Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 Release: Graceful Recovery
The Bitcoin Core development team released Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 on January 3. As a minor release, the latest version of the Bitcoin Core software features bug fixes and performance improvements. The most notable update is a change to wallet handling of mempool rejection. This enables more graceful recovery from specific edge cases where transactions....
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Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 has been released and is available from the Bitcoin website. This is a major version release that provides new features, as well as bug fixes. Upgrades include: a name change to Bitcoin Core; a faster wallet GUI; fixes relating to Transaction Malleability; improvements to blockchain handling and storage; a lower network relay fee; many protocol changes and optimizations. The Core Developers signed off the new release at 17h00 UTC on 18 March and conducted the binary building and security signing process in the 24 hours since. These key-signed binaries have been....
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Bitcoin Core 0.13.0, the thirteenth generation of Bitcoin's reference client as first launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost eight years ago, has now been tagged for release. This is one of the final steps in the software release process and initiates the Gitian build process. Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 was developed by some 100 contributors over a period of about five months. And while much of the development effort over this time has also been focused on Segregated Witness, which will be activated only in a future minor release of the software, Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 includes about a dozen notable....