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1 | Bitcoin Core version 0.9.4 is now available from: |
| 2 | ||
| 3 | https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.4/ | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | This is a new minor version release, bringing only bug fixes and updated | |
| 6 | translations. Upgrading to this release is recommended. | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | How to Upgrade | |
| 13 | =============== | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely | |
| 16 | shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the | |
| 17 | installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or | |
| 18 | bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux). | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | OpenSSL Warning | |
| 21 | ================ | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | OpenSSL 1.0.0p / 1.0.1k was recently released and is being pushed out by | |
| 24 | various operating system maintainers. Review by Gregory Maxwell determined that | |
| 25 | this update is incompatible with the Bitcoin system and could lead to consensus | |
| 26 | forks. | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | Bitcoin Core released binaries from https://bitcoin.org are unaffected, | |
| 29 | as are any built with the gitian deterministic build system. | |
| 30 | ||
| 31 | However, if you are running either | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | - The Ubuntu PPA from https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin | |
| 34 | - A third-party or self-compiled Bitcoin Core | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.9.4, which includes a workaround, **before** updating | |
| 37 | OpenSSL. | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | The incompatibility is due to the OpenSSL update changing the | |
| 40 | behavior of ECDSA validation to reject any signature which is | |
| 41 | not encoded in a very rigid manner. This was a result of | |
| 42 | OpenSSL's change for CVE-2014-8275 "Certificate fingerprints | |
| 43 | can be modified". | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | We are specifically aware of potential hard-forks due to signature | |
| 46 | encoding handling and had been hoping to close them via BIP62 in 0.10. | |
| 47 | BIP62's purpose is to improve transaction malleability handling and | |
| 48 | as a side effect rigidly defines the encoding for signatures, but the | |
| 49 | overall scope of BIP62 has made it take longer than we'd like to | |
| 50 | deploy. | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | 0.9.4 changelog | |
| 53 | ================ | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | Validation: | |
| 56 | - `b8e81b7` consensus: guard against openssl's new strict DER checks | |
| 57 | - `60c51f1` fail immediately on an empty signature | |
| 58 | - `037bfef` Improve robustness of DER recoding code | |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | Command-line options: | |
| 61 | - `cd5164a` Make -proxy set all network types, avoiding a connect leak. | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | P2P: | |
| 64 | - `bb424e4` Limit the number of new addressses to accumulate | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | RPC: | |
| 67 | - `0a94661` Disable SSLv3 (in favor of TLS) for the RPC client and server. | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | Build system: | |
| 70 | - `f047dfa` gitian: openssl-1.0.1i.tar.gz -> openssl-1.0.1k.tar.gz | |
| 71 | - `5b9f78d` build: Fix OSX build when using Homebrew and qt5 | |
| 72 | - `ffab1dd` Keep symlinks when copying into .app bundle | |
| 73 | - `613247f` osx: fix signing to make Gatekeeper happy (again) | |
| 74 | ||
| 75 | Miscellaneous: | |
| 76 | - `25b49b5` Refactor -alertnotify code | |
| 77 | - `2743529` doc: Add instructions for consistent Mac OS X build names | |
| 78 | ||
| 79 | Credits | |
| 80 | -------- | |
| 81 | ||
| 82 | Thanks to who contributed to this release, at least: | |
| 83 | ||
| 84 | - Cory Fields | |
| 85 | - Gavin Andresen | |
| 86 | - Gregory Maxwell | |
| 87 | - Jeff Garzik | |
| 88 | - Luke Dashjr | |
| 89 | - Matt Corallo | |
| 90 | - Pieter Wuille | |
| 91 | - Saivann | |
| 92 | - Sergio Demian Lerner | |
| 93 | - Wladimir J. van der Laan | |
| 94 | ||
| 95 | As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/). |