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