Inside Bitcoin

251- #8699 `a5ec248` Remove createwitnessaddress RPC command (jl2012)
252- #8780 `794b007` Deprecate getinfo (MarcoFalke)
253- #8832 `83ad563` Throw JSONRPCError when utxo set can not be read (MarcoFalke)
254- #8884 `b987348` getblockchaininfo help: pruneheight is the lowest, not highest, block (luke-jr)
255- #8858 `3f508ed` rpc: Generate auth cookie in hex instead of base64 (laanwj)
256- #8951 `7c2bf4b` RPC/Mining: getblocktemplate: Update and fix formatting of help (luke-jr)
257
258### Block and transaction handling
259- #8611 `a9429ca` Reduce default number of blocks to check at startup (sipa)
260- #8634 `3e80ab7` Add policy: null signature for failed CHECK(MULTI)SIG (jl2012)
261- #8525 `1672225` Do not store witness txn in rejection cache (sipa)
262- #8499 `9777fe1` Add several policy limits and disable uncompressed keys for segwit scripts (jl2012)
263- #8526 `0027672` Make non-minimal OP_IF/NOTIF argument non-standard for P2WSH (jl2012)
264- #8524 `b8c79a0` Precompute sighashes (sipa)
265- #8651 `b8c79a0` Predeclare PrecomputedTransactionData as struct (sipa)
266
267### P2P protocol and network code
268- #8740 `42ea51a` No longer send local address in addrMe (laanwj)
269- #8427 `69d1cd2` Ignore `notfound` P2P messages (laanwj)
270- #8573 `4f84082` Set jonasschnellis dns-seeder filter flag (jonasschnelli)
271- #8712 `23feab1` Remove maxuploadtargets recommended minimum (jonasschnelli)
272- #8862 `7ae6242` Fix a few cases where messages were sent after requested disconnect (theuni)
273- #8393 `fe1975a` Support for compact blocks together with segwit (sipa)
274- #8282 `2611ad7` Feeler connections to increase online addrs in the tried table (EthanHeilman)
275- #8612 `2215c22` Check for compatibility with download in FindNextBlocksToDownload (sipa)
276- #8606 `bbf379b` Fix some locks (sipa)
277- #8594 `ab295bb` Do not add random inbound peers to addrman (gmaxwell)
278- #8940 `5b4192b` Add x9 service bit support to dnsseed.bluematt.me, seed.bitcoinstats.com (TheBlueMatt, cdecker)
279- #8944 `685e4c7` Remove bogus assert on number of oubound connections. (TheBlueMatt)
280- #8949 `0dbc48a` Be more agressive in getting connections to peers with relevant services (gmaxwell)
281
282### Build system
283- #8293 `fa5b249` Allow building libbitcoinconsensus without any univalue (luke-jr)
284- #8492 `8b0bdd3` Allow building bench_bitcoin by itself (luke-jr)
285- #8563 `147003c` Add configure check for -latomic (ajtowns)
286- #8626 `ea51b0f` Berkeley DB v6 compatibility fix (netsafe)
287- #8520 `75f2065` Remove check for `openssl/ec.h` (laanwj)
288
289### GUI
290- #8481 `d9f0d4e` Fix minimize and close bugs (adlawren)
291- #8487 `a37cec5` Persist the datadir after option reset (achow101)
292- #8697 `41fd852` Fix op order to append first alert (rodasmith)
293- #8678 `8e03382` Fix UI bug that could result in paying unexpected fee (jonasschnelli)
294- #8911 `7634d8e` Translate all files, even if wallet disabled (laanwj)
295- #8540 `1db3352` Fix random segfault when closing "Choose data directory" dialog (laanwj)
296- #7579 `f1c0d78` Show network/chain errors in the GUI (jonasschnelli)
297
298### Wallet
299- #8443 `464dedd` Trivial cleanup of HD wallet changes (jonasschnelli)
300- #8539 `cb07f19` CDB: fix debug output (crowning-)
301- #8664 `091cdeb` Fix segwit-related wallet bug (sdaftuar)
302- #8693 `c6a6291` Add witness address to address book (instagibbs)
303- #8765 `6288659` Remove "unused" ThreadFlushWalletDB from removeprunedfunds (jonasschnelli)
304
305### Tests and QA
306- #8713 `ae8c7df` create_cache: Delete temp dir when done (MarcoFalke)
307- #8716 `e34374e` Check legacy wallet as well (MarcoFalke)
308- #8750 `d6ebe13` Refactor RPCTestHandler to prevent TimeoutExpired (MarcoFalke)
309- #8652 `63462c2` remove root test directory for RPC tests (yurizhykin)
310- #8724 `da94272` walletbackup: Sync blocks inside the loop (MarcoFalke)
311- #8400 `bea02dc` enable rpcbind_test (yurizhykin)
312- #8417 `f70be14` Add walletdump RPC test (including HD- & encryption-tests) (jonasschnelli)
313- #8419 `a7aa3cc` Enable size accounting in mining unit tests (sdaftuar)
314- #8442 `8bb1efd` Rework hd wallet dump test (MarcoFalke)
