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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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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

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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

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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

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