Topic: Ready for testing: 0.7.1 release candidate 1 - page 2. (Read 6951 times)

It dies on my 10.5.8 mac with this trap:


Same problem for the 0.7.0  release.

spiccioli

In IRC, we've started working on the torrent for bootstrapping.

jgarzik and I each took our block databases and generated bootstrap.dat files from them, starting from the genesis block and going through (including) the last checkpointed block, 193,001 blocks in total.  The bootstrap.dat has ONLY the valid blocks in it (no orphans), all blocks are in sequential order, and there are is no "extra" data in the file between any blocks.

We used two totally different scripts and our own privately downloaded blockchains as the starting points.  After an initial disagreement on whether to end with the checkpointed block, or the block before the checkpoint, we now have perfect agreement of size and hash.  We expected this, because the bitcoin client verifies all of this data too, but it was still nice when it worked.

He has created a torrent file and a magnet URL, he'll be posting it and making the announcement when everything is ready.  Apparently it takes a while for the DHT system to sync up.

The file size and SHA256 hash of the file are below. 

Awesome, this will come in handy!

running for 8 hours on Windows7, seems fine.

Bitcoin version 0.7.1 release candidate 1 is now available from:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.1/test/

This is a bug-fix minor release.

New features
------------

* Added a boolean argument to the RPC 'stop' command, if true sets
  -detachdb to create standalone database .dat files before shutting down.

* -salvagewallet command-line option, which moves any existing wallet.dat
  to wallet.{timestamp}.dat and then attempts to salvage public/private
  keys and master encryption keys (if the wallet is encrypted) into
  a new wallet.dat. This should only be used if your wallet becomes
  corrupted, and is not intended to replace regular wallet backups.

* Import $DataDir/bootstrap.dat automatically, if it exists.

Dependency changes
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* Qt 4.8.2 for Windows builds

* openssl 1.0.1c

Bug fixes
---------

* Clicking on a bitcoin: URI on Windows should now launch Bitcoin-Qt properly.

* When running -testnet, use RPC port 18332 by default.

* Better detection and handling of corrupt wallet.dat and blkindex.dat files.
  Previous versions would crash with a DB_RUNRECOVERY exception, this
  version detects most problems and tells you how to recover if it
  cannot recover itself.

* Fixed an uninitialized variable bug that could cause transactions to
  be reported out of order.

* Fixed a bug that could cause occasional crashes on exit.

* Warn the user that they need to create fresh wallet backups after they
  encrypt their wallet.