Merge #557: Releases: add 0.16.1

9c98b09 Releases: 0.16.1: set add, add magnet URI (David A. Harding)
98cf0fc Releases: add 0.16.1 release notes and announcement blog (David A. Harding)
793aaaf Blog posts: set default permalink URL for new posts (David A. Harding)

Pull request description:

  Adds release notes and a short blog post.  Previews:

  - Blog: http://dg0.dtrt.org/en/2018/06/13/release-0.16.1/
  - Release notes: http://dg0.dtrt.org/en/releases/0.16.1/
  - Download page: http://dg0.dtrt.org/en/download/

  Todos (can be fixed up after merge):

  - [x] Update files to correct dates for release:
      - `_releases/0.16.1` - change date in YAML header
      - `cd _posts/en/posts/ ; rename 's/.*release/'$(date -u -I)'-release/' *0.16.1.md ; git add .`
  - [x] Add magnet URI for torrent
  - [x] If release notes change, update the release file with the changes

  Note: this PR is expected to fail Travis CI as it expects the binaries to be in /bin/bitcoin-core-0.16.1/, which they're not yet.  The CI should pass once if Travis is restarted after the binaries are in their final location.

Tree-SHA512: 4df00855d6f847f3eb66b40261dc4e78548656c2381c66afd203ccfdb58812d3d10519ab172b8cccc3b4c1046a2834427dbe9488a1c132108f5b19d995f6b95e

Author: harding

_config.yml

@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@ defaults:
       layout: doc
       lang: en
       share: true
+  - scope:
+      path: "_posts/en/posts"
+      type: posts
+      lang: en
+    values:
+      permalink: /en/:year/:month/:day/:title/
 
 collections:
   releases:

_posts/en/posts/2018-06-15-release-0.16.1.md

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+---
+title: Bitcoin Core 0.16.1 Released
+name: blog-release-0.16.1
+id: en-blog-release-0.16.1
+lang: en
+type: posts
+layout: post
+share: true
+version: 1
+
+excerpt: >
+  Bitcoin Core 0.16.1 has been released with the latest bug fixes and
+  minor updates
+---
+Bitcoin Core version 0.16.1 is now available for [download][download
+page].  All users are encouraged to upgrade to this [maintenance
+release][] that fixes several bugs and provides backports of new minor
+features, such as:
+
+- Mitigating a vector for denial-of-service attacks.  This attack required
+  compromising particular services and would've probably been most
+  effective against nodes that were started for the first time (rather
+  than nodes that had already been connected to the network for more
+  than a few hours).
+
+- Fixing a bug that could've potentially caused miners to lose revenue if
+  they produced two blocks in very rapid succession.
+
+- Ceasing relay of transactions using the rarely-seen `OP_CODESEPARATOR` opcode for legacy
+  (non-segwit) signature scripts.  The presence of this opcode makes it
+  difficult for nodes to estimate how much computational work will be
+  required to validate a legacy signature script.  Because of that, it
+  blocks the deployment of solutions to prevent attackers from creating
+  blocks that require a long time to validate.  By itself, this change
+  to relay policy doesn't fix the problem itself, but it does make it
+  easier and safer to deploy proposed solutions in the future should
+  users consent to adopt them.
+
+For a complete list of changes, please see the [release notes][].  If
+have any questions, please stop by our [IRC chatroom][irc] and we’ll do
+our best to help you.
+
+[release notes]: /en/releases/0.16.1/
+[IRC]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/IRC_channels
+[download page]: /en/download
+[maintenance release]: /en/lifecycle/#maintenance-releases

