Bitcoin 0.9.0 FINAL is available [Changelog] [Download]

[halfawake]

reindexing blockchain ... proove that you have many problem on your HDD.
i have installed the v0.9 on 2 computer (WinXP and Win8) = no indexing, no problem.

I suppose that's possible, it does take longer to boot up than it used to, although it's a 2.5 year old computer, so that's to be expected to some degree.  I did just run disk defragmenter the other day though, and it said my hard drive was only 1% fragmented.  Really the only program that's giving me occasional problems lately is a Firefox and I just figure that's because I have eight addons running, and probably about a thousand bookmarks by now.

Is anyone else having this problem with more recent version of bitcoin-qt?  It's up to 22 weeks behind now, so at the rate it's going, it should finish by the end of the day, so it's not the end of the world, just means the hard drive is getting a lot more activity than normal.

[smoothrunnings]

That worked, thank you. Next stumbling block: It seems the data directories for the blocks and wallet have changed? The client starts with 270 weeks back. Where can I set the datadir?

I didn't have to set my directory but this may help as a terminal command option  -datadir=<dir>         Specify data directory

Edit: I don't know if this has anything to do with it but you may have to install Berkley DB 4.8 but others here will know better than me about that. Don't do it based on my advice. I did to avoid the error I was getting when compiling my own.

Code:

./bitcoin-qt -datadir=/home/xyz/.bitcoin &

Worked like a charm for me.

As an added bonus there are now several more bitcoins in my wallet. Not sure what happened there, but judging from the time it took to start bitcoin core it must have done a re-scan and found same additional tx. (?)

Sorry does this mean that bitcoin-qt 0.9.0 doesn't automatically access the .bitcoin/bitcoin.conf file from the users home folder like 0.8.6 does?

Thanks,

[Radi777]

I was using 0.8.4 before.I uninstalled it using windows uninstaller.restarted comp.Then installed  0.9.0..Its up and running already with all info from previous version.Is this normal?I thought It was suppose to install the blockchain again?

Yes that is normal you only need to redownload/reindex the blockchain if you were using 0.7.2 or earlier.

That has NOT been the case for me.  I was using 0.8.6 and I got a message this morning from bitcoin-qt that it's going to have to reindex the entire blockchain.  It's telling me now that it's 51 weeks behind, I'm really not happy about this being necessary.  I'm pretty sure 0.8.6 was the most recent stable version before 0.9.0, which would mean that everyone using Windows 7 is having to reindex. 

Granted, I did not uninstall the old version like this poster did, but it looked like the installer said all I had to do was turn off bitcoin-qt, not uninstalling it completely.  So I followed the directions.

I have Windows 7...no problems here.
I turned it off, uninstalled it and then installed the new one...no problems, didn't index anything, it didn't even need to sync because I was already up to date on the 0.8.6.

[z0rr0]

It takes 18Gb already, am I right that to move data folder from C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming to another disc or location I should add bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=D:\ to a shortcut for example (on Win7)?
Thanks.

[arfeniel]

it seems that the new wallet not like folder with é or è 
I have an é in my folder name, and unable to install the file of the first launch on it. Other folders no problem

Seems a problem with UTF8 in file names. Strange. What OS?

Win 8.1 64bits

OK created an issue
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3916

I got the same issue but I'm on Windows 7 SP1 64bits.

[wumpus]

Sorry does this mean that bitcoin-qt 0.9.0 doesn't automatically access the .bitcoin/bitcoin.conf file from the users home folder like 0.8.6 does?

It does, but it doesn't parse -datadir specified in the configuration file currently (see issue https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3905).

The recommended way to use another data directory is to use -choosedatadir, which will store the data directory in the registry.

[DubFX]

Downloading...will put on feedback.

[teukon]

It takes 18Gb already, am I right that to move data folder from C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming to another disc or location I should add bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=D:\ to a shortcut for example (on Win7)?
Thanks.

No need for such wrapper scripts unless you have multiple copies of the block chain around.
Try passing -choosedatadir (once) to set the datadir in the registry.

[hensi]

whats the benefit of v0.9.0? n do blockchain.info users need to do anything?

[wumpus]

it seems that the new wallet not like folder with é or è  
I have an é in my folder name, and unable to install the file of the first launch on it. Other folders no problem

Seems a problem with UTF8 in file names. Strange. What OS?

