Update release notes for 1.14 (#1464)

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+Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 is now available from:
+
+  https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.10.0/
+
+This is a new major version release, bringing both new features and
+bug fixes.
+
+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).
+
+Downgrading warning
+---------------------
+
+Because release 0.10.0 makes use of headers-first synchronization and parallel
+block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
+backwards-compatible with older versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
+
+* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
+received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
+other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
+anymore as a result of this.
+
+* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
+stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.
+
+If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
+directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
+bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
+synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
+supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.
+
+This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility.
+
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+Faster synchronization
+----------------------
+
+Bitcoin Core now uses 'headers-first synchronization'. This means that we first
+ask peers for block headers (a total of 27 megabytes, as of December 2014) and
+validate those. In a second stage, when the headers have been discovered, we
+download the blocks. However, as we already know about the whole chain in
+advance, the blocks can be downloaded in parallel from all available peers.
+
+In practice, this means a much faster and more robust synchronization. On
+recent hardware with a decent network link, it can be as little as 3 hours
+for an initial full synchronization. You may notice a slower progress in the
+very first few minutes, when headers are still being fetched and verified, but
+it should gain speed afterwards.
+
+A few RPCs were added/updated as a result of this:
+- `getblockchaininfo` now returns the number of validated headers in addition to
+the number of validated blocks.
+- `getpeerinfo` lists both the number of blocks and headers we know we have in
+common with each peer. While synchronizing, the heights of the blocks that we
+have requested from peers (but haven't received yet) are also listed as
+'inflight'.
+- A new RPC `getchaintips` lists all known branches of the block chain,
+including those we only have headers for.
+
+Transaction fee changes
+-----------------------
+
+This release automatically estimates how high a transaction fee (or how
+high a priority) transactions require to be confirmed quickly. The default
+settings will create transactions that confirm quickly; see the new
+'txconfirmtarget' setting to control the tradeoff between fees and
+confirmation times. Fees are added by default unless the 'sendfreetransactions' 
+setting is enabled.
+
+Prior releases used hard-coded fees (and priorities), and would
+sometimes create transactions that took a very long time to confirm.
+
+Statistics used to estimate fees and priorities are saved in the
+data directory in the `fee_estimates.dat` file just before
+program shutdown, and are read in at startup.
+
+New command line options for transaction fee changes:
+- `-txconfirmtarget=n` : create transactions that have enough fees (or priority)
+so they are likely to begin confirmation within n blocks (default: 1). This setting
+is over-ridden by the -paytxfee option.
+- `-sendfreetransactions` : Send transactions as zero-fee transactions if possible 
+(default: 0)
+
+New RPC commands for fee estimation:
+- `estimatefee nblocks` : Returns approximate fee-per-1,000-bytes needed for
+a transaction to begin confirmation within nblocks. Returns -1 if not enough
+transactions have been observed to compute a good estimate.
+- `estimatepriority nblocks` : Returns approximate priority needed for
+a zero-fee transaction to begin confirmation within nblocks. Returns -1 if not
+enough free transactions have been observed to compute a good
+estimate.
+
+RPC access control changes
+--------------------------
+
+Subnet matching for the purpose of access control is now done
+by matching the binary network address, instead of with string wildcard matching.
+For the user this means that `-rpcallowip` takes a subnet specification, which can be
+
+- a single IP address (e.g. `1.2.3.4` or `fe80::0012:3456:789a:bcde`)
+- a network/CIDR (e.g. `1.2.3.0/24` or `fe80::0000/64`)
+- a network/netmask (e.g. `1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0` or `fe80::0012:3456:789a:bcde/ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff`)
+
+An arbitrary number of `-rpcallow` arguments can be given. An incoming connection will be accepted if its origin address
+matches one of them.
+
+For example:
+
+| 0.9.x and before                           | 0.10.x                                |
+|--------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
+| `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.1`                  | `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.1` (unchanged) |
+| `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.*`                  | `-rpcallowip=192.168.1.0/24`          |
+| `-rpcallowip=192.168.*`                    | `-rpcallowip=192.168.0.0/16`          |
+| `-rpcallowip=*` (dangerous!)               | `-rpcallowip=::/0` (still dangerous!) |
+
+Using wildcards will result in the rule being rejected with the following error in debug.log:
+
+    Error: Invalid -rpcallowip subnet specification: *. Valid are a single IP (e.g. 1.2.3.4), a network/netmask (e.g. 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0) or a network/CIDR (e.g. 1.2.3.4/24).
+
+
+REST interface
+--------------
+
+A new HTTP API is exposed when running with the `-rest` flag, which allows
+unauthenticated access to public node data.
+
+It is served on the same port as RPC, but does not need a password, and uses
+plain HTTP instead of JSON-RPC.
+
+Assuming a local RPC server running on port 8332, it is possible to request:
+- Blocks: http://localhost:8332/rest/block/*HASH*.*EXT*
+- Blocks without transactions: http://localhost:8332/rest/block/notxdetails/*HASH*.*EXT*
+- Transactions (requires `-txindex`): http://localhost:8332/rest/tx/*HASH*.*EXT*
+
+In every case, *EXT* can be `bin` (for raw binary data), `hex` (for hex-encoded
+binary) or `json`.
+
+For more details, see the `doc/REST-interface.md` document in the repository.
+
+RPC Server "Warm-Up" Mode
+-------------------------
+
+The RPC server is started earlier now, before most of the expensive
+intialisations like loading the block index.  It is available now almost
+immediately after starting the process.  However, until all initialisations
+are done, it always returns an immediate error with code -28 to all calls.
+
+This new behaviour can be useful for clients to know that a server is already
+started and will be available soon (for instance, so that they do not
+have to start it themselves).
+
+Improved signing security
+-------------------------
+
+For 0.10 the security of signing against unusual attacks has been
+improved by making the signatures constant time and deterministic.
+
+This change is a result of switching signing to use libsecp256k1
+instead of OpenSSL. Libsecp256k1 is a cryptographic library
+optimized for the curve Bitcoin uses which was created by Bitcoin
+Core developer Pieter Wuille.
+
+There exist attacks[1] against most ECC implementations where an
+attacker on shared virtual machine hardware could extract a private
+key if they could cause a target to sign using the same key hundreds
+of times. While using shared hosts and reusing keys are inadvisable
+for other reasons, it's a better practice to avoid the exposure.
+
+OpenSSL has code in their source repository for derandomization
+and reduction in timing leaks that we've eagerly wanted to use for a
+long time, but this functionality has still not made its
+way into a released version of OpenSSL. Libsecp256k1 achieves
+significantly stronger protection: As far as we're aware this is
+the only deployed implementation of constant time signing for
+the curve Bitcoin uses and we have reason to believe that
+libsecp256k1 is better tested and more thoroughly reviewed
+than the implementation in OpenSSL.
+
+[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/161.pdf
+
+Watch-only wallet support
+-------------------------
+
+The wallet can now track transactions to and from wallets for which you know
+all addresses (or scripts), even without the private keys.
+
+This can be used to track payments without needing the private keys online on a
+possibly vulnerable system. In addition, it can help for (manual) construction
+of multisig transactions where you are only one of the signers.
+
+One new RPC, `importaddress`, is added which functions similarly to
+`importprivkey`, but instead takes an address or script (in hexadecimal) as
+argument.  After using it, outputs credited to this address or script are
+considered to be received, and transactions consuming these outputs will be
+considered to be sent.
+
+The following RPCs have optional support for watch-only:
+`getbalance`, `listreceivedbyaddress`, `listreceivedbyaccount`,
+`listtransactions`, `listaccounts`, `listsinceblock`, `gettransaction`. See the
+RPC documentation for those methods for more information.
+
+Compared to using `getrawtransaction`, this mechanism does not require
+`-txindex`, scales better, integrates better with the wallet, and is compatible
+with future block chain pruning functionality. It does mean that all relevant
+addresses need to added to the wallet before the payment, though.
+
+Consensus library
+-----------------
+
+Starting from 0.10.0, the Bitcoin Core distribution includes a consensus library.
+
+The purpose of this library is to make the verification functionality that is
+critical to Bitcoin's consensus available to other applications, e.g. to language
+bindings such as [python-bitcoinlib](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bitcoinlib) or
+alternative node implementations.
+
+This library is called `libbitcoinconsensus.so` (or, `.dll` for Windows).
+Its interface is defined in the C header [bitcoinconsensus.h](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.10/src/script/bitcoinconsensus.h).
+
+In its initial version the API includes two functions:
+
+- `bitcoinconsensus_verify_script` verifies a script. It returns whether the indicated input of the provided serialized transaction 
+correctly spends the passed scriptPubKey under additional constraints indicated by flags
+- `bitcoinconsensus_version` returns the API version, currently at an experimental `0`
+
+The functionality is planned to be extended to e.g. UTXO management in upcoming releases, but the interface
+for existing methods should remain stable.
+
+Standard script rules relaxed for P2SH addresses
+------------------------------------------------
+
+The IsStandard() rules have been almost completely removed for P2SH
+redemption scripts, allowing applications to make use of any valid
+script type, such as "n-of-m OR y", hash-locked oracle addresses, etc.
+While the Bitcoin protocol has always supported these types of script,
+actually using them on mainnet has been previously inconvenient as
+standard Bitcoin Core nodes wouldn't relay them to miners, nor would
+most miners include them in blocks they mined.
+
+bitcoin-tx
+----------
+
+It has been observed that many of the RPC functions offered by bitcoind are
+"pure functions", and operate independently of the bitcoind wallet. This
+included many of the RPC "raw transaction" API functions, such as
+createrawtransaction.
+
+bitcoin-tx is a newly introduced command line utility designed to enable easy
+manipulation of bitcoin transactions. A summary of its operation may be
+obtained via "bitcoin-tx --help" Transactions may be created or signed in a
+manner similar to the RPC raw tx API. Transactions may be updated, deleting
+inputs or outputs, or appending new inputs and outputs. Custom scripts may be
+easily composed using a simple text notation, borrowed from the bitcoin test
+suite.
+
+This tool may be used for experimenting with new transaction types, signing
+multi-party transactions, and many other uses. Long term, the goal is to
+deprecate and remove "pure function" RPC API calls, as those do not require a
+server round-trip to execute.
+
+Other utilities "bitcoin-key" and "bitcoin-script" have been proposed, making
+key and script operations easily accessible via command line.
+
+Mining and relay policy enhancements
+------------------------------------
+
+Bitcoin Core's block templates are now for version 3 blocks only, and any mining
+software relying on its `getblocktemplate` must be updated in parallel to use
+libblkmaker either version 0.4.2 or any version from 0.5.1 onward.
+If you are solo mining, this will affect you the moment you upgrade Bitcoin
+Core, which must be done prior to BIP66 achieving its 951/1001 status.
+If you are mining with the stratum mining protocol: this does not affect you.
+If you are mining with the getblocktemplate protocol to a pool: this will affect
+you at the pool operator's discretion, which must be no later than BIP66
+achieving its 951/1001 status.
+
+The `prioritisetransaction` RPC method has been added to enable miners to
+manipulate the priority of transactions on an individual basis.
+
+Bitcoin Core now supports BIP 22 long polling, so mining software can be
+notified immediately of new templates rather than having to poll periodically.
+
+Support for BIP 23 block proposals is now available in Bitcoin Core's
+`getblocktemplate` method. This enables miners to check the basic validity of
+their next block before expending work on it, reducing risks of accidental
+hardforks or mining invalid blocks.
+
+Two new options to control mining policy:
+- `-datacarrier=0/1` : Relay and mine "data carrier" (OP_RETURN) transactions
+if this is 1.
+- `-datacarriersize=n` : Maximum size, in bytes, we consider acceptable for
+"data carrier" outputs.
+
+The relay policy has changed to more properly implement the desired behavior of not 
+relaying free (or very low fee) transactions unless they have a priority above the 
+AllowFreeThreshold(), in which case they are relayed subject to the rate limiter.
+
+BIP 66: strict DER encoding for signatures
+------------------------------------------
+
+Bitcoin Core 0.10 implements BIP 66, which introduces block version 3, and a new
+consensus rule, which prohibits non-DER signatures. Such transactions have been
+non-standard since Bitcoin v0.8.0 (released in February 2013), but were
+technically still permitted inside blocks.
+
+This change breaks the dependency on OpenSSL's signature parsing, and is
+required if implementations would want to remove all of OpenSSL from the
+consensus code.
+
+The same miner-voting mechanism as in BIP 34 is used: when 751 out of a
+sequence of 1001 blocks have version number 3 or higher, the new consensus
+rule becomes active for those blocks. When 951 out of a sequence of 1001
+blocks have version number 3 or higher, it becomes mandatory for all blocks.
+
+Backward compatibility with current mining software is NOT provided, thus miners
+should read the first paragraph of "Mining and relay policy enhancements" above.
+
+0.10.0 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect external
+behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.
+
+RPC:
+- `f923c07` Support IPv6 lookup in bitcoin-cli even when IPv6 only bound on localhost
+- `b641c9c` Fix addnode "onetry": Connect with OpenNetworkConnection
+- `171ca77` estimatefee / estimatepriority RPC methods
+- `b750cf1` Remove cli functionality from bitcoind
+- `f6984e8` Add "chain" to getmininginfo, improve help in getblockchaininfo
+- `99ddc6c` Add nLocalServices info to RPC getinfo
+- `cf0c47b` Remove getwork() RPC call
+- `2a72d45` prioritisetransaction <txid> <priority delta> <priority tx fee>
+- `e44fea5` Add an option `-datacarrier` to allow users to disable relaying/mining data carrier transactions
+- `2ec5a3d` Prevent easy RPC memory exhaustion attack
+- `d4640d7` Added argument to getbalance to include watchonly addresses and fixed errors in balance calculation
+- `83f3543` Added argument to listaccounts to include watchonly addresses
+- `952877e` Showing 'involvesWatchonly' property for transactions returned by 'listtransactions' and 'listsinceblock'. It is only appended when the transaction involves a watchonly address
+- `d7d5d23` Added argument to listtransactions and listsinceblock to include watchonly addresses
+- `f87ba3d` added includeWatchonly argument to 'gettransaction' because it affects balance calculation
+- `0fa2f88` added includedWatchonly argument to listreceivedbyaddress/...account
+- `6c37f7f` `getrawchangeaddress`: fail when keypool exhausted and wallet locked
+- `ff6a7af` getblocktemplate: longpolling support
+- `c4a321f` Add peerid to getpeerinfo to allow correlation with the logs
+- `1b4568c` Add vout to ListTransactions output
+- `b33bd7a` Implement "getchaintips" RPC command to monitor blockchain forks
+- `733177e` Remove size limit in RPC client, keep it in server
+- `6b5b7cb` Categorize rpc help overview
+- `6f2c26a` Closely track mempool byte total. Add "getmempoolinfo" RPC
+- `aa82795` Add detailed network info to getnetworkinfo RPC
+- `01094bd` Don't reveal whether password is <20 or >20 characters in RPC
+- `57153d4` rpc: Compute number of confirmations of a block from block height
+- `ff36cbe` getnetworkinfo: export local node's client sub-version string
+- `d14d7de` SanitizeString: allow '(' and ')'
+- `31d6390` Fixed setaccount accepting foreign address
+- `b5ec5fe` update getnetworkinfo help with subversion
+- `ad6e601` RPC additions after headers-first
+- `33dfbf5` rpc: Fix leveldb iterator leak, and flush before `gettxoutsetinfo`
+- `2aa6329` Enable customising node policy for datacarrier data size with a -datacarriersize option
+- `f877aaa` submitblock: Use a temporary CValidationState to determine accurately the outcome of ProcessBlock
+- `e69a587` submitblock: Support for returning specific rejection reasons
+- `af82884` Add "warmup mode" for RPC server
+- `e2655e0` Add unauthenticated HTTP REST interface to public blockchain data
+- `683dc40` Disable SSLv3 (in favor of TLS) for the RPC client and server
+- `44b4c0d` signrawtransaction: validate private key
+- `9765a50` Implement BIP 23 Block Proposal
+- `f9de17e` Add warning comment to getinfo
+
+Command-line options:
+- `ee21912` Use netmasks instead of wildcards for IP address matching
+- `deb3572` Add `-rpcbind` option to allow binding RPC port on a specific interface
+- `96b733e` Add `-version` option to get just the version
+- `1569353` Add `-stopafterblockimport` option
+- `77cbd46` Let -zapwallettxes recover transaction meta data
+- `1c750db` remove -tor compatibility code (only allow -onion)
+- `4aaa017` rework help messages for fee-related options
+- `4278b1d` Clarify error message when invalid -rpcallowip
+- `6b407e4` -datadir is now allowed in config files
+- `bdd5b58` Add option `-sysperms` to disable 077 umask (create new files with system default umask)
+- `cbe39a3` Add "bitcoin-tx" command line utility and supporting modules
+- `dbca89b` Trigger -alertnotify if network is upgrading without you
+- `ad96e7c` Make -reindex cope with out-of-order blocks
+- `16d5194` Skip reindexed blocks individually
+- `ec01243` --tracerpc option for regression tests
+- `f654f00` Change -genproclimit default to 1
+- `3c77714` Make -proxy set all network types, avoiding a connect leak
+- `57be955` Remove -printblock, -printblocktree, and -printblockindex
+- `ad3d208` remove -maxorphanblocks config parameter since it is no longer functional
+
+Block and transaction handling:
+- `7a0e84d` ProcessGetData(): abort if a block file is missing from disk
+- `8c93bf4` LoadBlockIndexDB(): Require block db reindex if any `blk*.dat` files are missing
+- `77339e5` Get rid of the static chainMostWork (optimization)
+- `4e0eed8` Allow ActivateBestChain to release its lock on cs_main
+- `18e7216` Push cs_mains down in ProcessBlock
+- `fa126ef` Avoid undefined behavior using CFlatData in CScript serialization
+- `7f3b4e9` Relax IsStandard rules for pay-to-script-hash transactions
+- `c9a0918` Add a skiplist to the CBlockIndex structure
+- `bc42503` Use unordered_map for CCoinsViewCache with salted hash (optimization)
+- `d4d3fbd` Do not flush the cache after every block outside of IBD (optimization)
+- `ad08d0b` Bugfix: make CCoinsViewMemPool support pruned entries in underlying cache
+- `5734d4d` Only remove actualy failed blocks from setBlockIndexValid
+- `d70bc52` Rework block processing benchmark code
+- `714a3e6` Only keep setBlockIndexValid entries that are possible improvements
+- `ea100c7` Reduce maximum coinscache size during verification (reduce memory usage)
+- `4fad8e6` Reject transactions with excessive numbers of sigops
+- `b0875eb` Allow BatchWrite to destroy its input, reducing copying (optimization)
+- `92bb6f2` Bypass reloading blocks from disk (optimization)
+- `2e28031` Perform CVerifyDB on pcoinsdbview instead of pcoinsTip (reduce memory usage)
+- `ab15b2e` Avoid copying undo data (optimization)
+- `341735e` Headers-first synchronization
+- `afc32c5` Fix rebuild-chainstate feature and improve its performance
+- `e11b2ce` Fix large reorgs
+- `ed6d1a2` Keep information about all block files in memory
+- `a48f2d6` Abstract context-dependent block checking from acceptance
+- `7e615f5` Fixed mempool sync after sending a transaction
+- `51ce901` Improve chainstate/blockindex disk writing policy
+- `a206950` Introduce separate flushing modes
+- `9ec75c5` Add a locking mechanism to IsInitialBlockDownload to ensure it never goes from false to true
+- `868d041` Remove coinbase-dependant transactions during reorg
+- `723d12c` Remove txn which are invalidated by coinbase maturity during reorg
+- `0cb8763` Check against MANDATORY flags prior to accepting to mempool
+- `8446262` Reject headers that build on an invalid parent
+- `008138c` Bugfix: only track UTXO modification after lookup
+
+P2P protocol and network code:
+- `f80cffa` Do not trigger a DoS ban if SCRIPT_VERIFY_NULLDUMMY fails
+- `c30329a` Add testnet DNS seed of Alex Kotenko
+- `45a4baf` Add testnet DNS seed of Andreas Schildbach
+- `f1920e8` Ping automatically every 2 minutes (unconditionally)
+- `806fd19` Allocate receive buffers in on the fly
+- `6ecf3ed` Display unknown commands received
+- `aa81564` Track peers' available blocks
+- `caf6150` Use async name resolving to improve net thread responsiveness
+- `9f4da19` Use pong receive time rather than processing time
+- `0127a9b` remove SOCKS4 support from core and GUI, use SOCKS5
+- `40f5cb8` Send rejects and apply DoS scoring for errors in direct block validation
+- `dc942e6` Introduce whitelisted peers
+- `c994d2e` prevent SOCKET leak in BindListenPort()
+- `a60120e` Add built-in seeds for .onion
+- `60dc8e4` Allow -onlynet=onion to be used
+- `3a56de7` addrman: Do not propagate obviously poor addresses onto the network
+- `6050ab6` netbase: Make SOCKS5 negotiation interruptible
+- `604ee2a` Remove tx from AlreadyAskedFor list once we receive it, not when we process it
+- `efad808` Avoid reject message feedback loops
+- `71697f9` Separate protocol versioning from clientversion
+- `20a5f61` Don't relay alerts to peers before version negotiation
+- `b4ee0bd` Introduce preferred download peers
+- `845c86d` Do not use third party services for IP detection
+- `12a49ca` Limit the number of new addressses to accumulate
+- `35e408f` Regard connection failures as attempt for addrman
+- `a3a7317` Introduce 10 minute block download timeout
+- `3022e7d` Require sufficent priority for relay of free transactions
+- `58fda4d` Update seed IPs, based on bitcoin.sipa.be crawler data
+- `18021d0` Remove bitnodes.io from dnsseeds.
+
+Validation:
+- `6fd7ef2` Also switch the (unused) verification code to low-s instead of even-s
+- `584a358` Do merkle root and txid duplicates check simultaneously
+- `217a5c9` When transaction outputs exceed inputs, show the offending amounts so as to aid debugging
+- `f74fc9b` Print input index when signature validation fails, to aid debugging
+- `6fd59ee` script.h: set_vch() should shift a >32 bit value
+- `d752ba8` Add SCRIPT_VERIFY_SIGPUSHONLY (BIP62 rule 2) (test only)
+- `698c6ab` Add SCRIPT_VERIFY_MINIMALDATA (BIP62 rules 3 and 4) (test only)
+- `ab9edbd` script: create sane error return codes for script validation and remove logging
+- `219a147` script: check ScriptError values in script tests
+- `0391423` Discourage NOPs reserved for soft-fork upgrades
+- `98b135f` Make STRICTENC invalid pubkeys fail the script rather than the opcode
+- `307f7d4` Report script evaluation failures in log and reject messages
+- `ace39db` consensus: guard against openssl's new strict DER checks
+- `12b7c44` Improve robustness of DER recoding code
+- `76ce5c8` fail immediately on an empty signature
+
+Build system:
+- `f25e3ad` Fix build in OS X 10.9
+- `65e8ba4` build: Switch to non-recursive make
+- `460b32d` build: fix broken boost chrono check on some platforms
+- `9ce0774` build: Fix windows configure when using --with-qt-libdir
+- `ea96475` build: Add mention of --disable-wallet to bdb48 error messages
+- `1dec09b` depends: add shared dependency builder
+- `c101c76` build: Add --with-utils (bitcoin-cli and bitcoin-tx, default=yes). Help string consistency tweaks. Target sanity check fix
+- `e432a5f` build: add option for reducing exports (v2)
+- `6134b43` Fixing condition 'sabotaging' MSVC build
+- `af0bd5e` osx: fix signing to make Gatekeeper happy (again)
+- `a7d1f03` build: fix dynamic boost check when --with-boost= is used
+- `d5fd094` build: fix qt test build when libprotobuf is in a non-standard path
+- `2cf5f16` Add libbitcoinconsensus library
+- `914868a` build: add a deterministic dmg signer 
+- `2d375fe` depends: bump openssl to 1.0.1k
+- `b7a4ecc` Build: Only check for boost when building code that requires it
+
+Wallet:
+- `b33d1f5` Use fee/priority estimates in wallet CreateTransaction
+- `4b7b1bb` Sanity checks for estimates
+- `c898846` Add support for watch-only addresses
+- `d5087d1` Use script matching rather than destination matching for watch-only
+- `d88af56` Fee fixes
+- `a35b55b` Dont run full check every time we decrypt wallet
+- `3a7c348` Fix make_change to not create half-satoshis
+- `f606bb9` fix a possible memory leak in CWalletDB::Recover
+- `870da77` fix possible memory leaks in CWallet::EncryptWallet
+- `ccca27a` Watch-only fixes
+- `9b1627d` [Wallet] Reduce minTxFee for transaction creation to 1000 satoshis
+- `a53fd41` Deterministic signing
+- `15ad0b5` Apply AreSane() checks to the fees from the network
+- `11855c1` Enforce minRelayTxFee on wallet created tx and add a maxtxfee option
+
+GUI:
+- `c21c74b` osx: Fix missing dock menu with qt5
+- `b90711c` Fix Transaction details shows wrong To:
+- `516053c` Make links in 'About Bitcoin Core' clickable
+- `bdc83e8` Ensure payment request network matches client network
+- `65f78a1` Add GUI view of peer information
+- `06a91d9` VerifyDB progress reporting
+- `fe6bff2` Add BerkeleyDB version info to RPCConsole
+- `b917555` PeerTableModel: Fix potential deadlock. #4296
+- `dff0e3b` Improve rpc console history behavior
+- `95a9383` Remove CENT-fee-rule from coin control completely
+- `56b07d2` Allow setting listen via GUI
+- `d95ba75` Log messages with type>QtDebugMsg as non-debug
+- `8969828` New status bar Unit Display Control and related changes
+- `674c070` seed OpenSSL PNRG with Windows event data
+- `509f926` Payment request parsing on startup now only changes network if a valid network name is specified
+- `acd432b` Prevent balloon-spam after rescan
+- `7007402` Implement SI-style (thin space) thoudands separator
+- `91cce17` Use fixed-point arithmetic in amount spinbox
+- `bdba2dd` Remove an obscure option no-one cares about
+- `bd0aa10` Replace the temporary file hack currently used to change Bitcoin-Qt's dock icon (OS X) with a buffer-based solution
+- `94e1b9e` Re-work overviewpage UI
+- `8bfdc9a` Better looking trayicon
+- `b197bf3` disable tray interactions when client model set to 0
+- `1c5f0af` Add column Watch-only to transactions list
+- `21f139b` Fix tablet crash. closes #4854
+- `e84843c` Broken addresses on command line no longer trigger testnet
+- `a49f11d` Change splash screen to normal window
+- `1f9be98` Disable App Nap on OSX 10.9+
+- `27c3e91` Add proxy to options overridden if necessary
+- `4bd1185` Allow "emergency" shutdown during startup
+- `d52f072` Don't show wallet options in the preferences menu when running with -disablewallet
+- `6093aa1` Qt: QProgressBar CPU-Issue workaround
+- `0ed9675` [Wallet] Add global boolean whether to send free transactions (default=true)
+- `ed3e5e4` [Wallet] Add global boolean whether to pay at least the custom fee (default=true)
+- `e7876b2` [Wallet] Prevent user from paying a non-sense fee
+- `c1c9d5b` Add Smartfee to GUI
+- `e0a25c5` Make askpassphrase dialog behave more sanely
+- `94b362d` On close of splashscreen interrupt verifyDB
+- `b790d13` English translation update
+- `8543b0d` Correct tooltip on address book page
+
+Tests:
+- `b41e594` Fix script test handling of empty scripts
+- `d3a33fc` Test CHECKMULTISIG with m == 0 and n == 0
+- `29c1749` Let tx (in)valid tests use any SCRIPT_VERIFY flag
+- `6380180` Add rejection of non-null CHECKMULTISIG dummy values
+- `21bf3d2` Add tests for BoostAsioToCNetAddr
+- `b5ad5e7` Add Python test for -rpcbind and -rpcallowip
+- `9ec0306` Add CODESEPARATOR/FindAndDelete() tests
+- `75ebced` Added many rpc wallet tests
+- `0193fb8` Allow multiple regression tests to run at once
+- `92a6220` Hook up sanity checks
+- `3820e01` Extend and move all crypto tests to crypto_tests.cpp
+- `3f9a019` added list/get received by address/ account tests
+- `a90689f` Remove timing-based signature cache unit test
+- `236982c` Add skiplist unit tests
+- `f4b00be` Add CChain::GetLocator() unit test
+- `b45a6e8` Add test for getblocktemplate longpolling
+- `cdf305e` Set -discover=0 in regtest framework
+- `ed02282` additional test for OP_SIZE in script_valid.json
+- `0072d98` script tests: BOOLAND, BOOLOR decode to integer
+- `833ff16` script tests: values that overflow to 0 are true
+- `4cac5db` script tests: value with trailing 0x00 is true
+- `89101c6` script test: test case for 5-byte bools
+- `d2d9dc0` script tests: add tests for CHECKMULTISIG limits
+- `d789386` Add "it works" test for bitcoin-tx
+- `df4d61e` Add bitcoin-tx tests
+- `aa41ac2` Test IsPushOnly() with invalid push
+- `6022b5d` Make `script_{valid,invalid}.json` validation flags configurable
+- `8138cbe` Add automatic script test generation, and actual checksig tests
+- `ed27e53` Add coins_tests with a large randomized CCoinViewCache test
+- `9df9cf5` Make SCRIPT_VERIFY_STRICTENC compatible with BIP62
+- `dcb9846` Extend getchaintips RPC test
+- `554147a` Ensure MINIMALDATA invalid tests can only fail one way
+- `dfeec18` Test every numeric-accepting opcode for correct handling of the numeric minimal encoding rule
+- `2b62e17` Clearly separate PUSHDATA and numeric argument MINIMALDATA tests
+- `16d78bd` Add valid invert of invalid every numeric opcode tests
+- `f635269` tests: enable alertnotify test for Windows
+- `7a41614` tests: allow rpc-tests to get filenames for bitcoind and bitcoin-cli from the environment
+- `5122ea7` tests: fix forknotify.py on windows
+- `fa7f8cd` tests: remove old pull-tester scripts
+- `7667850` tests: replace the old (unused since Travis) tests with new rpc test scripts
+- `f4e0aef` Do signature-s negation inside the tests
+- `1837987` Optimize -regtest setgenerate block generation
+- `2db4c8a` Fix node ranges in the test framework
+- `a8b2ce5` regression test only setmocktime RPC call
+- `daf03e7` RPC tests: create initial chain with specific timestamps
+- `8656dbb` Port/fix txnmall.sh regression test
+- `ca81587` Test the exact order of CHECKMULTISIG sig/pubkey evaluation
+- `7357893` Prioritize and display -testsafemode status in UI
+- `f321d6b` Add key generation/verification to ECC sanity check
+- `132ea9b` miner_tests: Disable checkpoints so they don't fail the subsidy-change test
+- `bc6cb41` QA RPC tests: Add tests block block proposals
+- `f67a9ce` Use deterministically generated script tests
+- `11d7a7d` [RPC] add rpc-test for http keep-alive (persistent connections)
+- `34318d7` RPC-test based on invalidateblock for mempool coinbase spends
+- `76ec867` Use actually valid transactions for script tests
+- `c8589bf` Add actual signature tests
+- `e2677d7` Fix smartfees test for change to relay policy
+- `263b65e` tests: run sanity checks in tests too
+
+Miscellaneous:
+- `122549f` Fix incorrect checkpoint data for testnet3
+- `5bd02cf` Log used config file to debug.log on startup
+- `68ba85f` Updated Debian example bitcoin.conf with config from wiki + removed some cruft and updated comments
+- `e5ee8f0` Remove -beta suffix
+- `38405ac` Add comment regarding experimental-use service bits
+- `be873f6` Issue warning if collecting RandSeed data failed
+- `8ae973c` Allocate more space if necessary in RandSeedAddPerfMon
+- `675bcd5` Correct comment for 15-of-15 p2sh script size
+- `fda3fed` libsecp256k1 integration
+- `2e36866` Show nodeid instead of addresses in log (for anonymity) unless otherwise requested
+- `cd01a5e` Enable paranoid corruption checks in LevelDB >= 1.16
+- `9365937` Add comment about never updating nTimeOffset past 199 samples
+- `403c1bf` contrib: remove getwork-based pyminer (as getwork API call has been removed)
+- `0c3e101` contrib: Added systemd .service file in order to help distributions integrate bitcoind
+- `0a0878d` doc: Add new DNSseed policy
+- `2887bff` Update coding style and add .clang-format
+- `5cbda4f` Changed LevelDB cursors to use scoped pointers to ensure destruction when going out of scope
+- `b4a72a7` contrib/linearize: split output files based on new-timestamp-year or max-file-size
+- `e982b57` Use explicit fflush() instead of setvbuf()
+- `234bfbf` contrib: Add init scripts and docs for Upstart and OpenRC
+- `01c2807` Add warning about the merkle-tree algorithm duplicate txid flaw
+- `d6712db` Also create pid file in non-daemon mode
+- `772ab0e` contrib: use batched JSON-RPC in linarize-hashes (optimization)
+- `7ab4358` Update bash-completion for v0.10
+- `6e6a36c` contrib: show pull # in prompt for github-merge script
+- `5b9f842` Upgrade leveldb to 1.18, make chainstate databases compatible between ARM and x86 (issue #2293)
+- `4e7c219` Catch UTXO set read errors and shutdown
+- `867c600` Catch LevelDB errors during flush
+- `06ca065` Fix CScriptID(const CScript& in) in empty script case
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
+
+- 21E14
+- Adam Weiss
+- Aitor Pazos
+- Alexander Jeng
+- Alex Morcos
+- Alon Muroch
+- Andreas Schildbach
+- Andrew Poelstra
+- Andy Alness
+- Ashley Holman
+- Benedict Chan
+- Ben Holden-Crowther
+- Bryan Bishop
+- BtcDrak
+- Christian von Roques
+- Clinton Christian
+- Cory Fields
+- Cozz Lovan
+- daniel
+- Daniel Kraft
+- David Hill
+- Derek701
+- dexX7
+- dllud
+- Dominyk Tiller
+- Doug
+- elichai
+- elkingtowa
+- ENikS
+- Eric Shaw
+- Federico Bond
+- Francis GASCHET
+- Gavin Andresen
+- Giuseppe Mazzotta
+- Glenn Willen
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- gubatron
+- HarryWu
+- himynameismartin
+- Huang Le
+- Ian Carroll
+- imharrywu
+- Jameson Lopp
+- Janusz Lenar
+- JaSK
+- Jeff Garzik
+- JL2035
+- Johnathan Corgan
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- jtimon
+- Julian Haight
+- Kamil Domanski
+- kazcw
+- kevin
+- kiwigb
+- Kosta Zertsekel
+- LongShao007
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Mark Friedenbach
+- Mathy Vanvoorden
+- Matt Corallo
+- Matthew Bogosian
+- Micha
+- Michael Ford
+- Mike Hearn
+- mrbandrews
+- mruddy
+- ntrgn
+- Otto Allmendinger
+- paveljanik
+- Pavel Vasin
+- Peter Todd
+- phantomcircuit
+- Philip Kaufmann
+- Pieter Wuille
+- pryds
+- randy-waterhouse
+- R E Broadley
+- Rose Toomey
+- Ross Nicoll
+- Roy Badami
+- Ruben Dario Ponticelli
+- Rune K. Svendsen
+- Ryan X. Charles
+- Saivann
+- sandakersmann
+- SergioDemianLerner
+- shshshsh
+- sinetek
+- Stuart Cardall
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- Tawanda Kembo
+- Teran McKinney
+- tm314159
+- Tom Harding
+- Trevin Hofmann
+- Whit J
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+- Yoichi Hirai
+- Zak Wilcox
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
+
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.10.1.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.10.1.md
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.10.1 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.1/>
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing bug fixes and translation 
+updates. It is recommended to upgrade to this version.
