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Topic: [2014-09-27] Bitcoin Core v0.9.3 (Beta) (Read 2598 times)

legendary
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e-ducat.fr
September 30, 2014, 06:18:10 AM
#2
Thanks to the dev team: I will test this release today.
legendary
Activity: 1512
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September 27, 2014, 01:39:58 PM
#1
 https://bitcoin.org/en/download ou  https://bitcoin.org/bin   Smiley

Code:


0.9.3 Release notes
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RPC:
- Avoid a segfault on getblock if it can't read a block from disk
- Add paranoid return value checks in base58

Protocol and network code:
- Don't poll showmyip.com, it doesn't exist anymore
- Add a way to limit deserialized string lengths and use it
- Add a new checkpoint at block 295,000
- Increase IsStandard() scriptSig length
- Avoid querying DNS seeds, if we have open connections
- Remove a useless millisleep in socket handler
- Stricter memory limits on CNode
- Better orphan transaction handling
- Add `-maxorphantx=` and `-maxorphanblocks=` options for control over the maximum orphan transactions and blocks

Wallet:
- Check redeemScript size does not exceed 520 byte limit
- Ignore (and warn about) too-long redeemScripts while loading wallet

GUI:
- fix 'opens in testnet mode when presented with a BIP-72 link with no fallback'
- AvailableCoins: acquire cs_main mutex
- Fix unicode character display on MacOSX

Miscellaneous:
- key.cpp: fail with a friendlier message on missing ssl EC support
- Remove bignum dependency for scripts
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1i (see https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140806.txt - just to be sure, no critical issues for Bitcoin Core)
- Upgrade miniupnpc to 1.9.20140701
- Fix boost detection in build system on some platforms

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