Bitcoin Core: 0.12.0 release notes #1239

harding · Feb 18, 2016

Preview: http://dg1.dtrt.org/en/download

TODO:

Add release date. If released on Feb 19th, this just requires uncommenting the optional_date field in the YAML header
Add the magnet link. Instructions are provided near the bottom of the YAML header
Restart Travis CI when the files have been uploaded to Bitcoin.org/bin/ ; it will ensure all the paths are correct (right now it fails because the files haven't been uploaded yet). When it passes, this is safe to merge.

Note that this patch also drops the Jan2016 project statement and capacity-increases-related links from the Bitcoin.org/bitcoin-core main page as they were statically sorted, so so would've appeared higher in the listing than the 0.12.0 release announcement. The new website link is left in and placed above the 0.12.0 announcement so that people still go to the new website. Preview:

I've dropped my commit access on Bitcoin.org for busy-ness reasons, so someone else will have to merge this when appropriate. Also, if someone could tag this now as Releases and Bitcoin Core, that would be useful.

Missing brackets?

laanwj · Feb 19, 2016

utACK, also added the tags

Cobra-Bitcoin · Feb 20, 2016

Keeping an eye on this. Will merge when it looks like everything is ready (assuming someone doesn't beat me to it).

Michagogo · Feb 20, 2016

Should happen Monday or Tuesday, once @theuni is back from Hong Kong.

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Keeping an eye on this. Will merge when it looks like everything is ready
(assuming someone doesn't beat me to it).

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laanwj · Feb 23, 2016

Thanks David! I filled in the magnet link and uncommented the release date and pushed to:
https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/tree/bitcoin-core-0.12.0
(hope that triggers Travis)

Michagogo · Feb 23, 2016

It won't. The PR is on @harding's fork.

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Thanks David! I filled in the magnet link and uncommented the release date
and pushed to:
https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/tree/bitcoin-core-0.12.0

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laanwj · Feb 23, 2016

@Michagogo not here, but it does in https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/builds/111182266

laanwj · Feb 23, 2016

Not sure what's wrong:

- ./_site/en/bitcoin-core/features/user-interface.html
  *  internal image /img/screenshots/armory.png does not exist (line 405)
- ./_site/en/release/v0.12.0.html
  *  Tag n invalid
  *  internally linking to libsecp256k1.html, which does not exist (line 358)
/home/travis/build/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/html-proofer-2.1.0/lib/html/proofer.rb:179:in `print_failed_tests': HTML-Proofer found 3 failures! (RuntimeError)
    from /home/travis/build/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/html-proofer-2.1.0/lib/html/proofer.rb:81:in `run'
    from _contrib/bco-htmlproof:62:in `<main>'
make: *** [check-html-proofer] Error 1

Michagogo · Feb 23, 2016

Oh. Right. However it seems to be failing…

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laanwj · Feb 23, 2016

@Michagogo Right, I re-triggered it here to to see if this one passes thus whether the travis failure is my mistake.

This is wrong should be

[libsecp256k1](https://github.com/bitcoin/secp256k1)

laanwj · Feb 23, 2016

Pushed a new commit, hopefully it fixes those.

Cobra-Bitcoin · Feb 23, 2016

Ignore the "internal image /img/screenshots/armory.png does not exist (line 405)" error. That's fixed in e96bed7 so shouldn't be an issue.

btcdrak · Feb 23, 2016

This needs to get merged asap, announces are all out already.

laanwj · Feb 23, 2016

Still waiting for travis on https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/builds/111185186
If it passes (apart from the armory issue) it can be merged.

Bitcoin Core: 0.12.0 release notes

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+    +Note that the wallet in Bitcoin Core 0.12 does not yet have support for
+    +creating transactions that would be replaceable under BIP 125.
+    +
+    +
+    +RPC: Random-cookie RPC authentication
+    +-------------------------------------
+    +
+    +When no `-rpcpassword` is specified, the daemon now uses a special 'cookie'
+    +file for authentication. This file is generated with random content when the
+    +daemon starts, and deleted when it exits. Its contents are used as
+    +authentication token. Read access to this file controls who can access through
+    +RPC. By default it is stored in the data directory but its location can be
+    +overridden with the option `-rpccookiefile`.
+    +
+    +This is similar to Tor's CookieAuthentication: see
+    +https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en

+    +Because release 0.12.0 and later will obfuscate the chainstate on every
+    +fresh sync or reindex, the chainstate is not backwards-compatible with
+    +pre-0.12 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software.
+    +
+    +If you want to downgrade after you have done a reindex with 0.12.0 or later,
+    +you will need to reindex when you first start Bitcoin Core version 0.11 or
+    +earlier.
+    +
+    +Notable changes
+    +===============
+    +
+    +Signature validation using libsecp256k1
+    +---------------------------------------
+    +
+    +ECDSA signatures inside Bitcoin transactions now use validation using
+    +[https://github.com/bitcoin/secp256k1](libsecp256k1) instead of OpenSSL.

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