1  Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 is now available from:
  2    http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.2/
  3  
  4  This is a maintenance release that fixes many bugs and includes
  5  a few small new features.
  6  
  7  Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
  8    https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
  9  
 10  
 11  How to Upgrade
 12  
 13  If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
 14  until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
 15  versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
 16  /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
 17  
 18  If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you
 19  run 0.8.2 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
 20  anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
 21  your machine.
 22  
 23  0.8.2 Release notes
 24  
 25  Fee Policy changes
 26  
 27  The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC 
 28  (for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is
 29  about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC.
 30  
 31  Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
 32  (0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them
 33  costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually
 34  cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.
 35  
 36  Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included
 37  in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are
 38  included in a block.
 39  
 40  The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee
 41  command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees
 42  with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the
 43  0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from
 44  the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm.
 45  
 46  Bitcoin-Qt changes
 47  
 48  * New icon and splash screen
 49  * Improve reporting of synchronization process
 50  * Remove hardcoded fee recommendations
 51  * Improve metadata of executable on MacOSX and Windows
 52  * Move export button to individual tabs instead of toolbar
 53  * Add "send coins" command to context menu in address book
 54  * Add "copy txid" command to copy transaction IDs from transaction overview
 55  * Save & restore window size and position when showing & hiding window
 56  * New translations: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Welsh (cy),
 57    Esperanto (eo), Interlingua (la), Latvian (lv) and many improvements
 58    to current translations
 59  
 60  MacOSX:
 61  * OSX support for click-to-pay (bitcoin:) links
 62  * Fix GUI disappearing problem on MacOSX (issue #1522)
 63  
 64  Linux/Unix:
 65  * Copy addresses to middle-mouse-button clipboard
 66  
 67  
 68  Command-line options
 69  
 70  * -walletnotify will call a command on receiving transactions that affect the wallet.
 71  * -alertnotify will call a command on receiving an alert from the network.
 72  * -par now takes a negative number, to leave a certain amount of cores free.
 73  
 74  JSON-RPC API changes
 75  
 76  * fixed a getblocktemplate bug that caused excessive CPU creating blocks.
 77  * listunspent now lists account and address information.
 78  * getinfo now also returns the time adjustment estimated from your peers.
 79  * getpeerinfo now returns bytessent, bytesrecv and syncnode.
 80  * gettxoutsetinfo returns statistics about the unspent transaction output database.
 81  * gettxout returns information about a specific unspent transaction output.
 82  
 83  
 84  Networking changes
 85  
 86  * Significant changes to the networking code, reducing latency and memory consumption.
 87  * Avoid initial block download stalling.
 88  * Remove IRC seeding support.
 89  * Performance tweaks.
 90  * Added testnet DNS seeds.
 91  
 92  Wallet compatibility/rescuing
 93  
 94  * Cases where wallets cannot be opened in another version/installation should be reduced.
 95  * -salvagewallet now works for encrypted wallets.
 96  
 97  
 98  Known Bugs
 99  
100  * Entering the 'getblocktemplate' or 'getwork' RPC commands into the Bitcoin-Qt debug
101  console will cause Bitcoin-Qt to crash. Run Bitcoin-Qt with the -server command-line
102  option to workaround.
103  
104  Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.2 release!
105  
106  APerson241
107  Andrew Poelstra
108  Calvin Owens
109  Chuck LeDuc Díaz
110  Colin Dean
111  David Griffith
112  David Serrano
113  Eric Lombrozo
114  Gavin Andresen
115  Gregory Maxwell
116  Jeff Garzik
117  Jonas Schnelli
118  Larry Gilbert
119  Luke Dashjr
120  Matt Corallo
121  Michael Ford
122  Mike Hearn
123  Patrick Brown
124  Peter Todd
125  Philip Kaufmann
126  Pieter Wuille
127  Richard Schwab
128  Roman Mindalev
129  Scott Howard
130  Tariq Bashir
131  Warren Togami
132  Wladimir J. van der Laan
133  freewil
134  gladoscc
135  kjj2
136  mb300sd
137  super3