1 Bitcoin version 0.6.0 is now available for download at:
2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/
4 This release includes more than 20 language localizations.
5 More translations are welcome; join the
6 project at Transifex to help:
7 https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/
9 Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
10 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
12 Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer
13 distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them
15 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.0 # .tar.gz
16 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.6.0 # .zip
18 For Ubuntu users, there is a ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which
19 you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep
20 bitcoin up-to-date. Just type
21 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
22 in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.
27 Shutting down while synchronizing with the network
28 (downloading the blockchain) can take more than a minute,
29 because database writes are queued to speed up download
33 NEW FEATURES SINCE BITCOIN VERSION 0.5
35 Initial network synchronization should be much faster
36 (one or two hours on a typical machine instead of ten or more
39 Backup Wallet menu option.
41 Bitcoin-Qt can display and save QR codes for sending
42 and receiving addresses.
44 New context menu on addresses to copy/edit/delete them.
46 New Sign Message dialog that allows you to prove that you
47 own a bitcoin address by creating a digital
50 New wallets created with this version will
51 use 33-byte 'compressed' public keys instead of
52 65-byte public keys, resulting in smaller
53 transactions and less traffic on the bitcoin
54 network. The shorter keys are already supported
55 by the network but wallet.dat files containing
56 short keys are not compatible with earlier
57 versions of Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind.
59 New command-line argument -blocknotify=<command>
60 that will spawn a shell process to run <command>
61 when a new block is accepted.
63 New command-line argument -splash=0 to disable
64 Bitcoin-Qt's initial splash screen
66 validateaddress JSON-RPC api command output includes
67 two new fields for addresses in the wallet:
68 pubkey : hexadecimal public key
69 iscompressed : true if pubkey is a short 33-byte key
71 New JSON-RPC api commands for dumping/importing
72 private keys from the wallet (dumprivkey, importprivkey).
74 New JSON-RPC api command for getting information about
75 blocks (getblock, getblockhash).
77 New JSON-RPC api command (getmininginfo) for getting
78 extra information related to mining. The getinfo
79 JSON-RPC command no longer includes mining-related
80 information (generate/genproclimit/hashespersec).
86 BIP30 implemented (security fix for an attack involving
87 duplicate "coinbase transactions").
89 The -nolisten, -noupnp and -nodnsseed command-line
90 options were renamed to -listen, -upnp and -dnsseed,
91 with a default value of 1. The old names are still
92 supported for compatibility (so specifying -nolisten
93 is automatically interpreted as -listen=0; every
94 boolean argument can now be specified as either
97 The -noirc command-line options was renamed to
98 -irc, with a default value of 0. Run -irc=1 to
101 Three fill-up-available-memory denial-of-service
105 NOT YET IMPLEMENTED FEATURES
107 Support for clicking on bitcoin: URIs and
108 opening/launching Bitcoin-Qt is available only on Linux,
109 and only if you configure your desktop to launch
110 Bitcoin-Qt. All platforms support dragging and dropping
111 bitcoin: URIs onto the Bitcoin-Qt window to start
115 PRELIMINARY SUPPORT FOR MULTISIGNATURE TRANSACTIONS
117 This release has preliminary support for multisignature
118 transactions-- transactions that require authorization
119 from more than one person or device before they
120 will be accepted by the bitcoin network.
122 Prior to this release, multisignature transactions
123 were considered 'non-standard' and were ignored;
124 with this release multisignature transactions are
125 considered standard and will start to be relayed
126 and accepted into blocks.
128 It is expected that future releases of Bitcoin-Qt
129 will support the creation of multisignature transactions,
130 once enough of the network has upgraded so relaying
131 and validating them is robust.
133 For this release, creation and testing of multisignature
134 transactions is limited to the bitcoin test network using
135 the "addmultisigaddress" JSON-RPC api call.
137 Short multisignature address support is included in this
138 release, as specified in BIP 13 and BIP 16.