Bitcoin version 0.5.0 is now available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.0/ The major change for this release is a completely new graphicalinterface that uses the Qt user interface toolkit. This release include German, Spanish, Spanish-Castilian, Norwegianand Dutch translations. More translations are welcome; join theproject at Transifex if you can help: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/ Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues If you cannot or do not want to run Bitcoin-Qt, a bug-fix-only Bitcoin version 0.4.1 is also available at sourceforge. MAJOR BUG FIX (CVE-2011-4447)------------------------------ The wallet encryption feature introduced in Bitcoin version 0.4.0did not sufficiently secure the private keys. An attacker whomanaged to get a copy of your encrypted wallet.dat file might beable to recover some or all of the unencrypted keys and steal theassociated coins. If you have a previously encrypted wallet.dat, the first time yourun bitcoin-qt or bitcoind the wallet will be rewritten, Bitcoin willshut down, and you will be prompted to restart it to run with the new,properly encrypted file. If you had a previously encrypted wallet.dat that might have beencopied or stolen (for example, you backed it up to a publiclocation) you should send all of your bitcoins to yourselfusing a new bitcoin address and stop using any previouslygenerated addresses. Wallets encrypted with this version of Bitcoin are written properly. Technical note: the encrypted wallet's 'keypool' will be regenerated thefirst time you request a new bitcoin address; to be certain that thenew private keys are properly backed up you should: 1. Run Bitcoin and let it rewrite the wallet.dat file 2. Run it again, then ask it for a new bitcoin address. Bitcoin-Qt: Address Book, then New Address... bitcoind: run the 'walletpassphrase' RPC command to unlock the wallet, then run the 'getnewaddress' RPC command. 3. If your encrypted wallet.dat may have been copied or stolen, send all of your bitcoins to the new bitcoin address. 4. Shut down Bitcoin, then backup the wallet.dat file. IMPORTANT: be sure to request a new bitcoin address before backing up, so that the 'keypool' is regenerated and backed up. "Security in depth" is always a good idea, so choosing a securelocation for the backup and/or encrypting the backup beforeuploading it is recommended. And as in previous releases, if yourmachine is infected by malware there are several ways anattacker might steal your bitcoins. Thanks to Alan Reiner (aka etotheipi) for finding and reportingthis bug. MAJOR GUI CHANGES----------------- "Splash" graphics at startup that show address/wallet/blockchain loadingprogress. "Synchronizing with network" progress bar to show block-chain downloadprogress. Icons at the bottom of the window that show how well connected you areto the network, with tooltips to display details. Drag and drop support for bitcoin: URIs on web pages. Export transactions as a .csv file. Many other GUI improvements, large and small. RPC CHANGES----------- getmemorypool : new RPC command, provides everything needed to constructa block with a custom generation transaction and submit a solution listsinceblock : new RPC command, list transactions since given block signmessage/verifymessage : new RPC commands to sign a message withone of your private keys or verify that a message signed by the privatekey associated with a bitcoin address. GENERAL CHANGES--------------- Faster initial block download. =============================== Thanks to everybody who contributed code or helped test this release: Alan ReinerAlex BAlex WatersAng Iong ChunCelilChris HowieChris MooreDavid Joel SchwartzDavid PerryForrest VoightGavin AndresenJanne PulkkinenJeff GarzikJoelKatzKhalahanLuke DashjrMatt CoralloMisbakh-Soloviev Vadim ANils SchneiderPieter WuilleVictor LeschukWladimir J. van der Laancelil-kjcjdelisleflowerglobalcitizenkwaaakmarkp2k -- -- Gavin Andresen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ bitcoin-list mailing list bitcoin-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-list ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE