doc: Add preliminary changelog for 0.11 to release notes

Author: laanwj

doc/release-notes.md

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 (note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to
 release-notes at release time)
 
+0.11.0 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates.
+
+### RPC and REST
+- #5461 `5f7279a` signrawtransaction: validate private key
+- #5444 `103f66b` Add /rest/headers/<count>/<hash>.<ext>
+- #4964 `95ecc0a` Add scriptPubKey field to validateaddress RPC call
+- #5476 `c986972` Add time offset into getpeerinfo output
+- #5540 `84eba47` Add unconfirmed and immature balances to getwalletinfo
+- #5599 `40e96a3` Get rid of the internal miner's hashmeter
+- #5711 `87ecfb0` Push down RPC locks
+- #5754 `1c4e3f9` fix getblocktemplate lock issue
+- #5756 `5d901d8` Fix getblocktemplate_proposals test by mining one block
+- #5548 `d48ce48` Add /rest/chaininfos
+- #5992 `4c4f1b4` Push down RPC reqWallet flag
+- #6036 `585b5db` Show zero value txouts in listunspent
+- #5199 `6364408` Add RPC call `gettxoutproof` to generate and verify merkle blocks
+- #5418 `16341cc` Report missing inputs in sendrawtransaction
+- #5937 `40f5e8d` show script verification errors in signrawtransaction result
+- #5420 `1fd2d39` [REST] getutxos REST command (based on Bip64)
+
+### Configuration and command-line options
+- #5636 `a353ad4` Add option `-allowselfsignedrootcertificate` to allow self signed root certs (for testing payment requests)
+- #5900 `3e8a1f2` Add a consistency check `-checkblockindex` for the block chain data structures
+- #5951 `7efc9cf` Make it possible to disable wallet transaction broadcast (using `-walletbroadcast=0`)
+- #5911 `b6ea3bc` privacy: Stream isolation for Tor (on by default, use `-proxyrandomize=0` to disable)
+- #5863 `c271304` Add autoprune functionality (`-prune=<size>`)
+
+### Block and transaction handling
+- #5367 `dcc1304` Do all block index writes in a batch
+- #5253 `203632d` Check against MANDATORY flags prior to accepting to mempool
+- #5459 `4406c3e` Reject headers that build on an invalid parent
+- #5481 `055f3ae` Apply AreSane() checks to the fees from the network
+- #5580 `40d65eb` Preemptively catch a few potential bugs
+- #5349 `f55c5e9` Implement test for merkle tree malleability in CPartialMerkleTree
+- #5564 `a89b837` clarify obscure uses of EvalScript()
+- #5521 `8e4578a` Reject non-final txs even in testnet/regtest
+- #5707 `6af674e` Change hardcoded character constants to descriptive named constants for db keys
+- #5286 `fcf646c` Change the default maximum OP_RETURN size to 80 bytes
+- #5710 `175d86e` Add more information to errors in ReadBlockFromDisk
+- #5948 `b36f1ce` Use GetAncestor to compute new target
+- #5959 `a0bfc69` Add additional block index consistency checks
+- #6058 `7e0e7f8` autoprune minor post-merge improvements
+- #5159 `2cc1372` New fee estimation code
+- #6102 `6fb90d8` Implement accurate UTXO cache size accounting
+- #6129 `2a82298` Bug fix for clearing fCheckForPruning
+- #5947 `e9af4e6` Alert if it is very likely we are getting a bad chain
+
+### P2P protocol and network code
+- #5507 `844ace9` Prevent DOS attacks on in-flight data structures
+- #5770 `32a8b6a` Sanitize command strings before logging them
+- #5859 `dd4ffce` Add correct bool combiner for net signals
+- #5876 `8e4fd0c` Add a NODE_GETUTXO service bit and document NODE_NETWORK.
