[Bitcoin-development] 0.7.1 release

[Bitcoin-development] 0.7.1 release

[Gavin Andresen]

There is consensus that we need to do a 0.7.1 release to fix the
"click on a bitcoin: URI and nothing happens" bug on Windows.

I would really like to fix the "I upgraded from a binary running an
incompatible version of BDB and now I get a DB_RUNRECOVERY error on
startup" problem, too, and I've got a pull request that fixes half of
that problem (plus a bunch of other "my wallet is broken" cases):

"Handle corrupt wallets gracefully" :
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1895

This pull request:

"Add -reindex, to perform in-place reindexing of blockchain data
files" : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1870

... could be the basis for fixing the other half of the problem (if
blkindex.dat is bad, delete it and re-create it from the blk000?.dat
files).

Are there any other very-high-priority pull requests that should go
into a 0.7.1 release?

I'd like to pull:

"P2P: Do not request blocks from peers with fewer blocks than us" :
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1834
"In listaddressgroupings push down the IsMine check to run on each
input." : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1872

... and these which could be considered fixes to the new raw transactions API:

"Add redeemScript to raw transactions API"  :
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1818
"Add new RPC "lockunspent", to prevent spending of selected outputs" :
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1861

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Gavin Andresen

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.7.1 release

[Wladimir]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is consensus that we need to do a 0.7.1 release to fix the
> "click on a bitcoin: URI and nothing happens" bug on Windows.
>
> "Handle corrupt wallets gracefully" :
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1895

We definitely need that one in.

>
> This pull request:
>
> "Add -reindex, to perform in-place reindexing of blockchain data
> files" : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1870

Agreed

>
> Are there any other very-high-priority pull requests that should go
> into a 0.7.1 release?

I think we should also pull #1859 "add LOCK() for proxy related
data-structures" Missing synchronization primitives are a sure way to
get reports about random crashes.

The rest can wait.

Wladimir

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.7.1 release

[Jeff Garzik]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Add -reindex, to perform in-place reindexing of blockchain data
> files" : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1870

Agree, though needs testing

> "P2P: Do not request blocks from peers with fewer blocks than us" :
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1834

Agree

> "Add new RPC "lockunspent", to prevent spending of selected outputs" :
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1861

Agree, though sipa raised a valid issue.  lockunspent, like the
existing listunspent, is wallet based.

As raw transactions might spend outputs _not_ in the wallet,
lockunspent would miss those.

I think this is OK, because listunspent is already wallet-based, but
it should be noted.

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Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik@exmulti.com