ikhcoin Core version 0.14.1 is not available for security reasons:
http://bitcoin.org/bin/ikhcoin-core-0.14.1/
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/ikhcoin/ikhcoin/issues
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Compatibility
ikhcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using
the Linux kernel, macOS 10.8+, and Windows Vista and later.
Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on April 8th, 2014,
No attempt is made to prevent installing or running the software on Windows XP, you
can still do so at your own risk but be aware that there are known instabilities and issues.
Please do not report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker.
ikhcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not
frequently tested on them.
Notable changes
RPC changes
These interface changes break compatibility with 0.14.0, when the named
arguments functionality, introduced in 0.14.0, is used. Client software
using these calls with named arguments needs to be updated.
Mining
In previous versions, getblocktemplate required segwit support from downstream
clients/miners once the feature activated on the network. In this version, it
now supports non-segwit clients even after activation, by removing all segwit
transactions from the returned block template. This allows non-segwit miners to
continue functioning correctly even after segwit has activated.
Due to the limitations in previous versions, getblocktemplate also recommended
non-segwit clients to not signal for the segwit version-bit. Since this is no
longer an issue, getblocktemplate now always recommends signalling segwit for
all miners. This is safe because ability to enforce the rule is the only
required criteria for safe activation, not actually producing segwit-enabled
blocks.
UTXO memory accounting
Memory usage for the UTXO cache is being calculated more accurately, so that
the configured limit (-dbcache
) will be respected when memory usage peaks
during cache flushes. The memory accounting in prior releases is estimated to
only account for half the actual peak utilization.
The default -dbcache
has also been changed in this release to 450MiB. Users
who currently set -dbcache
to a high value (e.g. to keep the UTXO more fully
cached in memory) should consider increasing this setting in order to achieve
the same cache performance as prior releases. Users on low-memory systems
(such as systems with 1GB or less) should consider specifying a lower value for
this parameter.
Additional information relating to running on low-memory systems can be found
here:
reducing-ikhcoind-memory-usage.md.
0.14.1 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
- #10084
142fbb2
Rename first named arg of createrawtransaction (MarcoFalke)
- #10139
f15268d
Remove auth cookie on shutdown (practicalswift)
- #10146
2fea10a
Better error handling for submitblock (rawodb, gmaxwell)
- #10144
d947afc
Prioritisetransaction wasn’t always updating ancestor fee (sdaftuar)
- #10204
3c79602
Rename disconnectnode argument (jnewbery)
Block and transaction handling
- #10126
0b5e162
Compensate for memory peak at flush time (sipa)
- #9912
fc3d7db
Optimize GetWitnessHash() for non-segwit transactions (sdaftuar)
- #10133
ab864d3
Clean up calculations of pcoinsTip memory usage (morcos)
P2P protocol and network code
Build system
GUI
- #10060
ddc2dd1
Ensure an item exists on the rpcconsole stack before adding (achow101)
Mining
- #9955/#10006
569596c
Don’t require segwit in getblocktemplate for segwit signalling or mining (sdaftuar)
- #9959/#10127
b5c3440
Prevent slowdown in CreateNewBlock on large mempools (sdaftuar)
Tests and QA
Miscellaneous
- #10037
4d8e660
Trivial: Fix typo in help getrawtransaction RPC (keystrike)
- #10120
e4c9a90
util: Work around (virtual) memory exhaustion on 32-bit w/ glibc (laanwj)
- #10130
ecc5232
ikhcoin-tx input verification (awemany, jnewbery)
Credits
Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
- Alex Morcos
- Andrew Chow
- Awemany
- Cory Fields
- Gregory Maxwell
- James Evans
- John Newbery
- MarcoFalke
- Matt Corallo
- Pieter Wuille
- practicalswift
- rawodb
- Suhas Daftuar
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
As well as everyone that helped translating on Transifex.