Version 0.4 release candidate 1

2 messages, 2 to 3 Sep 2011. Started by Gavin Andresen.

Gavin Andresen, John Smith

Bitcoin Core releases

Gavin Andresen 2 Sep 2011, 20:12 UTC permalink original

Bitcoin version 0.4 release candidate 1 is ready for initial testing; please grab the source from github and try to break it.

The big, visible change is wallet private key encryption, which is NOT turned on by default.

The big, invisible change is a reworking of internal critical section mutexes to fix some chronic problems with bitcoind becoming unresponsive due to deadlocks.

git shortlog --no-merges v0.3.24.. ... will give you all the changes.

Thanks to everybody who contributed patches, and sorry if your favorite patch is not included.

John Smith 3 Sep 2011, 07:15 UTC in reply to Gavin Andresen permalink original

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>wrote:

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> Bitcoin version 0.4 release candidate 1 is ready for initial testing;
> please grab the source from github and try to break it.
>
> The big, visible change is wallet private key encryption, which is NOT
> turned on by default.
>
> The big, invisible change is a reworking of internal critical section
> mutexes to fix some chronic problems with bitcoind becoming
> unresponsive due to deadlocks.
>

Great, congrats!

The mutex overhaul was badly needed. I'm glad to see the project move this fast in a sudden.