_releases/0.16.1.md

@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+---
+title: Bitcoin Core 0.16.1
+id: en-release-0.16.1
+name: release-0.16.1
+permalink: /en/releases/0.16.1/
+excerpt: Bitcoin Core version 0.16.1 is now available
+date: 2018-06-15
+
+## Use a YAML array for the version number to allow other parts of the
+## site to correctly sort in "natural sort of version numbers"
+release: [0, 16, 1]
+
+## Optional magnet link.  To get it, open the torrent in a good BitTorrent client
+## and View Details, or install the transmission-cli Debian/Ubuntu package
+## and run: transmission-show -m <torrent file>
+#
+## Link should be enclosed in quotes and start with: "magnet:?
+optional_magnetlink: "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:91069028aaf9f6bb3279e71bfd9ab164922e578e&dn=bitcoin-core-0.16.1&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969"
+
+# Note: it is recommended to check all links to ensure they use
+#       absolute urls (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/doc/foo)
+#       rather than relative urls (/bitcoin/bitcoin/doc/foo).
+
+## Notes from bitcoin/bitcoin 2018-06-13 commit dac5d68fc6cf136e0d7b21b9ed4fa053d54e6059
+---
+{% include _download.html %}
+{% githubify https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin %}
+Bitcoin Core version 0.16.1 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.16.1/>
+
+This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes
+and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
+
+  <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
+
+To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
+
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/>
+
+How to Upgrade
+==============
+
+If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
+shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
+installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt` (on Mac)
+or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux).
+
+The first time you run version 0.15.0 or newer, your chainstate database will be converted to a
+new format, which will take anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour,
+depending on the speed of your machine.
+
+Note that the block database format also changed in version 0.8.0 and there is no
+automatic upgrade code from before version 0.8 to version 0.15.0 or higher. Upgrading
+directly from 0.7.x and earlier without re-downloading the blockchain is not supported.
+However, as usual, old wallet versions are still supported.
+
+Downgrading warning
+-------------------
+
+Wallets created in 0.16 and later are not compatible with versions prior to 0.16
+and will not work if you try to use newly created wallets in older versions. Existing
+wallets that were created with older versions are not affected by this.
+
+Compatibility
+==============
+
+Bitcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using
+the Linux kernel, macOS 10.8+, and Windows Vista and later. Windows XP is not supported.
+
+Bitcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not
+frequently tested on them.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+Miner block size removed
+------------------------
+
+The `-blockmaxsize` option for miners to limit their blocks' sizes was
+deprecated in version 0.15.1, and has now been removed. Miners should use the
+`-blockmaxweight` option if they want to limit the weight of their blocks'
+weights.
+
+0.16.1 change log
+------------------
+
+### Policy
+- #11423 `d353dd1` [Policy] Several transaction standardness rules (jl2012)
+
+### Mining
+- #12756 `e802c22` [config] Remove blockmaxsize option (jnewbery)
+
+### Block and transaction handling
+- #13199 `c71e535` Bugfix: ensure consistency of m_failed_blocks after reconsiderblock (sdaftuar)
+- #13023 `bb79aaf` Fix some concurrency issues in ActivateBestChain() (skeees)
+
+### P2P protocol and network code
+- #12626 `f60e84d` Limit the number of IPs addrman learns from each DNS seeder (EthanHeilman)
+
+### Wallet
+- #13265 `5d8de76` Exit SyncMetaData if there are no transactions to sync (laanwj)
+- #13030 `5ff571e` Fix zapwallettxes/multiwallet interaction. (jnewbery)
+
+### GUI
+- #12999 `1720eb3` Show the Window when double clicking the taskbar icon (ken2812221)
+- #12650 `f118a7a` Fix issue: "default port not shown correctly in settings dialog" (251Labs)
+- #13251 `ea487f9` Rephrase Bech32 checkbox texts, and enable it with legacy address default (fanquake)
+
+### Build system
+- #12474 `b0f692f` Allow depends system to support armv7l (hkjn)
+- #12585 `72a3290` depends: Switch to downloading expat from GitHub (fanquake)
+- #12648 `46ca8f3` test: Update trusted git root (MarcoFalke)
+- #11995 `686cb86` depends: Fix Qt build with Xcode 9 (fanquake)
+- #12636 `845838c` backport: #11995 Fix Qt build with Xcode 9 (fanquake)
+- #12946 `e055bc0` depends: Fix Qt build with XCode 9.3 (fanquake)
+- #12998 `7847b92` Default to defining endian-conversion DECLs in compat w/o config (TheBlueMatt)
+
+### Tests and QA
+- #12447 `01f931b` Add missing signal.h header (laanwj)
+- #12545 `1286f3e` Use wait_until to ensure ping goes out (Empact)
+- #12804 `4bdb0ce` Fix intermittent rpc_net.py failure. (jnewbery)
+- #12553 `0e98f96` Prefer wait_until over polling with time.sleep (Empact)
+- #12486 `cfebd40` Round target fee to 8 decimals in assert_fee_amount (kallewoof)
+- #12843 `df38b13` Test starting bitcoind with -h and -version (jnewbery)
+- #12475 `41c29f6` Fix python TypeError in script.py (MarcoFalke)
+- #12638 `0a76ed2` Cache only chain and wallet for regtest datadir (MarcoFalke)
+- #12902 `7460945` Handle potential cookie race when starting node (sdaftuar)
+- #12904 `6c26df0` Ensure bitcoind processes are cleaned up when tests end (sdaftuar)
+- #13049 `9ea62a3` Backports (MarcoFalke)
+- #13201 `b8aacd6` Handle disconnect_node race (sdaftuar)
+
+### Miscellaneous
+- #12518 `a17fecf` Bump leveldb subtree (MarcoFalke)
+- #12442 `f3b8d85` devtools: Exclude patches from lint-whitespace (MarcoFalke)
+- #12988 `acdf433` Hold cs_main while calling UpdatedBlockTip() signal (skeees)
+- #12985 `0684cf9` Windows: Avoid launching as admin when NSIS installer ends. (JeremyRand)
+
+### Documentation
+- #12637 `60086dd` backport: #12556 fix version typo in getpeerinfo RPC call help (fanquake)
+- #13184 `4087dd0` RPC Docs: `gettxout*`: clarify bestblock and unspent counts (harding)
+- #13246 `6de7543` Bump to Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 in build-windows.md (ken2812221)
+- #12556 `e730b82` Fix version typo in getpeerinfo RPC call help (tamasblummer)
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- 251
+- Ben Woosley
+- Chun Kuan Lee
+- David A. Harding
+- e0
+- fanquake
+- Henrik Jonsson
+- JeremyRand
+- Jesse Cohen
+- John Newbery
+- Johnson Lau
+- Karl-Johan Alm
+- Luke Dashjr
+- MarcoFalke
+- Matt Corallo
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- Tamas Blummer
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).
+{% endgithubify %}