Inside Bitcoin

501- #6633 `bbc2b39` Report minimum ping time in getpeerinfo (Matt Corallo)
502- #6648 `cd381d7` Simplify logic of REST request suffix parsing. (Daniel Kraft)
503- #6695 `5e21388` libevent http fixes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
504- #5264 `48efbdb` show scriptSig signature hash types in transaction decodes. fixes #3166 (mruddy)
505- #6719 `1a9f19a` Make HTTP server shutdown more graceful (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
506- #6859 `0fbfc51` http: Restrict maximum size of http + headers (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
507- #5936 `bf7c195` [RPC] Add optional locktime to createrawtransaction (Tom Harding)
508- #6877 `26f5b34` rpc: Add maxmempool and effective min fee to getmempoolinfo (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
509- #6970 `92701b3` Fix crash in validateaddress with -disablewallet (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
510- #5574 `755b4ba` Expose GUI labels in RPC as comments (Luke-Jr)
511- #6990 `dbd2c13` http: speed up shutdown (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
512- #7013 `36baa9f` Remove LOCK(cs_main) from decodescript (Peter Todd)
513- #6999 `972bf9c` add (max)uploadtarget infos to getnettotals RPC help (Jonas Schnelli)
514- #7011 `31de241` Add mediantime to getblockchaininfo (Peter Todd)
515- #7065 `f91e29f` http: add Boost 1.49 compatibility (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
516- #7087 `be281d8` [Net]Add -enforcenodebloom option (Patrick Strateman)
517- #7044 `438ee59` RPC: Added additional config option for multiple RPC users. (Gregory Sanders)
518- #7072 `c143c49` [RPC] Add transaction size to JSON output (Nikita Zhavoronkov)
519- #7022 `9afbd96` Change default block priority size to 0 (Alex Morcos)
520- #7141 `c0c08c7` rpc: Don't translate warning messages (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
521- #7312 `fd4bd50` Add RPC call abandontransaction (Alex Morcos)
522- #7222 `e25b158` RPC: indicate which transactions are replaceable (Suhas Daftuar)
523- #7472 `b2f2b85` rpc: Add WWW-Authenticate header to 401 response (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
524- #7469 `9cb31e6` net.h fix spelling: misbeha{b,v}ing (Matt)
525
526### Configuration and command-line options
527
528- #6164 `8d05ec7` Allow user to use -debug=1 to enable all debugging (lpescher)
529- #5288 `4452205` Added `-whiteconnections=<n>` option (Josh Lehan)
530- #6284 `10ac38e` Fix argument parsing oddity with -noX (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
531- #6489 `c9c017a` Give a better error message if system clock is bad (Casey Rodarmor)
532- #6462 `c384800` implement uacomment config parameter which can add comments to user agent as per BIP-0014 (Pavol Rusnak)
533- #6647 `a3babc8` Sanitize uacomment (MarcoFalke)
534- #6742 `3b2d37c` Changed logging to make -logtimestamps to work also for -printtoconsole (arnuschky)
535- #6846 `2cd020d` alias -h for -help (Daniel Cousens)
536- #6622 `7939164` Introduce -maxuploadtarget (Jonas Schnelli)
537- #6881 `2b62551` Debug: Add option for microsecond precision in debug.log (Suhas Daftuar)
538- #6776 `e06c14f` Support -checkmempool=N, which runs checks once every N transactions (Pieter Wuille)
539- #6896 `d482c0a` Make -checkmempool=1 not fail through int32 overflow (Pieter Wuille)
540- #6993 `b632145` Add -blocksonly option (Patrick Strateman)
541- #7323 `a344880` 0.12: Backport -bytespersigop option (Luke-Jr)
542- #7386 `da83ecd` Add option `-permitrbf` to set transaction replacement policy (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
543- #7290 `b16b5bc` Add missing options help (MarcoFalke)
544- #7440 `c76bfff` Rename permitrbf to mempoolreplacement and provide minimal string-list forward compatibility (Luke-Jr)
545
546### Block and transaction handling
547
548- #6203 `f00b623` Remove P2SH coinbase flag, no longer interesting (Luke-Jr)
549- #6222 `9c93ee5` Explicitly set tx.nVersion for the genesis block and mining tests (Mark Friedenbach)