Win 8.1 64bits

OK created an issue
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3916

I got the same issue but I'm on Windows 7 SP1 64bits.

@alphateam, arfeniel:
Can anyone suffering from the 'datadir cannot contain special characters' (when choosing datadir through GUI) problem help testing: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3935 ? A test build is available.

[Tjopper]

whats the benefit of v0.9.0? n do blockchain.info users need to do anything?

NO, your bitcoin installation is being handled by blockchain.info. However you should be running your own software.

[dserrano5]

I'm unable to configure 0.9.0:

Code:

$ ./configure --with-incompatible-bdb --without-gui
[…]
checking for boostlib >= 1.20.0... yes
checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_system... yes
checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_filesystem... yes
checking whether the Boost::Program_Options library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_program_options-mt... yes
checking whether the Boost::Thread library is available... no
checking whether the Boost::Chrono library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_chrono-mt... yes
checking whether the Boost::Unit_Test_Framework library is available... yes
checking for dynamic linked boost test... yes
configure: error: No working boost sleep implementation found. If on ubuntu 13.10 with libboost1.54-all-dev remove libboost.1.54-all-dev and use libboost1.53-all-dev

This seemed to be a problem in MacOS last year according to my searches, however I'm in linux amd64 so I'm not sure whether I'm finding the same problem or not. This is Debian wheezy, with boost 1.49. I'm working with bitcoin 0.9.0 as downloaded from https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/archive/v0.9.0.tar.gz. config.log is here.

[Meuh6879]

whats the benefit of v0.9.0 ?

READ CHANGELOG ...  
i do this BEFORE installing anything.

you is in a BITCOIN-QT thread.

[chek2fire]

We will see an official ubuntu package from ppa? I see this ppa adress that has the previous version of bticoin-qt


https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin

[pdawg]

Does Armory play nice with this version?

[wumpus]

This seemed to be a problem in MacOS last year according to my searches, however I'm in linux amd64 so I'm not sure whether I'm finding the same problem or not. This is Debian wheezy, with boost 1.49. I'm working with bitcoin 0.9.0 as downloaded from https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/archive/v0.9.0.tar.gz. config.log is

Main problem from config.log is:

Code:

/usr/include/boost/thread/xtime.hpp:23:5: error: expected identifier before numeric constant

That line is probably:

Code:

    TIME_UTC=1,

This causes a symbol collision in some environments with a libc++ macro.
Later boost versions changed this to TIME_UTC_.

I'm not sure what the proper way to resolve this is, apart from upgrading boost.

In any case this is a boost issue, it also appears on Google various places outside the context of building bitcoin. There are some workarounds:
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144593
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17599377/boost-error-trouble-compiling-xtime-hpp
- https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6940

[P_Shep]

The RC2 installed no problem, but on installing this release, Norton 360 threw this up:

Filename: uninstall.exe
Threat name: Suspicious.Cloud.9
Full Path: c:\program files\bitcoin\uninstall.exe

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[dserrano5]

Main problem from config.log is:

Code:

/usr/include/boost/thread/xtime.hpp:23:5: error: expected identifier before numeric constant

That line is probably:

Code:

    TIME_UTC=1,

This causes a symbol collision in some environments with a libc++ macro.
Later boost versions changed this to TIME_UTC_.

Thank you. Temporarily editing xtime.hpp as suggested in your first link did the trick for me.

[Tjopper]

Does Armory play nice with this version?

It plays nice if I put it in your words, however you need to change the installation dir manually because its not recognised because of the name change

[Tjopper]

The RC2 installed no problem, but on installing this release, Norton 360 threw this up:

Filename: uninstall.exe
Threat name: Suspicious.Cloud.9
Full Path: c:\program files\bitcoin\uninstall.exe

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Details
Unknown Community Usage,  Unknown Age,  Risk High





Origin
Downloaded from
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Activity
Actions performed: Actions performed: 1



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Last Used 
3/23/2014 at 12:23:57 PM


Startup Item 
No


Launched 
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It is unknown how many users in the Norton Community have used this file.

Unknown
This file release is currently not known.

High
This file risk is high.

Threat type: Heuristic Virus. Detection of a threat based on malware heuristics.



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Correct this is probably a WS.Reputation error ?
Thats pretty common with new realeases or new coins, because they were never used before

Always check what the "virus" is and google it. If you got it from the offcial location it is probably ok