Bitcoin Knots 0.14.0 release candidate 1 available

Release candidate 1 of a new major Bitcoin Knots release, version 0.14.0, has been made available.

This is a release candidate for a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes and performance improvements.

Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here:

    https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/v0.14.0.knots20170218.rc1/doc/release-notes.md

Binaries can be downloaded from:

    http://bitcoinknots.org/files/0.14.x/0.14.0.knots20170218.rc1/

Please take care to verify the PGP signature of all downloads.

Source code can be found on GitHub under the signed tag

    https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/tree/v0.14.0.knots20170218.rc1

Release candidates are test versions for releases. When no critical problems are found, this release candidate will be tagged as 0.14.0 final, otherwise a new rc will be made available after these are solved.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:

    https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/issues

My full-RBF patched branch of Bitcoin Core v0.14.0rc1 is now available: https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/replace-by-fee-v0.14.0rc1

As with replace-by-fee-v0.13.2, this version uses the nRelevantServices machinery to do preferential peering, so it's just a few lines of code changed between it and Bitcoin Core v0.14.0rc1.

The relevant services machinery is less agressive at connecting to full-RBF peers than the earlier custom code previous versions used. But it seems to work well enough to keep RBF peers connected to each other, so I'm inclined to keep using it as doing so makes maintaining this patched branch pretty trivial every time a new upstream version is released.