# Gavin Andresen
# 2012-08-28 20:02:26
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104173.msg1140771#msg1140771

Bitcoin version 0.7.0 release candidate 1 binaries are now available for download at: @p{brk}
  @s{(link)} @p{par}

Please use the issue tracker at @s{(link)} to report bugs. @p{par}

Notable changes: @p{par}

Security @p{brk}
@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{--} @p{brk}
* Fixed denial-of-service attacks (disk and CPU exhaustion) related to the alert system @p{par}

Qt GUI @p{brk}
@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-} @p{brk}
* Add UI RPC console / debug window @p{brk}
* Re-Enable URI handling on Windows, add safety checks and tray-notifications @p{brk}
* Add 2 labels to the overviewpage that display Wallet and Transaction status (obsolete or current) @p{brk}
* Extend the optionsdialog (e.g. language selection) and re-work it to a tabbed UI @p{brk}
* Merge sign/verify message into a single window with tabbed UI @p{brk}
* Improve error reporting at startup @p{brk}
* Fine-grained UI updates for a much smoother UI during block downloads @p{brk}
* Reorganize tray icon menu into more logical order @p{brk}
* Persistently poll for balance change when number of blocks changed @p{brk}
* Much better translations @p{brk}
* Added 'immature balance' display on the overview page @p{brk}
* (Windows only): enable ASLR and DEP for bitcoin-qt.exe @p{brk}
* (Windows only): add meta-data to bitcoin-qt.exe (e.g. description) @p{par}

Bitcoin Improvement Proposals implemented @p{brk}
@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{--} @p{brk}
@p{(link}BIP 22@p{link)} - 'getblocktemplate', 'submitblock' RPCs @p{brk}
@p{(link}BIP 34@p{link)} - block height in coinbase @p{brk}
@p{(link}BIP 35@p{link)}- 'mempool' message, extended 'getdata' message behavior @p{par}

Core bitcoin handling and blockchain database @p{brk}
@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-} @p{brk}
* Reduced CPU usage, by eliminating some redundant hash calculations @p{brk}
* Cache signature verifications, to eliminate redundant signature checks @p{brk}
* Transactions with zero-value outputs are considered non-standard @p{brk}
* Mining: when creating new blocks, sort 'paid' area by fee-per-kb @p{brk}
* Database: better validation of on-disk stored data @p{brk}
* Database: minor optimizations and reliability improvements @p{brk}
* -loadblock=FILE will import an external block file @p{par}

JSON-RPC API @p{brk}
@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-} @p{brk}
* Internal HTTP server is now thread-per-connection, rather than @p{brk}
  a single-threaded queue that would stall on network I/O. @p{brk}
* Internal HTTP server supports HTTP/1.1, pipelined requests and @p{brk}
  connection keep-alive. @p{brk}
* Support JSON-RPC 2.0 batches, to encapsulate multiple JSON-RPC requests @p{brk}
  within a single HTTP request. @p{brk}
* IPv6 support @p{brk}
* Added raw transaction API.  See @s{(link)} @p{brk}
* Added 'getrawmempool', to list contents of TX memory pool @p{brk}
* Added 'getpeerinfo', to list data about each connected network peer @p{brk}
* Added 'listaddressgroupings' for better coin control @p{brk}
* Rework gettransaction, getblock calls. 'gettransaction' responds for @p{brk}
  non-wallet TXs now. @p{brk}
* Remove deprecated RPC 'getblocknumber' @p{brk}
* New blockchain checkpoint at block 193,000 @p{brk}
* listtransactions output now displays "smart" times for transactions, @p{brk}
  and 'blocktime' and 'timereceived' fields were added @p{par}

 @p{brk}
P2P networking @p{brk}
@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{--} @p{brk}
* IPv6 support @p{brk}
* Tor hidden service support @p{brk}
* Attempts to fix "stuck blockchain download" problems @p{brk}
* Replace BDB database "addr.dat" with internally-managed "peers.dat" @p{brk}
  file containing peer address data. @p{brk}
* Lower default send buffer from 10MB to 1MB @p{brk}
* proxy: SOCKS5 by default @p{brk}
* Support connecting by hostnames passed to proxy (-proxydns) @p{brk}
* Add -seednode connections, and use this for -dnsseed + -proxydns @p{brk}
* Added -externalip and -discover @p{brk}
* Add -onlynet to connect only to a given network (IPv4, IPv6, or Tor) @p{brk}
* Separate listening sockets, -bind=@p{lt}addr@s{gt} @p{par}

 @p{brk}
Internal codebase @p{brk}
@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{--} @p{brk}
* Additional unit tests @p{brk}
* Compile warning fixes @p{par}

Miscellaneous @p{brk}
@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}@p{@p{--}-}- @p{brk}
* Reopen debug.log upon SIGHUP @p{brk}
* Bash programmable completion for bitcoind(1) @p{brk}
* On supported OS's, each thread is given a useful name @p{par}

Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release: @p{brk}
======================================= @p{par}

Chris Moore @p{brk}
Christian von Roques @p{brk}
David Joel Schwartz @p{brk}
Douglas Huff @p{brk}
Fordy @p{brk}
Gavin Andresen @p{brk}
Giel van Schijndel @p{brk}
Gregory Maxwell @p{brk}
Jeff Garzik @p{brk}
Luke Dashjr @p{brk}
Matt Corallo @p{brk}
Michael Ford @p{brk}
Michael Hendricks @p{brk}
Peter Todd @p{brk}
Philip Kaufmann @p{brk}
Pieter Wuille @p{brk}
R E Broadley @p{brk}
Ricardo M. Correia @p{brk}
Rune K. Svendsen @p{brk}
Scott Ellis @p{brk}
Stephane Glondu @p{brk}
Wladimir J. van der Laan @p{brk}
cardpuncher @p{brk}
coderrr @p{brk}
fanquake @p{brk}
grimd34th @p{brk}
sje397 @p{brk}
xanatos @p{par}

Thanks to Sergio Lerner for reporting denial-of-service vulnerabilities fixed in this release. @p{brk}