+
+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).
+
+Downgrade warning
+------------------
+
+Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
+parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
+backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
+
+* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
+received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
+other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
+anymore as a result of this.
+
+* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
+stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.
+
+If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
+directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
+bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
+synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
+supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.
+
+This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+This is a minor release and hence there are no notable changes.
+For the notable changes in 0.10, refer to the release notes for the
+0.10.0 release at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.10.0/doc/release-notes.md
+
+0.10.1 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect external
+behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.
+
+RPC:
+- `7f502be` fix crash: createmultisig and addmultisigaddress
+- `eae305f` Fix missing lock in submitblock
+
+Block (database) and transaction handling:
+- `1d2cdd2` Fix InvalidateBlock to add chainActive.Tip to setBlockIndexCandidates
+- `c91c660` fix InvalidateBlock to repopulate setBlockIndexCandidates
+- `002c8a2` fix possible block db breakage during re-index
+- `a1f425b` Add (optional) consistency check for the block chain data structures
+- `1c62e84` Keep mempool consistent during block-reorgs
+- `57d1f46` Fix CheckBlockIndex for reindex
+- `bac6fca` Set nSequenceId when a block is fully linked
+
+P2P protocol and network code:
+- `78f64ef` don't trickle for whitelisted nodes
+- `ca301bf` Reduce fingerprinting through timestamps in 'addr' messages.
+- `200f293` Ignore getaddr messages on Outbound connections.
+- `d5d8998` Limit message sizes before transfer
+- `aeb9279` Better fingerprinting protection for non-main-chain getdatas.
+- `cf0218f` Make addrman's bucket placement deterministic (countermeasure 1 against eclipse attacks, see http://cs-people.bu.edu/heilman/eclipse/)
+- `0c6f334` Always use a 50% chance to choose between tried and new entries (countermeasure 2 against eclipse attacks)
+- `214154e` Do not bias outgoing connections towards fresh addresses (countermeasure 2 against eclipse attacks)
+- `aa587d4` Scale up addrman (countermeasure 6 against eclipse attacks)
+- `139cd81` Cap nAttempts penalty at 8 and switch to pow instead of a division loop
+
+Validation:
+- `d148f62` Acquire CCheckQueue's lock to avoid race condition
+
+Build system:
+- `8752b5c` 0.10 fix for crashes on OSX 10.6
+
+Wallet:
+- N/A
+
+GUI:
+- `2c08406` some mac specifiy cleanup (memory handling, unnecessary code)
+- `81145a6` fix OSX dock icon window reopening
+- `786cf72` fix a issue where "command line options"-action overwrite "Preference"-action (on OSX)
+
+Tests:
+- `1117378` add RPC test for InvalidateBlock
+
+Miscellaneous:
+- `c9e022b` Initialization: set Boost path locale in main thread
+- `23126a0` Sanitize command strings before logging them.
+- `323de27` Initialization: setup environment before starting Qt tests
+- `7494e09` Initialization: setup environment before starting tests
+- `df45564` Initialization: set fallback locale as environment variable
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- Alex Morcos
+- Cory Fields
+- dexX7
+- fsb4000
+- Gavin Andresen
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Ivan Pustogarov
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- Matt Corallo
+- mrbandrews
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Ruben de Vries
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+And all those who contributed additional code review and/or security research:
+- 21E14
+- Alison Kendler
+- Aviv Zohar
+- Ethan Heilman
+- Evil-Knievel
+- fanquake
+- Jeff Garzik
+- Jonas Nick
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Patrick Strateman
+- Philip Kaufmann
+- Sergio Demian Lerner
+- Sharon Goldberg
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.10.2.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.10.2.md
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.10.2 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.2/>
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing minor bug fixes and translation 
+updates. It is recommended to upgrade to this version.
+
+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).
+
+Downgrade warning
+------------------
+
+Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
+parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
+backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
+
+* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
+received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
+other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
+anymore as a result of this.
+
+* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
+stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.
+
+If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
+directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
+bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
+synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
+supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.
+
+This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+This fixes a serious problem on Windows with data directories that have non-ASCII
+characters (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6078).
+
+For other platforms there are no notable changes.
+
+For the notable changes in 0.10, refer to the release notes
+at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.10.0/doc/release-notes.md
+
+0.10.2 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect external
+behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.
+
+Wallet:
+- `824c011` fix boost::get usage with boost 1.58
+
+Miscellaneous:
+- `da65606` Avoid crash on start in TestBlockValidity with gen=1.
+- `424ae66` don't imbue boost::filesystem::path with locale "C" on windows (fixes #6078)
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- Cory Fields
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+And all those who contributed additional code review and/or security research:
+
+- dexX7
+- Pieter Wuille
+- vayvanne
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.10.3.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.10.3.md
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.10.3 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.3/>
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing security fixes and translation 
+updates. It is recommended to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
+
+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).
+
+Downgrade warning
+------------------
+
+Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
+parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
+backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
+
+* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
+received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
+other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
+anymore as a result of this.
+
+* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
+stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.
+
+If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
+directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
+bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
+synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
+supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.
+
+This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+Fix buffer overflow in bundled upnp
+------------------------------------
+
+Bundled miniupnpc was updated to 1.9.20151008. This fixes a buffer overflow in
+the XML parser during initial network discovery.
+
+Details can be found here: http://talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2015-0035/
+
+This applies to the distributed executables only, not when building from source or
+using distribution provided packages.
+
+Additionally, upnp has been disabled by default. This may result in a lower
+number of reachable nodes on IPv4, however this prevents future libupnpc
+vulnerabilities from being a structural risk to the network
+(see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6795).
+
+Test for LowS signatures before relaying
+-----------------------------------------
+
+Make the node require the canonical 'low-s' encoding for ECDSA signatures when
+relaying or mining.  This removes a nuisance malleability vector.
+
+Consensus behavior is unchanged.
+
+If widely deployed this change would eliminate the last remaining known vector
+for nuisance malleability on SIGHASH_ALL P2PKH transactions. On the down-side
+it will block most transactions made by sufficiently out of date software.
+
+Unlike the other avenues to change txids on transactions this
+one was randomly violated by all deployed bitcoin software prior to
+its discovery. So, while other malleability vectors where made
+non-standard as soon as they were discovered, this one has remained
+permitted. Even BIP62 did not propose applying this rule to
+old version transactions, but conforming implementations have become
+much more common since BIP62 was initially written.
+
+Bitcoin Core has produced compatible signatures since a28fb70e in
+September 2013, but this didn't make it into a release until 0.9
+in March 2014; Bitcoinj has done so for a similar span of time.
+Bitcoinjs and electrum have been more recently updated.
+
+This does not replace the need for BIP62 or similar, as miners can
+still cooperate to break transactions.  Nor does it replace the
+need for wallet software to handle malleability sanely[1]. This
+only eliminates the cheap and irritating DOS attack.
+
+[1] On the Malleability of Bitcoin Transactions
+Marcin Andrychowicz, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski, Łukasz Mazurek
+http://fc15.ifca.ai/preproceedings/bitcoin/paper_9.pdf
+
+Minimum relay fee default increase
+-----------------------------------
+
+The default for the `-minrelaytxfee` setting has been increased from `0.00001`
+to `0.00005`.
+
+This is necessitated by the current transaction flooding, causing
+outrageous memory usage on nodes due to the mempool ballooning. This is a
+temporary measure, bridging the time until a dynamic method for determining
+this fee is merged (which will be in 0.12).
+
+(see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6793, as well as the 0.11.0
+release notes, in which this value was suggested)
+
+0.10.3 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect external
+behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.
+
+- #6186 `e4a7d51` Fix two problems in CSubnet parsing
+- #6153 `ebd7d8d` Parameter interaction: disable upnp if -proxy set
+- #6203 `ecc96f5` Remove P2SH coinbase flag, no longer interesting
+- #6226 `181771b` json: fail read_string if string contains trailing garbage
+- #6244 `09334e0` configure: Detect (and reject) LibreSSL
+- #6276 `0fd8464` Fix getbalance * 0
+- #6274 `be64204` Add option `-alerts` to opt out of alert system
+- #6319 `3f55638` doc: update mailing list address
+- #6438 `7e66e9c` openssl: avoid config file load/race
+- #6439 `255eced` Updated URL location of netinstall for Debian
+- #6412 `0739e6e` Test whether created sockets are select()able
+- #6694 `f696ea1` [QT] fix thin space word wrap line brake issue
+- #6704 `743cc9e` Backport bugfixes to 0.10
+- #6769 `1cea6b0` Test LowS in standardness, removes nuisance malleability vector.
+- #6789 `093d7b5` Update miniupnpc to 1.9.20151008
+- #6795 `f2778e0` net: Disable upnp by default
+- #6797 `91ef4d9` Do not store more than 200 timedata samples
+- #6793 `842c48d` Bump minrelaytxfee default
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- Adam Weiss
+- Alex Morcos
+- Casey Rodarmor
+- Cory Fields
+- fanquake
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- J Ross Nicoll
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Pavel Vasin
+- Pieter Wuille
+- randy-waterhouse
+- ฿tcDrak
+- Tom Harding
+- Veres Lajos
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+And all those who contributed additional code review and/or security research:
+
+- timothy on IRC for reporting the issue
+- Vulnerability in miniupnp discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.10.4.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.10.4.md
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.10.4 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.4/>
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing bug fixes, the BIP65
+(CLTV) consensus change, and relay policy preparation for BIP113. It is
+recommended to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
+
+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).
+
+Downgrade warning
+------------------
+
+Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
+parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
+backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
+
+* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
+received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
+other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
+anymore as a result of this.
+
+* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
+stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.
+
+If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
+directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
+bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
+synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
+supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.
+
+This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility. There are no
+known problems when downgrading from 0.11.x to 0.10.x.
+
+Notable changes since 0.10.3
+============================
+
+BIP65 soft fork to enforce OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY opcode
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+This release includes several changes related to the [BIP65][] soft fork
+which redefines the existing OP_NOP2 opcode as OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY
+(CLTV) so that a transaction output can be made unspendable until a
+specified point in the future.
+
+1. This release will only relay and mine transactions spending a CLTV
+   output if they comply with the BIP65 rules as provided in code.
+
+2. This release will produce version 4 blocks by default. Please see the
+   *notice to miners* below.
+
+3. Once 951 out of a sequence of 1,001 blocks on the local node's best block
+   chain contain version 4 (or higher) blocks, this release will no
+   longer accept new version 3 blocks and it will only accept version 4
+   blocks if they comply with the BIP65 rules for CLTV.
+
+For more information about the soft-forking change, please see
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6351>
+
+Graphs showing the progress towards block version 4 adoption may be
+found at the URLs below:
+
+- Block versions over the last 50,000 blocks as progress towards BIP65
+  consensus enforcement: <http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ver-50k.png>
+
+- Block versions over the last 2,000 blocks showing the days to the
+  earliest possible BIP65 consensus-enforced block: <http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ver-2k.png>
+
+**Notice to miners:** Bitcoin Core’s block templates are now for
+version 4 blocks only, and any mining software relying on its
+getblocktemplate must be updated in parallel to use libblkmaker either
+version FIXME or any version from FIXME onward.
+
+- If you are solo mining, this will affect you the moment you upgrade
+  Bitcoin Core, which must be done prior to BIP65 achieving its 951/1001
+  status.
+
+- If you are mining with the stratum mining protocol: this does not
+  affect you.
+
+- If you are mining with the getblocktemplate protocol to a pool: this
+  will affect you at the pool operator’s discretion, which must be no
+  later than BIP65 achieving its 951/1001 status.
+
+[BIP65]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki
+
+Windows bug fix for corrupted UTXO database on unclean shutdowns
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Several Windows users reported that they often need to reindex the
+entire blockchain after an unclean shutdown of Bitcoin Core on Windows
+(or an unclean shutdown of Windows itself). Although unclean shutdowns
+remain unsafe, this release no longer relies on memory-mapped files for
+the UTXO database, which significantly reduced the frequency of unclean
+shutdowns leading to required reindexes during testing.
+
+For more information, see: <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6917>
+
+Other fixes for database corruption on Windows are expected in the
+next major release.
+
+0.10.4 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
+the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
+git merge commit are mentioned.
+
+- #6953 `8b3311f` alias -h for --help
+- #6953 `97546fc` Change URLs to https in debian/control
+- #6953 `38671bf` Update debian/changelog and slight tweak to debian/control
+- #6953 `256321e` Correct spelling mistakes in doc folder
+- #6953 `eae0350` Clarification of unit test build instructions
+- #6953 `90897ab` Update bluematt-key, the old one is long-since revoked
+- #6953 `a2f2fb6` build: disable -Wself-assign
+- #6953 `cf67d8b` Bugfix: Allow mining on top of old tip blocks for testnet (fixes testnet-in-a-box use case)
+- #6953 `b3964e3` Drop "with minimal dependencies" from description
+- #6953 `43c2789` Split bitcoin-tx into its own package
+- #6953 `dfe0d4d` Include bitcoin-tx binary on Debian/Ubuntu
+- #6953 `612efe8` [Qt] Raise debug window when requested
+- #6953 `3ad96bd` Fix locking in GetTransaction
+- #6953 `9c81005` Fix spelling of Qt
+- #6946 `94b67e5` Update LevelDB
+- #6706 `5dc72f8` CLTV: Add more tests to improve coverage
+- #6706 `6a1343b` Add RPC tests for the CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65) soft-fork
+- #6706 `4137248` Add CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65) soft-fork logic
+- #6706 `0e01d0f` Enable CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY as a standard script verify flag
+- #6706 `6d01325` Replace NOP2 with CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65)
+- #6706 `750d54f` Move LOCKTIME_THRESHOLD to src/script/script.h
+- #6706 `6897468` Make CScriptNum() take nMaxNumSize as an argument
+- #6867 `5297194` Set TCP_NODELAY on P2P sockets
+- #6836 `fb818b6` Bring historical release notes up to date
+- #6852 `0b3fd07` build: make sure OpenSSL heeds noexecstack
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- Alex Morcos
+- Daniel Cousens
+- Diego Viola
+- Eric Lombrozo
+- Esteban Ordano
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Luke Dashjr
+- MarcoFalke
+- Matt Corallo
+- Micha
+- Mitchell Cash
+- Peter Todd
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+- Zak Wilcox
+
+And those who contributed additional code review and/or security research.
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.11.0.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.11.0.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,505 @@
+Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.11.0/>
+
+This is a new major version release, bringing both new features and
+bug fixes.
+
+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).
+
+Downgrade warning
+------------------
+
+Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
+parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
+backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
+
+* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
+received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
+other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
+anymore as a result of this.
+
+* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
+stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.
+
+If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
+directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
+bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
+synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
+supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.
+
+This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility. There are no
+known problems when downgrading from 0.11.x to 0.10.x.
+
+Important information
+======================
+
+Transaction flooding
+---------------------
+
+At the time of this release, the P2P network is being flooded with low-fee
+transactions. This causes a ballooning of the mempool size.
+
+If this growth of the mempool causes problematic memory use on your node, it is
+possible to change a few configuration options to work around this. The growth
+of the mempool can be monitored with the RPC command `getmempoolinfo`.
+
+One is to increase the minimum transaction relay fee `minrelaytxfee`, which
+defaults to 0.00001. This will cause transactions with fewer BTC/kB fee to be
+rejected, and thus fewer transactions entering the mempool.
+
+The other is to restrict the relaying of free transactions with
+`limitfreerelay`. This option sets the number of kB/minute at which
+free transactions (with enough priority) will be accepted. It defaults to 15.
+Reducing this number reduces the speed at which the mempool can grow due
+to free transactions.
+
+For example, add the following to `bitcoin.conf`:
+
+    minrelaytxfee=0.00005 
+    limitfreerelay=5
+
+More robust solutions are being worked on for a follow-up release.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+Block file pruning
+----------------------
+
+This release supports running a fully validating node without maintaining a copy 
+of the raw block and undo data on disk. To recap, there are four types of data 
+related to the blockchain in the bitcoin system: the raw blocks as received over 
+the network (blk???.dat), the undo data (rev???.dat), the block index and the 
+UTXO set (both LevelDB databases). The databases are built from the raw data.
+
+Block pruning allows Bitcoin Core to delete the raw block and undo data once 
+it's been validated and used to build the databases. At that point, the raw data 
+is used only to relay blocks to other nodes, to handle reorganizations, to look 
+up old transactions (if -txindex is enabled or via the RPC/REST interfaces), or 
+for rescanning the wallet. The block index continues to hold the metadata about 
+all blocks in the blockchain.
+
+The user specifies how much space to allot for block & undo files. The minimum 
+allowed is 550MB. Note that this is in addition to whatever is required for the 
+block index and UTXO databases. The minimum was chosen so that Bitcoin Core will 
+be able to maintain at least 288 blocks on disk (two days worth of blocks at 10 
+minutes per block). In rare instances it is possible that the amount of space 
+used will exceed the pruning target in order to keep the required last 288 
+blocks on disk.
+
+Block pruning works during initial sync in the same way as during steady state, 
+by deleting block files "as you go" whenever disk space is allocated. Thus, if 
+the user specifies 550MB, once that level is reached the program will begin 
+deleting the oldest block and undo files, while continuing to download the 
+blockchain.
+
+For now, block pruning disables block relay.  In the future, nodes with block 
+pruning will at a minimum relay "new" blocks, meaning blocks that extend their 
+active chain. 
+
+Block pruning is currently incompatible with running a wallet due to the fact 
+that block data is used for rescanning the wallet and importing keys or 
+addresses (which require a rescan.) However, running the wallet with block 
+pruning will be supported in the near future, subject to those limitations.
+
+Block pruning is also incompatible with -txindex and will automatically disable 
+it.
+
+Once you have pruned blocks, going back to unpruned state requires 
+re-downloading the entire blockchain. To do this, re-start the node with 
+-reindex. Note also that any problem that would cause a user to reindex (e.g., 
+disk corruption) will cause a pruned node to redownload the entire blockchain. 
+Finally, note that when a pruned node reindexes, it will delete any blk???.dat 
+and rev???.dat files in the data directory prior to restarting the download.
+
+To enable block pruning on the command line:
+
+- `-prune=N`: where N is the number of MB to allot for raw block & undo data.
+
+Modified RPC calls:
+
+- `getblockchaininfo` now includes whether we are in pruned mode or not.
+- `getblock` will check if the block's data has been pruned and if so, return an 
+error.
+- `getrawtransaction` will no longer be able to locate a transaction that has a 
+UTXO but where its block file has been pruned. 
+
+Pruning is disabled by default.
+
+Big endian support
+--------------------
+
+Experimental support for big-endian CPU architectures was added in this
+release. All little-endian specific code was replaced with endian-neutral
+constructs. This has been tested on at least MIPS and PPC hosts. The build
+system will automatically detect the endianness of the target.
+
+Memory usage optimization
+--------------------------
+
+There have been many changes in this release to reduce the default memory usage
+of a node, among which:
+
+- Accurate UTXO cache size accounting (#6102); this makes the option `-dbcache`
+  precise where this grossly underestimated memory usage before
+- Reduce size of per-peer data structure (#6064 and others); this increases the
+  number of connections that can be supported with the same amount of memory
+- Reduce the number of threads (#5964, #5679); lowers the amount of (esp.
+  virtual) memory needed
+
+Fee estimation changes
+----------------------
+
+This release improves the algorithm used for fee estimation.  Previously, -1
+was returned when there was insufficient data to give an estimate.  Now, -1
+will also be returned when there is no fee or priority high enough for the
+desired confirmation target. In those cases, it can help to ask for an estimate
+for a higher target number of blocks. It is not uncommon for there to be no
+fee or priority high enough to be reliably (85%) included in the next block and
+for this reason, the default for `-txconfirmtarget=n` has changed from 1 to 2.
+
+Privacy: Disable wallet transaction broadcast
+----------------------------------------------
+
+This release adds an option `-walletbroadcast=0` to prevent automatic
+transaction broadcast and rebroadcast (#5951). This option allows separating
+transaction submission from the node functionality.
+
+Making use of this, third-party scripts can be written to take care of
+transaction (re)broadcast:
+
+- Send the transaction as normal, either through RPC or the GUI
+- Retrieve the transaction data through RPC using `gettransaction` (NOT
+  `getrawtransaction`). The `hex` field of the result will contain the raw
+  hexadecimal representation of the transaction
+- The transaction can then be broadcasted through arbitrary mechanisms
+  supported by the script
+
+One such application is selective Tor usage, where the node runs on the normal
+internet but transactions are broadcasted over Tor.
+
+For an example script see [bitcoin-submittx](https://github.com/laanwj/bitcoin-submittx).
+
+Privacy: Stream isolation for Tor
+----------------------------------
+
+This release adds functionality to create a new circuit for every peer
+connection, when the software is used with Tor. The new option,
+`-proxyrandomize`, is on by default.
+
+When enabled, every outgoing connection will (potentially) go through a
+different exit node. That significantly reduces the chance to get unlucky and
+pick a single exit node that is either malicious, or widely banned from the P2P
+network. This improves connection reliability as well as privacy, especially
+for the initial connections.
+
+**Important note:** If a non-Tor SOCKS5 proxy is configured that supports
+authentication, but doesn't require it, this change may cause that proxy to reject
+connections. A user and password is sent where they weren't before. This setup
+is exceedingly rare, but in this case `-proxyrandomize=0` can be passed to
+disable the behavior.
+
+0.11.0 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
+the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
+git merge commit are mentioned.
+
+### RPC and REST
+- #5461 `5f7279a` signrawtransaction: validate private key
+- #5444 `103f66b` Add /rest/headers/<count>/<hash>.<ext>
+- #4964 `95ecc0a` Add scriptPubKey field to validateaddress RPC call
+- #5476 `c986972` Add time offset into getpeerinfo output
+- #5540 `84eba47` Add unconfirmed and immature balances to getwalletinfo
+- #5599 `40e96a3` Get rid of the internal miner's hashmeter
+- #5711 `87ecfb0` Push down RPC locks
+- #5754 `1c4e3f9` fix getblocktemplate lock issue
+- #5756 `5d901d8` Fix getblocktemplate_proposals test by mining one block
+- #5548 `d48ce48` Add /rest/chaininfos
+- #5992 `4c4f1b4` Push down RPC reqWallet flag
+- #6036 `585b5db` Show zero value txouts in listunspent
+- #5199 `6364408` Add RPC call `gettxoutproof` to generate and verify merkle blocks
+- #5418 `16341cc` Report missing inputs in sendrawtransaction
+- #5937 `40f5e8d` show script verification errors in signrawtransaction result
+- #5420 `1fd2d39` getutxos REST command (based on Bip64)
+- #6193 `42746b0` [REST] remove json input for getutxos, limit to query max. 15 outpoints
+- #6226 `5901596` json: fail read_string if string contains trailing garbage
+
+### Configuration and command-line options
+- #5636 `a353ad4` Add option `-allowselfsignedrootcertificate` to allow self signed root certs (for testing payment requests)
+- #5900 `3e8a1f2` Add a consistency check `-checkblockindex` for the block chain data structures
+- #5951 `7efc9cf` Make it possible to disable wallet transaction broadcast (using `-walletbroadcast=0`)
+- #5911 `b6ea3bc` privacy: Stream isolation for Tor (on by default, use `-proxyrandomize=0` to disable)
+- #5863 `c271304` Add autoprune functionality (`-prune=<size>`)
+- #6153 `0bcf04f` Parameter interaction: disable upnp if -proxy set
+- #6274 `4d9c7fe` Add option `-alerts` to opt out of alert system
+
+### Block and transaction handling
+- #5367 `dcc1304` Do all block index writes in a batch
+- #5253 `203632d` Check against MANDATORY flags prior to accepting to mempool
+- #5459 `4406c3e` Reject headers that build on an invalid parent
+- #5481 `055f3ae` Apply AreSane() checks to the fees from the network
+- #5580 `40d65eb` Preemptively catch a few potential bugs
+- #5349 `f55c5e9` Implement test for merkle tree malleability in CPartialMerkleTree
+- #5564 `a89b837` clarify obscure uses of EvalScript()
+- #5521 `8e4578a` Reject non-final txs even in testnet/regtest
+- #5707 `6af674e` Change hardcoded character constants to descriptive named constants for db keys
+- #5286 `fcf646c` Change the default maximum OP_RETURN size to 80 bytes
+- #5710 `175d86e` Add more information to errors in ReadBlockFromDisk
+- #5948 `b36f1ce` Use GetAncestor to compute new target
+- #5959 `a0bfc69` Add additional block index consistency checks
+- #6058 `7e0e7f8` autoprune minor post-merge improvements
+- #5159 `2cc1372` New fee estimation code
+- #6102 `6fb90d8` Implement accurate UTXO cache size accounting
+- #6129 `2a82298` Bug fix for clearing fCheckForPruning
+- #5947 `e9af4e6` Alert if it is very likely we are getting a bad chain
+- #6203 `c00ae64` Remove P2SH coinbase flag, no longer interesting
+- #5985 `37b4e42` Fix removing of orphan transactions
+- #6221 `6cb70ca` Prune: Support noncontiguous block files
+- #6256 `fce474c` Use best header chain timestamps to detect partitioning
+- #6233 `a587606` Advance pindexLastCommonBlock for blocks in chainActive
+
+### P2P protocol and network code
+- #5507 `844ace9` Prevent DOS attacks on in-flight data structures
+- #5770 `32a8b6a` Sanitize command strings before logging them
+- #5859 `dd4ffce` Add correct bool combiner for net signals
+- #5876 `8e4fd0c` Add a NODE_GETUTXO service bit and document NODE_NETWORK
+- #6028 `b9311fb` Move nLastTry from CAddress to CAddrInfo
+- #5662 `5048465` Change download logic to allow calling getdata on inbound peers
+- #5971 `18d2832` replace absolute sleep with conditional wait
+- #5918 `7bf5d5e` Use equivalent PoW for non-main-chain requests
+- #6059 `f026ab6` chainparams: use SeedSpec6's rather than CAddress's for fixed seeds
+- #6080 `31c0bf1` Add jonasschnellis dns seeder
+- #5976 `9f7809f` Reduce download timeouts as blocks arrive
+- #6172 `b4bbad1` Ignore getheaders requests when not synced
+- #5875 `304892f` Be stricter in processing unrequested blocks
+- #6333 `41bbc85` Hardcoded seeds update June 2015
+
+### Validation
+- #5143 `48e1765` Implement BIP62 rule 6
+- #5713 `41e6e4c` Implement BIP66
+
+### Build system
+- #5501 `c76c9d2` Add mips, mipsel and aarch64 to depends platforms
+- #5334 `cf87536` libbitcoinconsensus: Add pkg-config support
+- #5514 `ed11d53` Fix 'make distcheck'
+- #5505 `a99ef7d` Build winshutdownmonitor.cpp on Windows only
+- #5582 `e8a6639` Osx toolchain update
+- #5684 `ab64022` osx: bump build sdk to 10.9
+- #5695 `23ef5b7` depends: latest config.guess and config.sub
+- #5509 `31dedb4` Fixes when compiling in c++11 mode
+- #5819 `f8e68f7` release: use static libstdc++ and disable reduced exports by default
+- #5510 `7c3fbc3` Big endian support
+- #5149 `c7abfa5` Add script to verify all merge commits are signed
+- #6082 `7abbb7e` qt: disable qt tests when one of the checks for the gui fails
+- #6244 `0401aa2` configure: Detect (and reject) LibreSSL
+- #6269 `95aca44` gitian: Use the new bitcoin-detached-sigs git repo for OSX signatures
+- #6285 `ef1d506` Fix scheduler build with some boost versions.
+- #6280 `25c2216` depends: fix Boost 1.55 build on GCC 5
+- #6303 `b711599` gitian: add a gitian-win-signer descriptor
+- #6246 `8ea6d37` Fix build on FreeBSD
+- #6282 `daf956b` fix crash on shutdown when e.g. changing -txindex and abort action
+- #6354 `bdf0d94` Gitian windows signing normalization
+
+### Wallet
+- #2340 `811c71d` Discourage fee sniping with nLockTime
+- #5485 `d01bcc4` Enforce minRelayTxFee on wallet created tx and add a maxtxfee option
+- #5508 `9a5cabf` Add RandAddSeedPerfmon to MakeNewKey
+- #4805 `8204e19` Do not flush the wallet in AddToWalletIfInvolvingMe(..)
+- #5319 `93b7544` Clean up wallet encryption code
+- #5831 `df5c246` Subtract fee from amount
+- #6076 `6c97fd1` wallet: fix boost::get usage with boost 1.58
+- #5511 `23c998d` Sort pending wallet transactions before reaccepting
+- #6126 `26e08a1` Change default nTxConfirmTarget to 2
+- #6183 `75a4d51` Fix off-by-one error w/ nLockTime in the wallet
+- #6276 `c9fd907` Fix getbalance * 0
+
+### GUI
+- #5219 `f3af0c8` New icons
+- #5228 `bb3c75b` HiDPI (retina) support for splash screen
+- #5258 `73cbf0a` The RPC Console should be a QWidget to make window more independent
+- #5488 `851dfc7` Light blue icon color for regtest
+- #5547 `a39aa74` New icon for the debug window
+- #5493 `e515309` Adopt style colour for button icons
+- #5557 `70477a0` On close of splashscreen interrupt verifyDB
+- #5559 `83be8fd` Make the command-line-args dialog better
+- #5144 `c5380a9` Elaborate on signverify message dialog warning
+- #5489 `d1aa3c6` Optimize PNG files
+- #5649 `e0cd2f5` Use text-color icons for system tray Send/Receive menu entries
+- #5651 `848f55d` Coin Control: Use U+2248 "ALMOST EQUAL TO" rather than a simple tilde
+- #5626 `ab0d798` Fix icon sizes and column width
+- #5683 `c7b22aa` add new osx dmg background picture
+- #5620 `7823598` Payment request expiration bug fix
+- #5729 `9c4a5a5` Allow unit changes for read-only BitcoinAmountField
+- #5753 `0f44672` Add bitcoin logo to about screen
+- #5629 `a956586` Prevent amount overflow problem with payment requests
+- #5830 `215475a` Don't save geometry for options and about/help window
+- #5793 `d26f0b2` Honor current network when creating autostart link
+- #5847 `f238add` Startup script for centos, with documentation
+- #5915 `5bd3a92` Fix a static qt5 crash when using certain versions of libxcb
+- #5898 `bb56781` Fix rpc console font size to flexible metrics
+- #5467 `bc8535b` Payment request / server work - part 2
+- #6161 `180c164` Remove movable option for toolbar
+- #6160 `0d862c2` Overviewpage: make sure warning icons gets colored
+
+### Tests
+- #5453 `2f2d337` Add ability to run single test manually to RPC tests
+- #5421 `886eb57` Test unexecuted OP_CODESEPARATOR
+- #5530 `565b300` Additional rpc tests
+- #5611 `37b185c` Fix spurious windows test failures after 012598880c
+- #5613 `2eda47b` Fix smartfees test for change to relay policy
+- #5612 `e3f5727` Fix zapwallettxes test
+- #5642 `30a5b5f` Prepare paymentservertests for new unit tests
+- #5784 `e3a3cd7` Fix usage of NegateSignatureS in script_tests
+- #5813 `ee9f2bf` Add unit tests for next difficulty calculations
+- #5855 `d7989c0` Travis: run unit tests in different orders
+- #5852 `cdae53e` Reinitialize state in between individual unit tests.
