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A significant new release of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.8.0, is now available for download.

This v0.8 release includes a number of new features, performance improvements and bug fixes and is the first major feature release since the v0.7 release about five months ago.  This release was designed to improve performance and handle the increasing volume of transactions on the network.

A post on Bitcoin Money blog (@BitcoinMoney) describes some of the features, improvements and fixes which include compatibility with OSX 10.8 and Windows 8, dramatically faster blockchain sync, support for lightweight clients, and more.

• http://bitcoin.org/releases/2013/02/19/v0.8.0.html
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.0
• http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145184.0 (Announcement)
• http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/43978670573 (Further description of features and fixes)
• http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0 (Bootstrap.dat thread)
• http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/bootstrap.dat.torrent

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