550- #5985 `3a1d3e8` Fix removing of orphan transactions (Alex Morcos)
551- #6221 `dd8fe82` Prune: Support noncontiguous block files (Adam Weiss)
552- #6124 `41076aa` Mempool only CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65) verification, unparameterized version (Peter Todd)
553- #6329 `d0a10c1` acceptnonstdtxn option to skip (most) "non-standard transaction" checks, for testnet/regtest only (Luke-Jr)
554- #6410 `7cdefb9` Implement accurate memory accounting for mempool (Pieter Wuille)
555- #6444 `24ce77d` Exempt unspendable transaction outputs from dust checks (dexX7)
556- #5913 `a0625b8` Add absurdly high fee message to validation state (Shaul Kfir)
557- #6177 `2f746c6` Prevent block.nTime from decreasing (Mark Friedenbach)
558- #6377 `e545371` Handle no chain tip available in InvalidChainFound() (Ross Nicoll)
559- #6551 `39ddaeb` Handle leveldb::DestroyDB() errors on wipe failure (Adam Weiss)
560- #6654 `b0ce450` Mempool package tracking (Suhas Daftuar)
561- #6715 `82d2aef` Fix mempool packages (Suhas Daftuar)
562- #6680 `4f44530` use CBlockIndex instead of uint256 for UpdatedBlockTip signal (Jonas Schnelli)
563- #6650 `4fac576` Obfuscate chainstate (James O'Beirne)
564- #6777 `9caaf6e` Unobfuscate chainstate data in CCoinsViewDB::GetStats (James O'Beirne)
565- #6722 `3b20e23` Limit mempool by throwing away the cheapest txn and setting min relay fee to it (Matt Corallo)
566- #6889 `38369dd` fix locking issue with new mempool limiting (Jonas Schnelli)
567- #6464 `8f3b3cd` Always clean up manual transaction prioritization (Casey Rodarmor)
568- #6865 `d0badb9` Fix chainstate serialized_size computation (Pieter Wuille)
569- #6566 `ff057f4` BIP-113: Mempool-only median time-past as endpoint for lock-time calculations (Mark Friedenbach)
570- #6934 `3038eb6` Restores mempool only BIP113 enforcement (Gregory Maxwell)
571- #6965 `de7d459` Benchmark sanity checks and fork checks in ConnectBlock (Matt Corallo)
572- #6918 `eb6172a` Make sigcache faster, more efficient, larger (Pieter Wuille)
573- #6771 `38ed190` Policy: Lower default limits for tx chains (Alex Morcos)
574- #6932 `73fa5e6` ModifyNewCoins saves database lookups (Alex Morcos)
575- #5967 `05d5918` Alter assumptions in CCoinsViewCache::BatchWrite (Alex Morcos)
576- #6871 `0e93586` nSequence-based Full-RBF opt-in (Peter Todd)
577- #7008 `eb77416` Lower bound priority (Alex Morcos)
578- #6915 `2ef5ffa` [Mempool] Improve removal of invalid transactions after reorgs (Suhas Daftuar)
579- #6898 `4077ad2` Rewrite CreateNewBlock (Alex Morcos)
580- #6872 `bdda4d5` Remove UTXO cache entries when the tx they were added for is removed/does not enter mempool (Matt Corallo)
581- #7062 `12c469b` [Mempool] Fix mempool limiting and replace-by-fee for PrioritiseTransaction (Suhas Daftuar)
582- #7276 `76de36f` Report non-mandatory script failures correctly (Pieter Wuille)
583- #7217 `e08b7cb` Mark blocks with too many sigops as failed (Suhas Daftuar)
584- #7387 `f4b2ce8` Get rid of inaccurate ScriptSigArgsExpected (Pieter Wuille)
585
586### P2P protocol and network code
587
588- #6172 `88a7ead` Ignore getheaders requests when not synced (Suhas Daftuar)
589- #5875 `9d60602` Be stricter in processing unrequested blocks (Suhas Daftuar)
590- #6256 `8ccc07c` Use best header chain timestamps to detect partitioning (Gavin Andresen)
591- #6283 `a903ad7` make CAddrMan::size() return the correct type of size_t (Diapolo)
592- #6272 `40400d5` Improve proxy initialization (continues #4871) (Wladimir J. van der Laan, Diapolo)
593- #6310 `66e5465` banlist.dat: store banlist on disk (Jonas Schnelli)
594- #6412 `1a2de32` Test whether created sockets are select()able (Pieter Wuille)
595- #6498 `219b916` Keep track of recently rejected transactions with a rolling bloom filter (cont'd) (Peter Todd)
596- #6556 `70ec975` Fix masking of irrelevant bits in address groups. (Alex Morcos)
597- #6530 `ea19c2b` Improve addrman Select() performance when buckets are nearly empty (Pieter Wuille)
598- #6583 `af9305a` add support for miniupnpc api version 14 (Pavel Vasin)
599- #6374 `69dc5b5` Connection slot exhaustion DoS mitigation (Patrick Strateman)