+- #5883 `164d7b6` tests: add a BasicTestingSetup and apply to all tests
+- #5940 `446bb70` Regression test for ResendWalletTransactions
+- #6052 `cf7adad` fix and enable bip32 unit test
+- #6039 `734f80a` tests: Error when setgenerate is used on regtest
+- #6074 `948beaf` Correct the PUSHDATA4 minimal encoding test in script_invalid.json
+- #6032 `e08886d` Stop nodes after RPC tests, even with --nocleanup
+- #6075 `df1609f` Add additional script edge condition tests
+- #5981 `da38dc6` Python P2P testing 
+- #5958 `9ef00c3` Add multisig rpc tests
+- #6112 `fec5c0e` Add more script edge condition tests
+
+### Miscellaneous
+- #5457, #5506, #5952, #6047 Update libsecp256k1
+- #5437 `84857e8` Add missing CAutoFile::IsNull() check in main
+- #5490 `ec20fd7` Replace uint256/uint160 with opaque blobs where possible
+- #5654, #5764 Adding jonasschnelli's GPG key
+- #5477 `5f04d1d` OS X 10.10: LSSharedFileListItemResolve() is deprecated
+- #5679 `beff11a` Get rid of DetectShutdownThread
+- #5787 `9bd8c9b` Add fanquake PGP key
+- #5366 `47a79bb` No longer check osx compatibility in RenameThread
+- #5689 `07f4386` openssl: abstract out OPENSSL_cleanse
+- #5708 `8b298ca` Add list of implemented BIPs
+- #5809 `46bfbe7` Add bitcoin-cli man page
+- #5839 `86eb461` keys: remove libsecp256k1 verification until it's actually supported
+- #5749 `d734d87` Help messages correctly formatted (79 chars)
+- #5884 `7077fe6` BUGFIX: Stack around the variable 'rv' was corrupted
+- #5849 `41259ca` contrib/init/bitcoind.openrc: Compatibility with previous OpenRC init script variables
+- #5950 `41113e3` Fix locale fallback and guard tests against invalid locale settings
+- #5965 `7c6bfb1` Add git-subtree-check.sh script
+- #6033 `1623f6e` FreeBSD, OpenBSD thread renaming
+- #6064 `b46e7c2` Several changes to mruset
+- #6104 `3e2559c` Show an init message while activating best chain
+- #6125 `351f73e` Clean up parsing of bool command line args
+- #5964 `b4c219b` Lightweight task scheduler
+- #6116 `30dc3c1` [OSX] rename Bitcoin-Qt.app to Bitcoin-Core.app
+- #6168 `b3024f0` contrib/linearize: Support linearization of testnet blocks
+- #6098 `7708fcd` Update Windows resource files (and add one for bitcoin-tx)
+- #6159 `e1412d3` Catch errors on datadir lock and pidfile delete
+- #6186 `182686c` Fix two problems in CSubnet parsing
+- #6174 `df992b9` doc: add translation strings policy
+- #6210 `dfdb6dd` build: disable optional use of gmp in internal secp256k1 build
+- #6264 `94cd705` Remove translation for -help-debug options
+- #6286 `3902c15` Remove berkeley-db4 workaround in MacOSX build docs
+- #6319 `3f8fcc9` doc: update mailing list address
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- 21E14
+- Adam Weiss
+- Alex Morcos
+- ayeowch
+- azeteki
+- Ben Holden-Crowther
+- bikinibabe
+- BitcoinPRReadingGroup
+- Blake Jakopovic
+- BtcDrak
+- charlescharles
+- Chris Arnesen
+- Ciemon
+- CohibAA
+- Corinne Dashjr
+- Cory Fields
+- Cozz Lovan
+- Daira Hopwood
+- Daniel Kraft
+- Dave Collins
+- David A. Harding
+- dexX7
+- Earlz
+- Eric Lombrozo
+- Eric R. Schulz
+- Everett Forth
+- Flavien Charlon
+- fsb4000
+- Gavin Andresen
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Heath
+- Ivan Pustogarov
+- Jacob Welsh
+- Jameson Lopp
+- Jason Lewicki
+- Jeff Garzik
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- Jonathan Brown
+- Jorge Timón
+- joshr
+- jtimon
+- Julian Yap
+- Luca Venturini
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Manuel Araoz
+- MarcoFalke
+- Matt Bogosian
+- Matt Corallo
+- Micha
+- Michael Ford
+- Mike Hearn
+- mrbandrews
+- Nicolas Benoit
+- paveljanik
+- Pavel Janík
+- Pavel Vasin
+- Peter Todd
+- Philip Kaufmann
+- Pieter Wuille
+- pstratem
+- randy-waterhouse
+- rion
+- Rob Van Mieghem
+- Ross Nicoll
+- Ruben de Vries
+- sandakersmann
+- Shaul Kfir
+- Shawn Wilkinson
+- sinetek
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- svost
+- Thomas Zander
+- Tom Harding
+- UdjinM6
+- Vitalii Demianets
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+And all those who contributed additional code review and/or security research:
+
+- Sergio Demian Lerner
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
+
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.11.1.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.11.1.md
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.11.1 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.11.1/>
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing security fixes. It is recommended
+to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
+
+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).
+
+Downgrade warning
+------------------
+
+Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
+parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
+backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
+
+* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
+received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
+other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
+anymore as a result of this.
+
+* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
+stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.
+
+If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
+directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
+bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
+synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
+supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.
+
+This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility. There are no
+known problems when downgrading from 0.11.x to 0.10.x.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+Fix buffer overflow in bundled upnp
+------------------------------------
+
+Bundled miniupnpc was updated to 1.9.20151008. This fixes a buffer overflow in
+the XML parser during initial network discovery.
+
+Details can be found here: http://talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2015-0035/
+
+This applies to the distributed executables only, not when building from source or
+using distribution provided packages.
+
+Additionally, upnp has been disabled by default. This may result in a lower
+number of reachable nodes on IPv4, however this prevents future libupnpc
+vulnerabilities from being a structural risk to the network
+(see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6795).
+
+Test for LowS signatures before relaying
+-----------------------------------------
+
+Make the node require the canonical 'low-s' encoding for ECDSA signatures when
+relaying or mining.  This removes a nuisance malleability vector.
+
+Consensus behavior is unchanged.
+
+If widely deployed this change would eliminate the last remaining known vector
+for nuisance malleability on SIGHASH_ALL P2PKH transactions. On the down-side
+it will block most transactions made by sufficiently out of date software.
+
+Unlike the other avenues to change txids on transactions this
+one was randomly violated by all deployed bitcoin software prior to
+its discovery. So, while other malleability vectors where made
+non-standard as soon as they were discovered, this one has remained
+permitted. Even BIP62 did not propose applying this rule to
+old version transactions, but conforming implementations have become
+much more common since BIP62 was initially written.
+
+Bitcoin Core has produced compatible signatures since a28fb70e in
+September 2013, but this didn't make it into a release until 0.9
+in March 2014; Bitcoinj has done so for a similar span of time.
+Bitcoinjs and electrum have been more recently updated.
+
+This does not replace the need for BIP62 or similar, as miners can
+still cooperate to break transactions.  Nor does it replace the
+need for wallet software to handle malleability sanely[1]. This
+only eliminates the cheap and irritating DOS attack.
+
+[1] On the Malleability of Bitcoin Transactions
+Marcin Andrychowicz, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski, Łukasz Mazurek
+http://fc15.ifca.ai/preproceedings/bitcoin/paper_9.pdf
+
+Minimum relay fee default increase
+-----------------------------------
+
+The default for the `-minrelaytxfee` setting has been increased from `0.00001`
+to `0.00005`.
+
+This is necessitated by the current transaction flooding, causing
+outrageous memory usage on nodes due to the mempool ballooning. This is a
+temporary measure, bridging the time until a dynamic method for determining
+this fee is merged (which will be in 0.12).
+
+(see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6793, as well as the 0.11
+release notes, in which this value was suggested)
+
+0.11.1 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
+the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
+git merge commit are mentioned.
+
+- #6438 `2531438` openssl: avoid config file load/race
+- #6439 `980f820` Updated URL location of netinstall for Debian
+- #6384 `8e5a969` qt: Force TLS1.0+ for SSL connections
+- #6471 `92401c2` Depends: bump to qt 5.5
+- #6224 `93b606a` Be even stricter in processing unrequested blocks
+- #6571 `100ac4e` libbitcoinconsensus: avoid a crash in multi-threaded environments
+- #6545 `649f5d9` Do not store more than 200 timedata samples.
+- #6694 `834e299` [QT] fix thin space word wrap line break issue
+- #6703 `1cd7952` Backport bugfixes to 0.11
+- #6750 `5ed8d0b` Recent rejects backport to v0.11
+- #6769 `71cc9d9` Test LowS in standardness, removes nuisance malleability vector.
+- #6789 `b4ad73f` Update miniupnpc to 1.9.20151008
+- #6785 `b4dc33e` Backport to v0.11: In (strCommand == "tx"), return if AlreadyHave()
+- #6412 `0095b9a` Test whether created sockets are select()able
+- #6795 `4dbcec0` net: Disable upnp by default
+- #6793 `e7bcc4a` Bump minrelaytxfee default
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- Adam Weiss
+- Alex Morcos
+- Casey Rodarmor
+- Cory Fields
+- fanquake
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- J Ross Nicoll
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Pavel Janík
+- Pavel Vasin
+- Peter Todd
+- Pieter Wuille
+- randy-waterhouse
+- Ross Nicoll
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- tailsjoin
+- ฿tcDrak
+- Tom Harding
+- Veres Lajos
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+And those who contributed additional code review and/or security research:
+
+- timothy on IRC for reporting the issue
+- Vulnerability in miniupnp discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
+
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.11.2.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.11.2.md
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.11.2 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.11.2/>
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing bug fixes, the BIP65
+(CLTV) consensus change, and relay policy preparation for BIP113. It is
+recommended to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
+
+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).
+
+Downgrade warning
+------------------
+
+Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
+parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
+backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
+
+* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
+received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
+other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
+anymore as a result of this.
+
+* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
+stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.
+
+If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
+directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
+bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
+synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
+supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.
+
+This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility. There are no
+known problems when downgrading from 0.11.x to 0.10.x.
+
+Notable changes since 0.11.1
+============================
+
+BIP65 soft fork to enforce OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY opcode
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+This release includes several changes related to the [BIP65][] soft fork
+which redefines the existing OP_NOP2 opcode as OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY
+(CLTV) so that a transaction output can be made unspendable until a
+specified point in the future.
+
+1. This release will only relay and mine transactions spending a CLTV
+   output if they comply with the BIP65 rules as provided in code.
+
+2. This release will produce version 4 blocks by default. Please see the
+   *notice to miners* below.
+
+3. Once 951 out of a sequence of 1,001 blocks on the local node's best block
+   chain contain version 4 (or higher) blocks, this release will no
+   longer accept new version 3 blocks and it will only accept version 4
+   blocks if they comply with the BIP65 rules for CLTV.
+
+For more information about the soft-forking change, please see
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6351>
+
+Graphs showing the progress towards block version 4 adoption may be
+found at the URLs below:
+
+- Block versions over the last 50,000 blocks as progress towards BIP65
+  consensus enforcement: <http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ver-50k.png>
+
+- Block versions over the last 2,000 blocks showing the days to the
+  earliest possible BIP65 consensus-enforced block: <http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ver-2k.png>
+
+**Notice to miners:** Bitcoin Core’s block templates are now for
+version 4 blocks only, and any mining software relying on its
+getblocktemplate must be updated in parallel to use libblkmaker either
+version 0.4.3 or any version from 0.5.2 onward.
+
+- If you are solo mining, this will affect you the moment you upgrade
+  Bitcoin Core, which must be done prior to BIP65 achieving its 951/1001
+  status.
+
+- If you are mining with the stratum mining protocol: this does not
+  affect you.
+
+- If you are mining with the getblocktemplate protocol to a pool: this
+  will affect you at the pool operator’s discretion, which must be no
+  later than BIP65 achieving its 951/1001 status.
+
+[BIP65]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki
+
+BIP113 mempool-only locktime enforcement using GetMedianTimePast()
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Bitcoin transactions currently may specify a locktime indicating when
+they may be added to a valid block.  Current consensus rules require
+that blocks have a block header time greater than the locktime specified
+in any transaction in that block.
+
+Miners get to choose what time they use for their header time, with the
+consensus rule being that no node will accept a block whose time is more
+than two hours in the future.  This creates a incentive for miners to
+set their header times to future values in order to include locktimed
+transactions which weren't supposed to be included for up to two more
+hours.
+
+The consensus rules also specify that valid blocks may have a header
+time greater than that of the median of the 11 previous blocks.  This
+GetMedianTimePast() time has a key feature we generally associate with
+time: it can't go backwards.
+
+[BIP113][] specifies a soft fork (**not enforced in this release**) that
+weakens this perverse incentive for individual miners to use a future
+time by requiring that valid blocks have a computed GetMedianTimePast()
+greater than the locktime specified in any transaction in that block.
+
+Mempool inclusion rules currently require transactions to be valid for
+immediate inclusion in a block in order to be accepted into the mempool.
+This release begins applying the BIP113 rule to received transactions,
+so transaction whose time is greater than the GetMedianTimePast() will
+no longer be accepted into the mempool.
+
+**Implication for miners:** you will begin rejecting transactions that
+would not be valid under BIP113, which will prevent you from producing
+invalid blocks if/when BIP113 is enforced on the network. Any
+transactions which are valid under the current rules but not yet valid
+under the BIP113 rules will either be mined by other miners or delayed
+until they are valid under BIP113. Note, however, that time-based
+locktime transactions are more or less unseen on the network currently.
+
+**Implication for users:** GetMedianTimePast() always trails behind the
+current time, so a transaction locktime set to the present time will be
+rejected by nodes running this release until the median time moves
+forward. To compensate, subtract one hour (3,600 seconds) from your
+locktimes to allow those transactions to be included in mempools at
+approximately the expected time.
+
+[BIP113]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0113.mediawiki
+
+Windows bug fix for corrupted UTXO database on unclean shutdowns
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Several Windows users reported that they often need to reindex the
+entire blockchain after an unclean shutdown of Bitcoin Core on Windows
+(or an unclean shutdown of Windows itself). Although unclean shutdowns
+remain unsafe, this release no longer relies on memory-mapped files for
+the UTXO database, which significantly reduced the frequency of unclean
+shutdowns leading to required reindexes during testing.
+
+For more information, see: <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6917>
+
+Other fixes for database corruption on Windows are expected in the
+next major release.
+
+0.11.2 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
+the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
+git merge commit are mentioned.
+
+- #6124 `684636b` Make CScriptNum() take nMaxNumSize as an argument
+- #6124 `4fa7a04` Replace NOP2 with CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65)
+- #6124 `6ea5ca4` Enable CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY as a standard script verify flag
+- #6351 `5e82e1c` Add CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65) soft-fork logic
+- #6353 `ba1da90` Show softfork status in getblockchaininfo
+- #6351 `6af25b0` Add BIP65 to getblockchaininfo softforks list
+- #6688 `01878c9` Fix locking in GetTransaction
+- #6653 `b3eaa30` [Qt] Raise debug window when requested
+- #6600 `1e672ae` Debian/Ubuntu: Include bitcoin-tx binary
+- #6600 `2394f4d` Debian/Ubuntu: Split bitcoin-tx into its own package
+- #5987 `33d6825` Bugfix: Allow mining on top of old tip blocks for testnet
+- #6852 `21e58b8` build: make sure OpenSSL heeds noexecstack
+- #6846 `af6edac` alias `-h` for `--help`
+- #6867 `95a5039` Set TCP_NODELAY on P2P sockets.
+- #6856 `dfe55bd` Do not allow blockfile pruning during reindex.
+- #6566 `a1d3c6f` Add rules--presently disabled--for using GetMedianTimePast as end point for lock-time calculations
+- #6566 `f720c5f` Enable policy enforcing GetMedianTimePast as the end point of lock-time constraints
+- #6917 `0af5b8e` leveldb: Win32WritableFile without memory mapping
+- #6948 `4e895b0` Always flush block and undo when switching to new file
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- Alex Morcos
+- ฿tcDrak
+- Chris Kleeschulte
+- Daniel Cousens
+- Diego Viola
+- Eric Lombrozo
+- Esteban Ordano
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Marco Falke
+- Mark Friedenbach
+- Matt Corallo
+- Micha
+- Mitchell Cash
+- Peter Todd
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+- Zak Wilcox
+
+And those who contributed additional code review and/or security research.
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.12.0.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.12.0.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,894 @@
+Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.12.0/>
+
+This is a new major version release, bringing new features and other improvements.
+
+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).
+
+Downgrade warning
+-----------------
+
+### Downgrade to a version < 0.10.0
+
+Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and
+parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not
+backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software:
+
+* Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are
+received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or
+other programs. Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work
+anymore as a result of this.
+
+* The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is
+stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.
+
+If you want to be able to downgrade smoothly, make a backup of your entire data
+directory. Without this your node will need start syncing (or importing from
+bootstrap.dat) anew afterwards. It is possible that the data from a completely
+synchronised 0.10 node may be usable in older versions as-is, but this is not
+supported and may break as soon as the older version attempts to reindex.
+
+This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility.
+
+### Downgrade to a version < 0.12.0
+
+Because release 0.12.0 and later will obfuscate the chainstate on every
+fresh sync or reindex, the chainstate is not backwards-compatible with
+pre-0.12 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software.
+
+If you want to downgrade after you have done a reindex with 0.12.0 or later,
+you will need to reindex when you first start Bitcoin Core version 0.11 or
+earlier.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+Signature validation using libsecp256k1
+---------------------------------------
+
+ECDSA signatures inside Bitcoin transactions now use validation using
+[libsecp256k1](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1) instead of OpenSSL.
+
+Depending on the platform, this means a significant speedup for raw signature
+validation speed. The advantage is largest on x86_64, where validation is over
+five times faster. In practice, this translates to a raw reindexing and new
+block validation times that are less than half of what it was before.
+
+Libsecp256k1 has undergone very extensive testing and validation.
+
+A side effect of this change is that libconsensus no longer depends on OpenSSL.
+
+Reduce upload traffic
+---------------------
+
+A major part of the outbound traffic is caused by serving historic blocks to
+other nodes in initial block download state.
+
+It is now possible to reduce the total upload traffic via the `-maxuploadtarget`
+parameter. This is *not* a hard limit but a threshold to minimize the outbound
+traffic. When the limit is about to be reached, the uploaded data is cut by not
+serving historic blocks (blocks older than one week).
+Moreover, any SPV peer is disconnected when they request a filtered block.
+
+This option can be specified in MiB per day and is turned off by default
+(`-maxuploadtarget=0`).
+The recommended minimum is 144 * MAX_BLOCK_SIZE (currently 144MB) per day.
+
+Whitelisted peers will never be disconnected, although their traffic counts for
+calculating the target.
+
+A more detailed documentation about keeping traffic low can be found in
+[/doc/reduce-traffic.md](/doc/reduce-traffic.md).
+
+Direct headers announcement (BIP 130)
+-------------------------------------
+
+Between compatible peers, [BIP 130]
+(https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0130.mediawiki)
+direct headers announcement is used. This means that blocks are advertised by
+announcing their headers directly, instead of just announcing the hash. In a
+reorganization, all new headers are sent, instead of just the new tip. This
+can often prevent an extra roundtrip before the actual block is downloaded.
+
+Memory pool limiting
+--------------------
+
+Previous versions of Bitcoin Core had their mempool limited by checking
+a transaction's fees against the node's minimum relay fee. There was no
+upper bound on the size of the mempool and attackers could send a large
+number of transactions paying just slighly more than the default minimum
+relay fee to crash nodes with relatively low RAM. A temporary workaround
+for previous versions of Bitcoin Core was to raise the default minimum
+relay fee.
+
+Bitcoin Core 0.12 will have a strict maximum size on the mempool. The
+default value is 300 MB and can be configured with the `-maxmempool`
+parameter. Whenever a transaction would cause the mempool to exceed
+its maximum size, the transaction that (along with in-mempool descendants) has
+the lowest total feerate (as a package) will be evicted and the node's effective
+minimum relay feerate will be increased to match this feerate plus the initial
+minimum relay feerate. The initial minimum relay feerate is set to
+1000 satoshis per kB.
+
+Bitcoin Core 0.12 also introduces new default policy limits on the length and
+size of unconfirmed transaction chains that are allowed in the mempool
+(generally limiting the length of unconfirmed chains to 25 transactions, with a
+total size of 101 KB).  These limits can be overriden using command line
+arguments; see the extended help (`--help -help-debug`) for more information.
+
+Opt-in Replace-by-fee transactions
+----------------------------------
+
+It is now possible to replace transactions in the transaction memory pool of
+Bitcoin Core 0.12 nodes. Bitcoin Core will only allow replacement of
+transactions which have any of their inputs' `nSequence` number set to less
+than `0xffffffff - 1`.  Moreover, a replacement transaction may only be
+accepted when it pays sufficient fee, as described in [BIP 125]
+(https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0125.mediawiki).
+
+Transaction replacement can be disabled with a new command line option,
+`-mempoolreplacement=0`.  Transactions signaling replacement under BIP125 will
+still be allowed into the mempool in this configuration, but replacements will
+be rejected.  This option is intended for miners who want to continue the
+transaction selection behavior of previous releases.
+
+The `-mempoolreplacement` option is *not recommended* for wallet users seeking
+to avoid receipt of unconfirmed opt-in transactions, because this option does
+not prevent transactions which are replaceable under BIP 125 from being accepted
+(only subsequent replacements, which other nodes on the network that implement
+BIP 125 are likely to relay and mine).  Wallet users wishing to detect whether
+a transaction is subject to replacement under BIP 125 should instead use the
+updated RPC calls `gettransaction` and `listtransactions`, which now have an
+additional field in the output indicating if a transaction is replaceable under
+BIP125 ("bip125-replaceable").
+
+Note that the wallet in Bitcoin Core 0.12 does not yet have support for
+creating transactions that would be replaceable under BIP 125.
+
+
+RPC: Random-cookie RPC authentication
+-------------------------------------
+
+When no `-rpcpassword` is specified, the daemon now uses a special 'cookie'
+file for authentication. This file is generated with random content when the
+daemon starts, and deleted when it exits. Its contents are used as
+authentication token. Read access to this file controls who can access through
+RPC. By default it is stored in the data directory but its location can be
+overridden with the option `-rpccookiefile`.
+
+This is similar to Tor's CookieAuthentication: see
+https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
+
+This allows running bitcoind without having to do any manual configuration.
+
+Relay: Any sequence of pushdatas in OP_RETURN outputs now allowed
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Previously OP_RETURN outputs with a payload were only relayed and mined if they
+had a single pushdata. This restriction has been lifted to allow any
+combination of data pushes and numeric constant opcodes (OP_1 to OP_16) after
+the OP_RETURN. The limit on OP_RETURN output size is now applied to the entire
+serialized scriptPubKey, 83 bytes by default. (the previous 80 byte default plus
+three bytes overhead)
+
+Relay: New and only new blocks relayed when pruning
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+When running in pruned mode, the client will now relay new blocks. When
+responding to the `getblocks` message, only hashes of blocks that are on disk
+and are likely to remain there for some reasonable time window (1 hour) will be
+returned (previously all relevant hashes were returned).
+
+Relay and Mining: Priority transactions
+---------------------------------------
+
+Bitcoin Core has a heuristic 'priority' based on coin value and age. This
+calculation is used for relaying of transactions which do not pay the
+minimum relay fee, and can be used as an alternative way of sorting
+transactions for mined blocks. Bitcoin Core will relay transactions with
+insufficient fees depending on the setting of `-limitfreerelay=<r>` (default:
+`r=15` kB per minute) and `-blockprioritysize=<s>`.
+
+In Bitcoin Core 0.12, when mempool limit has been reached a higher minimum
+relay fee takes effect to limit memory usage. Transactions which do not meet
+this higher effective minimum relay fee will not be relayed or mined even if
+they rank highly according to the priority heuristic.
+
+The mining of transactions based on their priority is also now disabled by
+default. To re-enable it, simply set `-blockprioritysize=<n>` where is the size
+in bytes of your blocks to reserve for these transactions. The old default was
+50k, so to retain approximately the same policy, you would set
+`-blockprioritysize=50000`.
+
+Additionally, as a result of computational simplifications, the priority value
+used for transactions received with unconfirmed inputs is lower than in prior
+versions due to avoiding recomputing the amounts as input transactions confirm.
+
+External miner policy set via the `prioritisetransaction` RPC to rank
+transactions already in the mempool continues to work as it has previously.
+Note, however, that if mining priority transactions is left disabled, the
+priority delta will be ignored and only the fee metric will be effective.
+
+This internal automatic prioritization handling is being considered for removal
+entirely in Bitcoin Core 0.13, and it is at this time undecided whether the
+more accurate priority calculation for chained unconfirmed transactions will be
+restored. Community direction on this topic is particularly requested to help
+set project priorities.
+
+Automatically use Tor hidden services
+-------------------------------------
+
+Starting with Tor version 0.2.7.1 it is possible, through Tor's control socket
+API, to create and destroy 'ephemeral' hidden services programmatically.
+Bitcoin Core has been updated to make use of this.
+
+This means that if Tor is running (and proper authorization is available),
+Bitcoin Core automatically creates a hidden service to listen on, without
+manual configuration. Bitcoin Core will also use Tor automatically to connect
+to other .onion nodes if the control socket can be successfully opened. This
+will positively affect the number of available .onion nodes and their usage.
+
+This new feature is enabled by default if Bitcoin Core is listening, and
+a connection to Tor can be made. It can be configured with the `-listenonion`,
+`-torcontrol` and `-torpassword` settings. To show verbose debugging
+information, pass `-debug=tor`.
+
+Notifications through ZMQ
+-------------------------
+
+Bitcoind can now (optionally) asynchronously notify clients through a
+ZMQ-based PUB socket of the arrival of new transactions and blocks.
+This feature requires installation of the ZMQ C API library 4.x and
+configuring its use through the command line or configuration file.
+Please see [docs/zmq.md](/doc/zmq.md) for details of operation.
+
+Wallet: Transaction fees
+------------------------
+
+Various improvements have been made to how the wallet calculates
+transaction fees.
+
+Users can decide to pay a predefined fee rate by setting `-paytxfee=<n>`
+(or `settxfee <n>` rpc during runtime). A value of `n=0` signals Bitcoin
+Core to use floating fees. By default, Bitcoin Core will use floating
+fees.
+
+Based on past transaction data, floating fees approximate the fees
+required to get into the `m`th block from now. This is configurable
+with `-txconfirmtarget=<m>` (default: `2`).
+
+Sometimes, it is not possible to give good estimates, or an estimate
+at all. Therefore, a fallback value can be set with `-fallbackfee=<f>`
+(default: `0.0002` BTC/kB).
+
+At all times, Bitcoin Core will cap fees at `-maxtxfee=<x>` (default:
+0.10) BTC.
+Furthermore, Bitcoin Core will never create transactions paying less than
+the current minimum relay fee.
+Finally, a user can set the minimum fee rate for all transactions with
+`-mintxfee=<i>`, which defaults to 1000 satoshis per kB.
+
+Wallet: Negative confirmations and conflict detection
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+The wallet will now report a negative number for confirmations that indicates
+how deep in the block chain the conflict is found. For example, if a transaction
+A has 5 confirmations and spends the same input as a wallet transaction B, B
+will be reported as having -5 confirmations. If another wallet transaction C
+spends an output from B, it will also be reported as having -5 confirmations.
+To detect conflicts with historical transactions in the chain a one-time
+`-rescan` may be needed.
+
+Unlike earlier versions, unconfirmed but non-conflicting transactions will never
+get a negative confirmation count. They are not treated as spendable unless
+they're coming from ourself (change) and accepted into our local mempool,
+however. The new "trusted" field in the `listtransactions` RPC output
+indicates whether outputs of an unconfirmed transaction are considered
+spendable.
+
+Wallet: Merkle branches removed
+-------------------------------
+
+Previously, every wallet transaction stored a Merkle branch to prove its
+presence in blocks. This wasn't being used for more than an expensive
+sanity check. Since 0.12, these are no longer stored. When loading a
+0.12 wallet into an older version, it will automatically rescan to avoid
+failed checks.
+
+Wallet: Pruning
+---------------
+
+With 0.12 it is possible to use wallet functionality in pruned mode.
+This can reduce the disk usage from currently around 60 GB to
+around 2 GB.
+
+However, rescans as well as the RPCs `importwallet`, `importaddress`,
+`importprivkey` are disabled.
+
+To enable block pruning set `prune=<N>` on the command line or in
+`bitcoin.conf`, where `N` is the number of MiB to allot for
+raw block & undo data.
+
+A value of 0 disables pruning. The minimal value above 0 is 550. Your
+wallet is as secure with high values as it is with low ones. Higher
+values merely ensure that your node will not shut down upon blockchain
+reorganizations of more than 2 days - which are unlikely to happen in
+practice. In future releases, a higher value may also help the network
+as a whole: stored blocks could be served to other nodes.
+
+For further information about pruning, you may also consult the [release
+notes of v0.11.0](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.11.0/doc/release-notes.md#block-file-pruning).
+
+`NODE_BLOOM` service bit
+------------------------
+
+Support for the `NODE_BLOOM` service bit, as described in [BIP
+111](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0111.mediawiki), has been
+added to the P2P protocol code.
+
+BIP 111 defines a service bit to allow peers to advertise that they support
+bloom filters (such as used by SPV clients) explicitly. It also bumps the protocol
+version to allow peers to identify old nodes which allow bloom filtering of the
+connection despite lacking the new service bit.
+
+In this version, it is only enforced for peers that send protocol versions
+`>=70011`. For the next major version it is planned that this restriction will be
+removed. It is recommended to update SPV clients to check for the `NODE_BLOOM`
+service bit for nodes that report versions newer than 70011.
+
+Option parsing behavior
+-----------------------
+
+Command line options are now parsed strictly in the order in which they are
+specified. It used to be the case that `-X -noX` ends up, unintuitively, with X
+set, as `-X` had precedence over `-noX`. This is no longer the case. Like for
+other software, the last specified value for an option will hold.
+
+RPC: Low-level API changes
+--------------------------
+
+- Monetary amounts can be provided as strings. This means that for example the
+  argument to sendtoaddress can be "0.0001" instead of 0.0001. This can be an
+  advantage if a JSON library insists on using a lossy floating point type for
+  numbers, which would be dangerous for monetary amounts.
+
+* The `asm` property of each scriptSig now contains the decoded signature hash
+  type for each signature that provides a valid defined hash type.
+
+* OP_NOP2 has been renamed to OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY by [BIP 65](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki)
+
+The following items contain assembly representations of scriptSig signatures
+and are affected by this change:
+
+- RPC `getrawtransaction`
+- RPC `decoderawtransaction`
+- RPC `decodescript`
+- REST `/rest/tx/` (JSON format)
+- REST `/rest/block/` (JSON format when including extended tx details)
+- `bitcoin-tx -json`
+
+For example, the `scriptSig.asm` property of a transaction input that
+previously showed an assembly representation of:
+
+    304502207fa7a6d1e0ee81132a269ad84e68d695483745cde8b541e3bf630749894e342a022100c1f7ab20e13e22fb95281a870f3dcf38d782e53023ee313d741ad0cfbc0c509001 400000 OP_NOP2
+
+now shows as:
+
+    304502207fa7a6d1e0ee81132a269ad84e68d695483745cde8b541e3bf630749894e342a022100c1f7ab20e13e22fb95281a870f3dcf38d782e53023ee313d741ad0cfbc0c5090[ALL] 400000 OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY
+
+Note that the output of the RPC `decodescript` did not change because it is
+configured specifically to process scriptPubKey and not scriptSig scripts.
+
+RPC: SSL support dropped
+------------------------
+
+SSL support for RPC, previously enabled by the option `rpcssl` has been dropped
+from both the client and the server. This was done in preparation for removing
+the dependency on OpenSSL for the daemon completely.
+
+Trying to use `rpcssl` will result in an error:
+
+    Error: SSL mode for RPC (-rpcssl) is no longer supported.
+
+If you are one of the few people that relies on this feature, a flexible
+migration path is to use `stunnel`. This is an utility that can tunnel
+arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL. On e.g. Ubuntu it can be installed with:
+
+    sudo apt-get install stunnel4
+
+Then, to tunnel a SSL connection on 28332 to a RPC server bound on localhost on port 18332 do:
+
+    stunnel -d 28332 -r 127.0.0.1:18332 -p stunnel.pem -P ''
+
+It can also be set up system-wide in inetd style.
+
+Another way to re-attain SSL would be to setup a httpd reverse proxy. This solution
+would allow the use of different authentication, loadbalancing, on-the-fly compression and
+caching. A sample config for apache2 could look like:
+
+    Listen 443
+
+    NameVirtualHost *:443
+    <VirtualHost *:443>
+
+    SSLEngine On
+    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.crt
+    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key
+
+    <Location /bitcoinrpc>
+        ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8332/
+        ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8332/
+        # optional enable digest auth
+        # AuthType Digest
+        # ...
