpages via make install, also add some autogenerated manpages (nomnombtc)
-- #8781 `ca69ef4` contrib: delete `qt_translations.py` (MarcoFalke)
-- #8783 `64dc645` share: remove qt/protobuf.pri (MarcoFalke)
-- #8423 `3166dff` depends: expat 2.2.0, ccache 3.3.1, fontconfig 2.12.1 (fanquake)
-- #8791 `b694b0d` travis: cross-mac: explicitly enable gui (MarcoFalke)
-- #8820 `dc64141` depends: Fix Qt compilation with Xcode 8 (fanquake)
-- #8730 `489a6ab` depends: Add libevent compatibility patch for windows (laanwj)
-- #8819 `c841816` depends: Boost 1.61.0 (fanquake)
-- #8826 `f560d95` Do not include `env_win.cc` on non-Windows systems (paveljanik)
-- #8948 `e077e00` Reorder Windows gitian build order to match Linux (Michagogo)
-- #8568 `078900d` new var `DIST_CONTRIB` adds useful things for packagers from contrib (nomnombtc)
-- #9114 `21e6c6b` depends: Set `OSX_MIN_VERSION` to 10.8 (fanquake)
-- #9140 `018a4eb` Bugfix: Correctly replace generated headers and fail cleanly (luke-jr)
-- #9156 `a8b2a82` Add compile and link options echo to configure (jonasschnelli)
-- #9393 `03d85f6` Include cuckoocache header in Makefile (MarcoFalke)
-- #9420 `bebe369` Fix linker error when configured with --enable-lcov (droark)
-- #9412 `53442af` Fix 'make deploy' for OSX (jonasschnelli)
-- #9475 `7014506` Let autoconf detect presence of `EVP_MD_CTX_new` (luke-jr)
-- #9513 `bbf193f` Fix qt distdir builds (theuni)
-- #9471 `ca615e6` depends: libevent 2.1.7rc (fanquake)
-- #9468 `f9117f2` depends: Dependency updates for 0.14.0 (fanquake)
-- #9469 `01c4576` depends: Qt 5.7.1 (fanquake)
-- #9574 `5ac6687` depends: Fix QT build on OSX (fanquake)
-- #9646 `720b579` depends: Fix cross build for qt5.7 (theuni)
-- #9705 `6a55515` Add options to override BDB cflags/libs (laanwj)
-- #8249 `4e1567a` Enable (and check for) 64-bit ASLR on Windows (laanwj)
-- #9758 `476cc47` Selectively suppress deprecation warnings (jonasschnelli)
-- #9783 `6d61a2b` release: bump gitian descriptors for a new 0.14 package cache (theuni)
-- #9789 `749fe95` build: add --enable-werror and warn on vla's (theuni)
-- #9831 `99fd85c` build: force a c++ standard to be specified (theuni)
-
-### GUI
-- #8192 `c503863` Remove URLs from About dialog translations (fanquake)
-- #8540 `36404ae` Fix random segfault when closing "Choose data directory" dialog (laanwj)
-- #8517 `2468292` Show wallet HD state in statusbar (jonasschnelli)
-- #8463 `62a5a8a` Remove Priority from coincontrol dialog (MarcoFalke)
-- #7579 `0606f95` Show network/chain errors in the GUI (jonasschnelli)
-- #8583 `c19f8a4` Show XTHIN in GUI (rebroad)
-- #7783 `4335d5a` RPC-Console: support nested commands and simple value queries (jonasschnelli)
-- #8672 `6052d50` Show transaction size in transaction details window (Cocosoft)
-- #8777 `fec6af7` WalletModel: Expose disablewallet (MarcoFalke)
-- #8371 `24f72e9` Add out-of-sync modal info layer (jonasschnelli)
-- #8885 `b2fec4e` Fix ban from qt console (theuni)
-- #8821 `bf8e68a` sync-overlay: Don't block during reindex (MarcoFalke)
-- #8906 `088d1f4` sync-overlay: Don't show progress twice (MarcoFalke)
-- #8918 `47ace42` Add "Copy URI" to payment request context menu (luke-jr)
-- #8925 `f628d9a` Display minimum ping in debug window (rebroad)
-- #8774 `3e942a7` Qt refactors to better abstract wallet access (luke-jr)
-- #8985 `7b1bfa3` Use pindexBestHeader instead of setBlockIndexCandidates for NotifyHeaderTip() (jonasschnelli)
-- #8989 `d2143dc` Overhaul smart-fee slider, adjust default confirmation target (jonasschnelli)
-- #9043 `273bde3` Return useful error message on ATMP failure (MarcoFalke)
-- #9088 `4e57824` Reduce ambiguity of warning message (rebroad)
-- #8874 `e984730` Multiple Selection for peer and ban tables (achow101)
-- #9145 `924745d` Make network disabled icon 50% opaque (MarcoFalke)
-- #9130 `ac489b2` Mention the new network toggle functionality in the tooltip (paveljanik)
-- #9218 `4d955fc` Show progress overlay when clicking spinner icon (laanwj)
-- #9280 `e15660c` Show ModalOverlay by pressing the progress bar, allow hiding (jonasschnelli)
-- #9296 `fde7d99` Fix missed change to WalletTx structure (morcos)
-- #9266 `2044e37` Bugfix: Qt/RPCConsole: Put column enum in the right places (luke-jr)
-- #9255 `9851a84` layoutAboutToChange signal is called layoutAboutToBeChanged (laanwj)
-- #9330 `47e6a19` Console: add security warning (jonasschnelli)
-- #9329 `db45ad8` Console: allow empty arguments (jonasschnelli)
-- #8877 `6dc4c43` Qt RPC console: history sensitive-data filter, and saving input line when browsing history (luke-jr)
-- #9462 `649cf5f` Do not translate tilde character (MarcoFalke)
-- #9457 `123ea73` Select more files for translation (MarcoFalke)
-- #9413 `fd7d8c7` CoinControl: Allow non-wallet owned change addresses (jonasschnelli)
-- #9461 `b250686` Improve progress display during headers-sync and peer-finding (jonasschnelli)
-- #9588 `5086452` Use nPowTargetSpacing constant (MarcoFalke)
-- #9637 `d9e4d1d` Fix transaction details output-index to reflect vout index (jonasschnelli)
-- #9718 `36f9d3a` Qt/Intro: Various fixes (luke-jr)
-- #9735 `ec66d06` devtools: Handle Qt formatting characters edge-case in update-translations.py (laanwj)
-- #9755 `a441db0` Bugfix: Qt/Options: Restore persistent "restart required" notice (luke-jr)
-- #9817 `7d75a5a` Fix segfault crash when shutdown the GUI in disablewallet mode (jonasschnelli)
-
-### Wallet
-- #8152 `b9c1cd8` Remove `CWalletDB*` parameter from CWallet::AddToWallet (pstratem)
-- #8432 `c7e05b3` Make CWallet::fFileBacked private (pstratem)
-- #8445 `f916700` Move CWallet::setKeyPool to private section of CWallet (pstratem)
-- #8564 `0168019` Remove unused code/conditions in ReadAtCursor (jonasschnelli)
-- #8601 `37ac678` Add option to opt into full-RBF when sending funds (rebase, original by petertodd) (laanwj)
-- #8494 `a5b20ed` init, wallet: ParameterInteraction() iff wallet enabled (MarcoFalke)
-- #8760 `02ac669` init: Get rid of some `ENABLE_WALLET` (MarcoFalke)
-- #8696 `a1f8d3e` Wallet: Remove last external reference to CWalletDB (pstratem)
-- #8768 `886e8c9` init: Get rid of fDisableWallet (MarcoFalke)
-- #8486 `ab0b411` Add high transaction fee warnings (MarcoFalke)
-- #8851 `940748b` Move key derivation logic from GenerateNewKey to DeriveNewChildKey (pstratem)
-- #8287 `e10af96` Set fLimitFree = true (MarcoFalke)
-- #8928 `c587577` Fix init segfault where InitLoadWallet() calls ATMP before genesis (TheBlueMatt)
-- #7551 `f2d7056` Add importmulti RPC call (pedrobranco)
-- #9016 `0dcb888` Return useful error message on ATMP failure (instagibbs)
-- #8753 `f8723d2` Locked memory manager (laanwj)
-- #8828 `a4fd8df` Move CWalletDB::ReorderTransactions to CWallet (pstratem)
-- #8977 `6a1343f` Refactor wallet/init interaction (Reaccept wtx, flush thread) (jonasschnelli)
-- #9036 `ed0cc50` Change default confirm target from 2 to 6 (laanwj)
-- #9071 `d1871da` Declare wallet.h functions inline (sipa)
-- #9132 `f54e460` Make strWalletFile const (jonasschnelli)
-- #9141 `5ea5e04` Remove unnecessary calls to CheckFinalTx (jonasschnelli)
-- #9165 `c01f16a` SendMoney: use already-calculated balance (instagibbs)
-- #9311 `a336d13` Flush wallet after abandontransaction (morcos)
-- #8717 `38e4887` Addition of ImmatureCreditCached to MarkDirty() (spencerlievens)
-- #9446 `510c0d9` SetMerkleBranch: remove unused code, remove cs\_main lock requirement (jonasschnelli)
-- #8776 `2a524b8` Wallet refactoring leading up to multiwallet (luke-jr)
-- #9465 `a7d55c9` Do not perform ECDSA signing in the fee calculation inner loop (gmaxwell)
-- #9404 `12e3112` Smarter coordination of change and fee in CreateTransaction (morcos)
-- #9377 `fb75cd0` fundrawtransaction: Keep change-output keys by default, make it optional (jonasschnelli)
-- #9578 `923dc44` Add missing mempool lock for CalculateMemPoolAncestors (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9227 `02464da` Make nWalletDBUpdated atomic to avoid a potential race (pstratem)
-- #9764 `f8af89a` Prevent "overrides a member function but is not marked 'override'" warnings (laanwj)
-- #9771 `e43a585` Add missing cs\_wallet lock that triggers new lock held assertion (ryanofsky)
-- #9316 `3097ea4` Disable free transactions when relay is disabled (MarcoFalke)
-- #9615 `d2c9e4d` Wallet incremental fee (morcos)
-- #9760 `40c754c` Remove importmulti always-true check (ryanofsky)
-
-### Tests and QA
-- #8270 `6e5e5ab` Tests: Use portable #! in python scripts (/usr/bin/env) (ChoHag)
-- #8534,#8504 Remove java comparison tool (laanwj,MarcoFalke)
-- #8482 `740cff5` Use single cache dir for chains (MarcoFalke)
-- #8450 `21857d2` Replace `rpc_wallet_tests.cpp` with python RPC unit tests (pstratem)
-- #8671 `ddc3080` Minimal fix to slow prevector tests as stopgap measure (JeremyRubin)
-- #8680 `666eaf0` Address Travis spurious failures (theuni)
-- #8789 `e31a43c` pull-tester: Only print output when failed (MarcoFalke)
-- #8810 `14e8f99` tests: Add exception error message for JSONRPCException (laanwj)
-- #8830 `ef0801b` test: Add option to run bitcoin-util-test.py manually (jnewbery)
-- #8881 `e66cc1d` Add some verbose logging to bitcoin-util-test.py (jnewbery)
-- #8922 `0329511` Send segwit-encoded blocktxn messages in p2p-compactblocks (TheBlueMatt)
-- #8873 `74dc388` Add microbenchmarks to profile more code paths (ryanofsky)
-- #9032 `6a8be7b` test: Add format-dependent comparison to bctest (laanwj)
-- #9023 `774db92` Add logging to bitcoin-util-test.py (jnewbery)
-- #9065 `c9bdf9a` Merge `doc/unit-tests.md` into `src/test/README.md` (laanwj)