600- #6636 `536207f` net: correctly initialize nMinPingUsecTime (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
601- #6579 `0c27795` Add NODE_BLOOM service bit and bump protocol version (Matt Corallo)
602- #6148 `999c8be` Relay blocks when pruning (Suhas Daftuar)
603- #6588 `cf9bb11` In (strCommand == "tx"), return if AlreadyHave() (Tom Harding)
604- #6974 `2f71b07` Always allow getheaders from whitelisted peers (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
605- #6639 `bd629d7` net: Automatically create hidden service, listen on Tor (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
606- #6984 `9ffc687` don't enforce maxuploadtarget's disconnect for whitelisted peers (Jonas Schnelli)
607- #7046 `c322652` Net: Improve blocks only mode. (Patrick Strateman)
608- #7090 `d6454f6` Connect to Tor hidden services by default (when listening on Tor) (Peter Todd)
609- #7106 `c894fbb` Fix and improve relay from whitelisted peers (Pieter Wuille)
610- #7129 `5d5ef3a` Direct headers announcement (rebase of #6494) (Pieter Wuille)
611- #7079 `1b5118b` Prevent peer flooding inv request queue (redux) (redux) (Gregory Maxwell)
612- #7166 `6ba25d2` Disconnect on mempool requests from peers when over the upload limit. (Gregory Maxwell)
613- #7133 `f31955d` Replace setInventoryKnown with a rolling bloom filter (rebase of #7100) (Pieter Wuille)
614- #7174 `82aff88` Don't do mempool lookups for "mempool" command without a filter (Matt Corallo)
615- #7179 `44fef99` net: Fix sent reject messages for blocks and transactions (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
616- #7181 `8fc174a` net: Add and document network messages in protocol.h (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
617- #7125 `10b88be` Replace global trickle node with random delays (Pieter Wuille)
618- #7415 `cb83beb` net: Hardcoded seeds update January 2016 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
619- #7438 `e2d9a58` Do not absolutely protect local peers; decide group ties based on time (Gregory Maxwell)
620- #7439 `86755bc` Add whitelistforcerelay to control forced relaying. [#7099 redux] (Gregory Maxwell)
621- #7482 `e16f5b4` Ensure headers count is correct (Suhas Daftuar)
622
623### Validation
624
625- #5927 `8d9f0a6` Reduce checkpoints' effect on consensus. (Pieter Wuille)
626- #6299 `24f2489` Bugfix: Don't check the genesis block header before accepting it (Jorge Timón)
627- #6361 `d7ada03` Use real number of cores for default -par, ignore virtual cores (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
628- #6519 `87f37e2` Make logging for validation optional (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
629- #6351 `2a1090d` CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65) IsSuperMajority() soft-fork (Peter Todd)
630- #6931 `54e8bfe` Skip BIP 30 verification where not necessary (Alex Morcos)
631- #6954 `e54ebbf` Switch to libsecp256k1-based ECDSA validation (Pieter Wuille)
632- #6508 `61457c2` Switch to a constant-space Merkle root/branch algorithm. (Pieter Wuille)
633- #6914 `327291a` Add pre-allocated vector type and use it for CScript (Pieter Wuille)
634- #7500 `889e5b3` Correctly report high-S violations (Pieter Wuille)
635
636
637### Build system
638
639- #6210 `0e4f2a0` build: disable optional use of gmp in internal secp256k1 build (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
640- #6214 `87406aa` [OSX] revert renaming of Bitcoin-Qt.app and use CFBundleDisplayName (partial revert of #6116) (Jonas Schnelli)
641- #6218 `9d67b10` build/gitian misc updates (Cory Fields)
642- #6269 `d4565b6` gitian: Use the new bitcoin-detached-sigs git repo for OSX signatures (Cory Fields)
643- #6418 `d4a910c` Add autogen.sh to source tarball. (randy-waterhouse)
644- #6373 `1ae3196` depends: non-qt bumps for 0.12 (Cory Fields)
645- #6434 `059b352` Preserve user-passed CXXFLAGS with --enable-debug (Gavin Andresen)
646- #6501 `fee6554` Misc build fixes (Cory Fields)
647- #6600 `ef4945f` Include bitcoin-tx binary on Debian/Ubuntu (Zak Wilcox)
