Topic: Bitcoin Core 0.9.3 rc1 has been released (Read 5996 times)

The last time it took ~ 2 months.

Is this the latest version of the Bitcoincore -qt?

nope ... always crash after 33h ... without warning (WinXP SP3 with all availables updates).

You will have to wait for the repo [1] to be updated. AFAIK the person looking after it does so pretty fast.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin

No ... after 19 hours of run ... it's crash without a debuglog entry (or error box displayed).
Like the 0.9.2 and 0.9.2.1  

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Thanks gotta download it rightway,I have to re-download the blockchain once again or it does merges with previous version i have installed

Bitcoin Core version 0.9.3rc1 is now available from:

  https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.3/test/

This is a release candidate (test version) for a new minor version release, bringing
only bug fixes and updated translations.

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).

If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you run
0.9.3 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from
30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine.

Downgrading warnings
--------------------

The 'chainstate' for this release is not always compatible with previous
releases, so if you run 0.9.x and then decide to switch back to a
0.8.x release you might get a blockchain validation error when starting the
old release (due to 'pruned outputs' being omitted from the index of
unspent transaction outputs).

Running the old release with the -reindex option will rebuild the chainstate
data structures and correct the problem.

Also, the first time you run a 0.8.x release on a 0.9 wallet it will rescan
the blockchain for missing spent coins, which will take a long time (tens
of minutes on a typical machine).

0.9.3 Release notes
=======================

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

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

Credits
--------

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

- Andrew Poelstra
- Cory Fields
- Jeff Garzik
- Johnathan Corgan
- Julian Haight
- Michael Ford
- Pavel Vasin
- Peter Todd
- Pieter Wuille
- Rose Toomey
- Ruben Dario Ponticelli
- Trevin Hofmann
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
- Zak Wilcox

As well as everyone that helped translating on Transifex