-- #9069 `ed64bce` Clean up bctest.py and bitcoin-util-test.py (jnewbery)
-- #9095 `b8f43e3` test: Fix test\_random includes (MarcoFalke)
-- #8894 `faec09b` Testing: Include fRelay in mininode version messages (jnewbery)
-- #9097 `e536499` Rework `sync_*` and preciousblock.py (MarcoFalke)
-- #9049 `71bc39e` Remove duplicatable duplicate-input check from CheckTransaction (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9136 `b422913` sync\_blocks cleanup (ryanofsky)
-- #9151 `4333b1c` proxy\_test: Calculate hardcoded port numbers (MarcoFalke)
-- #9206 `e662d28` Make test constant consistent with consensus.h (btcdrak)
-- #9139 `0de7fd3` Change sync\_blocks to pick smarter maxheight (on top of #9196) (ryanofsky)
-- #9100 `97ec6e5` tx\_valid: re-order inputs to how they are encoded (dcousens)
-- #9202 `e56cf67` bench: Add support for measuring CPU cycles (laanwj)
-- #9223 `5412c08` unification of Bloom filter representation (s-matthew-english)
-- #9257 `d7ba4a2` Dump debug logs on travis failures (sdaftuar)
-- #9221 `9e4bb31` Get rid of duplicate code (MarcoFalke)
-- #9274 `919db03` Use cached utxo set to fix performance regression (MarcoFalke)
-- #9276 `ea33f19` Some minor testing cleanups (morcos)
-- #9291 `8601784` Remove mapOrphanTransactionsByPrev from DoS\_tests (sipa)
-- #9309 `76fcd9d` Wallet needs to stay unlocked for whole test (morcos)
-- #9172 `5bc209c` Resurrect pstratem's "Simple fuzzing framework" (laanwj)
-- #9331 `c6fd923` Add test for rescan feature of wallet key import RPCs (ryanofsky)
-- #9354 `b416095` Make fuzzer actually test CTxOutCompressor (sipa)
-- #9390,#9416 travis: make distdir (MarcoFalke)
-- #9308 `0698639` test: Add CCoinsViewCache Access/Modify/Write tests (ryanofsky)
-- #9406 `0f921e6` Re-enable a blank v1 Tx JSON test (droark)
-- #9435 `dbc8a8c` Removed unused variable in test, fixing warning (ryanofsky)
-- #9436 `dce853e` test: Include tx data in `EXTRA_DIST` (MarcoFalke)
-- #9525 `02e5308` test: Include tx data in `EXTRA_DIST` (MarcoFalke)
-- #9498 `054d664` Basic CCheckQueue Benchmarks (JeremyRubin)
-- #9554 `0b96abc` test: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference in `addrman_tests.cpp` (practicalswift)
-- #9628 `f895023` Increase a sync\_blocks timeout in pruning.py (sdaftuar)
-- #9638 `a7ea2f8` Actually test assertions in pruning.py (MarcoFalke)
-- #9647 `e99f0d7` Skip RAII event tests if libevent is built without `event_set_mem_functions` (luke-jr)
-- #9691 `fc67cd2` Init ECC context for `test_bitcoin_fuzzy` (gmaxwell)
-- #9712 `d304fef` bench: Fix initialization order in registration (laanwj)
-- #9707 `b860915` Fix RPC failure testing (jnewbery)
-- #9269 `43e8150` Align struct COrphan definition (sipa)
-- #9820 `599c69a` Fix pruning test broken by 2 hour manual prune window (ryanofsky)
-- #9824 `260c71c` qa: Check return code when stopping nodes (MarcoFalke)
-- #9875 `50953c2` tests: Fix dangling pwalletMain pointer in wallet tests (laanwj)
-- #9839 `eddaa6b` [qa] Make import-rescan.py watchonly check reliable (ryanofsky)
-
-### Documentation
-- #8332 `806b9e7` Clarify witness branches in transaction.h serialization (dcousens)
-- #8935 `0306978` Documentation: Building on Windows with WSL (pooleja)
-- #9144 `c98f6b3` Correct waitforblockheight example help text (fanquake)
-- #9407 `041331e` Added missing colons in when running help command (anditto)
-- #9378 `870cd2b` Add documentation for CWalletTx::fFromMe member (ryanofsky)
-- #9297 `0b73807` Various RPC help outputs updated (Mirobit)
-- #9613 `07421cf` Clarify getbalance help string to explain interaction with bumpfee (ryanofsky)
-- #9663 `e30d928` Clarify listunspent amount description (instagibbs)
-- #9396 `d65a13b` Updated listsinceblock rpc documentation (accraze)
-- #8747 `ce43630` rpc: Fix transaction size comments and RPC help text (jnewbery)
-- #8058 `bbd9740` Doc: Add issue template (AmirAbrams)
-- #8567 `85d4e21` Add default port numbers to REST doc (djpnewton)
-- #8624 `89de153` build: Mention curl (MarcoFalke)
-- #8786 `9da7366` Mandatory copyright agreement (achow101)
-- #8823 `7b05af6` Add privacy recommendation when running hidden service (laanwj)
-- #9433 `caa2f10` Update the Windows build notes (droark)
-- #8879 `f928050` Rework docs (MarcoFalke)
-- #8887 `61d191f` Improve GitHub issue template (fanquake)
-- #8787 `279bbad` Add missing autogen to example builds (AmirAbrams)
-- #8892 `d270c30` Add build instructions for FreeBSD (laanwj)
-- #8890 `c71a654` Update Doxygen configuration file (fanquake)
-- #9207 `fa1f944` Move comments above bash command in build-unix (AmirAbrams)
-- #9219 `c4522e7` Improve windows build instructions using Linux subsystem (laanwj)
-- #8954 `932d02a` contrib: Add README for pgp keys (MarcoFalke)
-- #9093 `2fae5b9` release-process: Mention GitHub release and archived release notes (MarcoFalke)
-- #8743 `bae178f` Remove old manpages from contrib/debian in favour of doc/man (fanquake)
-- #9550 `4105cb6` Trim down the XP notice and say more about what we support (gmaxwell)
-- #9246 `9851498` Developer docs about existing subtrees (gmaxwell)
-- #9401 `c2ea1e6` Make rpcauth help message clearer, add example in example .conf (instagibbs)
-- #9022,#9033 Document dropping OS X 10.7 support (fanquake, MarcoFalke)
-- #8771 `bc9e3ab` contributing: Mention not to open several pulls (luke-jr)
-- #8852 `7b784cc` Mention Gitian building script in doc (Laudaa) (laanwj)
-- #8915 `03dd707` Add copyright/patent issues to possible NACK reasons (petertodd)
-- #8965 `23e03f8` Mention that PPA doesn't support Debian (anduck)
-- #9115 `bfc7aad` Mention reporting security issues responsibly (paveljanik)
-- #9840 `08e0690` Update sendfrom RPC help to correct coin selection misconception (ryanofsky)
-- #9865 `289204f` Change bitcoin address in RPC help message (marijnfs)
-
-### Miscellaneous
-- #8274 `7a2d402` util: Update tinyformat (laanwj)
-- #8291 `5cac8b1` util: CopyrightHolders: Check for untranslated substitution (MarcoFalke)
-- #8557 `44691f3` contrib: Rework verifybinaries (MarcoFalke)
-- #8621 `e8ed6eb` contrib: python: Don't use shell=True (MarcoFalke)
-- #8813 `fb24d7e` bitcoind: Daemonize using daemon(3) (laanwj)
-- #9004 `67728a3` Clarify `listenonion` (unsystemizer)
-- #8674 `bae81b8` tools for analyzing, updating and adding copyright headers in source files (isle2983)
-- #8976 `8c6218a` libconsensus: Add input validation of flags (laanwj)
-- #9112 `46027e8` Avoid ugly exception in log on unknown inv type (laanwj)
-- #8837 `2108911` Allow bitcoin-tx to parse partial transactions (jnewbery)
-- #9204 `74ced54` Clarify CreateTransaction error messages (instagibbs)
-- #9265 `31bcc66` bitcoin-cli: Make error message less confusing (laanwj)
-- #9303 `72bf1b3` Update comments in ctaes (sipa)
-- #9417 `c4b7d4f` Do not evaluate hidden LogPrint arguments (sipa)
-- #9506 `593a00c` RFC: Improve style for if indentation (sipa)
-- #8883 `d5d4ad8` Add all standard TXO types to bitcoin-tx (jnewbery)
-- #9531 `23281a4` Release notes for estimation changes  (morcos)
-- #9486 `f62bc10` Make peer=%d log prints consistent (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9552 `41cb05c` Add IPv6 support to qos.sh (jamesmacwhite)
-- #9542 `e9e7993` Docs: Update CONTRIBUTING.md (jnewbery)
-- #9649 `53ab12d` Remove unused clang format dev script (MarcoFalke)
-- #9625 `77bd8c4` Increase minimum debug.log size to 10MB after shrink (morcos)
-- #9070 `7b22e50` Lockedpool fixes (kazcw)
-- #8779 `7008e28` contrib: Delete spendfrom (MarcoFalke)
-- #9587,#8793,#9496,#8191,#8109,#8655,#8472,#8677,#8981,#9124  Avoid shadowing of variables (paveljanik)
-- #9063 `f2a6e82` Use deprecated `MAP_ANON` if `MAP_ANONYMOUS` is not defined (paveljanik)
-- #9060 `1107653` Fix bloom filter init to isEmpty = true (robmcl4)
-- #8613 `613bda4` LevelDB 1.19 (sipa)
-- #9225 `5488514` Fix some benign races (TheBlueMatt)
-- #8736 `5fa7b07` base58: Improve DecodeBase58 performance (wjx)
-- #9039 `e81df49` Various serialization simplifcations and optimizations (sipa)
-- #9010 `a143b88` Split up AppInit2 into multiple phases, daemonize after datadir lock errors (laanwj)
-- #9230 `c79e52a` Fix some benign races in timestamp logging (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9183,#9260 Mrs Peacock in The Library with The Candlestick (killed main.{h,cpp}) (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9236 `7f72568` Fix races for strMiscWarning and `fLargeWork*Found`, make QT runawayException use GetWarnings (gmaxwell)
-- #9243 `7aa7004` Clean up mapArgs and mapMultiArgs Usage (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9387 `cfe41d7` RAII of libevent stuff using unique ptrs with deleters (kallewoof)
-- #9472 `fac0f30` Disentangle progress estimation from checkpoints and update it (sipa)
-- #9512 `6012967` Fix various things -fsanitize complains about (sipa)
-- #9373,#9580 Various linearization script issues (droark)
-- #9674 `dd163f5` Lock debugging: Always enforce strict lock ordering (try or not) (TheBlueMatt)
-- #8453,#9334  Update to latest libsecp256k1 (laanwj,sipa)
-- #9656 `7c93952` Check verify-commits on pushes to master (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9679 `a351162` Access WorkQueue::running only within the cs lock (TheBlueMatt)
-- #9777 `8dee822` Handle unusual maxsigcachesize gracefully (jnewbery)
-- #8863,#8807 univalue: Pull subtree (MarcoFalke)
-- #9798 `e22c067` Fix Issue #9775 (Check returned value of fopen) (kirit93)
-- #9856 `69832aa` Terminate immediately when allocation fails (theuni)
-
 Credits
 =======
 
