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Bitcoin-Qt 0.5.4

Bitcoin version 0.5.4 is now available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.4/

NOTE: 0.5.4rc3 is being renamed to 0.5.4 final with no changes.

This is a bugfix-only release in the 0.5.x series, plus a few protocol updates.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues

Stable source code is hosted at Gitorious: http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.5.4#.tar.gz

PROTOCOL UPDATES

  • BIP 16: Special-case "pay to script hash" logic to enable minimal validation of new transactions.
  • Support for validating message signatures produced with compressed public keys.

BUG FIXES

  • Build with thread-safe MingW libraries for Windows, fixing a dangerous memory corruption scenario when exceptions are thrown.
  • Fix broken testnet mining.
  • Stop excess inventory relay during initial block download.
  • When disconnecting a node, clear the received buffer so that we do not process any already received messages.
  • Yet another attempt at implementing "minimize to tray" that works on all operating systems.
  • Fix Bitcoin-Qt notifications under Growl 1.3.
  • Increase required age of Bitcoin-Qt's "not up to date" status from 30 to 90 minutes.
  • Implemented missing verifications that led to crash on entering some wrong passphrases for encrypted wallets.
  • Fix default filename suffixes in GNOME save dialog.
  • Make the "Send coins" tab use the configured unit type, even on the first attempt.
  • Print detailed wallet loading errors to debug.log when it is corrupt.
  • Allocate exactly the amount of space needed for signing transactions, instead of a fixed 10k buffer.
  • Workaround for improbable memory access violation.
  • Check wallet's minimum version before trying to load it.
  • Remove wxBitcoin properly when installing Bitcoin-Qt over it. (Windows)
  • Detail reorganization information better in debug log.
  • Use a messagebox to display the error when -server is provided without configuring a RPC password.
  • Testing suite build now honours provided CXXFLAGS.
  • Removed an extraneous line-break in mature transaction tooltips.
  • Fix some grammatical errors in translation process documentation.