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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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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
The latest revision of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.5.3, includes bug fixes and support for changes to the Bitcoin protocol.
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2012/03/14/v0.5.3.html
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.3
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68895.0
A bugfix-only release of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.5.2, are now available.
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2012/01/09/v0.5.2.html
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.2
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60146.0;all
A bugfix-only release of the Bitcoin client from Bitcoin.org, v0.5.1, is now available.
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2011/12/15/v0.5.1.html
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.1
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54717.0;all
The Bitcoin client from Bitcoin.org has a new look. Version 0.5.0 has been released and has a completely new graphical interface which uses the Qt user interface toolkit.The release also includes a major bug fix related to encryption of the wallet keys.
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2011/11/21/v0.5.0.html
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.0
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52480.0;all