+
+        # optional bypass bitcoind rpc basic auth
+        # RequestHeader set Authorization "Basic <hash>"
+        # get the <hash> from the shell with: base64 <<< bitcoinrpc:<password>
+    </Location>
+
+    # Or, balance the load:
+    # ProxyPass / balancer://balancer_cluster_name
+
+    </VirtualHost>
+
+Mining Code Changes
+-------------------
+
+The mining code in 0.12 has been optimized to be significantly faster and use less
+memory. As part of these changes, consensus critical calculations are cached on a
+transaction's acceptance into the mempool and the mining code now relies on the
+consistency of the mempool to assemble blocks. However all blocks are still tested
+for validity after assembly.
+
+Other P2P Changes
+-----------------
+
+The list of banned peers is now stored on disk rather than in memory.
+Restarting bitcoind will no longer clear out the list of banned peers; instead
+a new RPC call (`clearbanned`) can be used to manually clear the list.  The new
+`setban` RPC call can also be used to manually ban or unban a peer.
+
+0.12.0 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
+the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
+git merge commit are mentioned.
+
+### RPC and REST
+
+- #6121 `466f0ea` Convert entire source tree from json_spirit to UniValue (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6234 `d38cd47` fix rpcmining/getblocktemplate univalue transition logic error (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6239 `643114f` Don't go through double in AmountFromValue and ValueFromAmount (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6266 `ebab5d3` Fix univalue handling of \u0000 characters. (Daniel Kraft)
+- #6276 `f3d4dbb` Fix getbalance * 0 (Tom Harding)
+- #6257 `5ebe7db` Add `paytxfee` and `errors` JSON fields where appropriate (Stephen)
+- #6271 `754aae5` New RPC command disconnectnode (Alex van der Peet)
+- #6158 `0abfa8a` Add setban/listbanned RPC commands (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6307 `7ecdcd9` rpcban fixes (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6290 `5753988` rpc: make `gettxoutsettinfo` run lock-free (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6262 `247b914` Return all available information via RPC call "validateaddress" (dexX7)
+- #6339 `c3f0490` UniValue: don't escape solidus, keep espacing of reverse solidus (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6353 `6bcb0a2` Show softfork status in getblockchaininfo (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6247 `726e286` Add getblockheader RPC call (Peter Todd)
+- #6362 `d6db115` Fix null id in RPC response during startup (Forrest Voight)
+- #5486 `943b322` [REST] JSON support for /rest/headers (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6379 `c52e8b3` rpc: Accept scientific notation for monetary amounts in JSON (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6388 `fd5dfda` rpc: Implement random-cookie based authentication (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6457 `3c923e8` Include pruned state in chaininfo.json (Simon Males)
+- #6456 `bfd807f` rpc: Avoid unnecessary parsing roundtrip in number formatting, fix locale issue (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6380 `240b30e` rpc: Accept strings in AmountFromValue (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6346 `6bb2805` Add OP_RETURN support in createrawtransaction RPC call, add tests. (paveljanik)
+- #6013 `6feeec1` [REST] Add memory pool API (paveljanik)
+- #6576 `da9beb2` Stop parsing JSON after first finished construct. (Daniel Kraft)
+- #5677 `9aa9099` libevent-based http server (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6633 `bbc2b39` Report minimum ping time in getpeerinfo (Matt Corallo)
+- #6648 `cd381d7` Simplify logic of REST request suffix parsing. (Daniel Kraft)
+- #6695 `5e21388` libevent http fixes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #5264 `48efbdb` show scriptSig signature hash types in transaction decodes. fixes #3166 (mruddy)
+- #6719 `1a9f19a` Make HTTP server shutdown more graceful (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6859 `0fbfc51` http: Restrict maximum size of http + headers (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #5936 `bf7c195` [RPC] Add optional locktime to createrawtransaction (Tom Harding)
+- #6877 `26f5b34` rpc: Add maxmempool and effective min fee to getmempoolinfo (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6970 `92701b3` Fix crash in validateaddress with -disablewallet (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #5574 `755b4ba` Expose GUI labels in RPC as comments (Luke-Jr)
+- #6990 `dbd2c13` http: speed up shutdown (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7013 `36baa9f` Remove LOCK(cs_main) from decodescript (Peter Todd)
+- #6999 `972bf9c` add (max)uploadtarget infos to getnettotals RPC help (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #7011 `31de241` Add mediantime to getblockchaininfo (Peter Todd)
+- #7065 `f91e29f` http: add Boost 1.49 compatibility (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7087 `be281d8` [Net]Add -enforcenodebloom option (Patrick Strateman)
+- #7044 `438ee59` RPC: Added additional config option for multiple RPC users. (Gregory Sanders)
+- #7072 `c143c49` [RPC] Add transaction size to JSON output (Nikita Zhavoronkov)
+- #7022 `9afbd96` Change default block priority size to 0 (Alex Morcos)
+- #7141 `c0c08c7` rpc: Don't translate warning messages (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7312 `fd4bd50` Add RPC call abandontransaction (Alex Morcos)
+- #7222 `e25b158` RPC: indicate which transactions are replaceable (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #7472 `b2f2b85` rpc: Add WWW-Authenticate header to 401 response (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7469 `9cb31e6` net.h fix spelling: misbeha{b,v}ing (Matt)
+
+### Configuration and command-line options
+
+- #6164 `8d05ec7` Allow user to use -debug=1 to enable all debugging (lpescher)
+- #5288 `4452205` Added `-whiteconnections=<n>` option (Josh Lehan)
+- #6284 `10ac38e` Fix argument parsing oddity with -noX (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6489 `c9c017a` Give a better error message if system clock is bad (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6462 `c384800` implement uacomment config parameter which can add comments to user agent as per BIP-0014 (Pavol Rusnak)
+- #6647 `a3babc8` Sanitize uacomment (MarcoFalke)
+- #6742 `3b2d37c` Changed logging to make -logtimestamps to work also for -printtoconsole (arnuschky)
+- #6846 `2cd020d` alias -h for -help (Daniel Cousens)
+- #6622 `7939164` Introduce -maxuploadtarget (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6881 `2b62551` Debug: Add option for microsecond precision in debug.log (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #6776 `e06c14f` Support -checkmempool=N, which runs checks once every N transactions (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6896 `d482c0a` Make -checkmempool=1 not fail through int32 overflow (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6993 `b632145` Add -blocksonly option (Patrick Strateman)
+- #7323 `a344880` 0.12: Backport -bytespersigop option (Luke-Jr)
+- #7386 `da83ecd` Add option `-permitrbf` to set transaction replacement policy (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7290 `b16b5bc` Add missing options help (MarcoFalke)
+- #7440 `c76bfff` Rename permitrbf to mempoolreplacement and provide minimal string-list forward compatibility (Luke-Jr)
+
+### Block and transaction handling
+
+- #6203 `f00b623` Remove P2SH coinbase flag, no longer interesting (Luke-Jr)
+- #6222 `9c93ee5` Explicitly set tx.nVersion for the genesis block and mining tests (Mark Friedenbach)
+- #5985 `3a1d3e8` Fix removing of orphan transactions (Alex Morcos)
+- #6221 `dd8fe82` Prune: Support noncontiguous block files (Adam Weiss)
+- #6124 `41076aa` Mempool only CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65) verification, unparameterized version (Peter Todd)
+- #6329 `d0a10c1` acceptnonstdtxn option to skip (most) "non-standard transaction" checks, for testnet/regtest only (Luke-Jr)
+- #6410 `7cdefb9` Implement accurate memory accounting for mempool (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6444 `24ce77d` Exempt unspendable transaction outputs from dust checks (dexX7)
+- #5913 `a0625b8` Add absurdly high fee message to validation state (Shaul Kfir)
+- #6177 `2f746c6` Prevent block.nTime from decreasing (Mark Friedenbach)
+- #6377 `e545371` Handle no chain tip available in InvalidChainFound() (Ross Nicoll)
+- #6551 `39ddaeb` Handle leveldb::DestroyDB() errors on wipe failure (Adam Weiss)
+- #6654 `b0ce450` Mempool package tracking (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #6715 `82d2aef` Fix mempool packages (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #6680 `4f44530` use CBlockIndex instead of uint256 for UpdatedBlockTip signal (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6650 `4fac576` Obfuscate chainstate (James O'Beirne)
+- #6777 `9caaf6e` Unobfuscate chainstate data in CCoinsViewDB::GetStats (James O'Beirne)
+- #6722 `3b20e23` Limit mempool by throwing away the cheapest txn and setting min relay fee to it (Matt Corallo)
+- #6889 `38369dd` fix locking issue with new mempool limiting (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6464 `8f3b3cd` Always clean up manual transaction prioritization (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6865 `d0badb9` Fix chainstate serialized_size computation (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6566 `ff057f4` BIP-113: Mempool-only median time-past as endpoint for lock-time calculations (Mark Friedenbach)
+- #6934 `3038eb6` Restores mempool only BIP113 enforcement (Gregory Maxwell)
+- #6965 `de7d459` Benchmark sanity checks and fork checks in ConnectBlock (Matt Corallo)
+- #6918 `eb6172a` Make sigcache faster, more efficient, larger (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6771 `38ed190` Policy: Lower default limits for tx chains (Alex Morcos)
+- #6932 `73fa5e6` ModifyNewCoins saves database lookups (Alex Morcos)
+- #5967 `05d5918` Alter assumptions in CCoinsViewCache::BatchWrite (Alex Morcos)
+- #6871 `0e93586` nSequence-based Full-RBF opt-in (Peter Todd)
+- #7008 `eb77416` Lower bound priority (Alex Morcos)
+- #6915 `2ef5ffa` [Mempool] Improve removal of invalid transactions after reorgs (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #6898 `4077ad2` Rewrite CreateNewBlock (Alex Morcos)
+- #6872 `bdda4d5` Remove UTXO cache entries when the tx they were added for is removed/does not enter mempool (Matt Corallo)
+- #7062 `12c469b` [Mempool] Fix mempool limiting and replace-by-fee for PrioritiseTransaction (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #7276 `76de36f` Report non-mandatory script failures correctly (Pieter Wuille)
+- #7217 `e08b7cb` Mark blocks with too many sigops as failed (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #7387 `f4b2ce8` Get rid of inaccurate ScriptSigArgsExpected (Pieter Wuille)
+
+### P2P protocol and network code
+
+- #6172 `88a7ead` Ignore getheaders requests when not synced (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #5875 `9d60602` Be stricter in processing unrequested blocks (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #6256 `8ccc07c` Use best header chain timestamps to detect partitioning (Gavin Andresen)
+- #6283 `a903ad7` make CAddrMan::size() return the correct type of size_t (Diapolo)
+- #6272 `40400d5` Improve proxy initialization (continues #4871) (Wladimir J. van der Laan, Diapolo)
+- #6310 `66e5465` banlist.dat: store banlist on disk (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6412 `1a2de32` Test whether created sockets are select()able (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6498 `219b916` Keep track of recently rejected transactions with a rolling bloom filter (cont'd) (Peter Todd)
+- #6556 `70ec975` Fix masking of irrelevant bits in address groups. (Alex Morcos)
+- #6530 `ea19c2b` Improve addrman Select() performance when buckets are nearly empty (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6583 `af9305a` add support for miniupnpc api version 14 (Pavel Vasin)
+- #6374 `69dc5b5` Connection slot exhaustion DoS mitigation (Patrick Strateman)
+- #6636 `536207f` net: correctly initialize nMinPingUsecTime (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6579 `0c27795` Add NODE_BLOOM service bit and bump protocol version (Matt Corallo)
+- #6148 `999c8be` Relay blocks when pruning (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #6588 `cf9bb11` In (strCommand == "tx"), return if AlreadyHave() (Tom Harding)
+- #6974 `2f71b07` Always allow getheaders from whitelisted peers (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6639 `bd629d7` net: Automatically create hidden service, listen on Tor (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6984 `9ffc687` don't enforce maxuploadtarget's disconnect for whitelisted peers (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #7046 `c322652` Net: Improve blocks only mode. (Patrick Strateman)
+- #7090 `d6454f6` Connect to Tor hidden services by default (when listening on Tor) (Peter Todd)
+- #7106 `c894fbb` Fix and improve relay from whitelisted peers (Pieter Wuille)
+- #7129 `5d5ef3a` Direct headers announcement (rebase of #6494) (Pieter Wuille)
+- #7079 `1b5118b` Prevent peer flooding inv request queue (redux) (redux) (Gregory Maxwell)
+- #7166 `6ba25d2` Disconnect on mempool requests from peers when over the upload limit. (Gregory Maxwell)
+- #7133 `f31955d` Replace setInventoryKnown with a rolling bloom filter (rebase of #7100) (Pieter Wuille)
+- #7174 `82aff88` Don't do mempool lookups for "mempool" command without a filter (Matt Corallo)
+- #7179 `44fef99` net: Fix sent reject messages for blocks and transactions (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7181 `8fc174a` net: Add and document network messages in protocol.h (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7125 `10b88be` Replace global trickle node with random delays (Pieter Wuille)
+- #7415 `cb83beb` net: Hardcoded seeds update January 2016 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7438 `e2d9a58` Do not absolutely protect local peers; decide group ties based on time (Gregory Maxwell)
+- #7439 `86755bc` Add whitelistforcerelay to control forced relaying. [#7099 redux] (Gregory Maxwell)
+- #7482 `e16f5b4` Ensure headers count is correct (Suhas Daftuar)
+
+### Validation
+
+- #5927 `8d9f0a6` Reduce checkpoints' effect on consensus. (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6299 `24f2489` Bugfix: Don't check the genesis block header before accepting it (Jorge Timón)
+- #6361 `d7ada03` Use real number of cores for default -par, ignore virtual cores (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6519 `87f37e2` Make logging for validation optional (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6351 `2a1090d` CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65) IsSuperMajority() soft-fork (Peter Todd)
+- #6931 `54e8bfe` Skip BIP 30 verification where not necessary (Alex Morcos)
+- #6954 `e54ebbf` Switch to libsecp256k1-based ECDSA validation (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6508 `61457c2` Switch to a constant-space Merkle root/branch algorithm. (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6914 `327291a` Add pre-allocated vector type and use it for CScript (Pieter Wuille)
+- #7500 `889e5b3` Correctly report high-S violations (Pieter Wuille)
+
+
+### Build system
+
+- #6210 `0e4f2a0` build: disable optional use of gmp in internal secp256k1 build (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6214 `87406aa` [OSX] revert renaming of Bitcoin-Qt.app and use CFBundleDisplayName (partial revert of #6116) (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6218 `9d67b10` build/gitian misc updates (Cory Fields)
+- #6269 `d4565b6` gitian: Use the new bitcoin-detached-sigs git repo for OSX signatures (Cory Fields)
+- #6418 `d4a910c` Add autogen.sh to source tarball. (randy-waterhouse)
+- #6373 `1ae3196` depends: non-qt bumps for 0.12 (Cory Fields)
+- #6434 `059b352` Preserve user-passed CXXFLAGS with --enable-debug (Gavin Andresen)
+- #6501 `fee6554` Misc build fixes (Cory Fields)
+- #6600 `ef4945f` Include bitcoin-tx binary on Debian/Ubuntu (Zak Wilcox)
+- #6619 `4862708` depends: bump miniupnpc and ccache (Michael Ford)
+- #6801 `ae69a75` [depends] Latest config.guess and config.sub (Michael Ford)
+- #6938 `193f7b5` build: If both Qt4 and Qt5 are installed, use Qt5 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7092 `348b281` build: Set osx permissions in the dmg to make Gatekeeper happy (Cory Fields)
+- #6980 `eccd671` [Depends] Bump Boost, miniupnpc, ccache & zeromq (Michael Ford)
+- #7424 `aa26ee0` Add security/export checks to gitian and fix current failures (Cory Fields)
+
+### Wallet
+
+- #6183 `87550ee` Fix off-by-one error w/ nLockTime in the wallet (Peter Todd)
+- #6057 `ac5476e` re-enable wallet in autoprune (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6356 `9e6c33b` Delay initial pruning until after wallet init (Adam Weiss)
+- #6088 `91389e5` fundrawtransaction (Matt Corallo)
+- #6415 `ddd8d80` Implement watchonly support in fundrawtransaction (Matt Corallo)
+- #6567 `0f0f323` Fix crash when mining with empty keypool. (Daniel Kraft)
+- #6688 `4939eab` Fix locking in GetTransaction. (Alex Morcos)
+- #6645 `4dbd43e` Enable wallet key imports without rescan in pruned mode. (Gregory Maxwell)
+- #6550 `5b77244` Do not store Merkle branches in the wallet. (Pieter Wuille)
+- #5924 `12a7712` Clean up change computation in CreateTransaction. (Daniel Kraft)
+- #6906 `48b5b84` Reject invalid pubkeys when reading ckey items from the wallet. (Gregory Maxwell)
+- #7010 `e0a5ef8` Fix fundrawtransaction handling of includeWatching (Peter Todd)
+- #6851 `616d61b` Optimisation: Store transaction list order in memory rather than compute it every need (Luke-Jr)
+- #6134 `e92377f` Improve usage of fee estimation code (Alex Morcos)
+- #7103 `a775182` [wallet, rpc tests] Fix settxfee, paytxfee (MarcoFalke)
+- #7105 `30c2d8c` Keep track of explicit wallet conflicts instead of using mempool (Pieter Wuille)
+- #7096 `9490bd7` [Wallet] Improve minimum absolute fee GUI options (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6216 `83f06ca` Take the training wheels off anti-fee-sniping (Peter Todd)
+- #4906 `96e8d12` Issue#1643: Coinselection prunes extraneous inputs from ApproximateBestSubset (Murch)
+- #7200 `06c6a58` Checks for null data transaction before issuing error to debug.log (Andy Craze)
+- #7296 `a36d79b` Add sane fallback for fee estimation (Alex Morcos)
+- #7293 `ff9b610` Add regression test for vValue sort order (MarcoFalke)
+- #7306 `4707797` Make sure conflicted wallet tx's update balances (Alex Morcos)
+- #7381 `621bbd8` [walletdb] Fix syntax error in key parser (MarcoFalke)
+- #7491 `00ec73e` wallet: Ignore MarkConflict if block hash is not known (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7502 `1329963` Update the wallet best block marker before pruning (Pieter Wuille)
+
+### GUI
+
+- #6217 `c57e12a` disconnect peers from peers tab via context menu (Diapolo)
+- #6209 `ab0ec67` extend rpc console peers tab (Diapolo)
+- #6484 `1369d69` use CHashWriter also in SignVerifyMessageDialog (Pavel Vasin)
+- #6487 `9848d42` Introduce PlatformStyle (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6505 `100c9d3` cleanup icons (MarcoFalke)
+- #4587 `0c465f5` allow users to set -onion via GUI (Diapolo)
+- #6529 `c0f66ce` show client user agent in debug window (Diapolo)
+- #6594 `878ea69` Disallow duplicate windows. (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #5665 `6f55cdd` add verifySize() function to PaymentServer (Diapolo)
+- #6317 `ca5e2a1` minor optimisations in peertablemodel (Diapolo)
+- #6315 `e59d2a8` allow banning and unbanning over UI->peers table (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6653 `e04b2fa` Pop debug window in foreground when opened twice (MarcoFalke)
+- #6864 `c702521` Use monospace font (MarcoFalke)
+- #6887 `3694b74` Update coin control and smartfee labels (MarcoFalke)
+- #7000 `814697c` add shortcurts for debug-/console-window (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6951 `03403d8` Use maxTxFee instead of 10000000 (MarcoFalke)
+- #7051 `a190777` ui: Add "Copy raw transaction data" to transaction list context menu (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6979 `776848a` simple mempool info in debug window (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #7006 `26af1ac` add startup option to reset Qt settings (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6780 `2a94cd6` Call init's parameter interaction before we create the UI options model (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #7112 `96b8025` reduce cs_main locks during tip update, more fluently update UI (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #7206 `f43c2f9` Add "NODE_BLOOM" to guiutil so that peers don't get UNKNOWN[4] (Matt Corallo)
+- #7282 `5cadf3e` fix coincontrol update issue when deleting a send coins entry (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #7319 `1320300` Intro: Display required space (MarcoFalke)
+- #7318 `9265e89` quickfix for RPC timer interface problem (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #7327 `b16b5bc` [Wallet] Transaction View: LastMonth calculation fixed (crowning-)
+- #7364 `7726c48` [qt] Windows: Make rpcconsole monospace font larger (MarcoFalke)
+- #7384 `294f432` [qt] Peertable: Increase SUBVERSION_COLUMN_WIDTH (MarcoFalke)
+
+### Tests and QA
+
+- #6305 `9005c91` build: comparison tool swap (Cory Fields)
+- #6318 `e307e13` build: comparison tool NPE fix (Cory Fields)
+- #6337 `0564c5b` Testing infrastructure: mocktime fixes (Gavin Andresen)
+- #6350 `60abba1` add unit tests for the decodescript rpc (mruddy)
+- #5881 `3203a08` Fix and improve txn_doublespend.py test (Tom Harding)
+- #6390 `6a73d66` tests: Fix bitcoin-tx signing test case (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6368 `7fc25c2` CLTV: Add more tests to improve coverage (Esteban Ordano)
+- #6414 `5121c68` Fix intermittent test failure, reduce test time (Tom Harding)
+- #6417 `44fa82d` [QA] fix possible reorg issue in (fund)rawtransaction(s).py RPC test (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6398 `3d9362d` rpc: Remove chain-specific RequireRPCPassword (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6428 `bb59e78` tests: Remove old sh-based test framework (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #5515 `d946e9a` RFC: Assert on probable deadlocks if the second lock isnt try_lock (Matt Corallo)
+- #6287 `d2464df` Clang lock debug (Cory Fields)
+- #6465 `410fd74` Don't share objects between TestInstances (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6534 `6c1c7fd` Fix test locking issues and un-revert the probable-deadlines assertions commit (Cory Fields)
+- #6509 `bb4faee` Fix race condition on test node shutdown (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6523 `561f8af` Add p2p-fullblocktest.py (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6590 `981fd92` Fix stale socket rebinding and re-enable python tests for Windows (Cory Fields)
+- #6730 `cb4d6d0` build: Remove dependency of bitcoin-cli on secp256k1 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6616 `5ab5dca` Regression Tests: Migrated rpc-tests.sh to all Python rpc-tests.py (Peter Tschipper)
+- #6720 `d479311` Creates unittests for addrman, makes addrman more testable. (Ethan Heilman)
+- #6853 `c834f56` Added fPowNoRetargeting field to Consensus::Params (Eric Lombrozo)
+- #6827 `87e5539` [rpc-tests] Check return code (MarcoFalke)
+- #6848 `f2c869a` Add DERSIG transaction test cases (Ross Nicoll)
+- #6813 `5242bb3` Support gathering code coverage data for RPC tests with lcov (dexX7)
+- #6888 `c8322ff` Clear strMiscWarning before running PartitionAlert (Eric Lombrozo)
+- #6894 `2675276` [Tests] Fix BIP65 p2p test (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #6863 `725539e` [Test Suite] Fix test for null tx input (Daniel Kraft)
+- #6926 `a6d0d62` tests: Initialize networking on windows (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6822 `9fa54a1` [tests] Be more strict checking dust (MarcoFalke)
+- #6804 `5fcc14e` [tests] Add basic coverage reporting for RPC tests (James O'Beirne)
+- #7045 `72dccfc` Bugfix: Use unique autostart filenames on Linux for testnet/regtest (Luke-Jr)
+- #7095 `d8368a0` Replace scriptnum_test's normative ScriptNum implementation (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7063 `6abf6eb` [Tests] Add prioritisetransaction RPC test (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #7137 `16f4a6e` Tests: Explicitly set chain limits in replace-by-fee test (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #7216 `9572e49` Removed offline testnet DNSSeed 'alexykot.me'. (tnull)
+- #7209 `f3ad812` test: don't override BITCOIND and BITCOINCLI if they're set (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7226 `301f16a` Tests: Add more tests to p2p-fullblocktest (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #7153 `9ef7c54` [Tests] Add mempool_limit.py test (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #7170 `453c567` tests: Disable Tor interaction (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7229 `1ed938b` [qa] wallet: Check if maintenance changes the balance (MarcoFalke)
+- #7308 `d513405` [Tests] Eliminate intermittent failures in sendheaders.py (Suhas Daftuar)
+- #7468 `947c4ff` [rpc-tests] Change solve() to use rehash (Brad Andrews)
+
+### Miscellaneous
+
+- #6213 `e54ff2f` [init] add -blockversion help and extend -upnp help (Diapolo)
+- #5975 `1fea667` Consensus: Decouple ContextualCheckBlockHeader from checkpoints (Jorge Timón)
+- #6061 `eba2f06` Separate Consensus::CheckTxInputs and GetSpendHeight in CheckInputs (Jorge Timón)
+- #5994 `786ed11` detach wallet from miner (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6387 `11576a5` [bitcoin-cli] improve error output (Jonas Schnelli)
+- #6401 `6db53b4` Add BITCOIND_SIGTERM_TIMEOUT to OpenRC init scripts (Florian Schmaus)
+- #6430 `b01981e` doc: add documentation for shared library libbitcoinconsensus (Braydon Fuller)
+- #6372 `dcc495e` Update Linearize tool to support Windows paths; fix variable scope; update README and example configuration (Paul Georgiou)
+- #6453 `8fe5cce` Separate core memory usage computation in core_memusage.h (Pieter Wuille)
+- #6149 `633fe10` Buffer log messages and explicitly open logs (Adam Weiss)
+- #6488 `7cbed7f` Avoid leaking file descriptors in RegisterLoad (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6497 `a2bf40d` Make sure LogPrintf strings are line-terminated (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6504 `b6fee6b` Rationalize currency unit to "BTC" (Ross Nicoll)
+- #6507 `9bb4dd8` Removed contrib/bitrpc (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6527 `41d650f` Use unique name for AlertNotify tempfile (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6561 `e08a7d9` limitedmap fixes and tests (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6565 `a6f2aff` Make sure we re-acquire lock if a task throws (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6599 `f4d88c4` Make sure LogPrint strings are line-terminated (Ross Nicoll)
+- #6630 `195942d` Replace boost::reverse_lock with our own (Casey Rodarmor)
+- #6103 `13b8282` Add ZeroMQ notifications (João Barbosa)
+- #6692 `d5d1d2e` devtools: don't push if signing fails in github-merge (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6728 `2b0567b` timedata: Prevent warning overkill (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6713 `f6ce59c` SanitizeString: Allow hypen char (MarcoFalke)
+- #5987 `4899a04` Bugfix: Fix testnet-in-a-box use case (Luke-Jr)
+- #6733 `b7d78fd` Simple benchmarking framework (Gavin Andresen)
+- #6854 `a092970` devtools: Add security-check.py (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #6790 `fa1d252` devtools: add clang-format.py (MarcoFalke)
+- #7114 `f3d0fdd` util: Don't set strMiscWarning on every exception (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
+- #7078 `93e0514` uint256::GetCheapHash bigendian compatibility (arowser)
+- #7094 `34e02e0` Assert now > 0 in GetTime GetTimeMillis GetTimeMicros (Patrick Strateman)
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- accraze
+- Adam Weiss
+- Alex Morcos
+- Alex van der Peet
+- AlSzacrel
+- Altoidnerd
+- Andriy Voskoboinyk
+- antonio-fr
+- Arne Brutschy
+- Ashley Holman
+- Bob McElrath
+- Braydon Fuller
+- BtcDrak
+- Casey Rodarmor
+- centaur1
+- Chris Kleeschulte
+- Christian Decker
+- Cory Fields
+- crowning-
+- daniel
+- Daniel Cousens
+- Daniel Kraft
+- David Hill
+- dexX7
+- Diego Viola
+- Elias Rohrer
+- Eric Lombrozo
+- Erik Mossberg
+- Esteban Ordano
+- EthanHeilman
+- Florian Schmaus
+- Forrest Voight
+- Gavin Andresen
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Gregory Sanders / instagibbs
+- Ian T
+- Irving Ruan
+- Jacob Welsh
+- James O'Beirne
+- Jeff Garzik
+- Johnathan Corgan
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- Jonathan Cross
+- João Barbosa
+- Jorge Timón
+- Josh Lehan
+- J Ross Nicoll
+- kazcw
+- Kevin Cooper
+- lpescher
+- Luke Dashjr
+- MarcoFalke
+- Mark Friedenbach
+- Matt
+- Matt Bogosian
+- Matt Corallo
+- Matt Quinn
+- Micha
+- Michael
+- Michael Ford / fanquake
+- Midnight Magic
+- Mitchell Cash
+- mrbandrews
+- mruddy
+- Nick
+- Patrick Strateman
+- Paul Georgiou
+- Paul Rabahy
+- Pavel Janík / paveljanik
+- Pavel Vasin
+- Pavol Rusnak
+- Peter Josling
+- Peter Todd
+- Philip Kaufmann
+- Pieter Wuille
+- ptschip
+- randy-waterhouse
+- rion
+- Ross Nicoll
+- Ryan Havar
+- Shaul Kfir
+- Simon Males
+- Stephen
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- tailsjoin
+- Thomas Kerin
+- Tom Harding
+- tulip
+- unsystemizer
+- Veres Lajos
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+- xor-freenet
+- Zak Wilcox
+- zathras-crypto
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.12.1 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.12.1/>
+
+This is a new minor version release, including the BIP9, BIP68 and BIP112
+softfork, various bugfixes 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).
+
+Downgrade warning
+-----------------
+
+### Downgrade to a version < 0.12.0
+
+Because release 0.12.0 and later will obfuscate the chainstate on every
+fresh sync or reindex, the chainstate is not backwards-compatible with
+pre-0.12 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software.
+
+If you want to downgrade after you have done a reindex with 0.12.0 or later,
+you will need to reindex when you first start Bitcoin Core version 0.11 or
+earlier.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+First version bits BIP9 softfork deployment
+-------------------------------------------
+
+This release includes a soft fork deployment to enforce [BIP68][],
+[BIP112][] and [BIP113][] using the [BIP9][] deployment mechanism.
+
+The deployment sets the block version number to 0x20000001 between
+midnight 1st May 2016 and midnight 1st May 2017 to signal readiness for 
+deployment. The version number consists of 0x20000000 to indicate version
+bits together with setting bit 0 to indicate support for this combined
+deployment, shown as "csv" in the `getblockchaininfo` RPC call.
+
+For more information about the soft forking change, please see
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7648>
+
+This specific backport pull-request can be viewed at
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7543>
+
+[BIP9]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0009.mediawiki
+[BIP68]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0068.mediawiki
+[BIP112]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawiki
+[BIP113]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0113.mediawiki
+
+BIP68 soft fork to enforce sequence locks for relative locktime
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[BIP68][] introduces relative lock-time consensus-enforced semantics of
+the sequence number field to enable a signed transaction input to remain
+invalid for a defined period of time after confirmation of its corresponding
+outpoint.
+
+For more information about the implementation, see
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7184>
+
+BIP112 soft fork to enforce OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+[BIP112][] redefines the existing OP_NOP3 as OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY (CSV)
+for a new opcode in the Bitcoin scripting system that in combination with
+[BIP68][] allows execution pathways of a script to be restricted based
+on the age of the output being spent.
+
+For more information about the implementation, see
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7524>
+
+BIP113 locktime enforcement soft fork
+-------------------------------------
+
+Bitcoin Core 0.11.2 previously introduced mempool-only locktime
+enforcement using GetMedianTimePast(). This release seeks to
+consensus enforce the rule.
+
+Bitcoin transactions currently may specify a locktime indicating when
+they may be added to a valid block.  Current consensus rules require
+that blocks have a block header time greater than the locktime specified
+in any transaction in that block.
+
+Miners get to choose what time they use for their header time, with the
+consensus rule being that no node will accept a block whose time is more
+than two hours in the future.  This creates a incentive for miners to
+set their header times to future values in order to include locktimed
+transactions which weren't supposed to be included for up to two more
+hours.
+
+The consensus rules also specify that valid blocks may have a header
+time greater than that of the median of the 11 previous blocks.  This
+GetMedianTimePast() time has a key feature we generally associate with
+time: it can't go backwards.
+
+[BIP113][] specifies a soft fork enforced in this release that
+weakens this perverse incentive for individual miners to use a future
+time by requiring that valid blocks have a computed GetMedianTimePast()
+greater than the locktime specified in any transaction in that block.
+
+Mempool inclusion rules currently require transactions to be valid for
+immediate inclusion in a block in order to be accepted into the mempool.
+This release begins applying the BIP113 rule to received transactions,
+so transaction whose time is greater than the GetMedianTimePast() will
+no longer be accepted into the mempool.
+
+**Implication for miners:** you will begin rejecting transactions that
+would not be valid under BIP113, which will prevent you from producing
+invalid blocks when BIP113 is enforced on the network. Any
+transactions which are valid under the current rules but not yet valid
+under the BIP113 rules will either be mined by other miners or delayed
+until they are valid under BIP113. Note, however, that time-based
+locktime transactions are more or less unseen on the network currently.
+
+**Implication for users:** GetMedianTimePast() always trails behind the
+current time, so a transaction locktime set to the present time will be
+rejected by nodes running this release until the median time moves
+forward. To compensate, subtract one hour (3,600 seconds) from your
+locktimes to allow those transactions to be included in mempools at
+approximately the expected time.
