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Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 is now available from:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.2/

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.


Known Bugs

* Entering the 'getblocktemplate' or 'getwork' RPC commands into the Bitcoin-Qt debug
console will cause Bitcoin-Qt to crash. Run Bitcoin-Qt with the -server command-line
option to workaround.

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

Thank you for the improvements.

Awesome! I'm looking forward to upgrading when I get home. Thanks, Gavin.

Great job! I will download it now :-)

Thanks for the great work.

Ugh I hate the mandatory downloads..

That's awesome, going to download now.

Appreciated.  Thanks for time and hard work.

There is nothing mandatory here.

Thanks for your continued work, Gavin.

Nice update. Thanks for this. Bitcoin-Qt continues to be one of my favorite wallets.

Nice update. Thanks for this.

Thanks for the update. I'm trying it now!

thanks for the update Gavin

already installed on my 2 pc's...

happy node here!

Good work.

I will soon release my forked version of this so people can send more free transactions.

thanks

Win 7 32 bit.  No problems during upgrade

The splash screen is excellent and the UI is improving nicely.

Reminder:  for those of you downloading a fresh copy of the blockchain, please consider using the blockchain data torrent (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0).

Testing feedback still welcome and encouraged. Post your platform/OS version in your report, as David M just did (thanks!).

I was waiting for this new release to really start developing my web service. Now basically all the puzzle pieces are in their box. Can't wait to sink my teeth in. Cheers!

Ooooh love the new splash:

https://i.imgur.com/6RndmzL.png

Still says beta though  :-\
64-bit version is working in Linux perfectly!

Every Bitcoin version ever released has been beta (intentionally).

Thanks for your team's work Gavin.

Indeed. "Mandatory" updates are accompanied by an alert broadcast.

My OS is Windows. Which of the two ''win32'' should I download? The red or the green one? They have different size.

Thanks

http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/13189561/img/13189561.png (http://picturepush.com/public/13189561)

The .exe one is an installer (which adds shortcuts among other things). You can unpack the other one to a directory and run it without installing it.

Thanks, it worked :)

I have one more favour to ask. Apart from Bitcoin-Qt there is also BitcoinD (from what I understand). Can someone post a screenshot of BitcoinD's interface or how BitcoinD looks like?

Thanks

On Ubuntu/Unity, the menu and icon still don't work. That makes it severely broken, because you know – the menu bar is missing entirely.

Thank you  :)

FTFY

Thanks. ;D

Gavin, was it only mintxfee that changed in this release? In other words: are mintxfee and minrelaytxfee the same now?

Also, the minimum allowed output will gradually invalidate most alternative client implementations, time to start coding. I guess that the policy for change-back-to-self worth less than 5420 satoshis should be to remove the change output add it to the miner fee.

In general I think it is time to update https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fee

Thank you.

Thanks Gavin and all who helped.

One issue that seems to persist here is the lack of a menu for Bitcoin-Qt after installation in Ubuntu unity for example in Ubuntu 12.04. 

Sure this isn't a UI/Unity issue?  Did you mouse over to the very, very top-left of the screen, where the panel usually lives?

It is an issue on how Bitcoin-Qt integrates with Unity and as the github issue shows this has been going on for over a year. In fact since Unity was introduced in Ubuntu. Mousing over the top left of the screen does not display the menu in Bitcoin-Qt. That is exactly the issue.

Nice I was hoping that they would improve the wallet image on start up it was ugly looking TBH. Also, I'm glad that the disappearing GUI on Mac OS X has been resolved thanks a bunch Gavin!

FTFY again.

no, unity is not broken, all other QT apps over here work as they should. it's just this one that makes troubles.

also, since I smell some unity bashing, you should consider changing your attitude. unity is the default UI on the most widely installed linux distribution. it should be a high level of concern that it is broken for so many systems for such a long time.  :-\

I get the same Ubuntu problem when I first start up bitcoin-qt, but then I just close it and all the subsequent starts show the menu and icon.

The vast majority of that 10 GB is blockchain database, not debug logging.

Could somebody please guide me step-by-step how to upgrade bitcoind from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2 on Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit server?

I did:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bitcoind

But the system said that I have the latest version (0.8.1, but not 0.8.2)

Looks like an 0.8.2 update is not available in the repository yet..

UPDATE

Compiling bitcoind/litecoind on Ubuntu Server 13.04

http://bitcointalk.co.za/t/compiling-bitcoind-litecoind-on-ubuntu-server-13-04/44

I am running ubuntu 13.04, Not the server version, and my problem is similar, i am trying to upgrade bitcoin-qt , i did upgrade && update, but the bitcoin wallet is not getting the update, any way to install the new version on ubuntu 13.04 without downloading the whole blockchain? will it be in the repository soon?

Thanks.

Good work, thanks!  :)

This version is failing to connect to Tor network through SOCKS proxy (IP: 127.0.0.1 Port:9050)

Previous version worked fine.

OS: Windows 7

I'm stuck on block 239195, this was the same block that I was stuck on before updating. Also the only reason I figured an update was out.
I updated about six hours before this post. Using Win 7.

Great work on the performance tweaks. Using much less memory (~100Mb less as far as I can tell) and a bit less CPU usage.
Running nicely compiled for MIPSEL on my router :)

Thanks, didn't know about reindex, worked like a charm. :D

Downloaded this client yesterday. It has a bug. It tells me I got 2 more bitcoins than I actually have got. Even the amounts in the transaction window don't add up to what it says I have got.

Just a question, why did IRC seeding support get removed?

Would love to know the reason behind it

Unreliable centralized service

How is seeding handled now?

I just updated the default fees in that wiki article.  
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fee

paytxfee was showing a non-zero value, but that is zero in the software, and has been for quite some time right?

A second set of eyes on the changes would be helpful.

Is there a way to charge the transactions fees to a single account using bitcoind (Besides modifying the client code, because thats my current plan)? This feature would be really handy, because I would like to pay the fees for all the users on my site easily.

By reliable centralized services. It is called DNSSeed.