# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-12-13 16:16:34
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54488.msg649260#msg649260

Please help sanity test version 0.5.1 release candidate 1. @p{par}

Why a version 0.5.1 ?  To fix the bugs listed below before starting on 0.6 release candidate testing. @p{par}

After doing some testnet testing to make sure it works properly, I plan on using the "alert" system built in to the client to warn 0.4 users that if they have an encrypted wallet they need to upgrade to be secure. @p{par}


@p{hrule}
Bitcoin version 0.5.1 release candidate 1 is now available for download at: @p{brk}
  @s{(link)} @p{par}

This is a bugfix-only release. @p{par}

This release includes 13 translations, including 5 new translations: @p{brk}
Italian, Hungarian, Ukranian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Simplified Chinese. @p{brk}
More translations are welcome; join the project at Transifex if you can help: @p{brk}
  @s{(link)} @p{par}

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: @p{brk}
  @s{(link)} @p{par}

Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer @p{brk}
distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them @p{brk}
directly from github: @p{brk}
 @s{(link)}  # .tar.gz @p{brk}
 @s{(link)}  # .zip @p{par}

For Ubuntu users, there is a new ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which @p{brk}
you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep @p{brk}
bitcoin up-to-date.  Just type @p{brk}
 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin @p{brk}
in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package. @p{par}

BUG FIXES @p{brk}
@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-} @p{par}

Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally @p{brk}
disabled for the 0.5.0 release binaries). @p{par}

The code that finds peers via "dns seeds" no longer stops bitcoin startup @p{brk}
if one of the dns seed machines is down. @p{par}

Tooltips on the transaction list view were rendering incorrectly (as black boxes @p{brk}
or with a transparent background). @p{par}

Prevent a denial-of-service attack involving flooding a bitcoin node with @p{brk}
orphan blocks. @p{par}

The wallet passphrase dialog now warns you if the caps lock key was pressed. @p{par}

Improved searching in addresses and labels in bitcoin-qt. @p{par}

=============================== @p{par}

Thanks to everybody who contributed code or helped test this release: @p{par}

Alex B @p{brk}
Clark Gaebel @p{brk}
Dylan Noblesmith @p{brk}
Gavin Andresen @p{brk}
Luke Dashjr @p{brk}
Matt Corallo @p{brk}
Michael Hendricks @p{brk}
Nick Bosma @p{brk}
Nils Schneider @p{brk}
Wladimir J. van der Laan @p{brk}