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Bitcoin Core version 0.10.1 is now available from:

<https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.1/>

This is a new minor version release, bringing bug fixes and translation
updates. It is recommended to upgrade to this version.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:

<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>

Upgrading and downgrading
=========================

How to Upgrade
--------------

If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or
bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).

Downgrade warning
------------------

Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:

* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
anymore as a result of this.

* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.

If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.

This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility.

Notable changes
===============

This is a minor release and hence there are no notable changes.
For the notable changes in 0.10, refer to the release notes for the
0.10.0 release at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.10.0/doc/release-notes.md

0.10.1 Change log
=================

Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect external
behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.

RPC:
- `7f502be` fix crash: createmultisig and addmultisigaddress
- `eae305f` Fix missing lock in submitblock

Block (database) and transaction handling:
- `1d2cdd2` Fix InvalidateBlock to add chainActive.Tip to setBlockIndexCandidates
- `c91c660` fix InvalidateBlock to repopulate setBlockIndexCandidates
- `002c8a2` fix possible block db breakage during re-index
- `a1f425b` Add (optional) consistency check for the block chain data structures
- `1c62e84` Keep mempool consistent during block-reorgs
- `57d1f46` Fix CheckBlockIndex for reindex
- `bac6fca` Set nSequenceId when a block is fully linked

P2P protocol and network code:
- `78f64ef` don't trickle for whitelisted nodes
- `ca301bf` Reduce fingerprinting through timestamps in 'addr' messages.
- `200f293` Ignore getaddr messages on Outbound connections.
- `d5d8998` Limit message sizes before transfer
- `aeb9279` Better fingerprinting protection for non-main-chain getdatas.
- `cf0218f` Make addrman's bucket placement deterministic (countermeasure 1 against eclipse attacks, see http://cs-people.bu.edu/heilman/eclipse/)
- `0c6f334` Always use a 50% chance to choose between tried and new entries (countermeasure 2 against eclipse attacks)
- `214154e` Do not bias outgoing connections towards fresh addresses (countermeasure 2 against eclipse attacks)
- `aa587d4` Scale up addrman (countermeasure 6 against eclipse attacks)
- `139cd81` Cap nAttempts penalty at 8 and switch to pow instead of a division loop

Validation:
- `d148f62` Acquire CCheckQueue's lock to avoid race condition

Build system:
- `8752b5c` 0.10 fix for crashes on OSX 10.6

Wallet:
- N/A

GUI:
- `2c08406` some mac specifiy cleanup (memory handling, unnecessary code)
- `81145a6` fix OSX dock icon window reopening
- `786cf72` fix a issue where "command line options"-action overwrite "Preference"-action (on OSX)

Tests:
- `1117378` add RPC test for InvalidateBlock

Miscellaneous:
- `c9e022b` Initialization: set Boost path locale in main thread
- `23126a0` Sanitize command strings before logging them.
- `323de27` Initialization: setup environment before starting Qt tests
- `7494e09` Initialization: setup environment before starting tests
- `df45564` Initialization: set fallback locale as environment variable

Credits
=======

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

- Alex Morcos
- Cory Fields
- dexX7
- fsb4000
- Gavin Andresen
- Gregory Maxwell
- Ivan Pustogarov
- Jonas Schnelli
- Matt Corallo
- mrbandrews
- Pieter Wuille
- Ruben de Vries
- Suhas Daftuar
- Wladimir J. van der Laan

And all those who contributed additional code review and/or security research:
- 21E14
- Alison Kendler
- Aviv Zohar
- Ethan Heilman
- Evil-Knievel
- fanquake
- Jeff Garzik
- Jonas Nick
- Luke Dashjr
- Patrick Strateman
- Philip Kaufmann
- Sergio Demian Lerner
- Sharon Goldberg

As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
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Bitcoin Core version 0.10.2 is now available from:

<https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.2/>

This is a new minor version release, bringing minor bug fixes and translation
updates. It is recommended to upgrade to this version.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:

<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>

Upgrading and downgrading
=========================

How to Upgrade
--------------

If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or
bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).

Downgrade warning
------------------

Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:

* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
anymore as a result of this.

* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.

If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.

This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility.

Notable changes
===============

This fixes a serious problem on Windows with data directories that have non-ASCII
characters (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6078).

For other platforms there are no notable changes.

For the notable changes in 0.10, refer to the release notes
at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.10.0/doc/release-notes.md

0.10.2 Change log
=================

Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect external
behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.