@@ -837,6 +428,7 @@ Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
 - Matt Corallo
 - Matthew King
 - matthias
+- Max Keller
 - Micha
 - Michael Ford
 - Michael Rotarius
@@ -845,6 +437,7 @@ Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
 - mruddy
 - Nicolas DORIER
 - nomnombtc
+- Patrick Lodder
 - Patrick Strateman
 - Pavel Janík
 - Pedro Branco
@@ -857,6 +450,7 @@ Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
 - Richard Kiss
 - Robert McLaughlin
 - rodasmith
+- Ross Nicoll
 - Russell Yanofsky
 - S. Matthew English
 - Sev

doc/release-notes/RELEASE_NOTES_1.8.2.md

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Dogecoin Core 1.8.2
+
+Dogecoin Core 1.8.2 is a bugfix release. It updates OpenSSL to 1.0.1l, mainly fixing security issues.
+
+## Dogecoin Core Release Notes
+
+* Update to OpenSSL 1.0.1l
+
+
+## OpenSSL Warning
+
+The main takeaway is that builds from http://dogecoin.com are not affected. But if you build your own version,
+please make sure you update to 1.8.2 **before** updating your OpenSSL!
+
+Please refer to this section in the Bitcoin Core release notes for further info: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.9/doc/release-notes.md#openssl-warning
+
+
+## Credits
+
+Listed in strictly alphabetical order, using name listed in Github. This
+includes those whose contributions to Bitcoin Core have been merged
+into Dogecoin Core:
+
+* Cory Fields
+* langerhans
+* Patrick Lodder
+* Gregory Maxwell
+* Ross Nicoll
+* Wladimir J. van der Laan

doc/release-notes/RELEASE_NOTES_1.8.3.md

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Dogecoin Core 1.8.3
+
+Dogecoin Core 1.8.3 is a security release. It fixes issues in regards to an upcoming announcement of possible DoS vulnerabilities.
+See [the announcement on the bitcoin-dev mailing list](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-June/009135.html) for reference.
+It is strongly recommended to upgrade your installation in case you run a node open to inbound connections from the internet.  
+If your installation is not open to incoming connections this update is not mandatory, but we still recommend keeping your client up to date.
+
+## Dogecoin Core Release Notes
+
+* Pull in patches from usptream to mitigate the risk of a DoS attack.
+* Update the DNS seeds for more reliable bootstrapping of the initial peer discovery.
+* Update the list of fixed nodes, in case all other means of peer discovery fail.
+
+## Credits
+
+Listed in strictly alphabetical order, using name listed in Github. This
+includes those whose contributions to Bitcoin Core have been merged
+into this Dogecoin Core release:
+
+* P. Kaufmann
+* Max K.
+* Ross Nicoll
+* Wladimir J. van der Laan
+* Pieter Wuille

