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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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An update to the Bitcoin client, version 0.3.24, has been released. This update was made mainly as a bug fix release.
Fixes address a block download problem and a crash that would occur if there was a problem with network connectivity.
UPnP is now enabled by default in the GUI client. DNS seeding is is now enabled by default in all builds.
While some preparatory steps for the wallet encryption feature are included, that feature is not yet finalized and will likely be released as v0.4 which is expected to be the next release of the Bitcoin client.
- http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27187.0
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.24
This is largely to reduce the transaction fee to 0.0005 BTC and to improve network performance.
- TX fee lowered, 0.0005 BTC
- P2P / Network connection improvements
- Client will relay transactions with fees as low as 0.0001 BTC
- Additional bug fixes
- http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16553.0
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.23
This is largely a bugfix and TX fee schedule release.
- Remove ‘generate coins’ option from GUI and remove 4-way miner. (miners use software from elsewhere now.)
- Add -port option for P2P port.
- Minimum TX fee reduced to 0.0005 BTC (Client will accept and relay the lowered fee. GUI application remains at 0.01 BTC until v0.3.23 though.)
- Bug fixes, source tree reorg and more.
Upgrading to the most recent version of the client is not mandatory. With 0.01 BTC being worth as much at $0.18 USD recently, many individuals have reverted to v0.3.20 which does not impose the minimum fee that was introduced with v0.3.21. That older version has issues which were fixed with the newer releases but for an individual the older version is suitable for use in transacting with others. The minimum transaction fee when using v0.3.23 will be an amount 1 / 20th of the amount that the most current version of the client requires. As such, it is likely that v0.3.23 will follow shortly.
- http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12269.0
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.22
