Topic: Bitcoin Core 0.9.3 rc1 has been released - page 2. (Read 6037 times)

Sound good, no problem for now ... but it must pass the 48h of running time to rise in my mind. 

  On the run ... let's evaluate this if this build crash on WinXP like the 0.9.2.1  (please, no ! The 0.9.1 is rock stable, no crash at all)

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

Correct:

commit 84fe0ffd685627689bbbcd14cf419938f2a100b2
Author: Peter Todd <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Mar 10 16:38:44 2014 -0400

    Increase IsStandard() scriptSig length
   
    Removes the limits on number of pubkeys for P2SH CHECKMULTISIG outputs.
    Previously with the 500 byte scriptSig limit there were odd restrictions
    where even a 1-of-12 P2SH could be spent in a standard transaction(1),
    yet multisig scriptPubKey's requiring more signatures quickly ran out of
    scriptSig space.
   
    From a "stuff-data-in-the-blockchain" point of view not much has changed
    as with the prior commit now only allowing the dummy value to be null
    the newly allowed scriptSig space can only be used for signatures. In
    any case, just using more outputs is trivial and doesn't cost much.
   
    1) See 779b519480d8c5346de6e635119c7ee772e97ec872240c45e558f582a37b4b73
       Mined by BTC Guild.

how to upgrade on ubuntu when stable version released? I could just do "apt-get upgrade bitcoin"?

Great! Progress is a good thing 

Great! Is the increase in ScriptSig length to account for greater M and N values of M-of-N multisig transactions?

Not really. 0.9.2.1 is still the latest stable version. This is a release candidate, so is meant for testing.

Not to this minor release, which has only a very small number of fixes. He did sign the DMG and MacOSX binaries. He certainly still contributes to the next major version (what is in git master).

I can see Gavin is not among the thanks list. Does not he contribute anymore ?

I just downloaded earlier version on my Mac 3 hours ago, Do I need re-download all of them and delete earlier version? :/

that's a good news

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