release-notes-0.5.1.md
1 Bitcoin version 0.5.1 is now available for download at: 2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.1/ 3 4 This is a bugfix-only release. 5 6 This release includes 13 translations, including 5 new translations: 7 Italian, Hungarian, Ukranian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Simplified Chinese. 8 More translations are welcome; join the project at Transifex if you can help: 9 https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/ 10 11 Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: 12 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues 13 14 Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer 15 distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them 16 directly from github: 17 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.5.1 # .tar.gz 18 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.5.1 # .zip 19 20 For Ubuntu users, there is a new ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which 21 you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep 22 bitcoin up-to-date. Just type 23 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin 24 in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package. 25 26 27 BUG FIXES 28 29 Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally 30 disabled for the 0.5.0 release binaries). 31 32 The code that finds peers via "dns seeds" no longer stops bitcoin startup 33 if one of the dns seed machines is down. 34 35 Tooltips on the transaction list view were rendering incorrectly (as black boxes 36 or with a transparent background). 37 38 Prevent a denial-of-service attack involving flooding a bitcoin node with 39 orphan blocks. 40 41 The wallet passphrase dialog now warns you if the caps lock key was pressed. 42 43 Improved searching in addresses and labels in bitcoin-qt.