315- #8528 `3606b6b` Update p2p-segwit.py to reflect correct behavior (instagibbs)
316- #8531 `a27cdd8` abandonconflict: Use assert_equal (MarcoFalke)
317- #8667 `6b07362` Fix SIGHASH_SINGLE bug in test_framework SignatureHash (jl2012)
318- #8673 `03b0196` Fix obvious assignment/equality error in test (JeremyRubin)
319- #8739 `cef633c` Fix broken sendcmpct test in p2p-compactblocks.py (sdaftuar)
320- #8418 `ff893aa` Add tests for compact blocks (sdaftuar)
321- #8803 `375437c` Ping regularly in p2p-segwit.py to keep connection alive (jl2012)
322- #8827 `9bbe66e` Split up slow RPC calls to avoid pruning test timeouts (sdaftuar)
323- #8829 `2a8bca4` Add bitcoin-tx JSON tests (jnewbery)
324- #8834 `1dd1783` blockstore: Switch to dumb dbm (MarcoFalke)
325- #8835 `d87227d` nulldummy.py: Don't run unused code (MarcoFalke)
326- #8836 `eb18cc1` bitcoin-util-test.py should fail if the output file is empty (jnewbery)
327- #8839 `31ab2f8` Avoid ConnectionResetErrors during RPC tests (laanwj)
328- #8840 `cbc3fe5` Explicitly set encoding to utf8 when opening text files (laanwj)
329- #8841 `3e4abb5` Fix nulldummy test (jl2012)
330- #8854 `624a007` Fix race condition in p2p-compactblocks test (sdaftuar)
331- #8857 `1f60d45` mininode: Only allow named args in wait_until (MarcoFalke)
332- #8860 `0bee740` util: Move wait_bitcoinds() into stop_nodes() (MarcoFalke)
333- #8882 `b73f065` Fix race conditions in p2p-compactblocks.py and sendheaders.py (sdaftuar)
334- #8904 `cc6f551` Fix compact block shortids for a test case (dagurval)
335
336### Documentation
337- #8754 `0e2c6bd` Target protobuf 2.6 in OS X build notes. (fanquake)
338- #8461 `b17a3f9` Document return value of networkhashps for getmininginfo RPC endpoint (jlopp)
339- #8512 `156e305` Corrected JSON typo on setban of net.cpp (sevastos)
340- #8683 `8a7d7ff` Fix incorrect file name bitcoin.qrc  (bitcoinsSG)
341- #8891 `5e0dd9e` Update bips.md for Segregated Witness (fanquake)
342- #8545 `863ae74` Update git-subtree-check.sh README (MarcoFalke)
343- #8607 `486650a` Fix doxygen off-by-one comments, fix typos (MarcoFalke)
344- #8560 `c493f43` Fix two VarInt examples in serialize.h (cbarcenas)
345- #8737 `084cae9` UndoReadFromDisk works on undo files (rev), not on block files (paveljanik)
346- #8625 `0a35573` Clarify statement about parallel jobs in rpc-tests.py (isle2983)
347- #8624 `0e6d753` build: Mention curl (MarcoFalke)
348- #8604 `b09e13c` build,doc: Update for 0.13.0+ and OpenBSD 5.9 (laanwj)
349- #8939 `06d15fb` Update implemented bips for 0.13.1 (sipa)
350
351### Miscellaneous
352- #8742 `d31ac72` Specify Protobuf version 2 in paymentrequest.proto (fanquake)
353- #8414,#8558,#8676,#8700,#8701,#8702 Add missing copyright headers (isle2983, kazcw)
354- #8899 `4ed2627` Fix wake from sleep issue with Boost 1.59.0 (fanquake)
355- #8817 `bcf3806` update bitcoin-tx to output witness data (jnewbery)
356- #8513 `4e5fc31` Fix a type error that would not compile on OSX. (JeremyRubin)
357- #8392 `30eac2d` Fix several node initialization issues (sipa)
358- #8548 `305d8ac` Use `__func__` to get function name for output printing (MarcoFalke)
359- #8291 `a987431` [util] CopyrightHolders: Check for untranslated substitution (MarcoFalke)
360
361Credits
362=======
363
364Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
365
366- adlawren
367- Alexey Vesnin
368- Anders Øyvind Urke-Sætre
369- Andrew Chow
370- Anthony Towns
371- BtcDrak
372- Chris Stewart
373- Christian Barcenas
374- Christian Decker
375- Cory Fields
376- crowning-
377- Dagur Valberg Johannsson
378- David A. Harding
379- Eric Lombrozo
380- Ethan Heilman
381- fanquake
382- Gaurav Rana
383- Gregory Maxwell
384- instagibbs
385- isle2983
386- Jameson Lopp
387- Jeremy Rubin
388- jnewbery
389- Johnson Lau
390- Jonas Schnelli
391- jonnynewbs
392- Justin Camarena
393- Kaz Wesley
394- leijurv
395- Luke Dashjr
396- MarcoFalke
397- Marty Jones
398- Matt Corallo
399- Micha
400- Michael Ford
401- mruddy
402- Pavel Janík
403- Pieter Wuille
404- rodasmith
405- Sev
406- Suhas Daftuar
407- whythat
408- Wladimir J. van der Laan
409
410As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
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