doc/release-notes/RELEASE_NOTES_1_8.1.md

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Dogecoin Core 1.8.1
+
+Dogecoin Core 1.8.1 is primarily a bugfix release, bringing Dogecoin Core in
+line with Bitcoin 0.9.3. Dogecoin Core 1.8.1 also adds in support for printing
+paper wallets, and disables connections to pre-1.8 clients. This is a RECOMMENDED
+upgrade due to the large number of bug fixes, but is not a required one.
+
+Paper wallet support has been developed by AndyMeows (IRC username), and 
+can be accessed via the "File" menu. It's intended for two purposes; to generate
+small value paper wallets to hand out, and more permanent deposit paper wallets
+for keeping balances offline.
+
+IMPORTANT: If you are producing offline paper wallets, you should do so on a
+computer that's disconnected from the Internet. While the wallet generator
+does not save the keys it generates, this ensures there is no risk of a virus
+or similar capturing the key from memory or interfering with its generation.
+
+## Dogecoin Core Release Notes
+
+* Translation improvements and corrections
+* Disable Transifex based translation process (not used by Dogecoin Core)
+* Add checkpoints around AuxPoW switchover block (371,337)
+* Disable connections from pre-1.8 Dogecoin Core clients
+* Use HTTPS with dogechain.info
+* Remove unreachable code introduced with AuxPoW support
+* "blocknotify" option now supports %i as a format parameter, which is replaced by block height
+* New option "maxoutconnections" to set the maximum number of outbound peer connections. Defaults to 8, minimum is 2, maximum is whatever "maxconnections" is set to (default 125).
+
+## Bitcoin Core Release Notes
+
+Full release notes for Bitcoin Core 0.9.3 are available from
+https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.3 , but highlights are included
+below:
+
+
+* Better orphan transaction handling
+* Add -maxorphantx=<n> and -maxorphanblocks=<n> options for control over the maximum orphan transactions and blocks
+* key.cpp: fail with a friendlier message on missing ssl EC support
+* Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1i (see https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140806.txt - just to be sure, no critical issues for Bitcoin Core)
+
+## Known Issues
+
+There is a known issue with quantities in JSON used by the RPC interface (https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/issues/134).
+This stems from the use of a floating point precision number to hold fixed precision data.
+Currently looking at solutions, which primarily either involve JSON which is not compliant
+to the specification, or making the RPC layer slightly incompatible with the conventional
+Bitcoin API.
+
+This only affects values significantly below 1 Doge, however merchants may wish to round to
+the nearest Doge on all transactions for now.
+
+## Credits
+
+Listed in strictly alphabetical order, using name listed in Github. This
+includes those whose contributions to Bitcoin Core have been merged
+into Dogecoin Core:
+
+* Abderraouf Adjal
+* Andymeows
+* Daniel Kraft
+* Gavin Andresen
+* langerhans
+* michilumin
+* nameEO
+* Patrick Lodder
+* Ross Nicoll
+* Wladimir J. van der Laan
+* Whit J

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.12.md

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Version 0.3.12 is now available.
-
-Features:
-* json-rpc errors return a more standard error object. (thanks to Gavin Andresen)
-* json-rpc command line returns exit codes.
-* json-rpc "backupwallet" command.
-* Recovers and continues if an exception is caused by a message you received.  Other nodes shouldn't be able to cause an exception, and it hasn't happened before, but if a way is found to cause an exception, this would keep it from being used to stop network nodes.
-
-If you have json-rpc code that checks the contents of the error string, you need to change it to expect error objects of the form {"code":<number>,"message":<string>}, which is the standard.  See this thread:
-http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=969.0
-
-Download:
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.12/

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.13.md

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-Version 0.3.13 is now available.  You should upgrade to prevent potential problems with 0/unconfirmed transactions.  Note: 0.3.13 prevents problems if you haven't already spent a 0/unconfirmed transaction, but if that already happened, you need 0.3.13.2.
-
-Changes:
-* Don't count or spend payments until they have 1 confirmation.
-* Internal version number from 312 to 31300.
-* Only accept transactions sent by IP address if -allowreceivebyip is specified.
-* Dropped DB_PRIVATE Berkeley DB flag.
-* Fix problem sending the last cent with sub-cent fractional change.
-* Auto-detect whether to use 128-bit 4-way SSE2 on Linux.
-Gavin Andresen:
-* Option -rpcallowip= to accept json-rpc connections from another machine.
-* Clean shutdown on SIGTERM on Linux.
-
-Download:
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.13/
-
-(Thanks Laszlo for the Mac OSX build!)
-
-Note:
-The SSE2 auto-detect in the Linux 64-bit version doesn't work with AMD in 64-bit mode.  Please try this instead and let me know if it gets it right:
-http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.13.1-specialbuild-linux64.tar.gz
-
-You can still control the SSE2 use manually with -4way and -4way=0.
-
-Version 0.3.13.2 (SVN rev 161) has improvements for the case where you already had 0/unconfirmed transactions that you might have already spent.  Here's a Windows build of it:
-http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.13.2-win32-setup.exe

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.14.md

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-Version 0.3.14 is now available
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.14/
-
-Changes:
-* Key pool feature for safer wallet backup
-Gavin Andresen:
-* TEST network mode with switch -testnet
-* Option to use SSL for JSON-RPC connections on unix/osx
-* validateaddress RPC command
-eurekafag:
-* Russian translation

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.15.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-* paytxfee switch is now per KB, so it adds the correct fee for large transactions
-* sending avoids using coins with less than 6 confirmations if it can
-* BitcoinMiner processes transactions in priority order based on age of dependencies
-* make sure generation doesn't start before block 74000 downloaded
-* bugfixes by Dean Gores
-* testnet, keypoololdest and paytxfee added to getinfo

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.16.md

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Never released.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.17.md

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-Version 0.3.17 is now available.
-
-Changes:
-* new getwork, thanks m0mchil
-* added transaction fee setting in UI options menu
-* free transaction limits
-* sendtoaddress returns transaction id instead of "sent"
-* getaccountaddress <account>
-
-The UI transaction fee setting was easy since it was still there from 0.1.5 and all I had to do was re-enable it.
-
-The accounts-based commands: move, sendfrom and getbalance <account> will be in the next release.  We still have some more changes to make first.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.18.md

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-Changes:
-* Fixed a wallet.dat compatibility problem if you downgraded from 0.3.17 and then upgraded again
-* IsStandard() check to only include known transaction types in blocks
-* Jgarzik's optimisation to speed up the initial block download a little
-
-The main addition in this release is the Accounts-Based JSON-RPC commands that Gavin's been working on (more details at http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1886.0).  
-* getaccountaddress
-* sendfrom
-* move
-* getbalance
-* listtransactions

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.19.md

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-There's more work to do on DoS, but I'm doing a quick build of what I have so far in case it's needed, before venturing into more complex ideas.  The build for this is version 0.3.19.
-
-- Added some DoS controls
-As Gavin and I have said clearly before, the software is not at all resistant to DoS attack.  This is one improvement, but there are still more ways to attack than I can count.  
-
-I'm leaving the -limitfreerelay part as a switch for now and it's there if you need it.
-
-- Removed "safe mode" alerts
-"safe mode" alerts was a temporary measure after the 0.3.9 overflow bug.  We can say all we want that users can just run with "-disablesafemode", but it's better just not to have it for the sake of appearances.  It was never intended as a long term feature.  Safe mode can still be triggered by seeing a longer (greater total PoW) invalid block chain.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.20.1.md

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Never released or release notes were lost.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.20.2.md

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-The maxsendbuffer bug (0.3.20.1 clients not being able to download the block chain from other 0.3.20.1 clients) was only going to get
-worse as people upgraded, so I cherry-picked the bug fix and created a minor release yesterday.
-
-The Amazon Machine Images I used to do the builds are available:
-
-  ami-38a05251   Bitcoin-v0.3.20.2 Mingw    (Windows; Administrator password 'bitcoin development')
-  ami-30a05259   Bitcoin_0.3.20.2 Linux32
-  ami-8abc4ee3   Bitcoin_0.3.20.2 Linux64
-
-(mac build will be done soon)
-
-If you have already downloaded version 0.3.20.1, please either add this to your bitcoin.conf file:
-
-  maxsendbuffer=10000
-  maxreceivebuffer=10000
-
-... or download the new version.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.20.md

