1  Bitcoin version 0.6.2 is now available for download at:
 2  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.2/
 3  
 4  This is a bug-fix and code-cleanup release, with no major new features.
 5  
 6  Please report bugs using the github issue tracker at:
 7  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
 8  
 9  
10  NOTABLE CHANGES
11  
12  Much faster shutdowns. However, the blkindex.dat file is no longer
13  portable to different data directories by default. If you need a
14  portable blkindex.dat file then run with the new -detachdb=1 option
15  or the "Detach databases at shutdown" GUI preference.
16  
17  Fixed https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/1065, a bug that
18  could cause long-running nodes to crash.
19  
20  Mac and Windows binaries are compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1b (Linux
21  binaries are dynamically linked to the version of OpenSSL on the system).
22  
23  
24  CHANGE SUMMARY
25  
26  Use 'git shortlog --no-merges v0.6.0..' for a summary of this release.
27  
28  Source codebase changes:
29  - Many source code cleanups and warnings fixes.  Close to building with -Wall
30  - Locking overhaul, and several minor locking fixes
31  - Several source code portability fixes, e.g. FreeBSD
32  
33  JSON-RPC interface changes:
34  - addmultisigaddress enabled for mainnet (previously only enabled for testnet)
35  
36  Network protocol changes:
37  - protocol version 60001
38  - added nonce value to "ping" message (BIP 31)
39  - added new "pong" message (BIP 31)
40  
41  Backend storage changes:
42  - Less redundant database flushing, especially during initial block download
43  - Shutdown improvements (see above)
44  
45  Qt user interface:
46  - minor URI handling improvements
47  - progressbar improvements
48  - error handling improvements (show message box rather than console exception,
49  etc.)
50  - by popular request, make 4th bar of connection icon green