btcd

We’ve just released btcd version 0.12.0 beta! It is a highly recommended updated since it contains code to ensure new upcoming network rules are properly enforced (CLTV), new protocol enhancements, various optimizations, and several other enhancements.

Overview

In addition to announcing the new release, the purpose of this blog is to discuss a few points of the release in more detail. For those of you who are simply looking for the release notes and updated Windows binaries, they are located here.

The most important changes this post will cover are:

• CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (CLTV) support (BIP0065)
• Enforce LowS signatures for transaction relay
• New flag for controlling the minimum relay fee
• Bloom filter service bit support (BIP0111)
• New signature validation cache
• Developer-centric changes:
  • Refactored peer package
  • New options when querying address index
• Under development

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btcd

We’ve just released btcd version 0.11.0 beta! This release contains quite a few enhancements and is a required update.

Overview

In addition to announcing the new release, the purpose of this blog is to discuss a few points of the release in more detail. For those of you who are simply looking for the release notes and updated Windows binaries, they are located here.

While it certainly doesn’t cover everything in the release, the main topics this blog will cover are:

• Required update
• Transaction malleability reduction (BIP0062)
• Support for a limited RPC user
• Enhanced peer control
• Upcoming changes

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Code Migration

As many of you actively watching the btcd project are likely already aware, the project was recently migrated to a new organization on github named btcsuite. During this process, the core dependency packages were also combined into the main btcd repository.

Yeah, that’s me driving that truck … or at least it sure felt like it!
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