v0.13.0.0
First major release since 0.9 which incorporate many changes the most note worth of which are listed below.
- BIP9 Version Bits which starts on block 2120000
- Segregated Witness BIP9 Soft Fork
- Elimination of unwanted transaction malleability
- Capacity increase
- Weighting data based on how it affects node performance
- Signature covers value
- Linear scaling of sighash operations
- Increased security for multisig
- More efficient almost-full-node security
- Script versioning
- CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY BIP9 Soft Fork
- CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY Legacy Soft Fork
- Faster synchronization
- Compact Block support
- Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation
- Dynamic transaction fee
- RPC Access Control Changes
-rpcallowip=192.168.1.*
becomes-rpcallowip=192.168.1.0/24
-rpcallowip=*
becomes-rpcallowip=::/0
- REST interface with
-rest
flag - Watch-only wallet support
- Block file pruning
- Memory usage optimization
- Reduce upload traffic
- Direct headers announcement
- Notifications through ZMQ