Bitcoin-Qt / bitcoind version 0.8.4 released, fixes critical DoS vulnerability

[Boussac]

Updated on OSX and Win7 without a glitch. Many thanks to the dev team.

[Mike Hearn]

I think the Ubuntu PPA is maintained by Matt, whose credibility and honesty is above question.

[iamnightelf]

I upgraded to 0.8.4 on OS X 10.8 without issue, no DB corruption or whatnot, HOWEVER, now I made my first transaction since upgrading and I can't get the transaction to confirm, it has been 1.5 hours since the transaction and NOTHING... ZERO confirmations. It says the following: Status: 0/unconfirmed, broadcast through 119 nodes
Date: 9/5/13 13:04
Debit: -0.35 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.00004 BTC
Net amount: -0.35004 BTC
Transaction ID: eb61f51fe142ff46958cf1f98d31a1a5cdbcab4a766b711fc9f2fb8e2cb4504f

The transaction was .35 btc and I payed a .00004 fee to the network and it is stuck... I look up the transaction id and it doesn't exist...
I just lost my bitcoin, what can I do?

I don't have anymore coins to try another transaction and I am really bummed out about this

[gmaxwell]

I upgraded to 0.8.4 on OS X 10.8 without issue, no DB corruption or whatnot, HOWEVER, now I made my first transaction since upgrading and I can't get the transaction to confirm, it has been 1.5 hours since the transaction and NOTHING... ZERO confirmations. It says the following: Status: 0/unconfirmed, broadcast

Your transaction should be fine if you just leave your node running it will rebroadcast it periodically.

To be more sure about it, open up the debug console (help -> debug -> console) and type

getrawtransaction <txid> 1

e.g.

getrawtransaction eb61f51fe142ff46958cf1f98d31a1a5cdbcab4a766b711fc9f2fb8e2cb4504f 1

And paste the result and we can look at the transaction and potentially rebroadcast it.

[iamnightelf]

I upgraded to 0.8.4 on OS X 10.8 without issue, no DB corruption or whatnot, HOWEVER, now I made my first transaction since upgrading and I can't get the transaction to confirm, it has been 1.5 hours since the transaction and NOTHING... ZERO confirmations. It says the following: Status: 0/unconfirmed, broadcast

Your transaction should be fine if you just leave your node running it will rebroadcast it periodically.

To be more sure about it, open up the debug console (help -> debug -> console) and type

getrawtransaction <txid> 1

e.g.

getrawtransaction eb61f51fe142ff46958cf1f98d31a1a5cdbcab4a766b711fc9f2fb8e2cb4504f 1

And paste the result and we can look at the transaction and potentially rebroadcast it.

Thank you for your assistance, I appreciate it immensely!

14:54:35

redacted to prevent any issues

[gmaxwell]

Thank you for your assistance, I appreciate it immensely!

The transaction looks fine, I don't see any reason it wouldn't have been relayed by all nodes— perhaps you had a network burp at the wrong moment, and it would have handled it fine with a retransmission.

I went ahead and rebroadcasted your transaction... (by running sendrawtransaction <hex>) and see it on a couple nodes.

[BitDreams]

Crashes on Synchronizing. Using Win7 pro, when i install and run the application kills Security Essentials.

I purchased some block erupters and can't install the software for those either. At this point I've got no working wallet software and no working mining software.

Edit: uninstalled anything I could find bitcoin related. Cleaned up registry, rebooted and I'm back to Sync wallet. It crashed Microsoft Security Essentials again so I'm just leaving it off while the Wallet syncs up.

[gmaxwell]

Crashes on Synchronizing. Using Win7 pro, when i install and run the application kills Security Essentials.

What does "kills Security Essentials" mean? Do you get a error message?

[QuantPlus]

Nice to see comprehensive upgrades of Bitcoin rolling out like clockwork.

[BitDreams]

Crashes on Synchronizing. Using Win7 pro, when i install and run the application kills Security Essentials.

What does "kills Security Essentials" mean? Do you get a error message?

'Security Essentials has stopped working', after fiddling, it appears that SE didn't have the latest virus definitions and would stop working during any scans. This was coincident with installing the latest wallet as linked above. I've already removed anything I could find on this computer relating to bitcoin. I believe when I first DL Bitcoin Wallet and initialized the application it was about 7 weeks behind the network and during the synchronization, when I got the first message (Security Essentials has stopped working). Rebooted, the anti-virus started up normally, ran bitcoin the AV crashed - 'stopped working' again, but this time i was only 4 weeks behind synchronizing with network. Rebooted again, got SE to update virus definitions and I'm back attempting to synchronize with the network again.

Here's where I am with the Synchronizing now... 250723 of 256455 (estimated) 8 active connections to bitcoin network, version located in registry is 0.8.4, (i searched registry for 'bitcoin' and only find references to Bitcoin-qt.exe just to see if there's any remnants of previous installs)

Have to go out for a couple of hours and I'm leaving the wallet up to see if it will sync.

*corrected the estimated blocks. It's been an hour, synchronizing won't go past 250723. Uninstalling the application.

[WhiteBeard]

Thanks, guys!  Upgraded and running without a hitch...

[atomium]

There seems to be a major bug in the Mac version, it keeps showing and error in the database and makes me re-download the blockchain everytime I try to open the client. I had to revert back to the old version to be able to download the blockchain and access my wallet.

[polrpaul]

very nice and thank you very much!

[Gavin Andresen]

There seems to be a major bug in the Mac version, it keeps showing and error in the database and makes me re-download the blockchain everytime I try to open the client. I had to revert back to the old version to be able to download the blockchain and access my wallet.

Most likely explanation is one of your blockchain data files is corrupted, but the old version doesn't care. You might be serving up a corrupted blocks to anybody who downloads from you, but you wouldn't notice that either.

[atomium]

Oh I see, anything i can do fix this? Ive deleted the blockchain completely and redownloaded and still the same. anyway to know for sure if ive deleted it completely so I could download again?

[Lucano]

Thank you Gavin !! 

[Jinivij]

Upgraded on a OS X 10.8. No problems whatsoever.

Thanks to everyone involved

[Jace]

Gavin or anyone else, still curious about this:

Checkpoint at block 250,000 to speed up initial block downloads
and make the progress indicator when downloading more accurate.

What does this mean? Does it contain or download a truncated version of the blockchain (well, the first 250K blocks) or...?

[jgarzik]

Gavin or anyone else, still curious about this:

Checkpoint at block 250,000 to speed up initial block downloads
and make the progress indicator when downloading more accurate.

What does this mean? Does it contain or download a truncated version of the blockchain (well, the first 250K blocks) or...?

See http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1797/what-are-checkpoints

[Boussac]

For the sake of completeness, I should mention that my upgrade on OSX 10.7.5 from the 0.8.3 version to this new 0.8.4 triggered a re-indexation of my blockchain files (OP mentioned only 0.7.2 or earlier).