+
+For more information about the implementation, see
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6566>
+
+Miscellaneous
+-------------
+
+The p2p alert system is off by default. To turn on, use `-alert` with
+startup configuration.
+
+0.12.1 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
+the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
+git merge commit are mentioned.
+
+### RPC and other APIs
+- #7739 `7ffc2bd` Add abandoned status to listtransactions (jonasschnelli)
+
+### Block and transaction handling
+- #7543 `834aaef` Backport BIP9, BIP68 and BIP112 with softfork (btcdrak)
+
+### P2P protocol and network code
+- #7804 `90f1d24` Track block download times per individual block (sipa)
+- #7832 `4c3a00d` Reduce block timeout to 10 minutes (laanwj)
+
+### Validation
+- #7821 `4226aac` init: allow shutdown during 'Activating best chain...' (laanwj)
+- #7835 `46898e7` Version 2 transactions remain non-standard until CSV activates (sdaftuar)
+
+### Build system
+- #7487 `00d57b4` Workaround Travis-side CI issues (luke-jr)
+- #7606 `a10da9a` No need to set -L and --location for curl (MarcoFalke)
+- #7614 `ca8f160` Add curl to packages (now needed for depends) (luke-jr)
+- #7776 `a784675` Remove unnecessary executables from gitian release (laanwj)
+
+### Wallet
+- #7715 `19866c1` Fix calculation of balances and available coins. (morcos)
+
+### Miscellaneous
+- #7617 `f04f4fd` Fix markdown syntax and line terminate LogPrint (MarcoFalke)
+- #7747 `4d035bc` added depends cross compile info (accraze)
+- #7741 `a0cea89` Mark p2p alert system as deprecated (btcdrak)
+- #7780 `c5f94f6` Disable bad-chain alert (btcdrak)
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- accraze
+- Alex Morcos
+- BtcDrak
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- Luke Dashjr
+- MarcoFalke
+- Mark Friedenbach
+- NicolasDorier
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
+
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.13.0/>
+
+This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes
+and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
+
+To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
+
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/>
+
+Compatibility
+==============
+
+Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on [April 8th, 2014](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/end-of-xp-support),
+an OS initially released in 2001. This means that not even critical security
+updates will be released anymore. Without security updates, using a bitcoin
+wallet on a XP machine is irresponsible at least.
+
+In addition to that, with 0.12.x there have been varied reports of Bitcoin Core
+randomly crashing on Windows XP. It is [not clear](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/7681#issuecomment-217439891)
+what the source of these crashes is, but it is likely that upstream
+libraries such as Qt are no longer being tested on XP.
+
+We do not have time nor resources to provide support for an OS that is
+end-of-life. From 0.13.0 on, Windows XP is no longer supported. Users are
+suggested to upgrade to a newer verion of Windows, or install an alternative OS
+that is supported.
+
+No attempt is made to prevent installing or running the software on Windows XP,
+you can still do so at your own risk, but do not expect it to work: do not
+report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+Database cache memory increased
+--------------------------------
+
+As a result of growth of the UTXO set, performance with the prior default
+database cache of 100 MiB has suffered.
+For this reason the default was changed to 300 MiB in this release.
+
+For nodes on low-memory systems, the database cache can be changed back to
+100 MiB (or to another value) by either:
+
+- Adding `dbcache=100` in bitcoin.conf
+- Changing it in the GUI under `Options → Size of database cache`
+
+Note that the database cache setting has the most performance impact
+during initial sync of a node, and when catching up after downtime.
+
+
+bitcoin-cli: arguments privacy
+------------------------------
+
+The RPC command line client gained a new argument, `-stdin`
+to read extra arguments from standard input, one per line until EOF/Ctrl-D.
+For example:
+
+    $ src/bitcoin-cli -stdin walletpassphrase
+    mysecretcode
+    120
+    ..... press Ctrl-D here to end input
+    $
+
+It is recommended to use this for sensitive information such as wallet
+passphrases, as command-line arguments can usually be read from the process
+table by any user on the system.
+
+
+C++11 and Python 3
+------------------
+
+Various code modernizations have been done. The Bitcoin Core code base has
+started using C++11. This means that a C++11-capable compiler is now needed for
+building. Effectively this means GCC 4.7 or higher, or Clang 3.3 or higher.
+
+When cross-compiling for a target that doesn't have C++11 libraries, configure with
+`./configure --enable-glibc-back-compat ... LDFLAGS=-static-libstdc++`.
+
+For running the functional tests in `qa/rpc-tests`, Python3.4 or higher is now
+required.
+
+
+Linux ARM builds
+----------------
+
+Due to popular request, Linux ARM builds have been added to the uploaded
+executables.
+
+The following extra files can be found in the download directory or torrent:
+
+- `bitcoin-${VERSION}-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz`: Linux binaries targeting
+  the 32-bit ARMv7-A architecture.
+- `bitcoin-${VERSION}-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz`: Linux binaries targeting
+  the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture.
+
+ARM builds are still experimental. If you have problems on a certain device or
+Linux distribution combination please report them on the bug tracker, it may be
+possible to resolve them. Note that the device you use must be (backward)
+compatible with the architecture targeted by the binary that you use.
+For example, a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B or Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (in its 32-bit
+execution state) device, can run the 32-bit ARMv7-A targeted binary. However,
+no model of Raspberry Pi 1 device can run either binary because they are all
+ARMv6 architecture devices that are not compatible with ARMv7-A or ARMv8-A.
+
+Note that Android is not considered ARM Linux in this context. The executables
+are not expected to work out of the box on Android.
+
+
+Compact Block support (BIP 152)
+-------------------------------
+
+Support for block relay using the Compact Blocks protocol has been implemented
+in PR 8068.
+
+The primary goal is reducing the bandwidth spikes at relay time, though in many
+cases it also reduces propagation delay. It is automatically enabled between
+compatible peers.
+[BIP 152](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0152.mediawiki)
+
+As a side-effect, ordinary non-mining nodes will download and upload blocks
+faster if those blocks were produced by miners using similar transaction
+filtering policies. This means that a miner who produces a block with many
+transactions discouraged by your node will be relayed slower than one with
+only transactions already in your memory pool. The overall effect of such
+relay differences on the network may result in blocks which include widely-
+discouraged transactions losing a stale block race, and therefore miners may
+wish to configure their node to take common relay policies into consideration.
+
+
+Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation
+-----------------------------------------
+Newly created wallets will use hierarchical deterministic key generation
+according to BIP32 (keypath m/0'/0'/k').
+Existing wallets will still use traditional key generation.
+
+Backups of HD wallets, regardless of when they have been created, can
+therefore be used to re-generate all possible private keys, even the
+ones which haven't already been generated during the time of the backup.
+**Attention:** Encrypting the wallet will create a new seed which requires
+a new backup!
+
+Wallet dumps (created using the `dumpwallet` RPC) will contain the deterministic
+seed. This is expected to allow future versions to import the seed and all
+associated funds, but this is not yet implemented.
+
+HD key generation for new wallets can be disabled by `-usehd=0`. Keep in
+mind that this flag only has affect on newly created wallets.
+You can't disable HD key generation once you have created a HD wallet.
+
+There is no distinction between internal (change) and external keys.
+
+HD wallets are incompatible with older versions of Bitcoin Core.
+
+[Pull request](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8035/files), [BIP 32](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki)
+
+
+Segregated Witness
+------------------
+
+The code preparations for Segregated Witness ("segwit"), as described in [BIP
+141](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawiki), [BIP
+143](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0143.mediawiki), [BIP
+144](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0144.mediawiki), and [BIP
+145](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0145.mediawiki) are
+finished and included in this release.  However, BIP 141 does not yet specify
+activation parameters on mainnet, and so this release does not support segwit
+use on mainnet.  Testnet use is supported, and after BIP 141 is updated with
+proposed parameters, a future release of Bitcoin Core is expected that
+implements those parameters for mainnet.
+
+Furthermore, because segwit activation is not yet specified for mainnet,
+version 0.13.0 will behave similarly as other pre-segwit releases even after a
+future activation of BIP 141 on the network.  Upgrading from 0.13.0 will be
+required in order to utilize segwit-related features on mainnet (such as signal
+BIP 141 activation, mine segwit blocks, fully validate segwit blocks, relay
+segwit blocks to other segwit nodes, and use segwit transactions in the
+wallet, etc).
+
+
+Mining transaction selection ("Child Pays For Parent")
+------------------------------------------------------
+
+The mining transaction selection algorithm has been replaced with an algorithm
+that selects transactions based on their feerate inclusive of unconfirmed
+ancestor transactions.  This means that a low-fee transaction can become more
+likely to be selected if a high-fee transaction that spends its outputs is
+relayed.
+
+With this change, the `-blockminsize` command line option has been removed.
+
+The command line option `-blockmaxsize` remains an option to specify the
+maximum number of serialized bytes in a generated block.  In addition, the new
+command line option `-blockmaxweight` has been added, which specifies the
+maximum "block weight" of a generated block, as defined by [BIP 141 (Segregated
+Witness)] (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawiki).
+
+In preparation for Segregated Witness, the mining algorithm has been modified
+to optimize transaction selection for a given block weight, rather than a given
+number of serialized bytes in a block.  In this release, transaction selection
+is unaffected by this distinction (as BIP 141 activation is not supported on
+mainnet in this release, see above), but in future releases and after BIP 141
+activation, these calculations would be expected to differ.
+
+For optimal runtime performance, miners using this release should specify
+`-blockmaxweight` on the command line, and not specify `-blockmaxsize`.
+Additionally (or only) specifying `-blockmaxsize`, or relying on default
+settings for both, may result in performance degradation, as the logic to
+support `-blockmaxsize` performs additional computation to ensure that
+constraint is met.  (Note that for mainnet, in this release, the equivalent
+parameter for `-blockmaxweight` would be four times the desired
+`-blockmaxsize`.  See [BIP 141]
+(https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawiki) for additional
+details.)
+
+In the future, the `-blockmaxsize` option may be removed, as block creation is
+no longer optimized for this metric.  Feedback is requested on whether to
+deprecate or keep this command line option in future releases.
+
+
+Reindexing changes
+------------------
+
+In earlier versions, reindexing did validation while reading through the block
+files on disk. These two have now been split up, so that all blocks are known
+before validation starts. This was necessary to make certain optimizations that
+are available during normal synchronizations also available during reindexing.
+
+The two phases are distinct in the Bitcoin-Qt GUI. During the first one,
+"Reindexing blocks on disk" is shown. During the second (slower) one,
+"Processing blocks on disk" is shown.
+
+It is possible to only redo validation now, without rebuilding the block index,
+using the command line option `-reindex-chainstate` (in addition to
+`-reindex` which does both). This new option is useful when the blocks on disk
+are assumed to be fine, but the chainstate is still corrupted. It is also
+useful for benchmarks.
+
+
+Removal of internal miner
+--------------------------
+
+As CPU mining has been useless for a long time, the internal miner has been
+removed in this release, and replaced with a simpler implementation for the
+test framework.
+
+The overall result of this is that `setgenerate` RPC call has been removed, as
+well as the `-gen` and `-genproclimit` command-line options.
+
+For testing, the `generate` call can still be used to mine a block, and a new
+RPC call `generatetoaddress` has been added to mine to a specific address. This
+works with wallet disabled.
+
+
+New bytespersigop implementation
+--------------------------------
+
+The former implementation of the bytespersigop filter accidentally broke bare
+multisig (which is meant to be controlled by the `permitbaremultisig` option),
+since the consensus protocol always counts these older transaction forms as 20
+sigops for backwards compatibility. Simply fixing this bug by counting more
+accurately would have reintroduced a vulnerability. It has therefore been
+replaced with a new implementation that rather than filter such transactions,
+instead treats them (for fee purposes only) as if they were in fact the size
+of a transaction actually using all 20 sigops.
+
+
+Low-level P2P changes
+----------------------
+
+- The optional new p2p message "feefilter" is implemented and the protocol
+  version is bumped to 70013. Upon receiving a feefilter message from a peer,
+  a node will not send invs for any transactions which do not meet the filter
+  feerate. [BIP 133](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0133.mediawiki)
+
+- The P2P alert system has been removed in PR #7692 and the `alert` P2P message
+  is no longer supported.
+
+- The transaction relay mechanism used to relay one quarter of all transactions
+  instantly, while queueing up the rest and sending them out in batch. As
+  this resulted in chains of dependent transactions being reordered, it
+  systematically hurt transaction relay. The relay code was redesigned in PRs
+  \#7840 and #8082, and now always batches transactions announcements while also
+  sorting them according to dependency order. This significantly reduces orphan
+  transactions. To compensate for the removal of instant relay, the frequency of
+  batch sending was doubled for outgoing peers.
+
+- Since PR #7840 the BIP35 `mempool` command is also subject to batch processing.
+  Also the `mempool` message is no longer handled for non-whitelisted peers when
+  `NODE_BLOOM` is disabled through `-peerbloomfilters=0`.
+
+- The maximum size of orphan transactions that are kept in memory until their
+  ancestors arrive has been raised in PR #8179 from 5000 to 99999 bytes. They
+  are now also removed from memory when they are included in a block, conflict
+  with a block, and time out after 20 minutes.
+
+- We respond at most once to a getaddr request during the lifetime of a
+  connection since PR #7856.
+
+- Connections to peers who have recently been the first one to give us a valid
+  new block or transaction are protected from disconnections since PR #8084.
+
+
+Low-level RPC changes
+----------------------
+
+- RPC calls have been added to output detailed statistics for individual mempool
+  entries, as well as to calculate the in-mempool ancestors or descendants of a
+  transaction: see `getmempoolentry`, `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants`.
+
+- `gettxoutsetinfo` UTXO hash (`hash_serialized`) has changed. There was a divergence between
+  32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and the txids were missing in the hashed data. This has been
+  fixed, but this means that the output will be different than from previous versions.
+
+- Full UTF-8 support in the RPC API. Non-ASCII characters in, for example,
+  wallet labels have always been malformed because they weren't taken into account
+  properly in JSON RPC processing. This is no longer the case. This also affects
+  the GUI debug console.
+
+- Asm script outputs replacements for OP_NOP2 and OP_NOP3
+
+  - OP_NOP2 has been renamed to OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY by [BIP 
+65](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki)
+
+  - OP_NOP3 has been renamed to OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY by [BIP 
+112](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawiki)
+
+  - The following outputs are affected by this change:
+
+    - RPC `getrawtransaction` (in verbose mode)
+    - RPC `decoderawtransaction`
+    - RPC `decodescript`
+    - REST `/rest/tx/` (JSON format)
+    - REST `/rest/block/` (JSON format when including extended tx details)
+    - `bitcoin-tx -json`
+
+- The sorting of the output of the `getrawmempool` output has changed.
+
+- New RPC commands: `generatetoaddress`, `importprunedfunds`, `removeprunedfunds`, `signmessagewithprivkey`,
+  `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants`, `getmempoolentry`,
+  `createwitnessaddress`, `addwitnessaddress`.
+
+- Removed RPC commands: `setgenerate`, `getgenerate`.
+
+- New options were added to `fundrawtransaction`: `includeWatching`, `changeAddress`, `changePosition` and `feeRate`.
+
+
+Low-level ZMQ changes
+----------------------
+
+- Each ZMQ notification now contains an up-counting sequence number that allows
+  listeners to detect lost notifications.
+  The sequence number is always the last element in a multi-part ZMQ notification and
+  therefore backward compatible. Each message type has its own counter.
+  PR [#7762](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7762).
+
+
+0.13.0 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
+the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
+git merge commit are mentioned.
+
+### RPC and other APIs
+
+- #7156 `9ee02cf` Remove cs_main lock from `createrawtransaction` (laanwj)
+- #7326 `2cd004b` Fix typo, wrong information in gettxout help text (paveljanik)
+- #7222 `82429d0` Indicate which transactions are signaling opt-in RBF (sdaftuar)
+- #7480 `b49a623` Changed getnetworkhps value to double to avoid overflow (instagibbs)
+- #7550 `8b958ab` Input-from-stdin mode for bitcoin-cli (laanwj)
+- #7670 `c9a1265` Use cached block hash in blockToJSON() (rat4)
+- #7726 `9af69fa` Correct importaddress help reference to importpubkey (CypherGrue)
+- #7766 `16555b6` Register calls where they are defined (laanwj)
+- #7797 `e662a76` Fix generatetoaddress failing to parse address (mruddy)
+- #7774 `916b15a` Add versionHex in getblock and getblockheader JSON results (mruddy)
+- #7863 `72c54e3` Getblockchaininfo: make bip9_softforks an object, not an array (rustyrussell)
+- #7842 `d97101e` Do not print minping time in getpeerinfo when no ping received yet (paveljanik)
+- #7518 `be14ca5` Add multiple options to fundrawtransaction (promag)
+- #7756 `9e47fce` Add cursor to iterate over utxo set, use this in `gettxoutsetinfo` (laanwj)
+- #7848 `88616d2` Divergence between 32- and 64-bit when hashing >4GB affects `gettxoutsetinfo` (laanwj)
+- #7827 `4205ad7` Speed up `getchaintips` (mrbandrews)
+- #7762 `a1eb344` Append a message sequence number to every ZMQ notification (jonasschnelli)
+- #7688 `46880ed` List solvability in listunspent output and improve help (sipa)
+- #7926 `5725807` Push back `getaddednodeinfo` dead value (instagibbs)
+- #7953 `0630353` Create `signmessagewithprivkey` rpc (achow101)
+- #8049 `c028c7b` Expose information on whether transaction relay is enabled in `getnetworkinfo` (laanwj)
+- #7967 `8c1e49b` Add feerate option to `fundrawtransaction` (jonasschnelli)
+- #8118 `9b6a48c` Reduce unnecessary hashing in `signrawtransaction` (jonasnick)
+- #7957 `79004d4` Add support for transaction sequence number (jonasschnelli)
+- #8153 `75ec320` `fundrawtransaction` feeRate: Use BTC/kB (MarcoFalke)
+- #7292 `7ce9ac5` Expose ancestor/descendant information over RPC (sdaftuar)
+- #8171 `62fcf27` Fix createrawtx sequence number unsigned int parsing (jonasschnelli)
+- #7892 `9c3d0fa` Add full UTF-8 support to RPC (laanwj)
+- #8317 `304eff3` Don't use floating point in rpcwallet (MarcoFalke)
+- #8258 `5a06ebb` Hide softfork in `getblockchaininfo` if timeout is 0 (jl2012)
+- #8244 `1922e5a` Remove unnecessary LOCK(cs_main) in getrawmempool (dcousens)
+
+### Block and transaction handling
+
+- #7056 `6a07208` Save last db read (morcos)
+- #6842 `0192806` Limitfreerelay edge case bugfix (ptschip)
+- #7084 `11d74f6` Replace maxFeeRate of 10000*minRelayTxFee with maxTxFee in mempool (MarcoFalke)
+- #7539 `9f33dba` Add tags to mempool's mapTx indices (sdaftuar)
+- #7592 `26a2a72` Re-remove ERROR logging for mempool rejects (laanwj)
+- #7187 `14d6324` Keep reorgs fast for SequenceLocks checks (morcos)
+- #7594 `01f4267` Mempool: Add tracking of ancestor packages (sdaftuar)
+- #7904 `fc9e334` Txdb: Fix assert crash in new UTXO set cursor (laanwj)
+- #7927 `f9c2ac7` Minor changes to dbwrapper to simplify support for other databases (laanwj)
+- #7933 `e26b620` Fix OOM when deserializing UTXO entries with invalid length (sipa)
+- #8020 `5e374f7` Use SipHash-2-4 for various non-cryptographic hashes (sipa)
+- #8076 `d720980` VerifyDB: don't check blocks that have been pruned (sdaftuar)
+- #8080 `862fd24` Do not use mempool for GETDATA for tx accepted after the last mempool req (gmaxwell)
+- #7997 `a82f033` Replace mapNextTx with slimmer setSpends (kazcw)
+- #8220 `1f86d64` Stop trimming when mapTx is empty (sipa)
+- #8273 `396f9d6` Bump `-dbcache` default to 300MiB (laanwj)
+- #7225 `eb33179` Eliminate unnecessary call to CheckBlock (sdaftuar)
+- #7907 `006cdf6` Optimize and Cleanup CScript::FindAndDelete (pstratem)
+- #7917 `239d419` Optimize reindex (sipa)
+- #7763 `3081fb9` Put hex-encoded version in UpdateTip (sipa)
+- #8149 `d612837` Testnet-only segregated witness (sipa)
+- #8305 `3730393` Improve handling of unconnecting headers (sdaftuar)
+- #8363 `fca1a41` Rename "block cost" to "block weight" (sdaftuar)
+- #8381 `f84ee3d` Make witness v0 outputs non-standard (jl2012)
+- #8364 `3f65ba2` Treat high-sigop transactions as larger rather than rejecting them (sipa)
+
+### P2P protocol and network code
+
+- #6589 `dc0305d` Log bytes recv/sent per command (jonasschnelli)
+- #7164 `3b43cad` Do not download transactions during initial blockchain sync (ptschip)
+- #7458 `898fedf` peers.dat, banlist.dat recreated when missing (kirkalx)
+- #7637 `3da5d1b` Fix memleak in TorController (laanwj, jonasschnelli)
+- #7553 `9f14e5a` Remove vfReachable and modify IsReachable to only use vfLimited (pstratem)
+- #7708 `9426632` De-neuter NODE_BLOOM (pstratem)
+- #7692 `29b2be6` Remove P2P alert system (btcdrak)
+- #7542 `c946a15` Implement "feefilter" P2P message (morcos)
+- #7573 `352fd57` Add `-maxtimeadjustment` command line option (mruddy)
+- #7570 `232592a` Add IPv6 Link-Local Address Support (mruddy)
+- #7874 `e6a4d48` Improve AlreadyHave (morcos)
+- #7856 `64e71b3` Only send one GetAddr response per connection (gmaxwell)
+- #7868 `7daa3ad` Split DNS resolving functionality out of net structures (theuni)
+- #7919 `7617682` Fix headers announcements edge case (sdaftuar)
+- #7514 `d9594bf` Fix IsInitialBlockDownload for testnet (jmacwhyte)
+- #7959 `03cf6e8` fix race that could fail to persist a ban (kazcw)
+- #7840 `3b9a0bf` Several performance and privacy improvements to inv/mempool handling (sipa)
+- #8011 `65aecda` Don't run ThreadMessageHandler at lowered priority (kazcw)
+- #7696 `5c3f8dd` Fix de-serialization bug where AddrMan is left corrupted (EthanHeilman)
+- #7932 `ed749bd` CAddrMan::Deserialize handle corrupt serializations better (pstratem)
+- #7906 `83121cc` Prerequisites for p2p encapsulation changes (theuni)
+- #8033 `18436d8` Fix Socks5() connect failures to be less noisy and less unnecessarily scary (wtogami)
+- #8082 `01d8359` Defer inserting into maprelay until just before relaying (gmaxwell)
+- #7960 `6a22373` Only use AddInventoryKnown for transactions (sdaftuar)
+- #8078 `2156fa2` Disable the mempool P2P command when bloom filters disabled (petertodd)
+- #8065 `67c91f8` Addrman offline attempts (gmaxwell)
+- #7703 `761cddb` Tor: Change auth order to only use password auth if -torpassword (laanwj)
+- #8083 `cd0c513` Add support for dnsseeds with option to filter by servicebits (jonasschnelli)
+- #8173 `4286f43` Use SipHash for node eviction (sipa)
+- #8154 `1445835` Drop vAddrToSend after sending big addr message (kazcw)
+- #7749 `be9711e` Enforce expected outbound services (sipa)
+- #8208 `0a64777` Do not set extra flags for unfiltered DNS seed results (sipa)
+- #8084 `e4bb4a8` Add recently accepted blocks and txn to AttemptToEvictConnection (gmaxwell)
+- #8113 `3f89a53` Rework addnode behaviour (sipa)
+- #8179 `94ab58b` Evict orphans which are included or precluded by accepted blocks (gmaxwell)
+- #8068 `e9d76a1` Compact Blocks (TheBlueMatt)
+- #8204 `0833894` Update petertodd's testnet seed (petertodd)
+- #8247 `5cd35d3` Mark my dnsseed as supporting filtering (sipa)
+- #8275 `042c323` Remove bad chain alert partition check (btcdrak)
+- #8271 `1bc9c80` Do not send witnesses in cmpctblock (sipa)
+- #8312 `ca40ef6` Fix mempool DoS vulnerability from malleated transactions (sdaftuar)
+- #7180 `16ccb74` Account for `sendheaders` `verack` messages (laanwj)
+- #8102 `425278d` Bugfix: use global ::fRelayTxes instead of CNode in version send (sipa)
+- #8408 `b7e2011` Prevent fingerprinting, disk-DoS with compact blocks (sdaftuar)
+
+### Build system
+
+- #7302 `41f1a3e` C++11 build/runtime fixes (theuni)
+- #7322 `fd9356b` c++11: add scoped enum fallbacks to CPPFLAGS rather than defining them locally (theuni)
+- #7441 `a6771fc` Use Debian 8.3 in gitian build guide (fanquake)
+- #7349 `152a821` Build against system UniValue when available (luke-jr)
+- #7520 `621940e` LibreSSL doesn't define OPENSSL_VERSION, use LIBRESSL_VERSION_TEXT instead (paveljanik)
+- #7528 `9b9bfce` autogen.sh: warn about needing autoconf if autoreconf is not found (knocte)
+- #7504 `19324cf` Crystal clean make clean (paveljanik)
+- #7619 `18b3f1b` Add missing sudo entry in gitian VM setup (btcdrak)
+- #7616 `639ec58`  [depends] Delete unused patches  (MarcoFalke)
+- #7658 `c15eb28` Add curl to Gitian setup instructions (btcdrak)
+- #7710 `909b72b` [Depends] Bump miniupnpc and config.guess+sub (fanquake)
+- #7723 `5131005` build: python 3 compatibility (laanwj)
+- #7477 `28ad4d9` Fix quoting of copyright holders in configure.ac (domob1812)
+- #7711 `a67bc5e` [build-aux] Update Boost & check macros to latest serials (fanquake)
+- #7788 `4dc1b3a` Use relative paths instead of absolute paths in protoc calls (paveljanik)
+- #7809 `bbd210d` depends: some base fixes/changes (theuni)
+- #7603 `73fc922` Build System: Use PACKAGE_TARNAME in NSIS script (JeremyRand)
+- #7905 `187186b` test: move accounting_tests and rpc_wallet_tests to wallet/test (laanwj)
+- #7911 `351abf9` leveldb: integrate leveldb into our buildsystem (theuni)
+- #7944 `a407807` Re-instate TARGET_OS=linux in configure.ac. Removed by 351abf9e035 (randy-waterhouse)
+- #7920 `c3e3cfb` Switch Travis to Trusty (theuni)
+- #7954 `08b37c5` build: quiet annoying warnings without adding new ones (theuni)
+- #7165 `06162f1` build: Enable C++11 in build, require C++11 compiler (laanwj)
+- #7982 `559fbae` build: No need to check for leveldb atomics (theuni)
+- #8002 `f9b4582` [depends] Add -stdlib=libc++ to darwin CXX flags (fanquake)
+- #7993 `6a034ed` [depends] Bump Freetype, ccache, ZeroMQ, miniupnpc, expat (fanquake)
+- #8167 `19ea173` Ship debug tarballs/zips with debug symbols (theuni)
+- #8175 `f0299d8` Add --disable-bench to config flags for windows (laanwj)
+- #7283 `fd9881a` [gitian] Default reference_datetime to commit author date (MarcoFalke)
+- #8181 `9201ce8` Get rid of `CLIENT_DATE` (laanwj)
+- #8133 `fde0ac4` Finish up out-of-tree changes (theuni)
+- #8188 `65a9d7d` Add armhf/aarch64 gitian builds (theuni)
+- #8194 `cca1c8c` [gitian] set correct PATH for wrappers (MarcoFalke)
+- #8198 `5201614` Sync ax_pthread with upstream draft4 (fanquake)
+- #8210 `12a541e` [Qt] Bump to Qt5.6.1 (jonasschnelli)
+- #8285 `da50997` windows: Add testnet link to installer (laanwj)
+- #8304 `0cca2fe` [travis] Update SDK_URL (MarcoFalke)
+- #8310 `6ae20df` Require boost for bench (theuni)
+- #8315 `2e51590` Don't require sudo for Linux (theuni)
+- #8314 `67caef6` Fix pkg-config issues for 0.13 (theuni)
+- #8373 `1fe7f40` Fix OSX non-deterministic dmg (theuni)
+- #8358 `cfd1280` Gbuild: Set memory explicitly (default is too low) (MarcoFalke)
+
+### GUI
+
+- #7154 `00b4b8d` Add InMempool() info to transaction details (jonasschnelli)
+- #7068 `5f3c670` [RPC-Tests] add simple way to run rpc test over QT clients (jonasschnelli)
+- #7218 `a1c185b` Fix misleading translation (MarcoFalke)
+- #7214 `be9a9a3` qt5: Use the fixed font the system recommends (MarcoFalke)
+- #7256 `08ab906` Add note to coin control dialog QT5 workaround (fanquake)
+- #7255 `e289807` Replace some instances of formatWithUnit with formatHtmlWithUnit (fanquake)
+- #7317 `3b57e9c` Fix RPCTimerInterface ordering issue (jonasschnelli)
+- #7327 `c079d79` Transaction View: LastMonth calculation fixed (crowning-)
+- #7334 `e1060c5` coincontrol workaround is still needed in qt5.4 (fixed in qt5.5) (MarcoFalke)
+- #7383 `ae2db67` Rename "amount" to "requested amount" in receive coins table (jonasschnelli)
+- #7396 `cdcbc59` Add option to increase/decrease font size in the console window (jonasschnelli)
+- #7437 `9645218` Disable tab navigation for peers tables (Kefkius)
+- #7604 `354b03d` build: Remove spurious dollar sign. Fixes #7189 (dooglus)
+- #7605 `7f001bd` Remove openssl info from init/log and from Qt debug window (jonasschnelli)
+- #7628 `87d6562` Add 'copy full transaction details' option (ericshawlinux)
+- #7613 `3798e5d` Add autocomplete to bitcoin-qt's console window (GamerSg)
+- #7668 `b24266c` Fix history deletion bug after font size change (achow101)
+- #7680 `41d2dfa` Remove reflection from `about` icon (laanwj)
+- #7686 `f034bce` Remove 0-fee from send dialog (MarcoFalke)
+- #7506 `b88e0b0` Use CCoinControl selection in CWallet::FundTransaction (promag)
+- #7732 `0b98dd7` Debug window: replace "Build date" with "Datadir" (jonasschnelli)
+- #7761 `60db51d` remove trailing output-index from transaction-id (jonasschnelli)
+- #7772 `6383268` Clear the input line after activating autocomplete (paveljanik)
+- #7925 `f604bf6` Fix out-of-tree GUI builds (laanwj)
+- #7939 `574ddc6` Make it possible to show details for multiple transactions (laanwj)
+- #8012 `b33824b` Delay user confirmation of send (Tyler-Hardin)
+- #8006 `7c8558d` Add option to disable the system tray icon (Tyler-Hardin)
+- #8046 `169d379` Fix Cmd-Q / Menu Quit shutdown on OSX (jonasschnelli)
+- #8042 `6929711` Don't allow to open the debug window during splashscreen & verification state (jonasschnelli)
+- #8014 `77b49ac` Sort transactions by date (Tyler-Hardin)
+- #8073 `eb2f6f7` askpassphrasedialog: Clear pass fields on accept (rat4)
+- #8129 `ee1533e` Fix RPC console auto completer (UdjinM6)
+- #7636 `fb0ac48` Add bitcoin address label to request payment QR code (makevoid)
+- #8231 `760a6c7` Fix a bug where the SplashScreen will not be hidden during startup (jonasschnelli)
+- #8256 `af2421c` BUG: bitcoin-qt crash (fsb4000)
+- #8257 `ff03c50` Do not ask a UI question from bitcoind (sipa)
+- #8288 `91abb77` Network-specific example address (laanwj)
+- #7707 `a914968` UI support for abandoned transactions (jonasschnelli)
+- #8207 `f7a403b` Add a link to the Bitcoin-Core repository and website to the About Dialog (MarcoFalke)
+- #8281 `6a87eb0` Remove client name from debug window (laanwj)
+- #8407 `45eba4b` Add dbcache migration path (jonasschnelli)
+
+### Wallet
+
+- #7262 `fc08994` Reduce inefficiency of GetAccountAddress() (dooglus)
+- #7537 `78e81b0` Warn on unexpected EOF while salvaging wallet (laanwj)
+- #7521 `3368895` Don't resend wallet txs that aren't in our own mempool (morcos)
+- #7576 `86a1ec5` Move wallet help string creation to CWallet (jonasschnelli)
+- #7577 `5b3b5a7` Move "load wallet phase" to CWallet (jonasschnelli)
+- #7608 `0735c0c` Move hardcoded file name out of log messages (MarcoFalke)
+- #7649 `4900641` Prevent multiple calls to CWallet::AvailableCoins (promag)
+- #7646 `e5c3511` Fix lockunspent help message (promag)
+- #7558 `b35a591` Add import/removeprunedfunds rpc call (instagibbs)
+- #6215 `48c5adf` add bip32 pub key serialization (jonasschnelli)
+- #7913 `bafd075` Fix for incorrect locking in GetPubKey() (keystore.cpp) (yurizhykin)
+- #8036 `41138f9` init: Move berkeleydb version reporting to wallet (laanwj)
+- #8028 `373b50d` Fix insanity of CWalletDB::WriteTx and CWalletTx::WriteToDisk (pstratem)
+- #8061 `f6b7df3` Improve Wallet encapsulation (pstratem)
+- #7891 `950be19` Always require OS randomness when generating secret keys (sipa)
+- #7689 `b89ef13` Replace OpenSSL AES with ctaes-based version (sipa)
+- #7825 `f972b04` Prevent multiple calls to ExtractDestination (pedrobranco)
+- #8137 `243ac0c` Improve CWallet API with new AccountMove function (pstratem)
+- #8142 `52c3f34` Improve CWallet API  with new GetAccountPubkey function (pstratem)
+- #8035 `b67a472` Add simplest BIP32/deterministic key generation implementation (jonasschnelli)
+- #7687 `a6ddb19` Stop treating importaddress'ed scripts as change (sipa)
+- #8298 `aef3811` wallet: Revert input selection post-pruning (laanwj)
+- #8324 `bc94b87` Keep HD seed during salvagewallet (jonasschnelli)
+- #8323 `238300b` Add HD keypath to CKeyMetadata, report metadata in validateaddress (jonasschnelli)
+- #8367 `3b38a6a` Ensure <0.13 clients can't open HD wallets (jonasschnelli)
+- #8378 `ebea651` Move SetMinVersion for FEATURE_HD to SetHDMasterKey (pstratem)
+- #8390 `73adfe3` Correct hdmasterkeyid/masterkeyid name confusion (jonasschnelli)
+- #8206 `18b8ee1` Add HD xpriv to dumpwallet (jonasschnelli)
+- #8389 `c3c82c4` Create a new HD seed after encrypting the wallet (jonasschnelli)
+
+### Tests and QA
+
+- #7320 `d3dfc6d` Test walletpassphrase timeout (MarcoFalke)
+- #7208 `47c5ed1` Make max tip age an option instead of chainparam (laanwj)
