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This page aggregates the changelogs that have been posted on the forum for the Bitcoin releases.

Changelogs

0.3.18

Changes:

• Fixed a wallet.dat compatibility problem if you downgraded from 0.3.17 and then upgraded again
• IsStandard() check to only include known transaction types in blocks
• Jgarzik's optimisation to speed up the initial block download a little

The main addition in this release is the Accounts-Based JSON-RPC commands that Gavin's been working on (more details at http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1886.0).

• getaccountaddress
• sendfrom
• move
• getbalance
• listtransactions

0.3.17

Version 0.3.17 is now available.

Changes:

• new getwork, thanks m0mchil
• added transaction fee setting in UI options menu
• free transaction limits
• sendtoaddress returns transaction id instead of "sent"
• getaccountaddress <account>

The UI transaction fee setting was easy since it was still there from 0.1.5 and all I had to do was re-enable it.

The accounts-based commands: move, sendfrom and getbalance <account> will be in the next release. We still have some more changes to make first.

0.3.16

Never released.

0.3.15

• paytxfee switch is now per KB, so it adds the correct fee for large transactions
• sending avoids using coins with less than 6 confirmations if it can
• BitcoinMiner processes transactions in priority order based on age of dependencies
• make sure generation doesn't start before block 74000 downloaded
• bugfixes by Dean Gores
• testnet, keypoololdest and paytxfee added to getinfo

0.3.14

Version 0.3.14 is now available http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.14/

Changes:

• Key pool feature for safer wallet backup

Gavin Andresen:

• TEST network mode with switch -testnet
• Option to use SSL for JSON-RPC connections on unix/osx
• validateaddress RPC command

eurekafag:

• Russian translation

0.3.13

Version 0.3.13 is now available. You should upgrade to prevent potential problems with 0/unconfirmed transactions. Note: 0.3.13 prevents problems if you haven't already spent a 0/unconfirmed transaction, but if that already happened, you need 0.3.13.2.

Changes:

• Don't count or spend payments until they have 1 confirmation.
• Internal version number from 312 to 31300.
• Only accept transactions sent by IP address if -allowreceivebyip is specified.
• Dropped DB_PRIVATE Berkeley DB flag.
• Fix problem sending the last cent with sub-cent fractional change.
• Auto-detect whether to use 128-bit 4-way SSE2 on Linux.

Gavin Andresen:

• Option -rpcallowip= to accept json-rpc connections from another machine.
• Clean shutdown on SIGTERM on Linux.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.13/

(Thanks Laszlo for the Mac OSX build!)

Note: The SSE2 auto-detect in the Linux 64-bit version doesn't work with AMD in 64-bit mode. Please try this instead and let me know if it gets it right: http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.13.1-specialbuild-linux64.tar.gz

You can still control the SSE2 use manually with -4way and -4way=0.

Version 0.3.13.2 (SVN rev 161) has improvements for the case where you already had 0/unconfirmed transactions that you might have already spent. Here's a Windows build of it: http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.13.2-win32-setup.exe

0.3.12

Version 0.3.12 is now available.

Features:

• json-rpc errors return a more standard error object. (thanks to Gavin Andresen)
• json-rpc command line returns exit codes.
• json-rpc "backupwallet" command.
• Recovers and continues if an exception is caused by a message you received. Other nodes shouldn't be able to cause an exception, and it hasn't happened before, but if a way is found to cause an exception, this would keep it from being used to stop network nodes.

If you have json-rpc code that checks the contents of the error string, you need to change it to expect error objects of the form {"code":<number>,"message":<string>}, which is the standard. See this thread: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=969.0

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.12/