Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 Final is here !

[Meuh6879]

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/v0.12.0rc1...v0.12.0

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.12.0

Finally, i have follow the process since the RC1 ... and, well, it's good job (squared RAM, squared MEMPOOL, squared SERVER for mining).

SegWit is here ?  

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[tobacco123]

Great job. I assume the prune mode and wallet support can work together now?

[Lauda]

SegWit is here ?  

The developers tend to avoid incorporating a soft fork with a major version release. Segwit is not part of 0.12. The ETA for Segwit is April.
The changelog is pretty big on this release. I can't wait to upgrade myself.

[achow101]

The official release should be in a day or two once all of the gitian sigs are published and the signed binaries created.

The changelog is pretty big on this release. I can't wait to upgrade myself.

If you are feeling impatient, you can download my gitian builds from https://github.com/achow101/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.12.0.

[Meuh6879]

The ETA for Segwit is April.

  Thanks for this precision.

[AliceWonderMiscreations]

Still eagerly waiting for official...

[Amph]

no sticky for this? seems so underwhelming, i was expecting more enthusiasm for the 0.12, maybe still not officially released?

[unamis76]

no sticky for this? seems so underwhelmeing, i was expecting more enthusiasm for the 0.12, maybe still not officially released?

Yes, it's already released, binaries just weren't created so far but one can build it from source.

And it doesn't need a stick, there's a place on top of every forum page with a download link Which I'm sure theymos will update when binaries are avaliable, or when he has time.

[Zarathustra]

no sticky for this? seems so underwhelmeing, i was expecting more enthusiasm for the 0.12, maybe still not officially released?

Update: Blockstream/PWC/Core 0.12.0 Ruin By Fee Release now with 240 Nodes. Amazing momentum.
Since iCEGirl censores his threads in the tradition of his masters, I posted the update here.

[Lauda]

I assume it's not beta version, since i still see bitcoin core 0.11.2 on news below my avatar.

It is not beta. It should be released within a day or two as soon as people have matching signatures on their gitian builds.

Too bad SegWit isn't here yet, hope there won't be any delay.

Segwit was planned for April.
Update: It has been released.

[AliceWonderMiscreations]

no sticky for this? seems so underwhelmeing, i was expecting more enthusiasm for the 0.12, maybe still not officially released?

Yes, it's already released, binaries just weren't created so far but one can build it from source.

There isn't a source tarball in the usual location, only github.

https://bitcoin.org/bin/ doesn't have it, and that directory is important to third party packagers because it provides checksum and a tarball that is easy to reference with full versioned url in source packages, Github doesn't.

I guess what I am saying is it is tagged, not released.

[ATguy]

no sticky for this? seems so underwhelmeing, i was expecting more enthusiasm for the 0.12, maybe still not officially released?

I would be more excited if there were not two features added:

RBF, Replace by Fee - which makes double spending trivial and does not protect users from not showing such transactions received only after 6 confirmations

Removing of free transactions policy - was good way to advertise Bitcoin to others as low/free transactions - so it might hurt adoption speed. Definitively together with growing unconfirmed transaction problems, it is wrong way to go imo

[achow101]

It's official now: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/02/23/release-0.12.0/

[calkob]

Some of the features in the new release are just awesome, the pruned mode is great.