@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-Please checkout the git integration branch from:
-
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
-
-... and help test.  The new features that need testing are:
-
-* -nolisten : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11
-* -rescan : scan block chain for missing wallet transactions
-* -printtoconsole : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/37
-* RPC gettransaction details : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24
-* listtransactions new features : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10
-
-Bug fixes that also need testing:
-
-* -maxconnections= : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/42
-* RPC listaccounts minconf : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27
-* RPC move, add time to output : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/21
-* ...and several improvements to --help output.
-
-This needs more testing on Windows!  Please drop me a quick private message, email, or IRC message if you are able to do some testing.  If you find bugs, please open an issue at:
-
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.21.md

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-Binaries for Bitcoin version 0.3.21 are available at:
-  https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.21/
-
-Changes and new features from the 0.3.20 release include:
-
-* Universal Plug and Play support.  Enable automatic opening of a port for incoming connections by running bitcoin or bitcoind with the - -upnp=1 command line switch or using the Options dialog box.
-
-* Support for full-precision bitcoin amounts.  You can now send, and bitcoin will display, bitcoin amounts smaller than 0.01.  However, sending fewer than 0.01 bitcoins still requires a 0.01 bitcoin fee (so you can send 1.0001 bitcoins without a fee, but you will be asked to pay a fee if you try to send 0.0001).
-
-* A new method of finding bitcoin nodes to connect with, via DNS A records. Use the -dnsseed option to enable.
-
-For developers, changes to bitcoin's remote-procedure-call API:
-
-* New rpc command "sendmany" to send bitcoins to more than one address in a single transaction.
-
-* Several bug fixes, including a serious intermittent bug that would sometimes cause bitcoind to stop accepting rpc requests. 
-
-* -logtimestamps option, to add a timestamp to each line in debug.log.
-
-* Immature blocks (newly generated, under 120 confirmations) are now shown in listtransactions.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.22.md

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-Download URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.22/
-
-This is largely a bugfix and TX fee schedule release.  We also hope to make 0.3.23 a quick release, to fix problems that the network has seen due to explosive growth in the past week.
-
-Notable changes:
-* Client will accept and relay TX's with 0.0005 BTC fee schedule (users still pay 0.01 BTC per kb, until next version)
-* Non-standard transactions accepted on testnet
-* Source code tree reorganized (prep for autotools build)
-* Remove "Generate Coins" option from GUI, and remove 4way SSE miner.  Internal reference CPU miner remains available, but users are directed to external miners for best hash production.
-* IRC is overflowing.  Client now bootstraps to channels #bitcoin00 - #bitcoin99
-* DNS names now may be used with -addnode, -connect (requires -dns to enable)
-
-RPC changes:
-* 'listtransactions' adds 'from' param, for range queries
-* 'move' may take account balances negative
-* 'settxfee' added, to manually set TX fee

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.23.md

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Win32, Linux, MacOSX and source releases for bitcoin v0.3.23 have been uploaded to
-https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.23/
-
-This is another quick bugfix release, trying to deal with the influx of new bitcoin users.
-
-Main items of note:
-
-* P2P connect-to-node logic changed to reduce timeout a bit.  The network saw a huge influx of new users, who do not permit incoming connections.  This change is a short-term hack, to more quickly hunt for useful P2P connections.  Better "leaf node" logic is in the works, but this should let us limp along until then.  One may use -upnp to properly forward ports, and help the network.
-* Transaction fee reduced to 0.0005 for new transactions
-* Client will relay transactions with fees as low as 0.0001 BTC

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.24.md

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-Bitcoin v0.3.24 is now available for download at
-https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.24/
-
-This is another bug fix release.  We had hoped to have wallet encryption ready for release, but more urgent fixes for existing clients were needed -- most notably block download problems were getting severe.  Wallet encryption is ready for testing at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/352 for the git-savvy, and hopefully will follow shortly in the next release, v0.4.
-
-Notable fixes in v0.3.24, and the main reasons for this release:
-
-F1) Block downloads were failing or taking unreasonable amounts of time to complete, because the increased size of the block chain was bumping up against some earlier buffer-size DoS limits.
-
-F2) Fix crash caused by loss/lack of network connection.
-
-Notable changes in v0.3.24:
-
-C1) DNS seeding enabled by default.
-
-C2) UPNP enabled by default in the GUI client.  The percentage of bitcoin clients that accept incoming connections is quite small, and that is a problem.  This should help.  bitcoind, and unofficial builds, are unchanged (though we encourage use of "-upnp" to help the network!)
-
-C3) Initial unit testing framework.  Bitcoin sorely needs automated tests, and this is a beginning.  Contributions welcome.
-
-C4) Internal wallet code cleanup.  While invisible to an end user, this change provides the basis for v0.4's wallet encryption.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.4.0.md

@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-Bitcoin version 0.4.0 is now available for download at:
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.4.0/
-
-The main feature in this release is wallet private key encryption;
-you can set a passphrase that must be entered before sending coins.
-See below for more information; if you decide to encrypt your wallet,
-WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSPHRASE AND PUT IT IN A SECURE LOCATION. If you
-forget or lose your wallet passphrase, you lose your bitcoins.
-Previous versions of bitcoin are unable to read encrypted wallets,
-and will crash on startup if the wallet is encrypted.
-
-Also note: bitcoin version 0.4 uses a newer version of Berkeley DB
-(bdb version 4.8) than previous versions (bdb 4.7). If you upgrade
-to version 0.4 and then revert back to an earlier version of bitcoin
-the it may be unable to start because bdb 4.7 cannot read bdb 4.8
-"log" files.
-
-
-Notable bug fixes from version 0.3.24:
-
-Fix several bitcoin-becomes-unresponsive bugs due to multithreading
-deadlocks.
-
-Optimize database writes for large (lots of inputs) transactions
-(fixes a potential denial-of-service attack)
-
-
-Wallet Encryption
-
-Bitcoin supports native wallet encryption so that people who steal your
-wallet file don't automatically get access to all of your Bitcoins.
-In order to enable this feature, choose "Encrypt Wallet" from the
-Options menu.  You will be prompted to enter a passphrase, which
-will be used as the key to encrypt your wallet and will be needed
-every time you wish to send Bitcoins.  If you lose this passphrase,
-you will lose access to spend all of the bitcoins in your wallet,
-no one, not even the Bitcoin developers can recover your Bitcoins.
-This means you are responsible for your own security, store your
-passphrase in a secure location and do not forget it.
-
-Remember that the encryption built into bitcoin only encrypts the
-actual keys which are required to send your bitcoins, not the full
-wallet.  This means that someone who steals your wallet file will
-be able to see all the addresses which belong to you, as well as the
-relevant transactions, you are only protected from someone spending
-your coins.
-
-It is recommended that you backup your wallet file before you
-encrypt your wallet.  To do this, close the Bitcoin client and
-copy the wallet.dat file from ~/.bitcoin/ on Linux, /Users/(user
-name)/Application Support/Bitcoin/ on Mac OSX, and %APPDATA%/Bitcoin/
-on Windows (that is /Users/(user name)/AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin on
-Windows Vista and 7 and /Documents and Settings/(user name)/Application
-Data/Bitcoin on Windows XP).  Once you have copied that file to a
-safe location, reopen the Bitcoin client and Encrypt your wallet.
-If everything goes fine, delete the backup and enjoy your encrypted
-wallet.  Note that once you encrypt your wallet, you will never be
-able to go back to a version of the Bitcoin client older than 0.4.
-
-Keep in mind that you are always responsible for your own security.
-All it takes is a slightly more advanced wallet-stealing trojan which
-installs a keylogger to steal your wallet passphrase as you enter it
-in addition to your wallet file and you have lost all your Bitcoins.
-Wallet encryption cannot keep you safe if you do not practice
-good security, such as running up-to-date antivirus software, only
-entering your wallet passphrase in the Bitcoin client and using the
-same passphrase only as your wallet passphrase.
-
-See the doc/README file in the bitcoin source for technical details
-of wallet encryption.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.4.1.md

