Bitcoin Unlimited release 1.7.0.0
This is a major release of Bitcoin Unlimited compatible with the upcoming protocol upgrade of the Bitcoin Cash network. You could find
November 15th, 2019 upgrade specifications here:
- https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org/blob/master/spec/2019-11-15-upgrade.md (Nov 15th '19 Protocol Upgrade, bucash 1.7.0)
The following is a list of the previuos network upgrades specifications:
- https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org/blob/master/spec/uahf-technical-spec.md (Aug 1st '17, ver 1.1.0.0)
- https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org/blob/master/spec/nov-13-hardfork-spec.md (Nov 13th '17, ver 1.1.2.0)
- https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org/blob/master/spec/may-2018-hardfork.md (May 15th '18, ver 1.3.0.0, 1.3.0.1, 1.4.0.0)
- https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org/blob/master/spec/2018-nov-upgrade.md (Nov 15th '18, ver 1.5.0.0, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.1.0)
- https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org/blob/master/spec/2019-05-15-upgrade.md (May 15th '19, ver 1.6.0.0)
Main Changes in 1.7.0
This is list of the main changes that have been merged in this release:
- Mempool synchronization via Graphene primitives
- Intelligent unconfirmed transaction forwarding
- Child-Pay-For-Parent implementation based on Ancestor Grouped Transactions (AGT)
- Graphene ver 2.1 and IBLT specifications
- New dead-lock detection mechanism
- New getblockstats rpc call
- ElectrsCash v1.0 (release notes)
- QA improvements
- Schnorr multisignature (Nov 15th' 2019 upgrade)
- Enforce minimal data push at the consensus layer (Nov 15th' 2019 upgrade).
- Transaction index database improvements
- Add transaction rate trend graph in Qt debug dialog