Wallet:
- `824c011` fix boost::get usage with boost 1.58

Miscellaneous:
- `da65606` Avoid crash on start in TestBlockValidity with gen=1.
- `424ae66` don't imbue boost::filesystem::path with locale "C" on windows (fixes #6078)

Credits
=======

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

- Cory Fields
- Gregory Maxwell
- Jonas Schnelli
- Wladimir J. van der Laan

And all those who contributed additional code review and/or security research:

- dexX7
- Pieter Wuille
- vayvanne

As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
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Bitcoin Core version 0.10.3 is now available from:

<https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.3/>

This is a new minor version release, bringing security fixes and translation
updates. It is recommended to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:

<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>

Upgrading and downgrading
=========================

How to Upgrade
--------------

If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or
bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).

Downgrade warning
------------------

Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:

* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
anymore as a result of this.

* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.

If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.

This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility.

Notable changes
===============

Fix buffer overflow in bundled upnp
------------------------------------

Bundled miniupnpc was updated to 1.9.20151008. This fixes a buffer overflow in
the XML parser during initial network discovery.

Details can be found here: http://talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2015-0035/

This applies to the distributed executables only, not when building from source or
using distribution provided packages.

Additionally, upnp has been disabled by default. This may result in a lower
number of reachable nodes on IPv4, however this prevents future libupnpc
vulnerabilities from being a structural risk to the network
(see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6795).

Test for LowS signatures before relaying
-----------------------------------------

Make the node require the canonical 'low-s' encoding for ECDSA signatures when
relaying or mining. This removes a nuisance malleability vector.

Consensus behavior is unchanged.

If widely deployed this change would eliminate the last remaining known vector
for nuisance malleability on SIGHASH_ALL P2PKH transactions. On the down-side
it will block most transactions made by sufficiently out of date software.

Unlike the other avenues to change txids on transactions this
one was randomly violated by all deployed bitcoin software prior to
its discovery. So, while other malleability vectors where made
non-standard as soon as they were discovered, this one has remained
permitted. Even BIP62 did not propose applying this rule to
old version transactions, but conforming implementations have become
much more common since BIP62 was initially written.

Bitcoin Core has produced compatible signatures since a28fb70e in
September 2013, but this didn't make it into a release until 0.9
in March 2014; Bitcoinj has done so for a similar span of time.
Bitcoinjs and electrum have been more recently updated.

This does not replace the need for BIP62 or similar, as miners can
still cooperate to break transactions. Nor does it replace the
need for wallet software to handle malleability sanely[1]. This
only eliminates the cheap and irritating DOS attack.

[1] On the Malleability of Bitcoin Transactions
Marcin Andrychowicz, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski, Łukasz Mazurek
http://fc15.ifca.ai/preproceedings/bitcoin/paper_9.pdf

Minimum relay fee default increase
-----------------------------------

The default for the `-minrelaytxfee` setting has been increased from `0.00001`
to `0.00005`.

This is necessitated by the current transaction flooding, causing
outrageous memory usage on nodes due to the mempool ballooning. This is a
temporary measure, bridging the time until a dynamic method for determining
this fee is merged (which will be in 0.12).

(see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6793, as well as the 0.11.0
release notes, in which this value was suggested)

0.10.3 Change log
=================

Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect external
behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.

- #6186 `e4a7d51` Fix two problems in CSubnet parsing
- #6153 `ebd7d8d` Parameter interaction: disable upnp if -proxy set
- #6203 `ecc96f5` Remove P2SH coinbase flag, no longer interesting
- #6226 `181771b` json: fail read_string if string contains trailing garbage
- #6244 `09334e0` configure: Detect (and reject) LibreSSL
- #6276 `0fd8464` Fix getbalance * 0
- #6274 `be64204` Add option `-alerts` to opt out of alert system
- #6319 `3f55638` doc: update mailing list address
- #6438 `7e66e9c` openssl: avoid config file load/race
- #6439 `255eced` Updated URL location of netinstall for Debian
- #6412 `0739e6e` Test whether created sockets are select()able
- #6694 `f696ea1` [QT] fix thin space word wrap line brake issue
- #6704 `743cc9e` Backport bugfixes to 0.10
- #6769 `1cea6b0` Test LowS in standardness, removes nuisance malleability vector.
- #6789 `093d7b5` Update miniupnpc to 1.9.20151008
- #6795 `f2778e0` net: Disable upnp by default
- #6797 `91ef4d9` Do not store more than 200 timedata samples
- #6793 `842c48d` Bump minrelaytxfee default

Credits
=======

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

- Adam Weiss
- Alex Morcos
- Casey Rodarmor
- Cory Fields
- fanquake
- Gregory Maxwell
- Jonas Schnelli
- J Ross Nicoll
- Luke Dashjr
- Pavel Vasin
- Pieter Wuille
- randy-waterhouse
- ฿tcDrak
- Tom Harding
- Veres Lajos
- Wladimir J. van der Laan

And all those who contributed additional code review and/or security research:

- timothy on IRC for reporting the issue
- Vulnerability in miniupnp discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos

As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).

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