+- #7372 `21376af` Trivial: [qa] wallet: Print maintenance (MarcoFalke)
+- #7280 `668906f` [travis] Fail when documentation is outdated (MarcoFalke)
+- #7177 `93b0576` [qa] Change default block priority size to 0 (MarcoFalke)
+- #7236 `02676c5` Use createrawtx locktime parm in txn_clone (dgenr8)
+- #7212 `326ffed` Adds unittests for CAddrMan and CAddrinfo, removes source of non-determinism (EthanHeilman)
+- #7490 `d007511` tests: Remove May15 test (laanwj)
+- #7531 `18cb2d5` Add bip68-sequence.py to extended rpc tests (btcdrak)
+- #7536 `ce5fc02` test: test leading spaces for ParseHex (laanwj)
+- #7620 `1b68de3` [travis] Only run check-doc.py once (MarcoFalke)
+- #7455 `7f96671` [travis] Exit early when check-doc.py fails (MarcoFalke)
+- #7667 `56d2c4e` Move GetTempPath() to testutil (musalbas)
+- #7517 `f1ca891` test: script_error checking in script_invalid tests (laanwj)
+- #7684 `3d0dfdb` Extend tests (MarcoFalke)
+- #7697 `622fe6c` Tests: make prioritise_transaction.py more robust (sdaftuar)
+- #7709 `efde86b` Tests: fix missing import in mempool_packages (sdaftuar)
+- #7702 `29e1131` Add tests verifychain, lockunspent, getbalance, listsinceblock (MarcoFalke)
+- #7720 `3b4324b` rpc-test: Normalize assert() (MarcoFalke)
+- #7757 `26794d4` wallet: Wait for reindex to catch up (MarcoFalke)
+- #7764 `a65b36c` Don't run pruning.py twice (MarcoFalke)
+- #7773 `7c80e72` Fix comments in tests (btcdrak)
+- #7489 `e9723cb` tests: Make proxy_test work on travis servers without IPv6 (laanwj)
+- #7801 `70ac71b` Remove misleading "errorString syntax" (MarcoFalke)
+- #7803 `401c65c` maxblocksinflight: Actually enable test (MarcoFalke)
+- #7802 `3bc71e1` httpbasics: Actually test second connection (MarcoFalke)
+- #7849 `ab8586e` tests: add varints_bitpatterns test (laanwj)
+- #7846 `491171f` Clean up lockorder data of destroyed mutexes (sipa)
+- #7853 `6ef5e00` py2: Unfiddle strings into bytes explicitly (MarcoFalke)
+- #7878 `53adc83` [test] bctest.py: Revert faa41ee (MarcoFalke)
+- #7798 `cabba24` [travis] Print the commit which was evaluated (MarcoFalke)
+- #7833 `b1bf511` tests: Check Content-Type header returned from RPC server (laanwj)
+- #7851 `fa9d86f` pull-tester: Don't mute zmq ImportError (MarcoFalke)
+- #7822 `0e6fd5e` Add listunspent() test for spendable/unspendable UTXO (jpdffonseca)
+- #7912 `59ad568` Tests: Fix deserialization of reject messages (sdaftuar)
+- #7941 `0ea3941` Fixing comment in script_test.json test case (Christewart)
+- #7807 `0ad1041` Fixed miner test values, gave constants for less error-prone values (instagibbs)
+- #7980 `88b77c7` Smartfees: Properly use ordered dict (MarcoFalke)
+- #7814 `77b637f` Switch to py3 (MarcoFalke)
+- #8030 `409a8a1` Revert fatal-ness of missing python-zmq (laanwj)
+- #8018 `3e90fe6` Autofind rpc tests --srcdir (jonasschnelli)
+- #8016 `5767e80` Fix multithread CScheduler and reenable test (paveljanik)
+- #7972 `423ca30` pull-tester: Run rpc test in parallel  (MarcoFalke)
+- #8039 `69b3a6d` Bench: Add crypto hash benchmarks (laanwj)
+- #8041 `5b736dd` Fix bip9-softforks blockstore issue (MarcoFalke)
+- #7994 `1f01443` Add op csv tests to script_tests.json (Christewart)
+- #8038 `e2bf830` Various minor fixes (MarcoFalke)
+- #8072 `1b87e5b` Travis: 'make check' in parallel and verbose (theuni)
+- #8056 `8844ef1` Remove hardcoded "4 nodes" from test_framework (MarcoFalke)
+- #8047 `37f9a1f` Test_framework: Set wait-timeout for bitcoind procs (MarcoFalke)
+- #8095 `6700cc9` Test framework: only cleanup on successful test runs (sdaftuar)
+- #8098 `06bd4f6` Test_framework: Append portseed to tmpdir (MarcoFalke)
+- #8104 `6ff2c8d` Add timeout to sync_blocks() and sync_mempools() (sdaftuar)
+- #8111 `61b8684` Benchmark SipHash (sipa)
+- #8107 `52b803e` Bench: Added base58 encoding/decoding benchmarks (yurizhykin)
+- #8115 `0026e0e` Avoid integer division in the benchmark inner-most loop (gmaxwell)
+- #8090 `a2df115` Adding P2SH(p2pkh) script test case (Christewart)
+- #7992 `ec45cc5` Extend #7956 with one more test (TheBlueMatt)
+- #8139 `ae5575b` Fix interrupted HTTP RPC connection workaround for Python 3.5+ (sipa)
+- #8164 `0f24eaf` [Bitcoin-Tx] fix missing test fixtures, fix 32bit atoi issue (jonasschnelli)
+- #8166 `0b5279f` Src/test: Do not shadow local variables (paveljanik)
+- #8141 `44c1b1c` Continuing port of java comparison tool (mrbandrews)
+- #8201 `36b7400` fundrawtransaction: Fix race, assert amounts (MarcoFalke)
+- #8214 `ed2cd59` Mininode: fail on send_message instead of silent return (MarcoFalke)
+- #8215 `a072d1a` Don't use floating point in wallet tests (MarcoFalke)
+- #8066 `65c2058` Test_framework: Use different rpc_auth_pair for each node (MarcoFalke)
+- #8216 `0d41d70` Assert 'changePosition out of bounds'  (MarcoFalke)
+- #8222 `961893f` Enable mempool consistency checks in unit tests (sipa)
+- #7751 `84370d5` test_framework: python3.4 authproxy compat (laanwj)
+- #7744 `d8e862a` test_framework: detect failure of bitcoind startup (laanwj)
+- #8280 `115735d` Increase sync_blocks() timeouts in pruning.py (MarcoFalke)
+- #8340 `af9b7a9` Solve trivial merge conflict in p2p-segwit.py (MarcoFalke)
+- #8067 `3e4cf8f` Travis: use slim generic image, and some fixups (theuni)
+- #7951 `5c7df70` Test_framework: Properly print exception (MarcoFalke)
+- #8070 `7771aa5` Remove non-determinism which is breaking net_tests #8069 (EthanHeilman)
+- #8309 `bb2646a` Add wallet-hd test (MarcoFalke)
+- #8444 `cd0910b` Fix p2p-feefilter.py for changed tx relay behavior (sdaftuar)
+
+### Mining
+
+- #7507 `11c7699` Remove internal miner (Leviathn)
+- #7663 `c87f51e` Make the generate RPC call function for non-regtest (sipa)
+- #7671 `e2ebd25` Add generatetoaddress RPC to mine to an address (achow101)
+- #7935 `66ed450` Versionbits: GBT support (luke-jr)
+- #7600 `66db2d6` Select transactions using feerate-with-ancestors (sdaftuar)
+- #8295 `f5660d3` Mining-related fixups for 0.13.0 (sdaftuar)
+- #7796 `536b75e` Add support for negative fee rates, fixes `prioritizetransaction` (MarcoFalke)
+- #8362 `86edc20` Scale legacy sigop count in CreateNewBlock (sdaftuar)
+- #8489 `8b0eee6` Bugfix: Use pre-BIP141 sigops until segwit activates (GBT) (luke-jr)
+
+### Documentation and miscellaneous
+
+- #7423 `69e2a40` Add example for building with constrained resources (jarret)
+- #8254 `c2c69ed` Add OSX ZMQ requirement to QA readme (fanquake)
+- #8203 `377d131` Clarify documentation for running a tor node (nathaniel-mahieu)
+- #7428 `4b12266` Add example for listing ./configure flags (nathaniel-mahieu)
+- #7847 `3eae681` Add arch linux build example (mruddy)
+- #7968 `ff69aaf` Fedora build requirements (wtogami)
+- #8013 `fbedc09` Fedora build requirements, add gcc-c++ and fix typo (wtogami)
+- #8009 `fbd8478` Fixed invalid example paths in gitian-building.md (JeremyRand)
+- #8240 `63fbdbc` Mention Windows XP end of support in release notes (laanwj)
+- #8303 `5077d2c` Update bips.md for CSV softfork (fanquake)
+- #7789 `e0b3e19` Add note about using the Qt official binary installer (paveljanik)
+- #7791 `e30a5b0` Change Precise to Trusty in gitian-building.md (JeremyRand)
+- #7838 `8bb5d3d` Update gitian build guide to debian 8.4.0 (fanquake)
+- #7855 `b778e59` Replace precise with trusty (MarcoFalke)
+- #7975 `fc23fee` Update bitcoin-core GitHub links (MarcoFalke)
+- #8034 `e3a8207` Add basic git squash workflow (fanquake)
+- #7813 `214ec0b` Update port in tor.md (MarcoFalke)
+- #8193 `37c9830` Use Debian 8.5 in the gitian-build guide (fanquake)
+- #8261 `3685e0c` Clarify help for `getblockchaininfo` (paveljanik)
+- #7185 `ea0f5a2` Note that reviewers should mention the id of the commits they reviewed (pstratem)
+- #7290 `c851d8d` [init] Add missing help for args (MarcoFalke)
+- #7281 `f9fd4c2` Improve CheckInputs() comment about sig verification (petertodd)
+- #7417 `1e06bab` Minor improvements to the release process (PRabahy)
+- #7444 `4cdbd42` Improve block validity/ConnectBlock() comments (petertodd)
+- #7527 `db2e1c0` Fix and cleanup listreceivedbyX documentation (instagibbs)
+- #7541 `b6e00af` Clarify description of blockindex (pinheadmz)
+- #7590 `f06af57` Improving wording related to Boost library requirements [updated] (jonathancross)
+- #7635 `0fa88ef` Add dependency info to test docs (elliotolds)
+- #7609 `3ba07bd` RPM spec file project (AliceWonderMiscreations)
+- #7850 `229a17c` Removed call to `TryCreateDirectory` from `GetDefaultDataDir` in `src/util.cpp` (alexreg)
+- #7888 `ec870e1` Prevector: fix 2 bugs in currently unreached code paths (kazcw)
+- #7922 `90653bc` CBase58Data::SetString: cleanse the full vector (kazcw)
+- #7881 `c4e8390` Update release process (laanwj)
+- #7952 `a9c8b74` Log invalid block hash to make debugging easier (paveljanik)
+- #7974 `8206835` More comments on the design of AttemptToEvictConnection (gmaxwell)
+- #7795 `47a7cfb` UpdateTip: log only one line at most per block (laanwj)
+- #8110 `e7e25ea` Add benchmarking notes (fanquake)
+- #8121 `58f0c92` Update implemented BIPs list (fanquake)
+- #8029 `58725ba` Simplify OS X build notes (fanquake)
+- #8143 `d46b8b5` comment nit: miners don't vote (instagibbs)
+- #8136 `22e0b35` Log/report in 10% steps during VerifyDB (jonasschnelli)
+- #8168 `d366185` util: Add ParseUInt32 and ParseUInt64 (laanwj)
+- #8178 `f7b1bfc` Add git and github tips and tricks to developer notes (sipa)
+- #8177 `67db011` developer notes: updates for C++11 (kazcw)
+- #8229 `8ccdac1` [Doc] Update OS X build notes for 10.11 SDK (fanquake)
+- #8233 `9f1807a` Mention Linux ARM executables in release process and notes (laanwj)
+- #7540 `ff46dd4` Rename OP_NOP3 to OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY (btcdrak)
+- #8289 `26316ff` bash-completion: Adapt for 0.12 and 0.13 (roques)
+- #7453 `3dc3149` Missing patches from 0.12 (MarcoFalke)
+- #7113 `54a550b` Switch to a more efficient rolling Bloom filter (sipa)
+- #7257 `de9e5ea` Combine common error strings for different options so translations can be shared and reused (luke-jr)
+- #7304 `b8f485c` [contrib] Add clang-format-diff.py (MarcoFalke)
+- #7378 `e6f97ef` devtools: replace github-merge with python version (laanwj)
+- #7395 `0893705` devtools: show pull and commit information in github-merge (laanwj)
+- #7402 `6a5932b` devtools: github-merge get toplevel dir without extra whitespace (achow101)
+- #7425 `20a408c` devtools: Fix utf-8 support in messages for github-merge (laanwj)
+- #7632 `409f843` Delete outdated test-patches reference (Lewuathe)
+- #7662 `386f438` remove unused NOBLKS_VERSION_{START,END} constants (rat4)
+- #7737 `aa0d2b2` devtools: make github-merge.py use py3 (laanwj)
+- #7781 `55db5f0` devtools: Auto-set branch to merge to in github-merge (laanwj)
+- #7934 `f17032f` Improve rolling bloom filter performance and benchmark (sipa)
+- #8004 `2efe38b` signal handling: fReopenDebugLog and fRequestShutdown should be type sig_atomic_t (catilac)
+- #7713 `f6598df` Fixes for verify-commits script (petertodd)
+- #8412 `8360d5b` libconsensus: Expose a flag for BIP112 (jtimon)
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- 21E14
+- accraze
+- Adam Brown
+- Alexander Regueiro
+- Alex Morcos
+- Alfie John
+- Alice Wonder
+- AlSzacrel
+- Andrew Chow
+- Andrés G. Aragoneses
+- Bob McElrath
+- BtcDrak
+- calebogden
+- Cédric Félizard
+- Chirag Davé
+- Chris Moore
+- Chris Stewart
+- Christian von Roques
+- Chris Wheeler
+- Cory Fields
+- crowning-
+- Daniel Cousens
+- Daniel Kraft
+- Denis Lukianov
+- Elias Rohrer
+- Elliot Olds
+- Eric Shaw
+- error10
+- Ethan Heilman
+- face
+- fanquake
+- Francesco 'makevoid' Canessa
+- fsb4000
+- Gavin Andresen
+- gladoscc
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Gregory Sanders
+- instagibbs
+- James O'Beirne
+- Jannes Faber
+- Jarret Dyrbye
+- Jeremy Rand
+- jloughry
+- jmacwhyte
+- Joao Fonseca
+- Johnson Lau
+- Jonas Nick
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- Jonathan Cross
+- João Barbosa
+- Jorge Timón
+- Kaz Wesley
+- Kefkius
+- kirkalx
+- Krzysztof Jurewicz
+- Leviathn
+- lewuathe
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Luv Khemani
+- Marcel Krüger
+- Marco Falke
+- Mark Friedenbach
+- Matt
+- Matt Bogosian
+- Matt Corallo
+- Matthew English
+- Matthew Zipkin
+- mb300sd
+- Mitchell Cash
+- mrbandrews
+- mruddy
+- Murch
+- Mustafa
+- Nathaniel Mahieu
+- Nicolas Dorier
+- Patrick Strateman
+- Paul Rabahy
+- paveljanik
+- Pavel Janík
+- Pavel Vasin
+- Pedro Branco
+- Peter Todd
+- Philip Kaufmann
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Prayag Verma
+- ptschip
+- Puru
+- randy-waterhouse
+- R E Broadley
+- Rusty Russell
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- Suriyaa Kudo
+- TheLazieR Yip
+- Thomas Kerin
+- Tom Harding
+- Tyler Hardin
+- UdjinM6
+- Warren Togami
+- Will Binns
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+- Yuri Zhykin
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.13.1 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.13.1/>
+
+This is a new minor version release, including activation parameters for the
+segwit softfork, various bugfixes and performance improvements, as well as
+updated translations.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
+
+To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
+
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/>
+
+Compatibility
+==============
+
+Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on [April 8th, 2014](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/end-of-xp-support),
+an OS initially released in 2001. This means that not even critical security
+updates will be released anymore. Without security updates, using a bitcoin
+wallet on a XP machine is irresponsible at least.
+
+In addition to that, with 0.12.x there have been varied reports of Bitcoin Core
+randomly crashing on Windows XP. It is [not clear](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/7681#issuecomment-217439891)
+what the source of these crashes is, but it is likely that upstream
+libraries such as Qt are no longer being tested on XP.
+
+We do not have time nor resources to provide support for an OS that is
+end-of-life. From 0.13.0 on, Windows XP is no longer supported. Users are
+suggested to upgrade to a newer version of Windows, or install an alternative OS
+that is supported.
+
+No attempt is made to prevent installing or running the software on Windows XP,
+you can still do so at your own risk, but do not expect it to work: do not
+report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker.
+
+From 0.13.1 onwards OS X 10.7 is no longer supported. 0.13.0 was intended to work on 10.7+, 
+but severe issues with the libc++ version on 10.7.x keep it from running reliably. 
+0.13.1 now requires 10.8+, and will communicate that to 10.7 users, rather than crashing unexpectedly.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+Segregated witness soft fork
+----------------------------
+
+Segregated witness (segwit) is a soft fork that, if activated, will
+allow transaction-producing software to separate (segregate) transaction
+signatures (witnesses) from the part of the data in a transaction that is
+covered by the txid. This provides several immediate benefits:
+
+- **Elimination of unwanted transaction malleability:** Segregating the witness
+  allows both existing and upgraded software to calculate the transaction
+  identifier (txid) of transactions without referencing the witness, which can
+  sometimes be changed by third-parties (such as miners) or by co-signers in a
+  multisig spend. This solves all known cases of unwanted transaction
+  malleability, which is a problem that makes programming Bitcoin wallet
+  software more difficult and which seriously complicates the design of smart
+  contracts for Bitcoin.
+
+- **Capacity increase:** Segwit transactions contain new fields that are not
+  part of the data currently used to calculate the size of a block, which
+  allows a block containing segwit transactions to hold more data than allowed
+  by the current maximum block size. Estimates based on the transactions
+  currently found in blocks indicate that if all wallets switch to using
+  segwit, the network will be able to support about 70% more transactions. The
+  network will also be able to support more of the advanced-style payments
+  (such as multisig) than it can support now because of the different weighting
+  given to different parts of a transaction after segwit activates (see the
+  following section for details).
+
+- **Weighting data based on how it affects node performance:** Some parts of
+  each Bitcoin block need to be stored by nodes in order to validate future
+  blocks; other parts of a block can be immediately forgotten (pruned) or used
+  only for helping other nodes sync their copy of the block chain.  One large
+  part of the immediately prunable data are transaction signatures (witnesses),
+  and segwit makes it possible to give a different "weight" to segregated
+  witnesses to correspond with the lower demands they place on node resources.
+  Specifically, each byte of a segregated witness is given a weight of 1, each
+  other byte in a block is given a weight of 4, and the maximum allowed weight
+  of a block is 4 million.  Weighting the data this way better aligns the most
+  profitable strategy for creating blocks with the long-term costs of block
+  validation.
+
+- **Signature covers value:** A simple improvement in the way signatures are
+  generated in segwit simplifies the design of secure signature generators
+  (such as hardware wallets), reduces the amount of data the signature
+  generator needs to download, and allows the signature generator to operate
+  more quickly.  This is made possible by having the generator sign the amount
+  of bitcoins they think they are spending, and by having full nodes refuse to
+  accept those signatures unless the amount of bitcoins being spent is exactly
+  the same as was signed.  For non-segwit transactions, wallets instead had to
+  download the complete previous transactions being spent for every payment
+  they made, which could be a slow operation on hardware wallets and in other
+  situations where bandwidth or computation speed was constrained.
+
+- **Linear scaling of sighash operations:** In 2015 a block was produced that
+  required about 25 seconds to validate on modern hardware because of the way
+  transaction signature hashes are performed.  Other similar blocks, or blocks
+  that could take even longer to validate, can still be produced today.  The
+  problem that caused this can't be fixed in a soft fork without unwanted
+  side-effects, but transactions that opt-in to using segwit will now use a
+  different signature method that doesn't suffer from this problem and doesn't
+  have any unwanted side-effects.
+
+- **Increased security for multisig:** Bitcoin addresses (both P2PKH addresses
+  that start with a '1' and P2SH addresses that start with a '3') use a hash
+  function known as RIPEMD-160.  For P2PKH addresses, this provides about 160
+  bits of security---which is beyond what cryptographers believe can be broken
+  today.  But because P2SH is more flexible, only about 80 bits of security is
+  provided per address. Although 80 bits is very strong security, it is within
+  the realm of possibility that it can be broken by a powerful adversary.
+  Segwit allows advanced transactions to use the SHA256 hash function instead,
+  which provides about 128 bits of security  (that is 281 trillion times as
+  much security as 80 bits and is equivalent to the maximum bits of security
+  believed to be provided by Bitcoin's choice of parameters for its Elliptic
+  Curve Digital Security Algorithm [ECDSA].)
+
+- **More efficient almost-full-node security** Satoshi Nakamoto's original
+  Bitcoin paper describes a method for allowing newly-started full nodes to
+  skip downloading and validating some data from historic blocks that are
+  protected by large amounts of proof of work.  Unfortunately, Nakamoto's
+  method can't guarantee that a newly-started node using this method will
+  produce an accurate copy of Bitcoin's current ledger (called the UTXO set),
+  making the node vulnerable to falling out of consensus with other nodes.
+  Although the problems with Nakamoto's method can't be fixed in a soft fork,
+  Segwit accomplishes something similar to his original proposal: it makes it
+  possible for a node to optionally skip downloading some blockchain data
+  (specifically, the segregated witnesses) while still ensuring that the node
+  can build an accurate copy of the UTXO set for the block chain with the most
+  proof of work.  Segwit enables this capability at the consensus layer, but
+  note that Bitcoin Core does not provide an option to use this capability as
+  of this 0.13.1 release.
+
+- **Script versioning:** Segwit makes it easy for future soft forks to allow
+  Bitcoin users to individually opt-in to almost any change in the Bitcoin
+  Script language when those users receive new transactions.  Features
+  currently being researched by Bitcoin Core contributors that may use this
+  capability include support for Schnorr signatures, which can improve the
+  privacy and efficiency of multisig transactions (or transactions with
+  multiple inputs), and Merklized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST), which can
+  improve the privacy and efficiency of scripts with two or more conditions.
+  Other Bitcoin community members are studying several other improvements
+  that can be made using script versioning.
+
+Activation for the segwit soft fork is being managed using BIP9
+versionbits.  Segwit's version bit is bit 1, and nodes will begin
+tracking which blocks signal support for segwit at the beginning of the
+first retarget period after segwit's start date of 15 November 2016.  If
+95% of blocks within a 2,016-block retarget period (about two weeks)
+signal support for segwit, the soft fork will be locked in.  After
+another 2,016 blocks, segwit will activate.
+
+For more information about segwit, please see the [segwit FAQ][], the
+[segwit wallet developers guide][] or BIPs [141][BIP141], [143][BIP143],
+[144][BIP144], and [145][BIP145].  If you're a miner or mining pool
+operator, please see the [versionbits FAQ][] for information about
+signaling support for a soft fork.
+
+[Segwit FAQ]: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/
+[segwit wallet developers guide]: https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_wallet_dev/
+[BIP141]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawiki
+[BIP143]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0143.mediawiki
+[BIP144]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0144.mediawiki
+[BIP145]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0145.mediawiki
+[versionbits FAQ]: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/06/08/version-bits-miners-faq/
+
+
+Null dummy soft fork
+-------------------
+
+Combined with the segwit soft fork is an additional change that turns a
+long-existing network relay policy into a consensus rule. The
+`OP_CHECKMULTISIG` and `OP_CHECKMULTISIGVERIFY` opcodes consume an extra
+stack element ("dummy element") after signature validation. The dummy
+element is not inspected in any manner, and could be replaced by any
+value without invalidating the script.
+
+Because any value can be used for this dummy element, it's possible for
+a third-party to insert data into other people's transactions, changing
+the transaction's txid (called transaction malleability) and possibly
+causing other problems.
+
+Since Bitcoin Core 0.10.0, nodes have defaulted to only relaying and
+mining transactions whose dummy element was a null value (0x00, also
+called OP_0).  The null dummy soft fork turns this relay rule into a
+consensus rule both for non-segwit transactions and segwit transactions,
+so that this method of mutating transactions is permanently eliminated
+from the network.
+
+Signaling for the null dummy soft fork is done by signaling support
+for segwit, and the null dummy soft fork will activate at the same time
+as segwit.
+
+For more information, please see [BIP147][].
+
+[BIP147]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0147.mediawiki
+
+Low-level RPC changes
+---------------------
+
+- `importprunedfunds` only accepts two required arguments. Some versions accept
+  an optional third arg, which was always ignored. Make sure to never pass more
+  than two arguments.
+
+
+Linux ARM builds
+----------------
+
+With the 0.13.0 release, pre-built Linux ARM binaries were added to the set of
+uploaded executables. Additional detail on the ARM architecture targeted by each
+is provided below.
+
+The following extra files can be found in the download directory or torrent:
+
+- `bitcoin-${VERSION}-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz`: Linux binaries targeting
+  the 32-bit ARMv7-A architecture.
+- `bitcoin-${VERSION}-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz`: Linux binaries targeting
+  the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture.
+
+ARM builds are still experimental. If you have problems on a certain device or
+Linux distribution combination please report them on the bug tracker, it may be
+possible to resolve them. Note that the device you use must be (backward)
+compatible with the architecture targeted by the binary that you use.
+For example, a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B or Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (in its 32-bit
+execution state) device, can run the 32-bit ARMv7-A targeted binary. However,
+no model of Raspberry Pi 1 device can run either binary because they are all
+ARMv6 architecture devices that are not compatible with ARMv7-A or ARMv8-A.
+
+Note that Android is not considered ARM Linux in this context. The executables
+are not expected to work out of the box on Android.
+
+
+0.13.1 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
+the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
+git merge commit are mentioned.
+
+### Consensus
+- #8636 `9dfa0c8` Implement NULLDUMMY softfork (BIP147) (jl2012)
+- #8848 `7a34a46` Add NULLDUMMY verify flag in bitcoinconsensus.h (jl2012)
+- #8937 `8b66659` Define start and end time for segwit deployment (sipa)
+
+### RPC and other APIs
+- #8581 `526d2b0` Drop misleading option in importprunedfunds (MarcoFalke)
+- #8699 `a5ec248` Remove createwitnessaddress RPC command (jl2012)
+- #8780 `794b007` Deprecate getinfo (MarcoFalke)
+- #8832 `83ad563` Throw JSONRPCError when utxo set can not be read (MarcoFalke)
+- #8884 `b987348` getblockchaininfo help: pruneheight is the lowest, not highest, block (luke-jr)
+- #8858 `3f508ed` rpc: Generate auth cookie in hex instead of base64 (laanwj)
+- #8951 `7c2bf4b` RPC/Mining: getblocktemplate: Update and fix formatting of help (luke-jr)
+
+### Block and transaction handling
+- #8611 `a9429ca` Reduce default number of blocks to check at startup (sipa)
+- #8634 `3e80ab7` Add policy: null signature for failed CHECK(MULTI)SIG (jl2012)
+- #8525 `1672225` Do not store witness txn in rejection cache (sipa)
+- #8499 `9777fe1` Add several policy limits and disable uncompressed keys for segwit scripts (jl2012)
+- #8526 `0027672` Make non-minimal OP_IF/NOTIF argument non-standard for P2WSH (jl2012)
+- #8524 `b8c79a0` Precompute sighashes (sipa)
+- #8651 `b8c79a0` Predeclare PrecomputedTransactionData as struct (sipa)
+
+### P2P protocol and network code
+- #8740 `42ea51a` No longer send local address in addrMe (laanwj)
+- #8427 `69d1cd2` Ignore `notfound` P2P messages (laanwj)
+- #8573 `4f84082` Set jonasschnellis dns-seeder filter flag (jonasschnelli)
+- #8712 `23feab1` Remove maxuploadtargets recommended minimum (jonasschnelli)
+- #8862 `7ae6242` Fix a few cases where messages were sent after requested disconnect (theuni)
+- #8393 `fe1975a` Support for compact blocks together with segwit (sipa)
+- #8282 `2611ad7` Feeler connections to increase online addrs in the tried table (EthanHeilman)
+- #8612 `2215c22` Check for compatibility with download in FindNextBlocksToDownload (sipa)
+- #8606 `bbf379b` Fix some locks (sipa)
+- #8594 `ab295bb` Do not add random inbound peers to addrman (gmaxwell)
+- #8940 `5b4192b` Add x9 service bit support to dnsseed.bluematt.me, seed.bitcoinstats.com (TheBlueMatt, cdecker)
+- #8944 `685e4c7` Remove bogus assert on number of oubound connections. (TheBlueMatt)
+- #8949 `0dbc48a` Be more agressive in getting connections to peers with relevant services (gmaxwell)
+
+### Build system
+- #8293 `fa5b249` Allow building libbitcoinconsensus without any univalue (luke-jr)
+- #8492 `8b0bdd3` Allow building bench_bitcoin by itself (luke-jr)
+- #8563 `147003c` Add configure check for -latomic (ajtowns)
+- #8626 `ea51b0f` Berkeley DB v6 compatibility fix (netsafe)
+- #8520 `75f2065` Remove check for `openssl/ec.h` (laanwj)
+
+### GUI
+- #8481 `d9f0d4e` Fix minimize and close bugs (adlawren)
+- #8487 `a37cec5` Persist the datadir after option reset (achow101)
+- #8697 `41fd852` Fix op order to append first alert (rodasmith)
+- #8678 `8e03382` Fix UI bug that could result in paying unexpected fee (jonasschnelli)
+- #8911 `7634d8e` Translate all files, even if wallet disabled (laanwj)
+- #8540 `1db3352` Fix random segfault when closing "Choose data directory" dialog (laanwj)
+- #7579 `f1c0d78` Show network/chain errors in the GUI (jonasschnelli)
+
+### Wallet
+- #8443 `464dedd` Trivial cleanup of HD wallet changes (jonasschnelli)
+- #8539 `cb07f19` CDB: fix debug output (crowning-)
+- #8664 `091cdeb` Fix segwit-related wallet bug (sdaftuar)
+- #8693 `c6a6291` Add witness address to address book (instagibbs)
+- #8765 `6288659` Remove "unused" ThreadFlushWalletDB from removeprunedfunds (jonasschnelli)
+
+### Tests and QA
+- #8713 `ae8c7df` create_cache: Delete temp dir when done (MarcoFalke)
+- #8716 `e34374e` Check legacy wallet as well (MarcoFalke)
+- #8750 `d6ebe13` Refactor RPCTestHandler to prevent TimeoutExpired (MarcoFalke)
+- #8652 `63462c2` remove root test directory for RPC tests (yurizhykin)
+- #8724 `da94272` walletbackup: Sync blocks inside the loop (MarcoFalke)
+- #8400 `bea02dc` enable rpcbind_test (yurizhykin)
+- #8417 `f70be14` Add walletdump RPC test (including HD- & encryption-tests) (jonasschnelli)
+- #8419 `a7aa3cc` Enable size accounting in mining unit tests (sdaftuar)
+- #8442 `8bb1efd` Rework hd wallet dump test (MarcoFalke)
+- #8528 `3606b6b` Update p2p-segwit.py to reflect correct behavior (instagibbs)
+- #8531 `a27cdd8` abandonconflict: Use assert_equal (MarcoFalke)
+- #8667 `6b07362` Fix SIGHASH_SINGLE bug in test_framework SignatureHash (jl2012)
+- #8673 `03b0196` Fix obvious assignment/equality error in test (JeremyRubin)
+- #8739 `cef633c` Fix broken sendcmpct test in p2p-compactblocks.py (sdaftuar)
+- #8418 `ff893aa` Add tests for compact blocks (sdaftuar)
+- #8803 `375437c` Ping regularly in p2p-segwit.py to keep connection alive (jl2012)
+- #8827 `9bbe66e` Split up slow RPC calls to avoid pruning test timeouts (sdaftuar)
+- #8829 `2a8bca4` Add bitcoin-tx JSON tests (jnewbery)
+- #8834 `1dd1783` blockstore: Switch to dumb dbm (MarcoFalke)
+- #8835 `d87227d` nulldummy.py: Don't run unused code (MarcoFalke)
+- #8836 `eb18cc1` bitcoin-util-test.py should fail if the output file is empty (jnewbery)
+- #8839 `31ab2f8` Avoid ConnectionResetErrors during RPC tests (laanwj)
+- #8840 `cbc3fe5` Explicitly set encoding to utf8 when opening text files (laanwj)
+- #8841 `3e4abb5` Fix nulldummy test (jl2012)
+- #8854 `624a007` Fix race condition in p2p-compactblocks test (sdaftuar)
+- #8857 `1f60d45` mininode: Only allow named args in wait_until (MarcoFalke)
+- #8860 `0bee740` util: Move wait_bitcoinds() into stop_nodes() (MarcoFalke)
+- #8882 `b73f065` Fix race conditions in p2p-compactblocks.py and sendheaders.py (sdaftuar)
+- #8904 `cc6f551` Fix compact block shortids for a test case (dagurval)
+
+### Documentation
+- #8754 `0e2c6bd` Target protobuf 2.6 in OS X build notes. (fanquake)
+- #8461 `b17a3f9` Document return value of networkhashps for getmininginfo RPC endpoint (jlopp)
+- #8512 `156e305` Corrected JSON typo on setban of net.cpp (sevastos)
+- #8683 `8a7d7ff` Fix incorrect file name bitcoin.qrc  (bitcoinsSG)
+- #8891 `5e0dd9e` Update bips.md for Segregated Witness (fanquake)
+- #8545 `863ae74` Update git-subtree-check.sh README (MarcoFalke)
+- #8607 `486650a` Fix doxygen off-by-one comments, fix typos (MarcoFalke)
+- #8560 `c493f43` Fix two VarInt examples in serialize.h (cbarcenas)
+- #8737 `084cae9` UndoReadFromDisk works on undo files (rev), not on block files (paveljanik)
+- #8625 `0a35573` Clarify statement about parallel jobs in rpc-tests.py (isle2983)
+- #8624 `0e6d753` build: Mention curl (MarcoFalke)
+- #8604 `b09e13c` build,doc: Update for 0.13.0+ and OpenBSD 5.9 (laanwj)
+- #8939 `06d15fb` Update implemented bips for 0.13.1 (sipa)
+
+### Miscellaneous
+- #8742 `d31ac72` Specify Protobuf version 2 in paymentrequest.proto (fanquake)
+- #8414,#8558,#8676,#8700,#8701,#8702 Add missing copyright headers (isle2983, kazcw)
+- #8899 `4ed2627` Fix wake from sleep issue with Boost 1.59.0 (fanquake)
+- #8817 `bcf3806` update bitcoin-tx to output witness data (jnewbery)
+- #8513 `4e5fc31` Fix a type error that would not compile on OSX. (JeremyRubin)
+- #8392 `30eac2d` Fix several node initialization issues (sipa)
+- #8548 `305d8ac` Use `__func__` to get function name for output printing (MarcoFalke)
+- #8291 `a987431` [util] CopyrightHolders: Check for untranslated substitution (MarcoFalke)
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- adlawren
+- Alexey Vesnin
+- Anders Øyvind Urke-Sætre
+- Andrew Chow
+- Anthony Towns
+- BtcDrak
+- Chris Stewart
+- Christian Barcenas
+- Christian Decker
+- Cory Fields
+- crowning-
+- Dagur Valberg Johannsson
+- David A. Harding
+- Eric Lombrozo
+- Ethan Heilman
+- fanquake
+- Gaurav Rana
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- instagibbs
+- isle2983
+- Jameson Lopp
+- Jeremy Rubin
+- jnewbery
+- Johnson Lau
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- jonnynewbs
+- Justin Camarena
+- Kaz Wesley
+- leijurv
+- Luke Dashjr
+- MarcoFalke
+- Marty Jones
+- Matt Corallo
+- Micha
+- Michael Ford
+- mruddy
+- Pavel Janík
+- Pieter Wuille
+- rodasmith
+- Sev
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- whythat
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.13.2.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.13.2.md
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.13.2 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.13.2/>
+
+This is a new minor version release, including various bugfixes and
+performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
+
+To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
+
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/>
+
+Compatibility
+==============
+
+Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on [April 8th, 2014](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/end-of-xp-support),
+an OS initially released in 2001. This means that not even critical security
+updates will be released anymore. Without security updates, using a bitcoin
+wallet on a XP machine is irresponsible at least.
