Title: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: Gavin Andresen on May 24, 2013, 11:05:07 PM 0.8.2 rc2 never made it out the door; two crash-on-shutdown bugs and a bitcoin.ico file that made the windows gitian build non-reproducible made us jump to rc3 instead.
So: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 release candidate 3 is now available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.2/test/ This is a maintenance release that fixes many bugs and includes a few small new features. Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues How to Upgrade -------------- If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux). If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you run 0.8.2 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine. 0.8.2 Release notes =================== Fee Policy changes ------------------ The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC (for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC. Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee (0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth. Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are included in a block. The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the 0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm. Bitcoin-Qt changes ------------------ * New icon and splash screen * Improve reporting of synchronization process * Remove hardcoded fee recommendations * Improve metadata of executable on MacOSX and Windows * Move export button to individual tabs instead of toolbar * Add "send coins" command to context menu in address book * Add "copy txid" command to copy transaction IDs from transaction overview * Save & restore window size and position when showing & hiding window * New translations: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Welsh (cy), Esperanto (eo), Interlingua (la), Latvian (lv) and many improvements to current translations MacOSX: * OSX support for click-to-pay (bitcoin:) links * Fix GUI disappearing problem on MacOSX (issue #1522) Linux/Unix: * Copy addresses to middle-mouse-button clipboard Command-line options -------------------- * -walletnotify will call a command on receiving transactions that affect the wallet. * -alertnotify will call a command on receiving an alert from the network. * -par now takes a negative number, to leave a certain amount of cores free. JSON-RPC API changes -------------------- * fixed a getblocktemplate bug that caused excessive CPU creating blocks. * listunspent now lists account and address infromation. * getinfo now also returns the time adjustment estimated from your peers. * getpeerinfo now returns bytessent, bytesrecv and syncnode. * gettxoutsetinfo returns statistics about the unspent transaction output database. * gettxout returns information about a specific unspent transaction output. Networking changes ------------------ * Significant changes to the networking code, reducing latency and memory consumption. * Avoid initial block download stalling. * Remove IRC seeding support. * Performance tweaks. * Added testnet DNS seeds. Wallet compatibility/rescuing ----------------------------- * Cases where wallets cannot be opened in another version/installation should be reduced. * -salvagewallet now works for encrypted wallets. Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.2 release! --------------------------------------------------------- APerson241 Andrew Poelstra Calvin Owens Chuck LeDuc Díaz Colin Dean David Griffith David Serrano Eric Lombrozo Gavin Andresen Gregory Maxwell Jeff Garzik Jonas Schnelli Larry Gilbert Luke Dashjr Matt Corallo Michael Ford Mike Hearn Patrick Brown Peter Todd Philip Kaufmann Pieter Wuille Richard Schwab Roman Mindalev Scott Howard Tariq Bashir Warren Togami Wladimir J. van der Laan freewil gladoscc kjj2 mb300sd super3 Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: keystroke on May 25, 2013, 12:40:30 AM Starts fine on Win 8 x64 and doesn't have the issue where it rescans a new wallet on startup. Chain is syncing normally. Shuts down and restarts OK. Nice work!
Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: xempew on May 25, 2013, 05:55:48 AM OS X 10.8.3 - upgrade from 0.8.2rc1
Launch attempt #1 - splash screen abruptly disappeared during "Verifying blocks..." and process became unresponsive. Killed the process and tried again. attempt #2 - Application loaded without any issue. I will try to replicate the result from Attempt #1 and provide some debug output if possible. Not ruling out it was a problem with the OS itself. Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: Amph on May 25, 2013, 03:58:00 PM still latency is 0.2s for me
also with this version , my icons star to flick Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: Caesium on May 25, 2013, 04:13:51 PM OS X 10.8.3 - upgrade from 0.8.2rc1 Launch attempt #1 - splash screen abruptly disappeared during "Verifying blocks..." and process became unresponsive. Killed the process and tried again. Couldn't reproduce this, started just fine first time on OSX 10.8.4 (dev seed) upgrading from 0.8.2rc1. No release candidate warning splashed all over this one? Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: qnfauf on May 25, 2013, 04:27:13 PM I just upgraded from 0.8.1, and it seems to be working well on Windows 7 x64.
Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: gisfrancisco on May 25, 2013, 08:21:43 PM I upgraded and it wont sync.started it it was 17 hours behind now it 19 using the win 32 build win 7
Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: cheesylard on May 27, 2013, 02:09:48 AM I just upgraded from 0.8.1, and it seems to be working well on Windows 7 x64. Same except with win32.Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: Diapolo on May 27, 2013, 09:10:48 AM I upgraded and it wont sync.started it it was 17 hours behind now it 19 using the win 32 build win 7 I have no clue, what you are talking about :-/. Dia Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: Diapolo on May 27, 2013, 09:11:13 AM still latency is 0.2s for me also with this version , my icons star to flick A more detailed description is welcome. Dia Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: Amph on May 27, 2013, 03:18:39 PM solved the issue with the icons, i just used the zip version
however the latency with the default rc3 config remain above 0.2s(0.261s) Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: Gavin Andresen on May 27, 2013, 04:20:49 PM latency of what? getblocktemplate? getbalance?
Title: Re: 0.8.2rc3 ready for testing Post by: Amph on May 27, 2013, 06:13:58 PM getblocktemplate , yes
but i noticed that it keep lowering, maybe it need some time, also the efficiency is great i'm speaking about p2pool |