diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 4a86469cc..9efb6cbab 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Updated RPCs Note: some low-level RPC changes mainly useful for testing are described in the Low-level Changes section below. -* The `sendmany` RPC had an argument `minconf` that was not well specified and +- The `sendmany` RPC had an argument `minconf` that was not well specified and would lead to RPC errors even when the wallet's coin selection would succeed. The `sendtoaddress` RPC never had this check, so to normalize the behavior, `minconf` is now ignored in `sendmany`. If the coin selection does not @@ -106,11 +106,22 @@ Low-level changes Configuration ------------ -* An error is issued where previously a warning was issued when a setting in +- An error is issued where previously a warning was issued when a setting in the config file was specified in the default section, but not overridden for the selected network. This change takes only effect if the selected network is not mainnet. +Network +------- + +- When fetching a transaction announced by multiple peers, previous versions of + Bitcoin Core would sequentially attempt to download the transaction from each + announcing peer until the transaction is received, in the order that those + peers' announcements were received. In this release, the download logic has + changed to randomize the fetch order across peers and to prefer sending + download requests to outbound peers over inbound peers. This fixes an issue + where inbound peers can prevent a node from getting a transaction. + Wallet ------