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-Bitcoin version 0.4.1 is now available for download at:
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.4.1/
-
-This is a bugfix only release based on 0.4.0.
-
-Please report bugs by replying to this forum thread.
-
-MAJOR BUG FIX  (CVE-2011-4447)
-
-The wallet encryption feature introduced in Bitcoin version 0.4.0 did not sufficiently secure the private keys. An attacker who
-managed to get a copy of your encrypted wallet.dat file might be able to recover some or all of the unencrypted keys and steal the
-associated coins.
-
-If you have a previously encrypted wallet.dat, the first time you run wxbitcoin or bitcoind the wallet will be rewritten, Bitcoin will
-shut down, and you will be prompted to restart it to run with the new, properly encrypted file.
-
-If you had a previously encrypted wallet.dat that might have been copied or stolen (for example, you backed it up to a public
-location) you should send all of your bitcoins to yourself using a new bitcoin address and stop using any previously generated addresses.
-
-Wallets encrypted with this version of Bitcoin are written properly.
-
-Technical note: the encrypted wallet's 'keypool' will be regenerated the first time you request a new bitcoin address; to be certain that the
-new private keys are properly backed up you should:
-
-1. Run Bitcoin and let it rewrite the wallet.dat file
-
-2. Run it again, then ask it for a new bitcoin address.
-wxBitcoin: new address visible on main window
-bitcoind: run the 'walletpassphrase' RPC command to unlock the wallet,  then run the 'getnewaddress' RPC command.
-
-3. If your encrypted wallet.dat may have been copied or stolen, send all of your bitcoins to the new bitcoin address.
-
-4. Shut down Bitcoin, then backup the wallet.dat file.
-IMPORTANT: be sure to request a new bitcoin address before backing up, so that the 'keypool' is regenerated and backed up.
-
-"Security in depth" is always a good idea, so choosing a secure location for the backup and/or encrypting the backup before uploading it is recommended. And as in previous releases, if your machine is infected by malware there are several ways an attacker might steal your bitcoins.
-
-Thanks to Alan Reiner (etotheipi) for finding and reporting this bug.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.4.2.md

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Never released or release notes were lost.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.4.3.md

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-bitcoind version 0.4.3 is now available for download at:
-http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bitcoind-0.4.3/ (until Gavin uploads to SourceForge)
-
-This is a bugfix-only release based on 0.4.0.
-
-Please note that the wxBitcoin GUI client is no longer maintained nor supported. If someone would like to step up to maintain this, they should contact Luke-Jr.
-
-Please report bugs for the daemon only using the issue tracker at github:
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
-
-Stable source code is hosted at Gitorious:
-http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.4.3#.tar.gz
-
-BUG FIXES
-
-Cease locking memory used by non-sensitive information (this caused a huge performance hit on some platforms, especially noticable during initial blockchain download).
-Fixed some address-handling deadlocks (client freezes).
-No longer accept inbound connections over the internet when Bitcoin is being used with Tor (identity leak).
-Use the correct base transaction fee of 0.0005 BTC for accepting transactions into mined blocks (since 0.4.0, it was incorrectly accepting 0.0001 BTC which was only meant to be relayed).
-Add new DNS seeds (maintained by Pieter Wuille and Luke Dashjr).
-

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.4.4.md

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-Bitcoin version 0.4.4 is now available for download at:
-http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bitcoind-0.4.4/
-
-This is a bugfix-only release based on 0.4.0.
-
-Please note that the wxBitcoin GUI client is no longer maintained nor supported. If someone would like to step up to maintain this, they should contact Luke-Jr.
-
-Please report bugs for the daemon only using the issue tracker at github:
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
-
-Stable source code is hosted at Gitorious:
-http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.4.4#.tar.gz
-
-BUG FIXES
-
-Limit the number of orphan transactions stored in memory, to prevent a potential denial-of-service attack by flooding orphan transactions. Also never store invalid transactions at all.
-Fix possible buffer overflow on systems with very long application data paths. This is not exploitable.
-Resolved multiple bugs preventing long-term unlocking of encrypted wallets (issue #922).
-Only send local IP in "version" messages if it is globally routable (ie, not private), and try to get such an IP from UPnP if applicable.
-Reannounce UPnP port forwards every 20 minutes, to workaround routers expiring old entries, and allow the -upnp option to override any stored setting.
-Various memory leaks and potential null pointer deferences have been
-fixed.
-Several shutdown issues have been fixed.
-Check that keys stored in the wallet are valid at startup, and if not,
-report corruption.
-Various build fixes.
-If no password is specified to bitcoind, recommend a secure password.
-Update hard-coded fallback seed nodes, choosing recent ones with long uptime and versions at least 0.4.0.
-Add checkpoint at block 168,000.
-

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.4.5.md

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Never released or release notes were lost.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.4.6.md

@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-bitcoind version 0.4.6 is now available for download at:
-Windows: installer | zip (sig)
-Source: tar.gz
-bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0.7 are also tagged in git, but it is recommended to upgrade to 0.6.1.
-
-These are bugfix-only releases.
-
-Please report bugs by replying to this forum thread. Note that the 0.4.x wxBitcoin GUI client is no longer maintained nor supported. If someone would like to step up to maintain this, they should contact Luke-Jr.
-
-BUG FIXES
-
-Version 0.6.0 allowed importing invalid "private keys", which would be unspendable; 0.6.0.7 will now verify the private key is valid, and refuse to import an invalid one
-Verify status of encrypt/decrypt calls to detect failed padding
-Check blocks for duplicate transactions earlier. Fixes #1167
-Upgrade Windows builds to OpenSSL 1.0.1b
-Set label when selecting an address that already has a label. Fixes #1080 (Bitcoin-Qt)
-JSON-RPC listtransactions's from/count handling is now fixed
-Optimize and fix multithreaded access, when checking whether we already know about transactions
-Fix potential networking deadlock
-Proper support for Growl 1.3 notifications
-Display an error, rather than crashing, if encoding a QR Code failed (0.6.0.7)
-Don't erroneously set "Display addresses" for users who haven't explicitly enabled it (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Some non-ASCII input in JSON-RPC expecting hexadecimal may have been misinterpreted rather than rejected
-Missing error condition checking added
-Do not show green tick unless all known blocks are downloaded. Fixes #921 (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Increase time ago of last block for "up to date" status from 30 to 90 minutes
-Show a message box when runaway exception happens (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Use a messagebox to display the error when -server is provided without providing a rpc password
-Show error message instead of exception crash when unable to bind RPC port (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Correct sign message bitcoin address tooltip. Fixes #1050 (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Removed "(no label)" from QR Code dialog titlebar if we have no label (0.6.0.7)
-Removed an ugly line break in tooltip for mature transactions (0.6.0.7)
-Add missing tooltip and key shortcut in settings dialog (part of #1088) (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Work around issue in boost::program_options that prevents from compiling in clang
-Fixed bugs occurring only on platforms with unsigned characters (such as ARM).
-Rename make_windows_icon.py to .sh as it is a shell script. Fixes #1099 (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Various trivial internal corrections to types used for counting/size loops and warnings

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0.md

@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-Bitcoin version 0.5.0 is now available for download at:
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.0/
-
-The major change for this release is a completely new graphical interface that uses the Qt user interface toolkit.
-
-This release include German, Spanish, Spanish-Castilian, Norwegian and Dutch translations. More translations are welcome; join the project at Transifex if you can help:
-https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/
-
-Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
-
-For Ubuntu users, there is a new ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep bitcoin up-to-date.  Just type "sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin" in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.
-
-MAJOR BUG FIX  (CVE-2011-4447)
-
-The wallet encryption feature introduced in Bitcoin version 0.4.0 did not sufficiently secure the private keys. An attacker who
-managed to get a copy of your encrypted wallet.dat file might be able to recover some or all of the unencrypted keys and steal the
-associated coins.
-
-If you have a previously encrypted wallet.dat, the first time you run bitcoin-qt or bitcoind the wallet will be rewritten, Bitcoin will
-shut down, and you will be prompted to restart it to run with the new, properly encrypted file.
-
-If you had a previously encrypted wallet.dat that might have been copied or stolen (for example, you backed it up to a public
-location) you should send all of your bitcoins to yourself using a new bitcoin address and stop using any previously generated addresses.
-
-Wallets encrypted with this version of Bitcoin are written properly.
-
-Technical note: the encrypted wallet's 'keypool' will be regenerated the first time you request a new bitcoin address; to be certain that the
-new private keys are properly backed up you should:
-
-1. Run Bitcoin and let it rewrite the wallet.dat file
-
-2. Run it again, then ask it for a new bitcoin address.
-Bitcoin-Qt: Address Book, then New Address...
-bitcoind: run the 'walletpassphrase' RPC command to unlock the wallet,  then run the 'getnewaddress' RPC command.
-
-3. If your encrypted wallet.dat may have been copied or stolen, send  all of your bitcoins to the new bitcoin address.
-
-4. Shut down Bitcoin, then backup the wallet.dat file.
-IMPORTANT: be sure to request a new bitcoin address before backing up, so that the 'keypool' is regenerated and backed up.
-
-"Security in depth" is always a good idea, so choosing a secure location for the backup and/or encrypting the backup before uploading it is recommended. And as in previous releases, if your machine is infected by malware there are several ways an attacker might steal your bitcoins.
-
-Thanks to Alan Reiner (etotheipi) for finding and reporting this bug.
-
-MAJOR GUI CHANGES
-
-"Splash" graphics at startup that show address/wallet/blockchain loading progress.
-
-"Synchronizing with network" progress bar to show block-chain download progress.
-
-Icons at the bottom of the window that show how well connected you are to the network, with tooltips to display details.
-
-Drag and drop support for bitcoin: URIs on web pages.
-
-Export transactions as a .csv file.
-
-Many other GUI improvements, large and small.
-
-RPC CHANGES
-
-getmemorypool : new RPC command, provides everything needed to construct a block with a custom generation transaction and submit a solution
-
-listsinceblock : new RPC command, list transactions since given block
-
-signmessage/verifymessage : new RPC commands to sign a message with one of your private keys or verify that a message signed by the private key associated with a bitcoin address.
-
-GENERAL CHANGES
-
-Faster initial block download.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.1.md

