Bitcoin Core 0.9.4
Bitcoin Core version 0.9.4 is now available from:
https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.4/
This is a new minor version release, bringing only bug fixes and updated translations. Upgrading to this release is recommended.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
How to Upgrade
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
OpenSSL Warning
OpenSSL 1.0.0p / 1.0.1k was recently released and is being pushed out by various operating system maintainers. Review by Gregory Maxwell determined that this update is incompatible with the Bitcoin system and could lead to consensus forks.
Bitcoin Core released binaries from https://bitcoin.org are unaffected, as are any built with the gitian deterministic build system.
However, if you are running either
- The Ubuntu PPA from https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin
- A third-party or self-compiled Bitcoin Core
upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.9.4, which includes a workaround, before updating OpenSSL.
The incompatibility is due to the OpenSSL update changing the behavior of ECDSA validation to reject any signature which is not encoded in a very rigid manner. This was a result of OpenSSL's change for CVE-2014-8275 "Certificate fingerprints can be modified".
We are specifically aware of potential hard-forks due to signature encoding handling and had been hoping to close them via BIP62 in 0.10. BIP62's purpose is to improve transaction malleability handling and as a side effect rigidly defines the encoding for signatures, but the overall scope of BIP62 has made it take longer than we'd like to deploy.
0.9.4 changelog
Validation
b8e81b7
consensus: guard against openssl's new strict DER checks60c51f1
fail immediately on an empty signature037bfef
Improve robustness of DER recoding code
Command-line options
cd5164a
Make -proxy set all network types, avoiding a connect leak.
P2P
bb424e4
Limit the number of new addressses to accumulate
RPC
0a94661
Disable SSLv3 (in favor of TLS) for the RPC client and server.
Build system
f047dfa
gitian: openssl-1.0.1i.tar.gz -> openssl-1.0.1k.tar.gz5b9f78d
build: Fix OSX build when using Homebrew and qt5ffab1dd
Keep symlinks when copying into .app bundle613247f
osx: fix signing to make Gatekeeper happy (again)
Miscellaneous
25b49b5
Refactor -alertnotify code2743529
doc: Add instructions for consistent Mac OS X build names
Credits
Thanks to who contributed to this release, at least:
- Cory Fields
- Gavin Andresen
- Gregory Maxwell
- Jeff Garzik
- Luke Dashjr
- Matt Corallo
- Pieter Wuille
- Saivann
- Sergio Demian Lerner
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
As well as everyone that helped translating on Transifex.