648- #6619 `4862708` depends: bump miniupnpc and ccache (Michael Ford)
649- #6801 `ae69a75` [depends] Latest config.guess and config.sub (Michael Ford)
650- #6938 `193f7b5` build: If both Qt4 and Qt5 are installed, use Qt5 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
651- #7092 `348b281` build: Set osx permissions in the dmg to make Gatekeeper happy (Cory Fields)
652- #6980 `eccd671` [Depends] Bump Boost, miniupnpc, ccache & zeromq (Michael Ford)
653- #7424 `aa26ee0` Add security/export checks to gitian and fix current failures (Cory Fields)
654
655### Wallet
656
657- #6183 `87550ee` Fix off-by-one error w/ nLockTime in the wallet (Peter Todd)
658- #6057 `ac5476e` re-enable wallet in autoprune (Jonas Schnelli)
659- #6356 `9e6c33b` Delay initial pruning until after wallet init (Adam Weiss)
660- #6088 `91389e5` fundrawtransaction (Matt Corallo)
661- #6415 `ddd8d80` Implement watchonly support in fundrawtransaction (Matt Corallo)
662- #6567 `0f0f323` Fix crash when mining with empty keypool. (Daniel Kraft)
663- #6688 `4939eab` Fix locking in GetTransaction. (Alex Morcos)
664- #6645 `4dbd43e` Enable wallet key imports without rescan in pruned mode. (Gregory Maxwell)
665- #6550 `5b77244` Do not store Merkle branches in the wallet. (Pieter Wuille)
666- #5924 `12a7712` Clean up change computation in CreateTransaction. (Daniel Kraft)
667- #6906 `48b5b84` Reject invalid pubkeys when reading ckey items from the wallet. (Gregory Maxwell)
668- #7010 `e0a5ef8` Fix fundrawtransaction handling of includeWatching (Peter Todd)
669- #6851 `616d61b` Optimisation: Store transaction list order in memory rather than compute it every need (Luke-Jr)
670- #6134 `e92377f` Improve usage of fee estimation code (Alex Morcos)
671- #7103 `a775182` [wallet, rpc tests] Fix settxfee, paytxfee (MarcoFalke)
672- #7105 `30c2d8c` Keep track of explicit wallet conflicts instead of using mempool (Pieter Wuille)
673- #7096 `9490bd7` [Wallet] Improve minimum absolute fee GUI options (Jonas Schnelli)
674- #6216 `83f06ca` Take the training wheels off anti-fee-sniping (Peter Todd)
675- #4906 `96e8d12` Issue#1643: Coinselection prunes extraneous inputs from ApproximateBestSubset (Murch)
676- #7200 `06c6a58` Checks for null data transaction before issuing error to debug.log (Andy Craze)
677- #7296 `a36d79b` Add sane fallback for fee estimation (Alex Morcos)
678- #7293 `ff9b610` Add regression test for vValue sort order (MarcoFalke)
679- #7306 `4707797` Make sure conflicted wallet tx's update balances (Alex Morcos)
680- #7381 `621bbd8` [walletdb] Fix syntax error in key parser (MarcoFalke)
681- #7491 `00ec73e` wallet: Ignore MarkConflict if block hash is not known (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
682- #7502 `1329963` Update the wallet best block marker before pruning (Pieter Wuille)
683
684### GUI
685
686- #6217 `c57e12a` disconnect peers from peers tab via context menu (Diapolo)
687- #6209 `ab0ec67` extend rpc console peers tab (Diapolo)
688- #6484 `1369d69` use CHashWriter also in SignVerifyMessageDialog (Pavel Vasin)
689- #6487 `9848d42` Introduce PlatformStyle (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
690- #6505 `100c9d3` cleanup icons (MarcoFalke)
691- #4587 `0c465f5` allow users to set -onion via GUI (Diapolo)
692- #6529 `c0f66ce` show client user agent in debug window (Diapolo)
693- #6594 `878ea69` Disallow duplicate windows. (Casey Rodarmor)
694- #5665 `6f55cdd` add verifySize() function to PaymentServer (Diapolo)
695- #6317 `ca5e2a1` minor optimisations in peertablemodel (Diapolo)
696- #6315 `e59d2a8` allow banning and unbanning over UI->peers table (Jonas Schnelli)
697- #6653 `e04b2fa` Pop debug window in foreground when opened twice (MarcoFalke)
698- #6864 `c702521` Use monospace font (MarcoFalke)
699- #6887 `3694b74` Update coin control and smartfee labels (MarcoFalke)
700- #7000 `814697c` add shortcurts for debug-/console-window (Jonas Schnelli)
701- #6951 `03403d8` Use maxTxFee instead of 10000000 (MarcoFalke)
702- #7051 `a190777` ui: Add "Copy raw transaction data" to transaction list context menu (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
