Bitcoin v0.3.24 released

Bitcoin v0.3.24 is now available for download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.24/

This is another bug fix release. We had hoped to have wallet encryption ready for release, but more urgent fixes for existing clients were needed -- most notably block download problems were getting severe. Wallet encryption is ready for testing at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/352 for the git-savvy, and -hopefully- will follow shortly in the next release, v0.4.

Notable fixes in v0.3.24, and the main reasons for this release:

F1) Block downloads were failing or taking unreasonable amounts of time to complete, because the increased size of the block chain was bumping up against some earlier buffer-size DoS limits. F2) Fix crash caused by loss/lack of network connection.

Notable changes in v0.3.24:

C1) DNS seeding enabled by default. C2) UPNP enabled by default in the GUI client. The percentage of bitcoin clients that accept incoming connections is quite small, and that is a problem. This should help. bitcoind, and unofficial builds, are unchanged (though we encourage use of "-upnp" to help the network!) C3) Initial unit testing framework. Bitcoin sorely needs automated tests, and this is a beginning. Contributions welcome. C4) Internal wallet code cleanup. While invisible to an end user, this change provides the basis for v0.4's wallet encryption.

Full changelog ("git shortlog v0.3.23.."):

Dawid Spiechowicz (1):
      added polish translation

Doug Huff (1):
      Add OSX App bundle and correct build instructions to reflect reality.

Eric Hosmer (3):
      Updated Visual C++ makefile.
      Further updated Visual C++ makefile.
      Add keystore.h to makefile.vs's header list.

Gavin Andresen (3):
      Boost unit-testing framework.     make -f makefile.{unix,osx,mingw} test_b
      Block-chain lock-in at 134444
      Do not use comma as thousands separator     Using the comma as thousands s

Giel van Schijndel (2):
      rpc server: send '403 Forbidden' to rejected clients
      rpc: don't send 403 when using SSL to prevent DoS

Han Lin Yap (3):
      Double check translation and improved a translation string
      Update swedish translation
      Consistent Bitcoin example address

James Burkle (1):
      Edited init.cpp to include a check that -datadir exists

Jeff Garzik (6):
      FormatFullVersion: build fix related to recent translation improvement
      doc/release-process.txt: minor updates
      CWalletTx::GetAmounts(): pass NULL for CKeyStore*, rather than false     t
      Enable DNS seeding by default.
      Bump version to 0.3.24.
      Bump OSX version to 0.3.24 (missed in previous commit)

Joerie de Gram (1):
      Fix connection failure debug output

Jordan Lewis (8):
      Only include irc.h when needed
      Only include db.h when we have to.
      Only included rpc.h when necessary
      Only include net.h when we have to
      Only include init.h when we have to
      Only include strlcpy.h when we have to
      Remove some globally unused headers from headers.h
      Only include certain boost headers if necessary.

Matt Corallo (8):
      Update translations and remove obsolete translations.
      Add new DNSSeed dnsseed.bluematt.me.
      Only use dnsseeds and static seeds when not on testnet.
      Make UPnP default on Bitcoin but not on Bitcoind.
      Give more detailed error messages for connection failure.
      Added a couple minor things to match newer build process.
      Revert "Make UPnP default on Bitcoin but not on Bitcoind."
      Enable UPnP by default on bitcoin, but not on bitcoind (on gitian)

Pieter Wuille (6):
      move wallet code to separate file
      CWallet class
      Bugfixes walletclass
      Fix segfault when creating new wallet
      Limit response to getblocks to half of output buffer size
      Fix synchronization of default key

Shane Wegner (1):
      Fix missing includes needed for Boost 1.46.

Stéphane Gimenez (1):
      Fix AddressBook syncrhonization between a CWallet and CWalletDB

Wladimir J. van der Laan (1):
      add GetTotalBlocksEstimate() function, move magic number to constant

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If there haven't been lots of upgrades in a few days, I think it's time to use the alert function again.

Mac OSX version of bitcoin client finally posted at https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.24/

Updated sums (stored as SHA1SUMS.asc on SF):

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