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Hello everyone.

I was looking for some early version of Bitcoin before v0.10.0 that seems to be the earlier release on Github.

Why have the earlier version not been archived for clarity?

Can we request that the versions below 0.10.0 are uploaded somewhere?

Is there somewhere these are still available in original format?

Thanks in advance!

How far back do you want to go.
Here are some links:

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/code/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170730132958/https://codeload.github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zip/v0.7.1rc1
https://web.archive.org/web/20211120155526/https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.6.0

There are others around too.

If you search the forum this topic been discussed before and there are some other people who have some stuff on their sites.

BUT, because of the security risks a lot of the old versions are just the raw code you have to compile yourself.

-Dave

Thanks Dave

Exactly what I was looking for.

Here are a bunch more buried at github.
Keep in mind compiling these is going to be brutal on a modern system. A lot of the dependencies are just no longer available.
IMO the best thing to do if you want make the binary is spin up a virtual machine and download the multiple CD / DVDs for the complete install of an older linux along with all the packages:
So this *may* help a bit https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/7.11.0/i386/iso-dvd/
Good luck :-)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.3.20
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.3.22
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.3.23
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.3.24
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.4.0
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.5.0
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.5.2
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.6.0
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.6.1
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.6.2
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.6.3
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.7.0
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.8.0
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.8.1
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.8.2
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.8.3
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.8.4
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.8.5
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.9.0
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.9.1

Fantastic!!   

Added copy's to the archive now cheers Dave.

And if you intend to use wallet functionality with proper compatibility, that means you have to install Berkeley DB 4.8. Bitcoin Core provide script to install it[1], but we don't know whether it'll work on older OS. If it doesn't that means you need to check either Debian 6, 7 or 8 which seems to include Berkeley DB 4.8[2].

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v24.0/contrib/install_db4.sh (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v24.0/contrib/install_db4.sh)
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/BerkeleyDB (https://wiki.debian.org/BerkeleyDB)

I believe ubuntu 16.04 is still able to build the old versions with some additional libs added in thanks for the tip I will give this a go.

It's more for reference than anything else and some testing locally.

Cheers guys locking topic now

Sorry ETHBitcoin i'm out of merits ATM, IOU  ;)