tupdate release notes - electrum - Electrum Bitcoin wallet HTML git clone https://git.parazyd.org/electrum DIR Log DIR Files DIR Refs DIR Submodules --- DIR commit e01fadeb4eb82cbdfe5fd8609940ace0c598861f DIR parent d4b1c6616885aa69eea8716e02845e15e629d1d5 HTML Author: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:00:02 +0100 update release notes Diffstat: M RELEASE-NOTES | 34 +++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) --- DIR diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES t@@ -1,27 +1,31 @@ -# Release 3.0 - Uncanny Valley (not released yet) +# Release 3.0 - Uncanny Valley (November 1st, 2017) - * The project was migrated to Python3. Python2 is no longer - supported. If you cloned the source directory, you will need to + * The project was migrated to Python3 and Qt5. Python2 is no longer + supported. If you cloned the source repository, you will need to run "python3 setup.py install" in order to install the new dependencies. - * Segwit support: - - P2SH-segwit scripts are supported and can be used with hardware - wallets. To create a segwit wallet, trezor/ledger users will - need to provide a BIP49 derivation path. - - Native segwit scripts are supported with Electrum software - wallets, using a new type of seed. Segwit seeds have version - 0x100. Note that the wizard will not create Segwit seeds by - default; users must opt-in with the segwit option. + * Segwit support: + + - Native segwit scripts are supported using a new type of + seed. The version number for segwit seeds is 0x100. The install + wizard will not create segwit seeds by default; users must + opt-in with the segwit option. + - Native segwit scripts are represented using bech32 addresses, following BIP173. Please note that BIP173 is still in draft status, and that other wallets/websites may not support it. Thus, you should keep a non-segwit wallet in order to be able to receive bitcoins during the transition period. If BIP173 - ends up being rejected or substantially modified, bech32 wallets + ends up being rejected or substantially modified, your wallet may have to be restored from seed. This will not affect funds sent to bech32 addresses, and it will not affect the capacity of Electrum to spend these funds. + + - Segwit scripts embedded in p2sh are supported with hardware + wallets or bip39 seeds. To create a segwit-in-p2sh wallet, + trezor/ledger users will need to enter a BIP49 derivation path. + - The BIP32 master keys of segwit wallets are serialized using new version numbers. Version numbers are user visible, with the following prefixes: t@@ -33,7 +37,11 @@ * A new version of the Electrum protocol is required by the client (version 1.1). Servers using older versions of the protocol will - not be visible in the GUI. + not be displayed in the GUI. + + * By default, transactions are time-locked to the height of the next + block. Other values of locktime can be passed using the command + line. # Release 2.9.3