Merge pull request #2297 from sipa/notes

Some improvements to the release notes
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Jeff Garzik 2013-02-10 21:01:47 -08:00
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Incompatible Changes
This release no longer maintains a full index of historical transaction ids
by default, so looking up an arbitrary transaction using the getrawtransaction
RPC call will not work. If you need that functionality, you must run once
with -txindex=1 -reindex=1 to rebuild block-chain indices (see below for more
with -txindex -reindex to rebuild block-chain indices (see below for more
details).
Improvements
@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ par : controls how many threads to use to validate transactions. Defaults to the
of CPUs on your machine, use -par=1 to limit to a single CPU.
txindex : maintains an extra index of old, spent transaction ids so they will be found
by the getrawtransaction JSON-RPC method.
by the getrawtransaction JSON-RPC method. Can only be set when the database is
initialized.
reindex : rebuild block and transaction indices from the downloaded block data.
@ -72,6 +73,11 @@ addnode / getaddednodeinfo methods, to connect to specific peers without restart
importprivkey now takes an optional boolean parameter (default true) to control whether
or not to rescan the blockchain for transactions after importing a new private key.
gettxout retrieves a single transaction output from the current set of unspent outputs.
Optionally, the mempool transactions are taken into account.
gettxoutsetinfo calculates statistics about the current set of unspent outputs.
Important Bug Fixes
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