+
+In addition to that, with 0.12.x there have been varied reports of Bitcoin Core
+randomly crashing on Windows XP. It is [not clear](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/7681#issuecomment-217439891)
+what the source of these crashes is, but it is likely that upstream
+libraries such as Qt are no longer being tested on XP.
+
+We do not have time nor resources to provide support for an OS that is
+end-of-life. From 0.13.0 on, Windows XP is no longer supported. Users are
+suggested to upgrade to a newer version of Windows, or install an alternative OS
+that is supported.
+
+No attempt is made to prevent installing or running the software on Windows XP,
+you can still do so at your own risk, but do not expect it to work: do not
+report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker.
+
+From 0.13.1 onwards OS X 10.7 is no longer supported. 0.13.0 was intended to work on 10.7+, 
+but severe issues with the libc++ version on 10.7.x keep it from running reliably. 
+0.13.1 now requires 10.8+, and will communicate that to 10.7 users, rather than crashing unexpectedly.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+Change to wallet handling of mempool rejection
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+When a newly created transaction failed to enter the mempool due to
+the limits on chains of unconfirmed transactions the sending RPC
+calls would return an error.  The transaction would still be queued
+in the wallet and, once some of the parent transactions were
+confirmed, broadcast after the software was restarted.
+
+This behavior has been changed to return success and to reattempt
+mempool insertion at the same time transaction rebroadcast is
+attempted, avoiding a need for a restart.
+
+Transactions in the wallet which cannot be accepted into the mempool
+can be abandoned with the previously existing abandontransaction RPC
+(or in the GUI via a context menu on the transaction).
+
+
+0.13.2 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
+the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
+git merge commit are mentioned.
+
+### Consensus
+- #9293 `e591c10` [0.13 Backport #9053] IBD using chainwork instead of height and not using header timestamp (gmaxwell)
+- #9053 `5b93eee` IBD using chainwork instead of height and not using header timestamps (gmaxwell)
+
+### RPC and other APIs
+- #8845 `1d048b9` Don't return the address of a P2SH of a P2SH (jnewbery)
+- #9041 `87fbced` keypoololdest denote Unix epoch, not GMT (s-matthew-english)
+- #9122 `f82c81b` fix getnettotals RPC description about timemillis (visvirial)
+- #9042 `5bcb05d` [rpc] ParseHash: Fail when length is not 64 (MarcoFalke)
+- #9194 `f26dab7` Add option to return non-segwit serialization via rpc (instagibbs)
+- #9347 `b711390` [0.13.2] wallet/rpc backports (MarcoFalke)
+- #9292 `c365556` Complain when unknown rpcserialversion is specified (sipa)
+- #9322 `49a612f` [qa] Don't set unknown rpcserialversion (MarcoFalke)
+
+### Block and transaction handling
+- #8357 `ce0d817` [mempool] Fix relaypriority calculation error (maiiz)
+- #9267 `0a4aa87` [0.13 backport #9239] Disable fee estimates for a confirm target of 1 block (morcos)
+- #9196 `0c09d9f` Send tip change notification from invalidateblock (ryanofsky)
+
+### P2P protocol and network code
+- #8995 `9ef3875` Add missing cs_main lock to ::GETBLOCKTXN processing (TheBlueMatt)
+- #9234 `94531b5` torcontrol: Explicitly request RSA1024 private key (laanwj)
+- #8637 `2cad5db` Compact Block Tweaks (rebase of #8235) (sipa)
+- #9058 `286e548` Fixes for p2p-compactblocks.py test timeouts on travis (#8842) (ryanofsky)
+- #8865 `4c71fc4` Decouple peer-processing-logic from block-connection-logic (TheBlueMatt)
+- #9117 `6fe3981` net: don't send feefilter messages before the version handshake is complete (theuni)
+- #9188 `ca1fd75` Make orphan parent fetching ask for witnesses (gmaxwell)
+- #9052 `3a3bcbf` Use RelevantServices instead of node_network in AttemptToEvict (gmaxwell)
+- #9048 `9460771` [0.13 backport #9026] Fix handling of invalid compact blocks (sdaftuar)
+- #9357 `03b6f62` [0.13 backport #9352] Attempt reconstruction from all compact block announcements (sdaftuar)
+- #9189 `b96a8f7` Always add default_witness_commitment with GBT client support (sipa)
+- #9253 `28d0f22` Fix calculation of number of bound sockets to use (TheBlueMatt)
+- #9199 `da5a16b` Always drop the least preferred HB peer when adding a new one (gmaxwell)
+
+### Build system
+- #9169 `d1b4da9` build: fix qt5.7 build under macOS (theuni)
+- #9326 `a0f7ece` Update for OpenSSL 1.1 API (gmaxwell)
+- #9224 `396c405` Prevent FD_SETSIZE error building on OpenBSD (ivdsangen)
+
+### GUI
+- #8972 `6f86b53` Make warnings label selectable (jonasschnelli) (MarcoFalke)
+- #9185 `6d70a73` Fix coincontrol sort issue (jonasschnelli)
+- #9094 `5f3a12c` Use correct conversion function for boost::path datadir (laanwj)
+- #8908 `4a974b2` Update bitcoin-qt.desktop (s-matthew-english)
+- #9190 `dc46b10` Plug many memory leaks (laanwj)
+
+### Wallet
+- #9290 `35174a0` Make RelayWalletTransaction attempt to AcceptToMemoryPool (gmaxwell)
+- #9295 `43bcfca` Bugfix: Fundrawtransaction: don't terminate when keypool is empty (jonasschnelli)
+- #9302 `f5d606e` Return txid even if ATMP fails for new transaction (sipa)
+- #9262 `fe39f26` Prefer coins that have fewer ancestors, sanity check txn before ATMP (instagibbs)
+
+### Tests and QA
+- #9159 `eca9b46` Wait for specific block announcement in p2p-compactblocks (ryanofsky)
+- #9186 `dccdc3a` Fix use-after-free in scheduler tests (laanwj)
+- #9168 `3107280` Add assert_raises_message to check specific error message (mrbandrews)
+- #9191 `29435db` 0.13.2 Backports (MarcoFalke)
+- #9077 `1d4c884` Increase wallet-dump RPC timeout (ryanofsky)
+- #9098 `ecd7db5` Handle zombies and cluttered tmpdirs (MarcoFalke)
+- #8927 `387ec9d` Add script tests for FindAndDelete in pre-segwit and segwit scripts (jl2012)
+- #9200 `eebc699` bench: Fix subtle counting issue when rescaling iteration count (laanwj)
+
+### Miscellaneous
+- #8838 `094848b` Calculate size and weight of block correctly in CreateNewBlock() (jnewbery)
+- #8920 `40169dc` Set minimum required Boost to 1.47.0 (fanquake)
+- #9251 `a710a43` Improvement of documentation of command line parameter 'whitelist' (wodry)
+- #8932 `106da69` Allow bitcoin-tx to create v2 transactions (btcdrak)
+- #8929 `12428b4` add software-properties-common (sigwo)
+- #9120 `08d1c90` bug: Missed one "return false" in recent refactoring in #9067 (UdjinM6)
+- #9067 `f85ee01` Fix exit codes (UdjinM6)
+- #9340 `fb987b3` [0.13] Update secp256k1 subtree (MarcoFalke)
+- #9229 `b172377` Remove calls to getaddrinfo_a (TheBlueMatt)
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- Alex Morcos
+- BtcDrak
+- Cory Fields
+- fanquake
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Gregory Sanders
+- instagibbs
+- Ivo van der Sangen
+- jnewbery
+- Johnson Lau
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- Luke Dashjr
+- maiiz
+- MarcoFalke
+- Masahiko Hyuga
+- Matt Corallo
+- matthias
+- mrbandrews
+- Pavel Janík
+- Pieter Wuille
+- randy-waterhouse
+- Russell Yanofsky
+- S. Matthew English
+- Steven
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- UdjinM6
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+- wodry
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.0.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.0.md
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+Bitcoin version 0.6.0 is now available for download at:
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/
+
+This release includes more than 20 language localizations.
+More translations are welcome; join the
+project at Transifex to help:
+https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer
+distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them
+directly from github:
+https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.0  # .tar.gz
+https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.6.0  # .zip
+
+For Ubuntu users, there is a ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which
+you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep
+bitcoin up-to-date.  Just type
+sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
+in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.
+
+
+KNOWN ISSUES
+
+Shutting down while synchronizing with the network
+(downloading the blockchain) can take more than a minute,
+because database writes are queued to speed up download
+time.
+
+
+NEW FEATURES SINCE BITCOIN VERSION 0.5
+
+Initial network synchronization should be much faster
+(one or two hours on a typical machine instead of ten or more
+hours).
+
+Backup Wallet menu option.
+
+Bitcoin-Qt can display and save QR codes for sending
+and receiving addresses.
+
+New context menu on addresses to copy/edit/delete them.
+
+New Sign Message dialog that allows you to prove that you
+own a bitcoin address by creating a digital
+signature.
+
+New wallets created with this version will
+use 33-byte 'compressed' public keys instead of
+65-byte public keys, resulting in smaller
+transactions and less traffic on the bitcoin
+network. The shorter keys are already supported
+by the network but wallet.dat files containing
+short keys are not compatible with earlier
+versions of Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind.
+
+New command-line argument -blocknotify=<command>
+that will spawn a shell process to run <command> 
+when a new block is accepted.
+
+New command-line argument -splash=0 to disable
+Bitcoin-Qt's initial splash screen
+
+validateaddress JSON-RPC api command output includes
+two new fields for addresses in the wallet:
+pubkey : hexadecimal public key
+iscompressed : true if pubkey is a short 33-byte key
+
+New JSON-RPC api commands for dumping/importing
+private keys from the wallet (dumprivkey, importprivkey).
+
+New JSON-RPC api command for getting information about
+blocks (getblock, getblockhash).
+
+New JSON-RPC api command (getmininginfo) for getting
+extra information related to mining. The getinfo
+JSON-RPC command no longer includes mining-related
+information (generate/genproclimit/hashespersec).
+
+
+
+NOTABLE CHANGES
+
+BIP30 implemented (security fix for an attack involving
+duplicate "coinbase transactions").
+
+The -nolisten, -noupnp and -nodnsseed command-line
+options were renamed to -listen, -upnp and -dnsseed,
+with a default value of 1. The old names are still
+supported for compatibility (so specifying -nolisten
+is automatically interpreted as -listen=0; every
+boolean argument can now be specified as either
+-foo or -nofoo).
+
+The -noirc command-line options was renamed to
+-irc, with a default value of 0. Run -irc=1 to
+get the old behavior.
+
+Three fill-up-available-memory denial-of-service
+attacks were fixed.
+
+
+NOT YET IMPLEMENTED FEATURES
+
+Support for clicking on bitcoin: URIs and
+opening/launching Bitcoin-Qt is available only on Linux,
+and only if you configure your desktop to launch
+Bitcoin-Qt. All platforms support dragging and dropping
+bitcoin: URIs onto the Bitcoin-Qt window to start
+payment.
+
+
+PRELIMINARY SUPPORT FOR MULTISIGNATURE TRANSACTIONS
+
+This release has preliminary support for multisignature
+transactions-- transactions that require authorization
+from more than one person or device before they
+will be accepted by the bitcoin network.
+
+Prior to this release, multisignature transactions
+were considered 'non-standard' and were ignored;
+with this release multisignature transactions are
+considered standard and will start to be relayed
+and accepted into blocks.
+
+It is expected that future releases of Bitcoin-Qt
+will support the creation of multisignature transactions,
+once enough of the network has upgraded so relaying
+and validating them is robust.
+
+For this release, creation and testing of multisignature
+transactions is limited to the bitcoin test network using
+the "addmultisigaddress" JSON-RPC api call.
+
+Short multisignature address support is included in this
+release, as specified in BIP 13 and BIP 16.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.1.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.1.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ef7966ecd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Never released
+
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.2.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.2.md
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index 000000000..bb85fb23a
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+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.2.md
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+Bitcoin version 0.6.2 is now available for download at:
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.2/
+
+This is a bug-fix and code-cleanup release, with no major new features.
+
+Please report bugs using the github issue tracker at:
+https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+
+NOTABLE CHANGES
+
+Much faster shutdowns. However, the blkindex.dat file is no longer
+portable to different data directories by default. If you need a
+portable blkindex.dat file then run with the new -detachdb=1 option
+or the "Detach databases at shutdown" GUI preference.
+
+Fixed https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/1065, a bug that
+could cause long-running nodes to crash.
+
+Mac and Windows binaries are compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1b (Linux
+binaries are dynamically linked to the version of OpenSSL on the system).
+
+
+CHANGE SUMMARY
+
+Use 'git shortlog --no-merges v0.6.0..' for a summary of this release.
+
+Source codebase changes:
+- Many source code cleanups and warnings fixes.  Close to building with -Wall
+- Locking overhaul, and several minor locking fixes
+- Several source code portability fixes, e.g. FreeBSD
+
+JSON-RPC interface changes:
+- addmultisigaddress enabled for mainnet (previously only enabled for testnet)
+
+Network protocol changes:
+- protocol version 60001
+- added nonce value to "ping" message (BIP 31)
+- added new "pong" message (BIP 31)
+
+Backend storage changes:
+- Less redundant database flushing, especially during initial block download
+- Shutdown improvements (see above)
+
+Qt user interface:
+- minor URI handling improvements
+- progressbar improvements
+- error handling improvements (show message box rather than console exception,
+etc.)
+- by popular request, make 4th bar of connection icon green
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.3.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.3.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c27f607b5
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+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.6.3.md
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Bitcoin version 0.6.3 is now available for download at:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.3/
+
+This is a bug-fix release, with no new features.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+CHANGE SUMMARY
+
+Fixed a serious denial-of-service attack that could cause the
+bitcoin process to become unresponsive. Thanks to Sergio Lerner
+for finding and responsibly reporting the problem. (CVE-2012-3789)
+
+Optimized the process of checking transaction signatures, to
+speed up processing of new block messages and make propagating
+blocks across the network faster.
+
+Fixed an obscure bug that could cause the bitcoin process to get
+stuck on an invalid block-chain, if the invalid chain was
+hundreds of blocks long.
+
+Bitcoin-Qt no longer automatically selects the first address
+in the address book (Issue #1384).
+
+Fixed minimize-to-dock behavior of Bitcoin-Qt on the Mac.
+
+Added a block checkpoint at block 185,333 to speed up initial
+blockchain download.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.7.0.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.7.0.md
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+Bitcoin version 0.7.0 is now available for download at:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.0/
+
+We recommend that everybody running prior versions of bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt
+upgrade to this release, except for users running Mac OSX 10.5.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+Project source code is hosted at github; you can get
+source-only tarballs/zipballs directly from there:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.7.0  # .tar.gz
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.7.0  # .zip
+
+Ubuntu Linux users can use the "Personal Package Archive" (PPA)
+maintained by Matt Corallo to automatically keep 
+bitcoin up-to-date.  Just type
+  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
+  sudo apt-get update
+in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package:
+  sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt
+
+
+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
+Code:
+/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt
+(on Mac) or
+Code:
+bitcoind/bitcoin-qt
+(on Linux).
+
+If you were running on Linux with a version that might have been compiled
+with a different version of Berkeley DB (for example, if you were using the
+PPA and are switching to the binary release), then run the old version again
+with the -detachdb argument and shut it down; if you do not, then the new
+version will not be able to read the database files and will exit with an error.
+
+Incompatible Changes
+
+* Replaced the 'getmemorypool' RPC command with 'getblocktemplate/submitblock'
+  and 'getrawmempool' commands.
+* Remove deprecated RPC 'getblocknumber'
+
+Bitcoin Improvement Proposals implemented
+
+BIP 22 - 'getblocktemplate', 'submitblock' RPCs
+BIP 34 - block version 2, height in coinbase
+BIP 35 - 'mempool' message, extended 'getdata' message behavior
+
+
+Core bitcoin handling and blockchain database
+
+* Reduced CPU usage, by eliminating some redundant hash calculations
+* Cache signature verifications, to eliminate redundant signature checks
+* Transactions with zero-value outputs are considered non-standard
+* Mining: when creating new blocks, sort 'paid' area by fee-per-kb
+* Database: better validation of on-disk stored data
+* Database: minor optimizations and reliability improvements
+* -loadblock=FILE will import an external block file
+* Additional DoS (denial-of-service) prevention measures
+* New blockchain checkpoint at block 193,000
+
+
+JSON-RPC API
+
+* Internal HTTP server is now thread-per-connection, rather than
+  a single-threaded queue that would stall on network I/O.
+* Internal HTTP server supports HTTP/1.1, pipelined requests and
+  connection keep-alive.
+* Support JSON-RPC 2.0 batches, to encapsulate multiple JSON-RPC requests
+  within a single HTTP request.
+* IPv6 support
+* Added raw transaction API.  See https://gist.github.com/2839617
+* Added 'getrawmempool', to list contents of TX memory pool
+* Added 'getpeerinfo', to list data about each connected network peer
+* Added 'listaddressgroupings' for better coin control
+* Rework getblock call.
+* Remove deprecated RPC 'getblocknumber'
+* Remove superceded RPC 'getmemorypool' (see BIP 22, above)
+* listtransactions output now displays "smart" times for transactions,
+  and 'blocktime' and 'timereceived' fields were added
+
+
+P2P networking
+
+* IPv6 support
+* Tor hidden service support (see doc/Tor.txt)
+* Attempts to fix "stuck blockchain download" problems
+* Replace BDB database "addr.dat" with internally-managed "peers.dat"
+  file containing peer address data.
+* Lower default send buffer from 10MB to 1MB
+* proxy: SOCKS5 by default
+* Support connecting by hostnames passed to proxy
+* Add -seednode connections, and use this instead of DNS seeds when proxied
+* Added -externalip and -discover
+* Add -onlynet to connect only to a given network (IPv4, IPv6, or Tor)
+* Separate listening sockets, -bind=<addr>
+
+
+Qt GUI
+
+* Add UI RPC console / debug window
+* Re-Enable URI handling on Windows, add safety checks and tray-notifications
+* Harmonize the use of ellipsis ("...") to be used in menus, but not on buttons
+* Add 2 labels to the overviewpage that display Wallet and Transaction status (obsolete or current)
+* Extend the optionsdialog (e.g. language selection) and re-work it to a tabbed UI
+* Merge sign/verify message into a single window with tabbed UI
+* Ensure a changed bitcoin unit immediately updates all GUI elements that use units
+* Update QR Code dialog
+* Improve error reporting at startup
+* Fine-grained UI updates for a much smoother UI during block downloads
+* Remove autocorrection of 0/i in addresses in UI
+* Reorganize tray icon menu into more logical order
+* Persistently poll for balance change when number of blocks changed
+* Much better translations
+* Override progress bar design on platforms with segmented progress bars to assist with readability
+* Added 'immature balance' display on the overview page
+* (Windows only): enable ASLR and DEP for bitcoin-qt.exe
+* (Windows only): add meta-data to bitcoin-qt.exe (e.g. description)
+
+Internal codebase
+
+* Additional unit tests
+* Compile warning fixes
+
+
+Miscellaneous
+
+* Reopen debug.log upon SIGHUP
+* Bash programmable completion for bitcoind(1)
+* On supported OS's, each thread is given a useful name
+
+
+Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
+
+Chris Moore
+Christian von Roques
+David Joel Schwartz
+Douglas Huff
+Fordy
+Gavin Andresen
+Giel van Schijndel
+Gregory Maxwell
+Jeff Garzik
+Luke Dashjr
+Matt Corallo
+Michael Ford
+Michael Hendricks
+Peter Todd
+Philip Kaufmann
+Pieter Wuille
+R E Broadley
+Ricardo M. Correia
+Rune K. Svendsen
+Scott Ellis
+Stephane Glondu
+Wladimir J. van der Laan
+cardpuncher
+coderrr
+fanquake
+grimd34th
+sje397
+xanatos
+
+Thanks to Sergio Lerner for reporting denial-of-service vulnerabilities fixed in this release.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.7.1.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.7.1.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+Bitcoin version 0.7.1 is now available from:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.1/
+
+This is a bug-fix minor release.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+Project source code is hosted at github; you can get
+source-only tarballs/zipballs directly from there:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.7.1  # .tar.gz
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.7.1  # .zip
+
+Ubuntu Linux users can use the "Personal Package Archive" (PPA)
+maintained by Matt Corallo to automatically keep 
+up-to-date.  Just type:
+  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
+  sudo apt-get update
+in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package:
+  sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt
+
+KNOWN ISSUES
+------------
+
+Mac OSX 10.5 is no longer supported.
+
+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 were running on Linux with a version that might have been compiled
+with a different version of Berkeley DB (for example, if you were using an
+Ubuntu PPA version), then run the old version again with the -detachdb
+argument and shut it down; if you do not, then the new version will not
+be able to read the database files and will exit with an error.
+
+Explanation of -detachdb (and the new "stop true" RPC command):
+The Berkeley DB database library stores data in both ".dat" and
+"log" files, so the database is always in a consistent state,
+even in case of power failure or other sudden shutdown. The
+format of the ".dat" files is portable between different
+versions of Berkeley DB, but the "log" files are not-- even minor
+version differences may have incompatible "log" files. The
+-detachdb option moves any pending changes from the "log" files
+to the "blkindex.dat" file for maximum compatibility, but makes
+shutdown much slower. Note that the "wallet.dat" file is always
+detached, and versions prior to 0.6.0 detached all databases
+at shutdown.
+
+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
+------------------
+
+* 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.
+
+----------------------------------------------------
+Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
+
+Gavin Andresen
+Jeff Garzik
+Luke Dashjr
+Mark Friedenbach
+Matt Corallo
+Philip Kaufmann
+Pieter Wuille
+Rune K. Svendsen
+Virgil Dupras
+Wladimir J. van der Laan
+fanquake
+kjj2
+xanatos
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.7.2.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.7.2.md
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index 000000000..40af34962
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@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+Bitcoin version 0.7.2 is now available from:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.2
+
+This is a bug-fix minor release.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+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 were running on Linux with a version that might have been compiled
+with a different version of Berkeley DB (for example, if you were using an
+Ubuntu PPA version), then run the old version again with the -detachdb
+argument and shut it down; if you do not, then the new version will not
+be able to read the database files and will exit with an error.
+
+Explanation of -detachdb (and the new "stop true" RPC command):
+The Berkeley DB database library stores data in both ".dat" and
+"log" files, so the database is always in a consistent state,
+even in case of power failure or other sudden shutdown. The
+format of the ".dat" files is portable between different
+versions of Berkeley DB, but the "log" files are not-- even minor
+version differences may have incompatible "log" files. The
+-detachdb option moves any pending changes from the "log" files
+to the "blkindex.dat" file for maximum compatibility, but makes
+shutdown much slower. Note that the "wallet.dat" file is always
+detached, and versions prior to 0.6.0 detached all databases
+at shutdown.
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+* Prevent RPC 'move' from deadlocking. This was caused by trying to lock the
+  database twice.
+
+* Fix use-after-free problems in initialization and shutdown, the latter of
+  which caused Bitcoin-Qt to crash on Windows when exiting.
+
+* Correct library linking so building on Windows natively works.
+
+* Avoid a race condition and out-of-bounds read in block creation/mining code.
+
+* Improve platform compatibility quirks, including fix for 100% CPU utilization
+  on FreeBSD 9.
+
+* A few minor corrections to error handling, and updated translations.
+
+* OSX 10.5 supported again
+
+----------------------------------------------------
+Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
+
+Alex
+dansmith
+Gavin Andresen
+Gregory Maxwell
+Jeff Garzik
+Luke Dashjr
+Philip Kaufmann
+Pieter Wuille
+Wladimir J. van der Laan
+grimd34th
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.0.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.0.md
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.0 is now available from:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.0/
+
+This is a major release designed to improve performance and handle the
+increasing volume of transactions on the network.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+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).
+
+The first time you run after the upgrade a re-indexing process will be
+started that will take anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours,
+depending on the speed of your machine.
+
+Incompatible Changes
+--------------------
+
+This release no longer maintains a full index of historical transaction ids
+by default, so looking up an arbitrary transaction using the getrawtransaction
+RPC call will not work. If you need that functionality, you must run once
+with -txindex=1 -reindex=1 to rebuild block-chain indices (see below for more
+details).
+
+Improvements
+------------
+
+Mac and Windows binaries are signed with certificates owned by the Bitcoin
+Foundation, to be compatible with the new security features in OSX 10.8 and
+Windows 8.
+
+LevelDB, a fast, open-source, non-relational database from Google, is
+now used to store transaction and block indices.  LevelDB works much better
+on machines with slow I/O and is faster in general. Berkeley DB is now only
+used for the wallet.dat file (public and private wallet keys and transactions
+relevant to you).
+
+Pieter Wuille implemented many optimizations to the way transactions are
+verified, so a running, synchronized node uses less working memory and does
+much less I/O. He also implemented parallel signature checking, so if you
+have a multi-CPU machine all CPUs will be used to verify transactions.
+
+New Features
+------------
+
+"Bloom filter" support in the network protocol for sending only relevant transactions to
+lightweight clients.
+
+contrib/verifysfbinaries is a shell-script to verify that the binary downloads
+at sourceforge have not been tampered with. If you are able, you can help make
+everybody's downloads more secure by running this occasionally to check PGP
+signatures against download file checksums.
+
+contrib/spendfrom is a python-language command-line utility that demonstrates
+how to use the "raw transactions" JSON-RPC api to send coins received from particular
+addresses (also known as "coin control").
+
+New/changed settings (command-line or bitcoin.conf file)
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+dbcache : controls LevelDB memory usage.
+
+par : controls how many threads to use to validate transactions. Defaults to the number
+of CPUs on your machine, use -par=1 to limit to a single CPU.
+
+txindex : maintains an extra index of old, spent transaction ids so they will be found
+by the getrawtransaction JSON-RPC method.
+
+reindex : rebuild block and transaction indices from the downloaded block data.
+
+New JSON-RPC API Features
+-------------------------
+
+lockunspent / listlockunspent allow locking transaction outputs for a period of time so
+they will not be spent by other processes that might be accessing the same wallet.
+
+addnode / getaddednodeinfo methods, to connect to specific peers without restarting.
+
+importprivkey now takes an optional boolean parameter (default true) to control whether
+or not to rescan the blockchain for transactions after importing a new private key.
+
+Important Bug Fixes
+-------------------
+
+Privacy leak: the position of the "change" output in most transactions was not being
+properly randomized, making network analysis of the transaction graph to identify
+users' wallets easier. 
+
+Zero-confirmation transaction vulnerability: accepting zero-confirmation transactions
+(transactions that have not yet been included in a block) from somebody you do not
+trust is still not recommended, because there will always be ways for attackers to
+double-spend zero-confirmation transactions. However, this release includes a bug
+fix that makes it a little bit more difficult for attackers to double-spend a
+certain type ("lockTime in the future") of zero-confirmation transaction.
+
+Dependency Changes
+------------------
+
+Qt 4.8.3 (compiling against older versions of Qt 4 should continue to work)
+
+
+Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+Alexander Kjeldaas
+Andrey Alekseenko
+Arnav Singh
+Christian von Roques
+Eric Lombrozo
+Forrest Voight
+Gavin Andresen
+Gregory Maxwell
+Jeff Garzik
+Luke Dashjr
+Matt Corallo
+Mike Cassano
+Mike Hearn
+Peter Todd
+Philip Kaufmann
+Pieter Wuille
+Richard Schwab
+Robert Backhaus
+Rune K. Svendsen
+Sergio Demian Lerner
+Wladimir J. van der Laan
+burger2
+default
+fanquake
+grimd34th
+justmoon
+redshark1802
+tucenaber
+xanatos
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.1.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.1.md
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind version 0.8.1 is now available from:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.1/
+
+This is a maintenance release that adds a new network rule to avoid
+a chain-forking incompatibility with versions 0.7.2 and earlier.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+
+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 0.8.1 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
+anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
+your machine.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.2.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.2.md
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.2.md
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 is now available from:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.2/
+
+This is a maintenance release that fixes many bugs and includes
+a few small new features.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+
+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 0.8.2 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
+anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
+your machine.
+
+0.8.2 Release notes
+
+Fee Policy changes
+
+The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC 
+(for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is
+about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC.
+
+Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
+(0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them
+costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually
+cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.
+
+Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included
+in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are
+included in a block.
