tMerge branch 'master' of gitorious.org:electrum/electrum - electrum - Electrum Bitcoin wallet
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HTML Author: ThomasV <thomasv@gitorious>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:03:32 +0100
Merge branch 'master' of gitorious.org:electrum/electrum
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1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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DIR diff --git a/client/RELEASE-NOTES b/client/RELEASE-NOTES
t@@ -1,28 +1,31 @@
-Version 0.34
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-The key derivation was changed again in version 0.34, in order to
-offer "type 2 wallet" capabilities. If you use an older wallet, you
-will need to create a new wallet and move your coins. The procedure is
-described below (version 0.31).
+This page lists versions of Electrum that are incompatible with the
+previous version. These incompatibilities are caused by a change in
+the key derivation algorithm.
+Wallets created before the change are incompatible with the new
+version, and that users need to move their bitcoins. We apologize for
+the inconvenience. We try to keep this kind of upgrades as rare as
+possible.
-Version 0.31
-------------
-version 0.31 fixes a vulnerability in the key generation function.
-Unfortunately, this means that wallets created prior to 0.31 are
-incompatible with newer versions. We apologize for the
-inconvenience. We try to keep this kind of upgrades as rare as
-possible.
+LIST OF UPGRADES:
+-----------------
+
+Version 0.34: The key derivation was changed again in version 0.34, in order to offer "type 2 wallet" capabilities.
+Version 0.31: This version fixes a vulnerability in the key generation function.
+
-If you use an older wallet, you will see a message asking you to
+HOW TO UPGRADE:
+---------------
+
+If your wallet is deprecated, you will see a message asking you to
create a new wallet and to move your balance to the new wallet.
Here are the steps that you need to follow:
-* create a new wallet: electrum.py -w my_new_wallet.dat
+* create a new wallet with the new version of Electrum: /path/to/new/electrum.py -w my_new_wallet.dat
* copy a receiving address from the new wallet
-* open your old wallet:
+* open your old wallet with the old version of Electrum: /path/to/old/electrum.py -w my_old_wallet
* move your entire balance to the new address.
Note that you may keep your current seed. For this, all you need to do
t@@ -30,3 +33,6 @@ is to create the new wallet using the wallet recovery procedure. You
will not recover your old wallet with the new software, but you will
get a new wallet instead.
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