@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-Bitcoin version 0.5.1 is now available for download at:
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.1/
-
-This is a bugfix-only release.
-
-This release includes 13 translations, including 5 new translations:
-Italian, Hungarian, Ukranian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Simplified Chinese.
-More translations are welcome; join the project at Transifex if you can help:
-https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/
-
-Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
-
-Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer
-distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them
-directly from github:
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.5.1  # .tar.gz
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.5.1  # .zip
-
-For Ubuntu users, there is a new ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which
-you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep
-bitcoin up-to-date.  Just type
-sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
-in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.
-
-
-BUG FIXES
-
-Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally
-disabled for the 0.5.0 release binaries).
-
-The code that finds peers via "dns seeds" no longer stops bitcoin startup
-if one of the dns seed machines is down.
-
-Tooltips on the transaction list view were rendering incorrectly (as black boxes
-or with a transparent background).
-
-Prevent a denial-of-service attack involving flooding a bitcoin node with
-orphan blocks.
-
-The wallet passphrase dialog now warns you if the caps lock key was pressed.
-
-Improved searching in addresses and labels in bitcoin-qt.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.2.md

@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-Bitcoin version 0.5.2 is now available for download at:
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.2/
-
-This is a bugfix-only release based on 0.5.1.
-
-Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
-
-Stable source code is hosted at Gitorious:
-http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.5.2#.tar.gz
-
-BUG FIXES
-
-Check all transactions in blocks after the last checkpoint (0.5.0 and 0.5.1 skipped checking ECDSA signatures during initial blockchain download).
-Cease locking memory used by non-sensitive information (this caused a huge performance hit on some platforms, especially noticable during initial blockchain download; this was
-not a security vulnerability).
-Fixed some address-handling deadlocks (client freezes).
-No longer accept inbound connections over the internet when Bitcoin is being used with Tor (identity leak).
-Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally disabled for the 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 release Linux binaries).
-Use the correct base transaction fee of 0.0005 BTC for accepting transactions into mined blocks (since 0.4.0, it was incorrectly accepting 0.0001 BTC which was only meant to be relayed).
-Don't show "IP" for transactions which are not necessarily IP transactions.
-Add new DNS seeds (maintained by Pieter Wuille and Luke Dashjr).

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.3.md

@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-Bitcoin version 0.5.3 is now available for download at:
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.3/
-
-This is a bugfix-only release based on 0.5.1.
-It also includes a few protocol updates.
-
-Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
-
-Stable source code is hosted at Gitorious:
-http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.5.3#.tar.gz
-
-PROTOCOL UPDATES
-
-BIP 30: Introduce a new network rule: "a block is not valid if it contains a transaction whose hash already exists in the block chain, unless all that transaction's outputs were already spent before said block" beginning on March 15, 2012, 00:00 UTC.
-On testnet, allow mining of min-difficulty blocks if 20 minutes have gone by without mining a regular-difficulty block. This is to make testing Bitcoin easier, and will not affect normal mode.
-
-BUG FIXES
-
-Limit the number of orphan transactions stored in memory, to prevent a potential denial-of-service attack by flooding orphan transactions. Also never store invalid transactions at all.
-Fix possible buffer overflow on systems with very long application data paths. This is not exploitable.
-Resolved multiple bugs preventing long-term unlocking of encrypted wallets
-(issue #922).
-Only send local IP in "version" messages if it is globally routable (ie, not private), and try to get such an IP from UPnP if applicable.
-Reannounce UPnP port forwards every 20 minutes, to workaround routers expiring old entries, and allow the -upnp option to override any stored setting.
-Skip splash screen when -min is used, and fix Minimize to Tray function.
-Do not blank "label" in Bitcoin-Qt "Send" tab, if the user has already entered something.
-Correct various labels and messages.
-Various memory leaks and potential null pointer deferences have been fixed.
-Handle invalid Bitcoin URIs using "bitcoin://" instead of "bitcoin:".
-Several shutdown issues have been fixed.
-Revert to "global progress indication", as starting from zero every time was considered too confusing for many users.
-Check that keys stored in the wallet are valid at startup, and if not, report corruption.
-Enable accessible widgets on Windows, so that people with screen readers such as NVDA can make sense of it.
-Various build fixes.
-If no password is specified to bitcoind, recommend a secure password.
-Automatically focus and scroll to new "Send coins" entries in Bitcoin-Qt.
-Show a message box for --help on Windows, for Bitcoin-Qt.
-Add missing "About Qt" menu option to show built-in Qt About dialog.
-Don't show "-daemon" as an option for Bitcoin-Qt, since it isn't available.
-Update hard-coded fallback seed nodes, choosing recent ones with long uptime and versions at least 0.4.0.
-Add checkpoint at block 168,000.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.4.md

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-Bitcoin version 0.5.4 is now available for download at:
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.4/
-NOTE: 0.5.4rc3 is being renamed to 0.5.4 final with no changes.
-
-This is a bugfix-only release in the 0.5.x series, plus a few protocol updates.
-
-Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
-https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
-
-Stable source code is hosted at Gitorious:
-http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.5.4#.tar.gz
-
-PROTOCOL UPDATES
-
-BIP 16: Special-case "pay to script hash" logic to enable minimal validation of new transactions.
-Support for validating message signatures produced with compressed public keys.
-
-BUG FIXES
-
-Build with thread-safe MingW libraries for Windows, fixing a dangerous memory corruption scenario when exceptions are thrown.
-Fix broken testnet mining.
-Stop excess inventory relay during initial block download.
-When disconnecting a node, clear the received buffer so that we do not process any already received messages.
-Yet another attempt at implementing "minimize to tray" that works on all operating systems.
-Fix Bitcoin-Qt notifications under Growl 1.3.
-Increase required age of Bitcoin-Qt's "not up to date" status from 30 to 90 minutes.
-Implemented missing verifications that led to crash on entering some wrong passphrases for encrypted wallets.
-Fix default filename suffixes in GNOME save dialog.
-Make the "Send coins" tab use the configured unit type, even on the first attempt.
-Print detailed wallet loading errors to debug.log when it is corrupt.
-Allocate exactly the amount of space needed for signing transactions, instead of a fixed 10k buffer.
-Workaround for improbable memory access violation.
-Check wallet's minimum version before trying to load it.
-Remove wxBitcoin properly when installing Bitcoin-Qt over it. (Windows)
-Detail reorganization information better in debug log.
-Use a messagebox to display the error when -server is provided without configuring a RPC password.
-Testing suite build now honours provided CXXFLAGS.
-Removed an extraneous line-break in mature transaction tooltips.
-Fix some grammatical errors in translation process documentation.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.5.md

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-bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.5 are now available for download at:
-Windows: installer | zip (sig)
-Source: tar.gz
-bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0.7 are also tagged in git, but it is recommended to upgrade to 0.6.1.
-
-These are bugfix-only releases.
-
-Please report bugs by replying to this forum thread. Note that the 0.4.x wxBitcoin GUI client is no longer maintained nor supported. If someone would like to step up to maintain this, they should contact Luke-Jr.
-
-BUG FIXES
-
-Version 0.6.0 allowed importing invalid "private keys", which would be unspendable; 0.6.0.7 will now verify the private key is valid, and refuse to import an invalid one
-Verify status of encrypt/decrypt calls to detect failed padding
-Check blocks for duplicate transactions earlier. Fixes #1167
-Upgrade Windows builds to OpenSSL 1.0.1b
-Set label when selecting an address that already has a label. Fixes #1080 (Bitcoin-Qt)
-JSON-RPC listtransactions's from/count handling is now fixed
-Optimize and fix multithreaded access, when checking whether we already know about transactions
-Fix potential networking deadlock
-Proper support for Growl 1.3 notifications
-Display an error, rather than crashing, if encoding a QR Code failed (0.6.0.7)
-Don't erroneously set "Display addresses" for users who haven't explicitly enabled it (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Some non-ASCII input in JSON-RPC expecting hexadecimal may have been misinterpreted rather than rejected
-Missing error condition checking added
-Do not show green tick unless all known blocks are downloaded. Fixes #921 (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Increase time ago of last block for "up to date" status from 30 to 90 minutes
-Show a message box when runaway exception happens (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Use a messagebox to display the error when -server is provided without providing a rpc password
-Show error message instead of exception crash when unable to bind RPC port (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Correct sign message bitcoin address tooltip. Fixes #1050 (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Removed "(no label)" from QR Code dialog titlebar if we have no label (0.6.0.7)
-Removed an ugly line break in tooltip for mature transactions (0.6.0.7)
-Add missing tooltip and key shortcut in settings dialog (part of #1088) (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Work around issue in boost::program_options that prevents from compiling in clang
-Fixed bugs occurring only on platforms with unsigned characters (such as ARM).
-Rename make_windows_icon.py to .sh as it is a shell script. Fixes #1099 (Bitcoin-Qt)
-Various trivial internal corrections to types used for counting/size loops and warnings

doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.7.0.md

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+# Dogecoin Core 1.7 Alpha
+=========================
+
+Dogecoin Core 1.7 is a complete re-architecture of Dogecoin, changing from
+using the Litecoin client as its base, to Bitcoin 0.9. It's still Dogecoin,
+with the same Scrypt PoW algorithm, same reward schedule, but there are a 
+lot of changes under the hood.
+
+
+For the full Bitcoin 0.9 changelog, please see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=522014
+
+Please note that this is a very early release, and a full audit of the code
+is still in progress. The client has been hard-coded to only work with testnet
+for now, to avoid the risk of damaging real wallets.
+
+
+Downgrading
+-----------
+
+First and foremost, please note that downgrading from 1.7 to 1.6 is not trivial.
+1.7 now uses Berkeley DB 5.1 as its default database (in place of 4.8), and as
+such may create database files which are incompatible with previous versions.
+
+Rebranding to Dogecoin Core
+---------------------------
+
+Following in the footsteps of Bitcoin (Core), the Dogecoin reference client
+has been rebranded as "Dogecoin Core". This helps separate its identity
+from Dogecoin (the network).
+
+dogecoin-cli
+------------
+
+Where previously commands were sent to dogecoind by running
+"dogecoind <command>", 1.7 adopts the model from Bitcoin Core 0.9 where there is
+a separate "dogecoin-cli" executable which is used instead. This avoids the risk
+of accidentally trying to start two daemons at the same time, for example.
+
+
+Transaction malleability-related fixes
+--------------------------------------
+
+Fixes for risk-cases involving transaction malleability have been added; this
+is particularly important for any merchants or exchanges using the built-in
+wallet system. 
+
+Testnet
+-------
+
+As mentioned at the start of this document, the alpha-client is for use with the
+Dogecoin testnet only. This is an alternative Dogecoin blockchain which is
+not used for real transactions, and instead is intended for testing of experimental
+clients. Wallets and addresses are incompatible with the normal Dogecoin
+network, in order to isolate the two.
+
+As "TestDoge" is essentially valueless, it can be acquired easily for testing,
+either by mining, or from a faucet such as http://testdoge.lionservers.de/

doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.8.0.md

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+# Dogecoin Core 1.8
+===================
+
+Dogecoin Core 1.8 introduces AuxPoW from block 371,337. AuxPoW is a technology
+which enables miners to submit work done while mining other coins, as work
+on the Dogecoin block chain. Dogecoin Core 1.8 also enables payment protocol
+support for Dogecoin (note that Dogecoin's implementation of payment protocol is
+not compatible with Bitcoin's protocol). Lastly, 1.8  also includes all fixes
+from Bitcoin Core 0.9.2, whose release notes you can read at
+https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.2 (this is a summary, and the release includes
+around 150 bugfixes from Bitcoin Core).
+
+Note that all users MUST upgrade to 1.8. If you're unable to update before the
+switchover block (371,337, expected around 12 September 2014), you MUST update
+as soon as possible afterwards in order to be able to continue to use Dogecoin.
+Users remaining on the previous client **will not** be able to receive or spend
+Dogecoin (with the exception of with other nodes who have not upgraded).
+
+## Upgrading
+
+Before upgrading, back up your wallet.dat file just in case of any problems; you
+can back up the wallet.dat file by using the "Backup Wallet" option from the "File"
+menu. Ensure your existing wallet software is closed before upgrading.
+
+Note that a full reindex is required as part of the upgrade to 1.8, and this
+will typically take around an hour to complete. If you are running the Qt client
+you will be prompted to reindex when first running the software, while if you
+use "dogecoind" you must run it the first time with the "-reindex" command line
+option.
+
+To ensure a smooth switchover to AuxPoW, 1.8 has safe mode disabled 1 hour before
+until 24 hours after the switch block. This ensures the actually legit fork will not
+trigger safe mode and halt mining. If you don't want to have this behavior, then
+refer to the 1.8-safemode branch. This one doesn't include the patch to disable safe mode.
+
+## Downgrading
+
+As 1.8 includes a substantial change to the mining protocol, downgrading to previous
+clients is not possible.
+
+## AuxPoW
+
+AuxPoW is enabled from block 371,337. Until that block the RPC commands for using AuxPoW
+will not function, and AuxPoW blocks will be rejected.
+
+AuxPoW benefits Dogecoin in two ways; firstly, the effective hashrate of the coin is
+increased by these additional miners, making it harder to perform a 51% attack against
+the coin, and secondly it reduces conflict for resources (Scrypt miners), demotivating
+multipools from switching between Dogecoin and other Scrypt coins.
+
+AuxPoW blocks are mined using the "getauxblock" and "getworkaux" RPC commands. Support
+for AuxPoW mining is included in Powerpool ( https://github.com/simplecrypto/powerpool/ )
+and p2pool ( http://p2pool.in/ ).
+
+In comparison to the AuxPoW implementation in United Scrypt Coin, Dogecoin uses a
+different coinbase transaction input script format which includes block height in
+compliance with BIP0034.
+
+## Payment Protocol
+
+Dogecoin Core 1.8 adds payment protocol support, which is used to streamline payments
+being made to merchants.
+
+This protocol is defined in DIP0070-DIP0072, based on the BIP standards with the same
+assigned numbers. DIP standards can be found at https://github.com/dogecoin/dips/ .
+The key differencs between the Bitcoin and Dogecoin payment protocols are that
+the Dogecoin payment request uses a "genesis" field containing the hash of the network's
+genesis block to identify networks instead of the "network" field. Further, MIME types
+for the request, payment and response are modified to identify the files as distinct
+types from the Bitcoin files.
+
+## Transaction Fees
+
+As of 1.8 all transactions have fees applied by defaults, with no exemptions made for
+"old" coins. This ensures fees are consistent, while remaining extremely competitive
+(typically 1 Doge, or around $0.00012 per transaction).
+
+## RPC Allow IP
+
+The format of IP masks supplied to the "rpcallowip" command line option has changed.
+It no longer accepts subnets like '192.168.*.*', and the format '192.168.0.0/16" should
+be used instead.
+
+## Other Changes
+
+The Chinese and Korean translations have been updated.
+
+Protocol version has been updated to 70003, meaning that a later release of the client
+can block access to all old clients (70002 and below).
+
+In case of an error reading the block database from disk, the database cursor could be
+left open, which caused an assertion error later. The database cursor is now correctly
+disposed of in all cases.
+
+Tweaked trigger conditions for safe mode to take into account the much faster block time
+of Dogecoin compared to Bitcoin. This should lead to less false positives.
+
+A problem in parsing mangled dogecoin: URIs under Windows has been resolved, and as
+part of this work network detection for dogecoin: URIs is now more robust.