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A post on Bitcoin Money (@BitcoinMoney) blog describes the upcoming May 15th 2013 hard fork:
“Released following the Bitcoin blockchain fork on March 11th 2013 was an updated v0.8 client (v0.8.1) that temporarily respects an undocumented limit found in all prior versions of the Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind clients.”
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“That temporary grace period ends and on May 15th 2013 (12:00 am UTC) any node that still hasn’t been fixed to remove this limitation will eventually find itself rejecting valid blocks from the Bitcoin blockchain. It is possible that these unfixed nodes will see block confirmations but those blocks will not be part of the longest chain so it is critical that no commerce continue on or after May 15th using a node that hasn’t been upgraded.”
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“Release v0.8.1 of Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind has been available since March 18th, 2013 and accommodates the May 15th 2013 hard fork properly. The fix has been backported to v0.7.3, v0.6.5, v0.5.8, and v0.4.9 clients as well.”
- http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/50027334954
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.1
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=199699.0 (Backports)
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Excerpts from the latest update from Bitcoin.org project lead Gavin Andresen (@GavinAndresen):
“If you are using bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt and you haven’t upgraded yet, you should: the new release [v0.8] is much faster and is more gentle on your disk drives.”
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“[Foundation member Saivann Carignan is] redesigning the bitcoin.org website. He has also been doing the hard work of getting rough consensus on what the design and content should be,”
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“This week transaction volume reached the voluntary, easy-to-change, 250,000 bytes-per-block limit — and that caused some pain for people. […] At least a couple of the big pools have decided to increase the size of the blocks they create.”
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“There is a non-voluntary, hard-to-change, 1,000,000-bytes-of-transactions-per-block limit that needs to be raised. […] I’m confident that raising the 1MB limit will be only slightly painful for most people– you’ll just have to upgrade old Bitcoin software.”
- https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=135
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=149668.0 (Further discussion of the scalability issue)
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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.
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A significant new release of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.7.0, is now available for download.
This v0.7 release includes a number of new features, performance improvements and bug fixes and is the first major feature release since the v0.6 release nearly six months ago.
A post on Bitcoin Money blog (@BitcoinMoney) describes some of the improvements, which include IPv6 support, Tor support, URI handling, a raw transaction API and more.
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2012/09/17/v0.7.0.html
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.0
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110243.0 (Discussion on the release)
- http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/31766560682 (Further description of features and fixes)
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A new version of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.6.3, includes a fix for a serious denial-of-service vulnerability and a performance enhancement for new installations.
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2012/06/25/v0.6.3.html
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.3
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89877.0
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A new version of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.6.2, includes a number of bug fixes and and performance improvements.
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2012/05/08/v0.6.2.html
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.2
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80187.0
A new version of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.6.0, includes a number of new features as well as significant performance improvements, bug fixes and support for a change to the Bitcoin protocol.
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2012/03/30/v0.6.0.html
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74737