703- #6979 `776848a` simple mempool info in debug window (Jonas Schnelli)
704- #7006 `26af1ac` add startup option to reset Qt settings (Jonas Schnelli)
705- #6780 `2a94cd6` Call init's parameter interaction before we create the UI options model (Jonas Schnelli)
706- #7112 `96b8025` reduce cs_main locks during tip update, more fluently update UI (Jonas Schnelli)
707- #7206 `f43c2f9` Add "NODE_BLOOM" to guiutil so that peers don't get UNKNOWN[4] (Matt Corallo)
708- #7282 `5cadf3e` fix coincontrol update issue when deleting a send coins entry (Jonas Schnelli)
709- #7319 `1320300` Intro: Display required space (MarcoFalke)
710- #7318 `9265e89` quickfix for RPC timer interface problem (Jonas Schnelli)
711- #7327 `b16b5bc` [Wallet] Transaction View: LastMonth calculation fixed (crowning-)
712- #7364 `7726c48` [qt] Windows: Make rpcconsole monospace font larger (MarcoFalke)
713- #7384 `294f432` [qt] Peertable: Increase SUBVERSION_COLUMN_WIDTH (MarcoFalke)
714
715### Tests and QA
716
717- #6305 `9005c91` build: comparison tool swap (Cory Fields)
718- #6318 `e307e13` build: comparison tool NPE fix (Cory Fields)
719- #6337 `0564c5b` Testing infrastructure: mocktime fixes (Gavin Andresen)
720- #6350 `60abba1` add unit tests for the decodescript rpc (mruddy)
721- #5881 `3203a08` Fix and improve txn_doublespend.py test (Tom Harding)
722- #6390 `6a73d66` tests: Fix bitcoin-tx signing test case (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
723- #6368 `7fc25c2` CLTV: Add more tests to improve coverage (Esteban Ordano)
724- #6414 `5121c68` Fix intermittent test failure, reduce test time (Tom Harding)
725- #6417 `44fa82d` [QA] fix possible reorg issue in (fund)rawtransaction(s).py RPC test (Jonas Schnelli)
726- #6398 `3d9362d` rpc: Remove chain-specific RequireRPCPassword (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
727- #6428 `bb59e78` tests: Remove old sh-based test framework (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
728- #5515 `d946e9a` RFC: Assert on probable deadlocks if the second lock isnt try_lock (Matt Corallo)
729- #6287 `d2464df` Clang lock debug (Cory Fields)
730- #6465 `410fd74` Don't share objects between TestInstances (Casey Rodarmor)
731- #6534 `6c1c7fd` Fix test locking issues and un-revert the probable-deadlines assertions commit (Cory Fields)
732- #6509 `bb4faee` Fix race condition on test node shutdown (Casey Rodarmor)
733- #6523 `561f8af` Add p2p-fullblocktest.py (Casey Rodarmor)
734- #6590 `981fd92` Fix stale socket rebinding and re-enable python tests for Windows (Cory Fields)
735- #6730 `cb4d6d0` build: Remove dependency of bitcoin-cli on secp256k1 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
736- #6616 `5ab5dca` Regression Tests: Migrated rpc-tests.sh to all Python rpc-tests.py (Peter Tschipper)
737- #6720 `d479311` Creates unittests for addrman, makes addrman more testable. (Ethan Heilman)
738- #6853 `c834f56` Added fPowNoRetargeting field to Consensus::Params (Eric Lombrozo)
739- #6827 `87e5539` [rpc-tests] Check return code (MarcoFalke)
740- #6848 `f2c869a` Add DERSIG transaction test cases (Ross Nicoll)
741- #6813 `5242bb3` Support gathering code coverage data for RPC tests with lcov (dexX7)
742- #6888 `c8322ff` Clear strMiscWarning before running PartitionAlert (Eric Lombrozo)
743- #6894 `2675276` [Tests] Fix BIP65 p2p test (Suhas Daftuar)
744- #6863 `725539e` [Test Suite] Fix test for null tx input (Daniel Kraft)
745- #6926 `a6d0d62` tests: Initialize networking on windows (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
746- #6822 `9fa54a1` [tests] Be more strict checking dust (MarcoFalke)
747- #6804 `5fcc14e` [tests] Add basic coverage reporting for RPC tests (James O'Beirne)
748- #7045 `72dccfc` Bugfix: Use unique autostart filenames on Linux for testnet/regtest (Luke-Jr)
749- #7095 `d8368a0` Replace scriptnum_test's normative ScriptNum implementation (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
750- #7063 `6abf6eb` [Tests] Add prioritisetransaction RPC test (Suhas Daftuar)