The big notice at the top of the release note is not interesting
to most users now and apparently comes across poorly to some.
Better to provide more information about what we do support.
This disentangles the script validation skipping from checkpoints.
A new option is introduced "assumevalid" which specifies a block whos
ancestors we assume all have valid scriptsigs and so we do not check
them when they are also burried under the best header by two weeks
worth of work.
Unlike checkpoints this has no influence on consensus unless you set
it to a block with an invalid history. Because of this it can be
easily be updated without risk of influencing the network consensus.
This results in a massive IBD speedup.
This approach was independently recommended by Peter Todd and Luke-Jr
since POW based signature skipping (see PR#9180) does not have the
verifiable properties of a specific hash and may create bad incentives.
The downside is that, like checkpoints, the defaults bitrot and older
releases will sync slower. On the plus side users can provide their
own value here, and if they set it to something crazy all that will
happen is more time will be spend validating signatures.
Checkblocks and checklevel are also moved to the hidden debug options:
Especially now that checkblocks has a low default there is little need
to change these settings, and users frequently misunderstand them as
influencing security or IBD speed. By hiding them we offset the
space added by this new option.
2fb98f6 Fix bug in dmg builder so that it actually reads in the configuration file (Don Patterson)
b01667c Mention RSVG dependency when creating the disk image on OSX (Jonas Schnelli)
09aefb5 build: Fix 'make deploy' for OSX (Cory Fields)
I did a build on a windows 10 laptop and took notes, and tried
to improve the document:
- It's the Linux subsystem for Windows, not the other way around.
- Split out dependencies: general ones, 64-bit, 32-bit. Remove the
reference to `build-unix.md`, easy enough to be self-contained.
- Place 64-bit instructions first. 99% will want these.
- Installation instructions: recommend using `/` for prefix, same as we
do on gitian builds. This will allow copying the files to a usable
(from Windows) place using just `make DESTDIR=...`.
- Remove double spaces / consistent width reformatting.
Refer to the right file in the top-level README.md.
Having only one file with test documentation saves some confusion about
where things are documented.
This introduces a 'minimum chain work' chainparam which is intended
to be the known amount of work in the chain for the network at the
time of software release. If you don't have this much work, you're
not yet caught up.
This is used instead of the count of blocks test from checkpoints.
This criteria is trivial to keep updated as there is no element of
subjectivity, trust, or position dependence to it. It is also a more
reliable metric of sync status than a block count.
> This new feature is enabled by default if Bitcoin Core is listening, and a connection to Tor can be made. It can be configured with the -listenonion, -torcontrol and -torpassword settings. To show verbose debugging information, pass -debug=tor.
But it is correct to say that the feature is enabled *regardless* of whether a connection to Tor can be made.
I propose to clarify that so that users can eliminate these in their logs (when `listen=1` and no Tor).
And I think it's okay to clarify about the `listen` option, because on several occasions when I read this before I always assumed `listening` meant `server=1` which cost me a lot of time in troubleshooting.
```
2016-10-24 06:19:22.551029 tor: Error connecting to Tor control socket
2016-10-24 06:19:22.551700 tor: Not connected to Tor control port 127.0.0.1:9051, trying to reconnect
```
### What version of bitcoin-core are you using?
0.12.1
The new Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows a user to run a bash shell directly on Windows in an Ubuntu based environment. This can be used to cross-compile Bitcoin directly on Windows without the need for a separate Linux VM or Server. The instructions included in this commit explain how to configure the environment and build Bitcoin Core using this new feature.
* Minor formatting such as adjusting links
* Move sections of `doc/multiwallet-qt.md` to the source code and delete
the file, as it is outdated
* Fix typo in the release notes
* Amend release process to mention update of BLOCK_CHAIN_SIZE
- Changed Debian 8.5.0 ISO CD ROM URL by redirecting from current (which now has only 8.6.0) to a persistent archive link which should not change anytime soon.
