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This is a new minor version release, including important security updates and changes to network policies. All Dogecoin Core users, miners, services, relay operators and wallet users are strongly recommended to upgrade.

This release can be installed over an existing 1.14 installation seamlessly, without the need for uninstallation, re-indexation or re-download. Simply shut down your running Dogecoin-QT or dogecoind, perform the installation and restart your node.

Important Security Updates

This release contains fixes for 2 high severity vulnerabilities that affect most Dogecoin Core users:

Dogecoin QT (Graphical User Interface) users on all platforms and wallet users on the Linux platform are urged to please update their installations to this version immediately, to prevent malicious actors from exploiting these vulnerabilities.

Fee Reductions

This release finalizes a new minimum fee recommendation for all participants on the Dogecoin network, following the reduction of relay and mining defaults in 1.14.4. With this release, the minimum fees when creating transactions are recommended to be as follows:

  • the recommended minimum transaction fee is 0.01 DOGE/kb, and
  • the recommended dust limit is 1 DOGE, and
  • the recommended RBF increment is 0.001 DOGE.

See the full recommendation here

RPC API Changes

  • Added softdustlimit and harddustlimit fields to getnetworkinfo
  • Added createauxblock and submitauxblock methods
  • Added -rpcnamecoinapi that allows miners to use Namecoin-compatible AuxPoW APIs, for both getauxblock and createauxblock methods.

Other notable changes

  • Updated Berkely DB to 5.3 and OpenSSL to 1.0.2u.
  • The version displayed on QT's overview page has been changed to display the full version
  • Updated the HD wallet derivation path to be compliant with SLIP44
  • Updated the FreeBSD build.
  • Added xkbcommon 0.8.4 as a separate dependency to fix keyboard compatibility issues
  • Added a getting started guide

See the release notes for a full description of this release.

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