+- #6028 `b9311fb` Move nLastTry from CAddress to CAddrInfo
+- #5662 `5048465` Change download logic to allow calling getdata on inbound peers
+- #5971 `18d2832` replace absolute sleep with conditional wait
+- #5918 `7bf5d5e` Use equivalent PoW for non-main-chain requests
+- #6059 `f026ab6` chainparams: use SeedSpec6's rather than CAddress's for fixed seeds
+- #6080 `31c0bf1` Add jonasschnellis dns seeder
+- #5976 `9f7809f` Reduce download timeouts as blocks arrive
+
+### Validation
+- #5143 `48e1765` Implement BIP62 rule 6
+- #5713 `41e6e4c` Implement BIP66
+
+### Build system
+- #5501 `c76c9d2` Add mips, mipsel and aarch64 to depends platforms
+- #5334 `cf87536` libbitcoinconsensus: Add pkg-config support
+- #5514 `ed11d53` Fix 'make distcheck'
+- #5505 `a99ef7d` Build winshutdownmonitor.cpp on Windows only
+- #5582 `e8a6639` Osx toolchain update
+- #5684 `ab64022` osx: bump build sdk to 10.9
+- #5695 `23ef5b7` depends: latest config.guess and config.sub
+- #5509 `31dedb4` Fixes when compiling in c++11 mode
+- #5819 `f8e68f7` release: use static libstdc++ and disable reduced exports by default
+- #5510 `7c3fbc3` Big endian support
+- #5149 `c7abfa5` Add script to verify all merge commits are signed
+- #6082 `7abbb7e` qt: disable qt tests when one of the checks for the gui fails
+
+### Wallet
+- #2340 `811c71d` Discourage fee sniping with nLockTime
+- #5485 `d01bcc4` Enforce minRelayTxFee on wallet created tx and add a maxtxfee option.
+- #5508 `9a5cabf` Add RandAddSeedPerfmon to MakeNewKey
+- #4805 `8204e19` Do not flush the wallet in AddToWalletIfInvolvingMe(..)
+- #5319 `93b7544` Clean up wallet encryption code
+- #5831 `df5c246` Subtract fee from amount
+- #6076 `6c97fd1` wallet: fix boost::get usage with boost 1.58
+- #5511 `23c998d` Sort pending wallet transactions before reaccepting
+- #6126 `26e08a1` Change default nTxConfirmTarget to 2
+
+### GUI
+- #5219 `f3af0c8` New icons
+- #5228 `bb3c75b` HiDPI (retina) support for splash screen
+- #5258 `73cbf0a` The RPC Console should be a QWidget to make window more independent
+- #5488 `851dfc7` Light blue icon color for regtest
+- #5547 `a39aa74` New icon for the debug window
+- #5493 `e515309` Adopt style colour for button icons
+- #5557 `70477a0` On close of splashscreen interrupt verifyDB
+- #5559 `83be8fd` Make the command-line-args dialog better
+- #5144 `c5380a9` Elaborate on signverify message dialog warning
+- #5489 `d1aa3c6` Optimize PNG files
+- #5649 `e0cd2f5` Use text-color icons for system tray Send/Receive menu entries
+- #5651 `848f55d` Coin Control: Use U+2248 "ALMOST EQUAL TO" rather than a simple tilde
+- #5626 `ab0d798` Fix icon sizes and column width
+- #5683 `c7b22aa` add new osx dmg background picture
+- #5620 `7823598` Payment request expiration bug fix
+- #5729 `9c4a5a5` Allow unit changes for read-only BitcoinAmountField
+- #5753 `0f44672` Add bitcoin logo to about screen
+- #5629 `a956586` Prevent amount overflow problem with payment requests
+- #5830 `215475a` Don't save geometry for options and about/help window
+- #5793 `d26f0b2` Honor current network when creating autostart link
+- #5847 `f238add` Startup script for centos, with documentation
+- #5915 `5bd3a92` Fix a static qt5 crash when using certain versions of libxcb
+- #5898 `bb56781` Fix rpc console font size to flexible metrics
+- #5467 `bc8535b` Payment request / server work - part 2
+- #6161 `180c164` Remove movable option for toolbar
+- #6160 `0d862c2` Overviewpage: make sure warning icons gets colored
+
+### Tests
+- #5453 `2f2d337` Add ability to run single test manually to RPC tests
+- #5421 `886eb57` Test unexecuted OP_CODESEPARATOR
+- #5530 `565b300` Additional rpc tests
+- #5611 `37b185c` Fix spurious windows test failures after 012598880c
+- #5613 `2eda47b` Fix smartfees test for change to relay policy
+- #5612 `e3f5727` Fix zapwallettxes test
+- #5642 `30a5b5f` Prepare paymentservertests for new unit tests
+- #5784 `e3a3cd7` Fix usage of NegateSignatureS in script_tests
+- #5813 `ee9f2bf` Add unit tests for next difficulty calculations
+- #5855 `d7989c0` Travis: run unit tests in different orders
+- #5852 `cdae53e` Reinitialize state in between individual unit tests.