- Added a link to official Debian checksum verification procedure (which is more verbose and also acts as a backup source of SHA256sum's)
- Fix capitalization (iso)
d19583f improved gen-manpages.sh, includes bitcoin-tx and strips commit tag, now also runs binaries from build dir by default, added variables for more control (nomnombtc)
09546ca regenerated all manpages with commit tag stripped, also add bitcoin-tx (nomnombtc)
ae6e754 change help string --enable-man to --disable-man (nomnombtc)
a32c102 add conditional for --enable-man, default is yes (nomnombtc)
dc84b6f add doc/man to subdir if configure flag --enable-man is set (nomnombtc)
00dba72 add doc/man/Makefile.am to include manpages (nomnombtc)
eb5643b add autogenerated manpages by help2man (nomnombtc)
6edf2fd add gen-manpages.sh description to README.md (nomnombtc)
d2cd9c0 add script to generate manpages with help2man (nomnombtc)
- Python 3 now supported.
- Bump boost version to 1.61 - one boost patch no longer needed.
- All checked with OpenBSD 5.9, except for the clang part, I left this
as-is for someone adventurous.
- Mention overriding resource limits, OpenBSD's default ulimit does not
suffice for building Bitcoin Core with gcc 4.9.3.
06f40ef depends: Mention aarch64 as common cross-compile target (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
05f64c9 doc: Mention Linux ARM builds in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
b7bf037 doc: Mention ARM executables in release process (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
48efec8 Fix some minor compact block issues that came up in review (Matt Corallo)
ccd06b9 Elaborate bucket size math (Pieter Wuille)
0d4cb48 Use vTxHashes to optimize InitData significantly (Matt Corallo)
8119026 Provide a flat list of txid/terators to txn in CTxMemPool (Matt Corallo)
678ee97 Add BIP 152 to implemented BIPs list (Matt Corallo)
56ba516 Add reconstruction debug logging (Matt Corallo)
2f34a2e Get our "best three" peers to announce blocks using cmpctblocks (Matt Corallo)
927f8ee Add ability to fetch CNode by NodeId (Matt Corallo)
d25cd3e Add receiver-side protocol implementation for CMPCTBLOCK stuff (Matt Corallo)
9c837d5 Add sender-side protocol implementation for CMPCTBLOCK stuff (Matt Corallo)
00c4078 Add protocol messages for short-ids blocks (Matt Corallo)
e3b2222 Add some blockencodings tests (Matt Corallo)
f4f8f14 Add TestMemPoolEntryHelper::FromTx version for CTransaction (Matt Corallo)
85ad31e Add partial-block block encodings API (Matt Corallo)
5249dac Add COMPACTSIZE wrapper similar to VARINT for serialization (Matt Corallo)
cbda71c Move context-required checks from CheckBlockHeader to Contextual... (Matt Corallo)
7c29ec9 If AcceptBlockHeader returns true, pindex will be set. (Matt Corallo)
96806c3 Stop trimming when mapTx is empty (Pieter Wuille)
Mention ARM executables in the release process documentation
(these were introduced in #8188).
As well as that Linux tarballs have changed name to contain an
architecture tuple, instead of `linux32`/`linux64`.
Also mention that `-debug` files should not be uploaded (these were
introduced in #8167).
7982fce doc: Mention full UTF-8 support in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6bbb4ef test: test utf-8 for labels in wallet (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a406fcb test: add ensure_ascii setting to AuthServiceProxy (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
60ab9b2 Squashed 'src/univalue/' changes from 2740c4f..f32df99 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Add error and range-checking parsers for unsigned 32 and 64 bit numbers.
The 32-bit variant is required for parsing sequence numbers from the
command line in `bitcoin-tx` (see #8164 for discussion). I've thrown in
the 64-bit variant as a bonus, as I'm sure it will be needed at some
point.
Also adds tests, and updates `developer-notes.md`.
6075bc4 doc: 32 and 64 bit packages are seperate (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
e5764e6 doc: Remove outdated qt4 install information from README.md (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
The example local paths for "Building fully offline" have an extraneous ".git". This caused an error when trying to run gbuild, like this
fatal: '/home/user/bitcoin.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
This commit fixes that.
f154470 [contrib] Remove reference to sf and add doc to verify.sh (MarcoFalke)
182bec4 contrib: remove hardcoded version from verify.sh (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
c907f4d doc: Update release process (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