+
+The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee
+command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees
+with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the
+0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from
+the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm.
+
+Bitcoin-Qt changes
+
+* New icon and splash screen
+* Improve reporting of synchronization process
+* Remove hardcoded fee recommendations
+* Improve metadata of executable on MacOSX and Windows
+* Move export button to individual tabs instead of toolbar
+* Add "send coins" command to context menu in address book
+* Add "copy txid" command to copy transaction IDs from transaction overview
+* Save & restore window size and position when showing & hiding window
+* New translations: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Welsh (cy),
+  Esperanto (eo), Interlingua (la), Latvian (lv) and many improvements
+  to current translations
+
+MacOSX:
+* OSX support for click-to-pay (bitcoin:) links
+* Fix GUI disappearing problem on MacOSX (issue #1522)
+
+Linux/Unix:
+* Copy addresses to middle-mouse-button clipboard
+
+
+Command-line options
+
+* -walletnotify will call a command on receiving transactions that affect the wallet.
+* -alertnotify will call a command on receiving an alert from the network.
+* -par now takes a negative number, to leave a certain amount of cores free.
+
+JSON-RPC API changes
+
+* fixed a getblocktemplate bug that caused excessive CPU creating blocks.
+* listunspent now lists account and address information.
+* getinfo now also returns the time adjustment estimated from your peers.
+* getpeerinfo now returns bytessent, bytesrecv and syncnode.
+* gettxoutsetinfo returns statistics about the unspent transaction output database.
+* gettxout returns information about a specific unspent transaction output.
+
+
+Networking changes
+
+* Significant changes to the networking code, reducing latency and memory consumption.
+* Avoid initial block download stalling.
+* Remove IRC seeding support.
+* Performance tweaks.
+* Added testnet DNS seeds.
+
+Wallet compatibility/rescuing
+
+* Cases where wallets cannot be opened in another version/installation should be reduced.
+* -salvagewallet now works for encrypted wallets.
+
+
+Known Bugs
+
+* Entering the 'getblocktemplate' or 'getwork' RPC commands into the Bitcoin-Qt debug
+console will cause Bitcoin-Qt to crash. Run Bitcoin-Qt with the -server command-line
+option to workaround.
+
+Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.2 release!
+
+APerson241
+Andrew Poelstra
+Calvin Owens
+Chuck LeDuc Díaz
+Colin Dean
+David Griffith
+David Serrano
+Eric Lombrozo
+Gavin Andresen
+Gregory Maxwell
+Jeff Garzik
+Jonas Schnelli
+Larry Gilbert
+Luke Dashjr
+Matt Corallo
+Michael Ford
+Mike Hearn
+Patrick Brown
+Peter Todd
+Philip Kaufmann
+Pieter Wuille
+Richard Schwab
+Roman Mindalev
+Scott Howard
+Tariq Bashir
+Warren Togami
+Wladimir J. van der Laan
+freewil
+gladoscc
+kjj2
+mb300sd
+super3
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.3.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.3.md
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+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.3.md
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 is now available from:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.3/
+
+This is a maintenance release to fix a denial-of-service attack that
+can cause nodes to crash.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+0.8.3 Release notes
+
+Truncate over-size messages to prevent a memory exhaustion attack.
+
+Fix a regression that causes excessive re-writing of the 'peers.dat' file.
+
+
+Thanks to Peter Todd for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability
+( CVE-2013-4627 ) and creating a fix.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.4.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.4.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c6f31f1fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.4.md
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.4 is now available from:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.4/
+
+This is a maintenance release to fix a critical bug and three
+security issues; we urge all users to upgrade.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+
+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 0.8.4 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
+anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
+your machine.
+
+0.8.4 Release notes
+===================
+
+Security issues
+---------------
+
+An attacker could send a series of messages that resulted in
+an integer division-by-zero error in the Bloom Filter handling
+code, causing the Bitcoin-Qt or bitcoind process to crash.
+Bloom filters were introduced with version 0.8, so versions 0.8.0
+through 0.8.3 are vulnerable to this critical denial-of-service attack.
+
+A constant-time algorithm is now used to check RPC password
+guess attempts; fixes https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/2838
+(CVE-2013-4165)
+
+Implement a better fix for the fill-memory-with-orphan-transactions
+attack that was fixed in 0.8.3. See
+https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/buggy-cve-2013-4627-patch-open-new-vectors-of-attack/
+for a description of the weaknesses of the previous fix.
+(CVE-2013-4627)
+
+Bugs fixed
+----------
+
+Fix multi-block reorg transaction resurrection.
+
+Fix non-standard disconnected transactions causing mempool orphans.
+This bug could cause nodes running with the -debug flag to crash.
+
+OSX: use 'FD_FULLSYNC' with LevelDB, which will (hopefully!)
+prevent the database corruption issues many people have
+experienced on OSX.
+
+Linux: clicking on bitcoin: links was broken if you were using
+a Gnome-based desktop.
+
+Fix a hang-at-shutdown bug that only affects users that compile
+their own version of Bitcoin against Boost versions 1.50-1.52.
+
+Other changes
+-------------
+
+Checkpoint at block 250,000 to speed up initial block downloads
+and make the progress indicator when downloading more accurate.
+
+
+Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.4 releases!
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Pieter Wuille
+Warren Togami
+Patrick Strateman
+pakt
+Gregory Maxwell
+Sergio Demian Lerner
+grayleonard
+Cory Fields
+Matt Corallo
+Gavin Andresen
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.5.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.5.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aa93fe7c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.5.md
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.5 is now available from:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.5/
+
+This is a maintenance release to fix a critical bug;
+we urge all users to upgrade.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+
+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 0.8.5 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
+anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
+your machine.
+
+0.8.5 Release notes
+===================
+
+Bugs fixed
+----------
+
+Transactions with version numbers larger than 0x7fffffff were
+incorrectly being relayed and included in blocks.
+
+Blocks containing transactions with version numbers larger
+than 0x7fffffff caused the code that checks for LevelDB database
+inconsistencies at startup to erroneously report database
+corruption and suggest that you reindex your database.
+
+This release also contains a non-critical fix to the code that
+enforces BIP 34 (block height in the coinbase transaction).
+
+--
+
+Thanks to Gregory Maxwell and Pieter Wuille for quickly
+identifying and fixing the transaction version number bug.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.6.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.6.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..39a45e0db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.8.6.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.6 final is now available from:
+
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.6/
+
+This is a maintenance release to fix a critical bug; we urge all users to upgrade.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+How to Upgrade
+--------------
+
+If you already downloaded 0.8.6rc1 you do not need to re-download. This release is exactly the same.
+
+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 0.8.6 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
+anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
+your machine.
+
+0.8.6 Release notes
+===================
+
+- Default block size increase for miners.
+  (see https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7670433#086-accept-into-block)
+
+- Remove the all-outputs-must-be-greater-than-CENT-to-qualify-as-free rule for relaying
+  (see https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7670433#086-relaying)
+
+- Lower maximum size for free transaction creation
+  (see https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7670433#086-wallet)
+
+- OSX block chain database corruption fixes
+  - Update leveldb to 1.13
+  - Use fcntl with `F_FULLSYNC` instead of fsync on OSX
+  - Use native Darwin memory barriers
+  - Replace use of mmap in leveldb for improved reliability (only on OSX)
+
+- Fix nodes forwarding transactions with empty vins and getting banned
+
+- Network code performance and robustness improvements
+
+- Additional debug.log logging for diagnosis of network problems, log timestamps by default
+
+- Fix Bitcoin-Qt startup crash when clicking dock icon on OSX 
+
+- Fix memory leaks in CKey::SetCompactSignature() and Key::SignCompact()
+
+- Fix rare GUI crash on send
+
+- Various small GUI, documentation and build fixes
+
+Warning
+-------
+
+- There have been frequent reports of users running out of virtual memory on 32-bit systems
+  during the initial sync.
+  Hence it is recommended to use a 64-bit executable if possible.
+  A 64-bit executable for Windows is planned for 0.9.
+
+Note: Gavin Andresen's GPG signing key for SHA256SUMS.asc has been changed from  key id 1FC730C1 to sub key 7BF6E212 (see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/279).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.0.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.0.md
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,411 @@
+Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 is now available from:
+
+  https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/
+
+This is a new major version release, bringing both new features and
+bug fixes.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+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), uninstall all
+earlier versions of Bitcoin, 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
+0.9.0 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from 
+30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine.
+
+On Windows, do not forget to uninstall all earlier versions of the Bitcoin
+client first, especially if you are switching to the 64-bit version.
+
+Windows 64-bit installer
+-------------------------
+
+New in 0.9.0 is the Windows 64-bit version of the client. There have been
+frequent reports of users running out of virtual memory on 32-bit systems
+during the initial sync. Because of this it is recommended to install the
+64-bit version if your system supports it.
+
+NOTE: Release candidate 2 Windows binaries are not code-signed; use PGP
+and the SHA256SUMS.asc file to make sure your binaries are correct.
+In the final 0.9.0 release, Windows setup.exe binaries will be code-signed.
+
+OSX 10.5 / 32-bit no longer supported
+-------------------------------------
+
+0.9.0 drops support for older Macs. The minimum requirements are now:
+* A 64-bit-capable CPU (see http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3696);
+* Mac OS 10.6 or later (see https://support.apple.com/kb/ht1633).
+
+Downgrading warnings
+--------------------
+
+The 'chainstate' for this release is not always compatible with previous
+releases, so if you run 0.9 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).
+
+Rebranding to Bitcoin Core
+---------------------------
+
+To reduce confusion between Bitcoin-the-network and Bitcoin-the-software we
+have renamed the reference client to Bitcoin Core.
+
+
+OP_RETURN and data in the block chain
+-------------------------------------
+On OP_RETURN:  There was been some confusion and misunderstanding in
+the community, regarding the OP_RETURN feature in 0.9 and data in the
+blockchain.  This change is not an endorsement of storing data in the
+blockchain.  The OP_RETURN change creates a provably-prunable output,
+to avoid data storage schemes -- some of which were already deployed --
+that were storing arbitrary data such as images as forever-unspendable
+TX outputs, bloating bitcoin's UTXO database.
+
+Storing arbitrary data in the blockchain is still a bad idea; it is less
+costly and far more efficient to store non-currency data elsewhere.
+
+Autotools build system
+-----------------------
+
+For 0.9.0 we switched to an autotools-based build system instead of individual
+(q)makefiles.
+
+Using the standard "./autogen.sh; ./configure; make" to build Bitcoin-Qt and
+bitcoind makes it easier for experienced open source developers to contribute 
+to the project.
+
+Be sure to check doc/build-*.md for your platform before building from source.
+
+Bitcoin-cli
+-------------
+
+Another change in the 0.9 release is moving away from the bitcoind executable
+functioning both as a server and as a RPC client. The RPC client functionality
+("tell the running bitcoin daemon to do THIS") was split into a separate
+executable, 'bitcoin-cli'. The RPC client code will eventually be removed from
+bitcoind, but will be kept for backwards compatibility for a release or two.
+
+`walletpassphrase` RPC
+-----------------------
+
+The behavior of the `walletpassphrase` RPC when the wallet is already unlocked
+has changed between 0.8 and 0.9.
+
+The 0.8 behavior of `walletpassphrase` is to fail when the wallet is already unlocked:
+
+    > walletpassphrase 1000
+    walletunlocktime = now + 1000
+    > walletpassphrase 10
+    Error: Wallet is already unlocked (old unlock time stays)
+
+The new behavior of `walletpassphrase` is to set a new unlock time overriding
+the old one:
+
+    > walletpassphrase 1000
+    walletunlocktime = now + 1000
+    > walletpassphrase 10
+    walletunlocktime = now + 10 (overriding the old unlock time)
+
+Transaction malleability-related fixes
+--------------------------------------
+
+This release contains a few fixes for transaction ID (TXID) malleability 
+issues:
+
+- -nospendzeroconfchange command-line option, to avoid spending
+  zero-confirmation change
+- IsStandard() transaction rules tightened to prevent relaying and mining of
+  mutated transactions
+- Additional information in listtransactions/gettransaction output to
+  report wallet transactions that conflict with each other because
+  they spend the same outputs.
+- Bug fixes to the getbalance/listaccounts RPC commands, which would report
+  incorrect balances for double-spent (or mutated) transactions.
+- New option: -zapwallettxes to rebuild the wallet's transaction information
+
+Transaction Fees
+----------------
+
+This release drops the default fee required to relay transactions across the
+network and for miners to consider the transaction in their blocks to
+0.01mBTC per kilobyte.
+
+Note that getting a transaction relayed across the network does NOT guarantee
+that the transaction will be accepted by a miner; by default, miners fill
+their blocks with 50 kilobytes of high-priority transactions, and then with
+700 kilobytes of the highest-fee-per-kilobyte transactions.
+
+The minimum relay/mining fee-per-kilobyte may be changed with the
+minrelaytxfee option. Note that previous releases incorrectly used
+the mintxfee setting to determine which low-priority transactions should
+be considered for inclusion in blocks.
+
+The wallet code still uses a default fee for low-priority transactions of
+0.1mBTC per kilobyte. During periods of heavy transaction volume, even this
+fee may not be enough to get transactions confirmed quickly; the mintxfee
+option may be used to override the default.
+
+0.9.0 Release notes
+=======================
+
+RPC:
+
+- New notion of 'conflicted' transactions, reported as confirmations: -1
+- 'listreceivedbyaddress' now provides tx ids
+- Add raw transaction hex to 'gettransaction' output
+- Updated help and tests for 'getreceivedby(account|address)'
+- In 'getblock', accept 2nd 'verbose' parameter, similar to getrawtransaction,
+  but defaulting to 1 for backward compatibility
+- Add 'verifychain', to verify chain database at runtime
+- Add 'dumpwallet' and 'importwallet' RPCs
+- 'keypoolrefill' gains optional size parameter
+- Add 'getbestblockhash', to return tip of best chain
+- Add 'chainwork' (the total work done by all blocks since the genesis block)
+  to 'getblock' output
+- Make RPC password resistant to timing attacks
+- Clarify help messages and add examples
+- Add 'getrawchangeaddress' call for raw transaction change destinations
+- Reject insanely high fees by default in 'sendrawtransaction'
+- Add RPC call 'decodescript' to decode a hex-encoded transaction script
+- Make 'validateaddress' provide redeemScript
+- Add 'getnetworkhashps' to get the calculated network hashrate
+- New RPC 'ping' command to request ping, new 'pingtime' and 'pingwait' fields
+  in 'getpeerinfo' output
+- Adding new 'addrlocal' field to 'getpeerinfo' output
+- Add verbose boolean to 'getrawmempool'
+- Add rpc command 'getunconfirmedbalance' to obtain total unconfirmed balance
+- Explicitly ensure that wallet is unlocked in `importprivkey`
+- Add check for valid keys in `importprivkey`
+
+Command-line options:
+
+- New option: -nospendzeroconfchange to never spend unconfirmed change outputs
+- New option: -zapwallettxes to rebuild the wallet's transaction information
+- Rename option '-tor' to '-onion' to better reflect what it does
+- Add '-disablewallet' mode to let bitcoind run entirely without wallet (when
+  built with wallet)
+- Update default '-rpcsslciphers' to include TLSv1.2
+- make '-logtimestamps' default on and rework help-message
+- RPC client option: '-rpcwait', to wait for server start
+- Remove '-logtodebugger'
+- Allow `-noserver` with bitcoind
+
+Block-chain handling and storage:
+
+- Update leveldb to 1.15
+- Check for correct genesis (prevent cases where a datadir from the wrong
+  network is accidentally loaded)
+- Allow txindex to be removed and add a reindex dialog
+- Log aborted block database rebuilds
+- Store orphan blocks in serialized form, to save memory
+- Limit the number of orphan blocks in memory to 750
+- Fix non-standard disconnected transactions causing mempool orphans
+- Add a new checkpoint at block 279,000
+
+Wallet:
+
+- Bug fixes and new regression tests to correctly compute
+  the balance of wallets containing double-spent (or mutated) transactions
+- Store key creation time. Calculate whole-wallet birthday.
+- Optimize rescan to skip blocks prior to birthday
+- Let user select wallet file with -wallet=foo.dat
+- Consider generated coins mature at 101 instead of 120 blocks
+- Improve wallet load time
+- Don't count txins for priority to encourage sweeping
+- Don't create empty transactions when reading a corrupted wallet
+- Fix rescan to start from beginning after importprivkey
+- Only create signatures with low S values
+
+Mining:
+
+- Increase default -blockmaxsize/prioritysize to 750K/50K
+- 'getblocktemplate' does not require a key to create a block template
+- Mining code fee policy now matches relay fee policy
+
+Protocol and network:
+
+- Drop the fee required to relay a transaction to 0.01mBTC per kilobyte
+- Send tx relay flag with version
+- New 'reject' P2P message (BIP 0061, see
+  https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7079034 for draft)
+- Dump addresses every 15 minutes instead of 10 seconds
+- Relay OP_RETURN data TxOut as standard transaction type
+- Remove CENT-output free transaction rule when relaying
+- Lower maximum size for free transaction creation
+- Send multiple inv messages if mempool.size > MAX_INV_SZ
+- Split MIN_PROTO_VERSION into INIT_PROTO_VERSION and MIN_PEER_PROTO_VERSION
+- Do not treat fFromMe transaction differently when broadcasting
+- Process received messages one at a time without sleeping between messages
+- Improve logging of failed connections
+- Bump protocol version to 70002
+- Add some additional logging to give extra network insight
+- Added new DNS seed from bitcoinstats.com
+
+Validation:
+
+- Log reason for non-standard transaction rejection
+- Prune provably-unspendable outputs, and adapt consistency check for it.
+- Detect any sufficiently long fork and add a warning
+- Call the -alertnotify script when we see a long or invalid fork
+- Fix multi-block reorg transaction resurrection
+- Reject non-canonically-encoded serialization sizes
+- Reject dust amounts during validation
+- Accept nLockTime transactions that finalize in the next block
+
+Build system:
+
+- Switch to autotools-based build system
+- Build without wallet by passing `--disable-wallet` to configure, this 
+  removes the BerkeleyDB dependency
+- Upgrade gitian dependencies (libpng, libz, libupnpc, boost, openssl) to more
+  recent versions
+- Windows 64-bit build support
+- Solaris compatibility fixes
+- Check integrity of gitian input source tarballs
+- Enable full GCC Stack-smashing protection for all OSes
+
+GUI:
+
+- Switch to Qt 5.2.0 for Windows build
+- Add payment request (BIP 0070) support
+- Improve options dialog
+- Show transaction fee in new send confirmation dialog
+- Add total balance in overview page
+- Allow user to choose data directory on first start, when data directory is
+  missing, or when the -choosedatadir option is passed
+- Save and restore window positions
+- Add vout index to transaction id in transactions details dialog
+- Add network traffic graph in debug window
+- Add open URI dialog
+- Add Coin Control Features
+- Improve receive coins workflow: make the 'Receive' tab into a form to request
+  payments, and move historical address list functionality to File menu.
+- Rebrand to `Bitcoin Core`
+- Move initialization/shutdown to a thread. This prevents "Not responding"
+  messages during startup. Also show a window during shutdown.
+- Don't regenerate autostart link on every client startup
+- Show and store message of normal bitcoin:URI
+- Fix richtext detection hang issue on very old Qt versions
+- OS X: Make use of the 10.8+ user notification center to display Growl-like 
+  notifications
+- OS X: Added NSHighResolutionCapable flag to Info.plist for better font
+  rendering on Retina displays.
+- OS X: Fix bitcoin-qt startup crash when clicking dock icon
+- Linux: Fix Gnome bitcoin: URI handler
+
+Miscellaneous:
+
+- Add Linux script (contrib/qos/tc.sh) to limit outgoing bandwidth
+- Add '-regtest' mode, similar to testnet but private with instant block
+  generation with 'setgenerate' RPC.
+- Add 'linearize.py' script to contrib, for creating bootstrap.dat
+- Add separate bitcoin-cli client
+
+Credits
+--------
+
+Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
+
+- Andrey
+- Ashley Holman
+- b6393ce9-d324-4fe1-996b-acf82dbc3d53
+- bitsofproof
+- Brandon Dahler
+- Calvin Tam
+- Christian Decker
+- Christian von Roques
+- Christopher Latham
+- Chuck
+- coblee
+- constantined
+- Cory Fields
+- Cozz Lovan
+- daniel
+- Daniel Larimer
+- David Hill
+- Dmitry Smirnov
+- Drak
+- Eric Lombrozo
+- fanquake
+- fcicq
+- Florin
+- frewil
+- Gavin Andresen
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- gubatron
+- Guillermo Céspedes Tabárez
+- Haakon Nilsen
+- HaltingState
+- Han Lin Yap
+- harry
+- Ian Kelling
+- Jeff Garzik
+- Johnathan Corgan
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- Josh Lehan
+- Josh Triplett
+- Julian Langschaedel
+- Kangmo
+- Lake Denman
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Mark Friedenbach
+- Matt Corallo
+- Michael Bauer
+- Michael Ford
+- Michagogo
+- Midnight Magic
+- Mike Hearn
+- Nils Schneider
+- Noel Tiernan
+- Olivier Langlois
+- patrick s
+- Patrick Strateman
+- paveljanik
+- Peter Todd
+- phantomcircuit
+- phelixbtc
+- Philip Kaufmann
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Rav3nPL
+- R E Broadley
+- regergregregerrge
+- Robert Backhaus
+- Roman Mindalev
+- Rune K. Svendsen
+- Ryan Niebur
+- Scott Ellis
+- Scott Willeke
+- Sergey Kazenyuk
+- Shawn Wilkinson
+- Sined
+- sje
+- Subo1978
+- super3
+- Tamas Blummer
+- theuni
+- Thomas Holenstein
+- Timon Rapp
+- Timothy Stranex
+- Tom Geller
+- Torstein Husebø
+- Vaclav Vobornik
+- vhf / victor felder
+- Vinnie Falco
+- Warren Togami
+- Wil Bown
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.1.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.1.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0552053d2
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@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+Bitcoin Core version 0.9.1 is now available from:
+
+  https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.1/
+
+This is a security update. It is recommended to upgrade to this release
+as soon as possible.
+
+It is especially important to upgrade if you currently have version
+0.9.0 installed and are using the graphical interface OR you are using
+bitcoind from any pre-0.9.1 version, and have enabled SSL for RPC and
+have configured allowip to allow rpc connections from potentially
+hostile hosts.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+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
+0.9.1 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from 
+30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine.
+
+0.9.1 Release notes
+=======================
+
+No code changes were made between 0.9.0 and 0.9.1. Only the dependencies were changed.
+
+- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1g. This release fixes the following vulnerabilities which can
+  affect the Bitcoin Core software:
+
+  - CVE-2014-0160 ("heartbleed")
+    A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension can
+    be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or server.
+
+  - CVE-2014-0076
+    The Montgomery ladder implementation in OpenSSL does not ensure that
+    certain swap operations have a constant-time behavior, which makes it
+    easier for local users to obtain ECDSA nonces via a FLUSH+RELOAD cache
+    side-channel attack.
+
+- Add statically built executables to Linux build
+
+Credits
+--------
+
+Credits go to the OpenSSL team for fixing the vulnerabilities quickly.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.2.1.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.2.1.md
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.2.1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+Bitcoin Core version 0.9.2.1 is now available from:
+
+  https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.2.1/
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing mostly bug fixes and some minor
+improvements. OpenSSL has been updated because of a security issue (CVE-2014-0224).
+Upgrading to this release is recommended.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+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
+0.9.2.1 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).
+
+Important changes
+==================
+
+Gitian OSX build
+-----------------
+
+The deterministic build system that was already used for Windows and Linux
+builds is now used for OSX as well. Although the resulting executables have
+been tested quite a bit, there could be possible regressions. Be sure to report
+these on the Github bug tracker mentioned above.
+
+Compatibility of Linux build
+-----------------------------
+
+For Linux we now build against Qt 4.6, and filter the symbols for libstdc++ and glibc.
+This brings back compatibility with
+
+- Debian 6+ / Tails
+- Ubuntu 10.04
+- CentOS 6.5
+
+0.9.2 - 0.9.2.1 Release notes
+=======================
+
+The OpenSSL dependency in the gitian builds has been upgraded to 1.0.1h because of CVE-2014-0224.
+
+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
+- Use pnode->nLastRecv as sync score (was the wrong way around)
+
+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
+- CWallet init fix
+
+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)
+- Fix "Start bitcoin on system login"
+
+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
+
+Credits
+--------
+
+Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
+
+- Addy Yeow
+- Altoidnerd
+- Andrea D'Amore
+- Andreas Schildbach
+- Bardi Harborow
+- Brandon Dahler
+- Bryan Bishop
+- Chris Beams
+- Christian von Roques
+- Cory Fields
+- Cozz Lovan
+- daniel
+- Daniel Newton
+- David A. Harding
+- ditto-b
+- duanemoody
+- Eric S. Bullington
+- Fabian Raetz
+- Gavin Andresen
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- gubatron
+- Haakon Nilsen
+- harry
+- Hector Jusforgues
+- Isidoro Ghezzi
+- Jeff Garzik
+- Johnathan Corgan
+- jtimon
+- Kamil Domanski
+- langerhans
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Manuel Araoz
+- Mark Friedenbach
+- Matt Corallo
+- Matthew Bogosian
+- Meeh
+- Michael Ford
+- Michagogo
+- Mikael Wikman
+- Mike Hearn
+- olalonde
+- paveljanik
+- peryaudo
+- Philip Kaufmann
+- philsong
+- Pieter Wuille
+- R E Broadley
+- richierichrawr
+- Rune K. Svendsen
+- rxl
+- shshshsh
+- Simon de la Rouviere
+- Stuart Cardall
+- super3
+- Telepatheic
+- Thomas Zander
+- Torstein Husebø
+- Warren Togami
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+- Yoichi Hirai
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.2.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.2.md
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.9.2 is now available from:
+
+  https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.2/
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing mostly bug fixes and some minor
+improvements. OpenSSL has been updated because of a security issue (CVE-2014-0224).
+Upgrading to this release is recommended.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+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
+0.9.2 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).
+
+Important changes
+==================
+
+Gitian OSX build
+-----------------
+
+The deterministic build system that was already used for Windows and Linux
+builds is now used for OSX as well. Although the resulting executables have
+been tested quite a bit, there could be possible regressions. Be sure to report
+these on the Github bug tracker mentioned above.
+
+Compatibility of Linux build
+-----------------------------
+
+For Linux we now build against Qt 4.6, and filter the symbols for libstdc++ and glibc.
+This brings back compatibility with
+
+- Debian 6+ / Tails
+- Ubuntu 10.04
+- CentOS 6.5
+
+0.9.2 Release notes
+=======================
+
+The OpenSSL dependency in the gitian builds has been upgraded to 1.0.1h because of CVE-2014-0224.
+
+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
+- Use pnode->nLastRecv as sync score (was the wrong way around)
+
+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
+- CWallet init fix
+
+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)
+- Fix "Start bitcoin on system login"
+
+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
+
+Credits
+--------
+
+Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
+
+- Addy Yeow
+- Altoidnerd
+- Andrea D'Amore
+- Andreas Schildbach
+- Bardi Harborow
+- Brandon Dahler
+- Bryan Bishop
+- Chris Beams
+- Christian von Roques
+- Cory Fields
+- Cozz Lovan
+- daniel
+- Daniel Newton
+- David A. Harding
+- ditto-b
+- duanemoody
+- Eric S. Bullington
+- Fabian Raetz
+- Gavin Andresen
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- gubatron
+- Haakon Nilsen
+- harry
+- Hector Jusforgues
+- Isidoro Ghezzi
+- Jeff Garzik
+- Johnathan Corgan
+- jtimon
+- Kamil Domanski
+- langerhans
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Manuel Araoz
+- Mark Friedenbach
+- Matt Corallo
+- Matthew Bogosian
+- Meeh
+- Michael Ford
+- Michagogo
+- Mikael Wikman
+- Mike Hearn
+- olalonde
+- paveljanik
+- peryaudo
+- Philip Kaufmann
+- philsong
+- Pieter Wuille
+- R E Broadley
+- richierichrawr
+- Rune K. Svendsen
+- rxl
+- shshshsh
+- Simon de la Rouviere
+- Stuart Cardall
+- super3
+- Telepatheic
+- Thomas Zander
+- Torstein Husebø
+- Warren Togami
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+- Yoichi Hirai
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.3.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.3.md
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+Bitcoin Core version 0.9.3 is now available from:
+
+  https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.3/
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing only bug fixes and updated
+translations. Upgrading to this release is recommended.
+
+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
+- Remove a useless millisleep in socket handler
+- Stricter memory limits on CNode
+- Better orphan transaction handling
+- Add `-maxorphantx=<n>` and `-maxorphanblocks=<n>` options for control over the maximum orphan transactions and blocks
+
+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
+- Gavin Andresen
+- Jeff Garzik
+- Johnathan Corgan
+- Julian Haight
+- Michael Ford
+- Pavel Vasin
+- Peter Todd
+- phantomcircuit
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Rose Toomey
+- Ruben Dario Ponticelli
+- shshshsh
+- Trevin Hofmann
+- Warren Togami
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+- Zak Wilcox
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.4.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.4.md
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+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.4.md
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+Bitcoin Core version 0.9.4 is now available from:
+
+  https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.4/
+
+This is a new minor version release, bringing only bug fixes and updated
+translations. Upgrading to this release is recommended.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+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).
+
+OpenSSL Warning
+================
+
+OpenSSL 1.0.0p / 1.0.1k was recently released and is being pushed out by
+various operating system maintainers. Review by Gregory Maxwell determined that
+this update is incompatible with the Bitcoin system and could lead to consensus
+forks.
+
+Bitcoin Core released binaries from https://bitcoin.org are unaffected,
+as are any built with the gitian deterministic build system.
+
+However, if you are running either
+
+- The Ubuntu PPA from https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin
+- A third-party or self-compiled Bitcoin Core
+
+upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.9.4, which includes a workaround, **before** updating
+OpenSSL.
+
+The incompatibility is due to the OpenSSL update changing the
+behavior of ECDSA validation to reject any signature which is
+not encoded in a very rigid manner. This was a result of
+OpenSSL's change for CVE-2014-8275 "Certificate fingerprints
+can be modified".
+
+We are specifically aware of potential hard-forks due to signature
+encoding handling and had been hoping to close them via BIP62 in 0.10.
+BIP62's purpose is to improve transaction malleability handling and
+as a side effect rigidly defines the encoding for signatures, but the
+overall scope of BIP62 has made it take longer than we'd like to
+deploy.
+
+0.9.4 changelog
+================
+
+Validation:
+- `b8e81b7` consensus: guard against openssl's new strict DER checks
+- `60c51f1` fail immediately on an empty signature
+- `037bfef` Improve robustness of DER recoding code
+
+Command-line options:
+- `cd5164a` Make -proxy set all network types, avoiding a connect leak.
+
+P2P:
+- `bb424e4` Limit the number of new addressses to accumulate
+
+RPC:
+- `0a94661` Disable SSLv3 (in favor of TLS) for the RPC client and server.
+
+Build system:
+- `f047dfa` gitian: openssl-1.0.1i.tar.gz -> openssl-1.0.1k.tar.gz
+- `5b9f78d` build: Fix OSX build when using Homebrew and qt5
+- `ffab1dd` Keep symlinks when copying into .app bundle
+- `613247f` osx: fix signing to make Gatekeeper happy (again)
+
+Miscellaneous:
+- `25b49b5` Refactor -alertnotify code
+- `2743529` doc: Add instructions for consistent Mac OS X build names
+
+Credits
+--------
+
+Thanks to who contributed to this release, at least:
+
+- Cory Fields
+- Gavin Andresen
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Jeff Garzik
+- Luke Dashjr
+- Matt Corallo
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Saivann
+- Sergio Demian Lerner
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.5.md b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.5.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bed0af987
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/bitcoin/release-notes-0.9.5.md
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+Bitcoin Core version 0.9.5 is now available from:
+
+  https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.5/
+
+This is a new minor version release, with the goal of backporting BIP66. There
+are also a few bug fixes and updated translations. Upgrading to this release is
+recommended.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+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).
+
+Notable changes
+================
+
+Mining and relay policy enhancements
+------------------------------------
+
+Bitcoin Core's block templates are now for version 3 blocks only, and any mining
+software relying on its `getblocktemplate` must be updated in parallel to use
+libblkmaker either version 0.4.2 or any version from 0.5.1 onward.
+If you are solo mining, this will affect you the moment you upgrade Bitcoin
+Core, which must be done prior to BIP66 achieving its 951/1001 status.
+If you are mining with the stratum mining protocol: this does not affect you.
+If you are mining with the getblocktemplate protocol to a pool: this will affect
+you at the pool operator's discretion, which must be no later than BIP66
+achieving its 951/1001 status.
+
+0.9.5 changelog
+================
+
+- `74f29c2` Check pindexBestForkBase for null
+- `9cd1dd9` Fix priority calculation in CreateTransaction
+- `6b4163b` Sanitize command strings before logging them.
+- `3230b32` Raise version of created blocks, and enforce DERSIG in mempool
+- `989d499` Backport of some of BIP66's tests
+- `ab03660` Implement BIP 66 validation rules and switchover logic
+- `8438074` build: fix dynamic boost check when --with-boost= is used
+
+Credits
+--------
+
+Thanks to who contributed to this release, at least:
+
+- 21E14
+- Alex Morcos
+- Cory Fields
+- Gregory Maxwell
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).