Bitcoin Core Version 0.9.2 Has Been Tagged For Release

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Freshly announced today by the Bitcoin Foundation is news of the release of Bitcoin Core, Version 0.9.2. (Update: the Foundation has removed their post, headline modified, as per Jeff Garzik.)

According to the Foundation, the release is mostly maintenance-oriented that addresses a number of “regressions” in version 0.9.0.

Here are the release notes exactly as they appear on the bitcoin Github page, located here:

RPC:

• Add getwalletinfo, getblockchaininfo and getnetworkinfo calls (will replace hodge-podge getinfo at some point)
• Add a relayfee field to getnetworkinfo
• Fix RPC related shutdown hangs and leaks
• Always show syncnode in getpeerinfo
• sendrawtransaction: report the reject code and reason, and make it possible to re-send transactions that are already in the mempool
• getmininginfo show right genproclimit

Command-line options:

• Fix -printblocktree output
• Show error message if ReadConfigFile fails

Block-chain handling and storage:

• Fix for GetBlockValue() after block 13,440,000 (BIP42)
• Upgrade leveldb to 1.17

Protocol and network code:

• Per-peer block download tracking and stalled download detection
• Add new DNS seed from bitnodes.io
• Prevent socket leak in ThreadSocketHandler and correct some proxy related socket leaks

Wallet:

• Make GetAvailableCredit run GetHash() only once per transaction (performance improvement)
• Lower paytxfee warning threshold from 0.25 BTC to 0.01 BTC
• Fix importwallet nTimeFirstKey (trigger necessary rescans)
• Log BerkeleyDB version at startup

Build system:

• Add OSX build descriptors to gitian
• Fix explicit –disable-qt-dbus
• Don’t require db_cxx.h when compiling with wallet disabled and GUI enabled
• Improve missing boost error reporting
• Upgrade miniupnpc version to 1.9
• gitian-linux: –enable-glibc-back-compat for binary compatibility with old distributions
• gitian: don’t export any symbols from executable
• gitian: build against Qt 4.6
• devtools: add script to check symbols from Linux gitian executables
• Remove build-time no-IPv6 setting

GUI:

• Fix various coin control visual issues
• Show number of in/out connections in debug console
• Show weeks as well as years behind for long timespans behind
• Enable and disable the Show and Remove buttons for requested payments history based on whether any entry is selected.
• Show also value for options overridden on command line in options dialog
• Fill in label from address book also for URIs
• Fixes feel when resizing the last column on tables (issue #2862)
• Fix ESC in disablewallet mode
• Add expert section to wallet tab in optionsdialog
• Do proper boost::path conversion (fixes unicode in datadir)
• Only override -datadir if different from the default (fixes -datadir in config file)
• Show rescan progress at start-up
• Show importwallet progress
• Get required locks upfront in polling functions (avoids hanging on locks)
• Catch Windows shutdown events while client is running
• Optionally add third party links to transaction context menu
• Check for !pixmap() before trying to export QR code (avoids crashes when no QR code could be generated)

Miscellaneous:

• Replace non-threadsafe C functions (gmtime, strerror and setlocale)
• Add missing cs_main and wallet locks
• Avoid exception at startup when system locale not recognized
• Changed bitrpc.py’s raw_input to getpass for passwords to conceal characters during command line input
• devtools: add a script to fetch and postprocess translations

Read the original post at the Bitcoin Foundation blog here.