Please help test 0.5 release candidate 1

3 messages, 10 to 14 Oct 2011. Started by Gavin Andresen.

Gavin Andresen, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez, Luke Dashjr

Bitcoin Core releases

Gavin Andresen 10 Oct 2011, 16:32 UTC permalink original

Reposting from the forums:
  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47586

I just tagged the git tree "v0.5.0rc1". If you are able, please compile and help test.

See the INSTALL file at the top of the source tree for instructions on compiling. Binary releases for at least unix and mac should be available in the next day or two (there is a show-stopper bug on Windows, and we could use help from people familiar with cross-compiling using mingw to update the Windows build process).

Major bugs you should be aware of:

Wallet does not relock on Win32

Major changes from version 0.4:

Switched from wxWidgets for the GUI to Qt, using Wladimir J. van der Laan's bitcoin-qt. Why? We didn't have any wxWidgets programmers contributing fixes or improvements.

New JSON-RPC commands:

getmemorypool : alternative to 'getwork' that provides everything needed to construct a block with a custom generation transaction. listsinceblock : Get all transactions in blocks since block [blockid] signmessage/verifymessage : sign/verify a message with a wallet public/private keypair

Deprecated JSON-RPC features: 'midstate' data item from getwork requests

Deprecated JSON-RPC commands that have been REMOVED: setlabel getlabel getaddressesbylabel getamountreceived getallreceived getreceivedbylabel listreceivedbylabel

Run: git shortlog --no-merges v0.4.0.. ... to get a complete list of changes, and thanks to everybody who is contributing!

Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez 10 Oct 2011, 21:54 UTC in reply to Gavin Andresen permalink original

On 10/10/11 18:32, Gavin Andresen wrote:

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> I just tagged the git tree "v0.5.0rc1". If you are able, please
> compile and help test.
>

Compiled on Debian and running it :) I tested to encrypt my wallet (coming from v0.3) and changed the password a couple of times without problems.

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> Switched from wxWidgets for the GUI to Qt, using Wladimir J. van der
> Laan's bitcoin-qt. Why? We didn't have any wxWidgets programmers
> contributing fixes or improvements

The new GUI looks nicer and more stylish than previous one. I am also liking a lot the notifications and the system tray icon on the status bar.

Good work!

Luke Dashjr 14 Oct 2011, 07:10 UTC in reply to Gavin Andresen permalink original

Since you guys probably won't notice otherwise... Got some 0.5 binaries here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47586.msg573675#msg573675