Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind version 0.8.3 released
3 messages, 25 Jun 2013. Started by Gavin Andresen.
Gavin Andresen, Jesus Cea, Pieter Wuille
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.
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Thanks to Peter Todd for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability ( CVE-2013-4627 ) and creating a fix.
On 25/06/13 19:57, Gavin Andresen wrote:
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> Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 is now available from: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.3/
The
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"splash" banner shows "0.8.3-BETA".
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 01:13:25AM +0200, Jesus Cea wrote:
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> "splash" banner shows "0.8.3-BETA".
Just like every release ever, and probably until we reach 1.0.