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This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes
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and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
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Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
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<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
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If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
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shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
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installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac)
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installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt` (on Mac)
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or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux).
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The first time you run version 0.15.0, your chainstate database will be converted to a
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to limit their blocks by size, instead of by weight, will have to do so manually by
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removing transactions from their block template directly.
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HD-wallets by default
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Due to a backward-incompatible change in the wallet database, wallets created
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with version 0.16.0 will be rejected by previous versions. Also, version 0.16.0
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will only create hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets.
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Low-level RPC changes
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- The "currentblocksize" value in getmininginfo has been removed.
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- The deprecated RPC `getinfo` was removed. It is recommended that the more specific RPCs are used:
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* `getblockchaininfo`
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* `getnetworkinfo`
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* `getwalletinfo`
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* `getmininginfo`
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Credits
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