Bitcoin Forum

RPC:

    Avoid a segfault on getblock if it can't read a block from disk
    Add paranoid return value checks in base58

Protocol and network code:

    Don't poll showmyip.com, it doesn't exist anymore
    Add a way to limit deserialized string lengths and use it
    Add a new checkpoint at block 295,000
    Increase IsStandard() scriptSig length
    Avoid querying DNS seeds, if we have open connections
    Remove a useless millisleep in socket handler
    Stricter memory limits on CNode
    Better orphan transaction handling
    Add -maxorphantx=<n> and -maxorphanblocks=<n> options for control over the maximum orphan transactions and blocks

Wallet:

    Check redeemScript size does not exceed 520 byte limit
    Ignore (and warn about) too-long redeemScripts while loading wallet

GUI:

    fix 'opens in testnet mode when presented with a BIP-72 link with no fallback'
    AvailableCoins: acquire cs_main mutex
    Fix unicode character display on MacOSX

Miscellaneous:

    key.cpp: fail with a friendlier message on missing ssl EC support
    Remove bignum dependency for scripts
    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)
    Upgrade miniupnpc to 1.9.20140701
    Fix boost detection in build system on some platforms