Inside Bitcoin
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The code behind the network, with room to understand it.
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1Bitcoin version 0.5.1 is now available for download at:2http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.1/4This is a bugfix-only release.6This release includes 13 translations, including 5 new translations:7Italian, Hungarian, Ukranian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Simplified Chinese.8More translations are welcome; join the project at Transifex if you can help:9https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/11Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:12https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues14Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer15distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them16directly from github:17https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.5.1 # .tar.gz18https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.5.1 # .zip20For Ubuntu users, there is a new ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which21you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep22bitcoin up-to-date. Just type23sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin24in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.27BUG FIXES29Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally30disabled for the 0.5.0 release binaries).32The code that finds peers via "dns seeds" no longer stops bitcoin startup33if one of the dns seed machines is down.35Tooltips on the transaction list view were rendering incorrectly (as black boxes36or with a transparent background).38Prevent a denial-of-service attack involving flooding a bitcoin node with39orphan blocks.41The wallet passphrase dialog now warns you if the caps lock key was pressed.43Improved searching in addresses and labels in bitcoin-qt.
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