trelease notes for 2.9 - electrum - Electrum Bitcoin wallet
HTML git clone https://git.parazyd.org/electrum
DIR Log
DIR Files
DIR Refs
DIR Submodules
---
DIR commit ba3586dc3002050518de7e7e1344b72b2f39143f
DIR parent 451383ab7bd849508cfaf042192f4ef45d6752a0
HTML Author: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:42:45 +0200
release notes for 2.9
Diffstat:
M RELEASE-NOTES | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
---
DIR diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
t@@ -1,9 +1,30 @@
-# Release 2.9 - Independence
- * Blockchain fork detection and management:
- - The SPV module will download and verify block headers from
- multiple branches
- - Branching points are located using binary search
- - The desired branch of a fork can be selected using the network dialog
+# Release 2.9 - Independence (July 27th, 2017)
+ * Multiple Chain Validation: Electrum will download and validate
+ block headers sent by servers that may follow different branches
+ of a fork in the Bitcoin blockchain. Instead of a linear sequence,
+ block headers are organized in a tree structure. Branching points
+ are located efficiently using binary search. The purpose of MCV is
+ to detect and handle blockchain forks that are invisible to the
+ classical SPV model.
+ * The desired branch of a blockchain fork can be selected using the
+ network dialog. Branches are identified by the hash and height of
+ the diverging block. Coin splitting is possible using RBF
+ transaction (a tutorial will be added).
+ * Multibit support: If the user enters a BIP39 seed (or uses a
+ hardware wallet), the full derivation path is configurable in the
+ install wizard.
+ * Option to send only confirmed coins
+ * Qt GUI:
+ - Network dialog uses tabs and gets updated by network events.
+ - The gui tabs use icons
+ * Kivy GUI:
+ - separation between network dialog and wallet settings dialog.
+ - option for manual server entry
+ - proxy configuration
+ * Daemon: The wallet password can be passed as parameter to the
+ JSONRPC API.
+ * Various other bugfixes and improvements.
+
# Release 2.8.3
* Fix crash on reading older wallet formats.