+- #5883 `164d7b6` tests: add a BasicTestingSetup and apply to all tests
+- #5940 `446bb70` Regression test for ResendWalletTransactions
+- #6052 `cf7adad` fix and enable bip32 unit test
+- #6039 `734f80a` tests: Error when setgenerate is used on regtest
+- #6074 `948beaf` Correct the PUSHDATA4 minimal encoding test in script_invalid.json
+- #6032 `e08886d` Stop nodes after RPC tests, even with --nocleanup
+- #6075 `df1609f` Add additional script edge condition tests
+- #5981 `da38dc6` Python P2P testing 
+- #5958 `9ef00c3` Add multisig rpc tests
+- #6112 `fec5c0e` Add more script edge condition tests
+
+### Miscellaneous
+- #5457, #5506, #5952, #6047 Update libsecp256k1
+- #5437 `84857e8` Add missing CAutoFile::IsNull() check in main
+- #5490 `ec20fd7` Replace uint256/uint160 with opaque blobs where possible
+- #5654, #5764 Adding jonasschnelli's GPG key
+- #5477 `5f04d1d` OS X 10.10: LSSharedFileListItemResolve() is deprecated
+- #5679 `beff11a` Get rid of DetectShutdownThread
+- #5787 `9bd8c9b` Add fanquake PGP key
+- #5366 `47a79bb` No longer check osx compatibility in RenameThread
+- #5689 `07f4386` openssl: abstract out OPENSSL_cleanse
+- #5708 `8b298ca` Add list of implemented BIPs
+- #5809 `46bfbe7` Add bitcoin-cli man page
+- #5839 `86eb461` keys: remove libsecp256k1 verification until it's actually supported
+- #5749 `d734d87` Help messages correctly formatted (79 chars)
+- #5884 `7077fe6` BUGFIX: Stack around the variable 'rv' was corrupted
+- #5849 `41259ca` contrib/init/bitcoind.openrc: Compatibility with previous OpenRC init script variables
+- #5950 `41113e3` Fix locale fallback and guard tests against invalid locale settings
+- #5965 `7c6bfb1` Add git-subtree-check.sh script
+- #6033 `1623f6e` FreeBSD, OpenBSD thread renaming
+- #6064 `b46e7c2` Several changes to mruset
+- #6104 `3e2559c` Show an init message while activating best chain
+- #6125 `351f73e` Clean up parsing of bool command line args
+- #5964 `b4c219b` Lightweight task scheduler
+- #6116 `30dc3c1` [OSX] rename Bitcoin-Qt.app to Bitcoin-Core.app
+- #6168 `b3024f0` contrib/linearize: Support linearization of testnet blocks
+- #6098 `7708fcd` Update Windows resource files (and add one for bitcoin-tx)
+- #6159 `e1412d3` Catch errors on datadir lock and pidfile delete
+
+[up to date until #5976]