Bitcoin-Qt / bitcoind version 0.8.0 released

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Alexander Kjeldaas
Andrey Alekseenko
Arnav Singh
Christian von Roques
Eric Lombrozo
Forrest Voight
Gavin Andresen
Gregory Maxwell
Jeff Garzik
Luke Dashjr
Matt Corallo
Mike Cassano
Mike Hearn
Peter Todd
Philip Kaufmann
Pieter Wuille
Richard Schwab
Robert Backhaus
Rune K. Svendsen
Sergio Demian Lerner
Wladimir J. van der Laan
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fanquake
grimd34th
justmoon
redshark1802
tucenaber
xanatos

You've added your grain of sand towards making the world a better, freer place.

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[LightRider]

Well done, thanks all!

[Luke-Jr]

Network upgrade status

[hazek]

Network upgrade status

If I have the release candidate installed should I update it as well? Is there a difference to the actual release?

[Timo Y]

Nice work. Amazing speed. Reindexing took only ~ 1 hour on win7x64/Intel i7-2600.

[dree12]

Network upgrade status

If I have the release candidate installed should I update it as well? Is there a difference to the actual release?

For something as serious as Bitcoin, I would assume no (important) changes between final RC and release. I haven't verified, however.

[Luke-Jr]

Network upgrade status

If I have the release candidate installed should I update it as well? Is there a difference to the actual release?

For something as serious as Bitcoin, I would assume no (important) changes between final RC and release. I haven't verified, however.

[Monday, February 18, 2013] [10:47:12 PM] <gavinandresen>       pull-tester will probably be unhappy, but I just tagged version 0.8.0
[Monday, February 18, 2013] [10:53:17 PM] <Luke-Jr>     gavinandresen: no rc2?
[Monday, February 18, 2013] [10:53:42 PM] <gavinandresen>       nope.  I'm living wild.

[keystroke]

Just upgraded from rc1. Working great so far on Windows 8.

[Dayofswords]

No PPA yet....

[grondilu]

I'm running it, watching the progress with:

Code:

$ tail -f ~/.bitcoin/debug.log

It looks amazingly fast.

[jl2012]

Do I need to update if I'm already running 0.8 rc1?

[alexanderanon]

"Mac and Windows binaries are signed with certificates owned by the Bitcoin
Foundation, to be compatible with the new security features in OSX 10.8 and
Windows 8."

Can somebody explain this please?

[Mike Hearn]

I don't think Windows 8 changes much actually, as it's not a Metro app, but the latest versions of MacOS X refuse to run unsigned code unless you go into settings and disable GateKeeper. Obviously, we don't want the instructions for running Bitcoin to involve disabling security systems, which is why the Foundation is now signing the binaries. If somebody tried to ship a fake Bitcoin that was actually a wallet stealer, it wouldn't be signed and GateKeeper would refuse to run it.

This sort of thing is obviously quite dangerous given Apples track record with the iPhone, but at least for now in its current form, GateKeeper does actually make people safer.

[Stapleddiet]

Upgraded no probs but left with a 14.5 gig file, took about 1 1/2hr. I have been on wireless for the last two years due to remoteness, upgraded ver as soon as they came out.
So as much as i hate it i have been a major leach on the system but thats about to change thanks to BTC I can get out of my shipping container into a new house.
Is there anyway to throttle how much bandwidth the client uses but stay online to seed something not full throttle all of the time?
Win7, 64bit
AMD Cpu 4core.
ATI 6950

[camolist]

peer bandwidth now seems to be the biggest bottleneck

testing on a windows 2008 server VM (1gb ram/8cpus that i get to use what is not in use by others/50mbit sec dedicated)

4 hours 20 minutes in 13800 blocks remaining


any ideas for downloading multiple blocks at a time from multiple peers?
say its on block 10000 and you are connected to 8 peers...why not download the next 8 one from each peer?

and seems i got stuck on a very slow peer for several blocks? (sub 1kb/sec)

sorry if there is logic like this already going on just ideas


going to let this windows vm finish syncing then delete it and switch over to Ubuntu and do the same. i have 50mbit/sec dedicated uploaded sitting around doing nothing. will put it on a dedicated ip and suggest it around to new users syncing

[Gavin Andresen]

A couple people asked if they need to upgrade if they are running rc1:  no, I wouldn't bother.

The only significant code change is better handling of the rare case of one of the leveldb database files being corrupted. If you're really curious, github will show you the differences between any two versions; here are the rc1 to 0.8.0 final release differences:  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/v0.8.0rc1...v0.8.0

[jgarzik]

As a companion release, the Bitcoin blockchain data torrent has been updated.

This torrent gives you a "bootstrap.dat" file.  If you are initializing a bitcoin client for the first time, drop bootstrap.dat into $DATADIR (your bitcoin data directory), and the bitcoin client will import all the block/transaction data found in that file.

P.S.  Long-term seeders are requested and welcome!  See thread linked above for details.

[sharky112065]

As a companion release, the Bitcoin blockchain data torrent has been updated.

This torrent gives you a "bootstrap.dat" file.  If you are initializing a bitcoin client for the first time, drop bootstrap.dat into $DATADIR (your bitcoin data directory), and the bitcoin client will import all the block/transaction data found in that file.

P.S.  Long-term seeders are requested and welcome!  See thread linked above for details.

Just added it to my seedbox and will let it go until a newer version is released.

[ajk]

Just downloaded and used A+ !!!,

Want to say thank you to everyone who takes the time to develop the bitcoin clients!, every update gets better and better and you guys are only doing great things for the community,

Best wishes to you and yours and again thank you for your hard work although some may not express it often there are many out there who appreciate everything you all are doing!.

Cheers!

[c0ldfusi0nz]

Does anyone know when the Ubuntu PPA will be updated?