During the rushed transition from 0.01 BTC to 0.0005 BTC fees, we took the
approach of dropping the relay and block-inclusion fee to 0.0005 BTC
immediately, and only delayed adjusting the sending fee for the next release.
Afterward, the relay fee was lowered to 0.0001 BTC to avoid having the same
problem in the future. However, the block inclusion code was left setting
fForRelay to true! This fixes that, so the lower 0.0001 BTC allowance is (as
intended) only permitted for real relaying.
- In a previous patch, show() was added to all the page switcher functions. As the contructor calls showOverviewPage(), this means the window is shown in the constructor.
- This change prevents this by connecting show() to the signal instead.
Remembering all time samples makes nTimeOffset slow to respond to
system clock corrections. For instance, I start my node with a system
clock that's 30 minutes slow and run it for a few days. During that
time, I accumulate 10,000 offset samples with a median of 1800
seconds. Now I correct my system clock. Without this change, my node
must collect another 10,000 samples before nTimeOffset is correct
again. With this change, I must only accumulate 100 samples to
correct the offset.
Storing unlimited time samples also allows an attacker with many IP
addresses (ex, a large botnet) to perform a memory exhaustion attack
against Bitcoin nodes. The attacker sends a version message from each
IP to his target, consuming more of the target's memory each time.
Time samples are small, so this attack might be impractical under the
old code, but it's impossible with the new code.
The full list of time samples is rarely useful outside of debugging.
The node's time offset, however is useful for discovering local clock
drift, so it's displayed in all logging modes.
SecureString is identical to std::string except with secure_allocator
substituting for std::allocator. This makes casting between them
impossible, so converting between the two at API boundaries requires
calling ::c_str() for now.
This leads to the bitcoin core being shut down while the UI is accessing it, and generally results in a segmentation fault or crash. In case it is desirable to make it possible to shutdown the GUI from its RPC server, we'll need to implement a signal for it. For the mean time, this is a safe stopgap.
This RPC is exactly identical to getblockcount. This duplication
dates back to commit 22f721dbf2 when
Satoshi created the RPC interface.
There's no need to have both, so we standardize on "count" which
matches the naming convention in getconnectioncount.
Following the tradition established with previously deprecated APIs,
getblocknumber continues to work, but it's not listed in the help
system.
- use wildcard for TRANSLATIONS in bitcoin-qt.pro to automatically build all translations present in src/qt/locale (thanks @tcatm)
- first load translations/<language>.qm, then translations/<language>_<TERRITORY>.qm, so that territory-specific translations take precedence, but the fallback is on the base language if no territory-specific translation exists.
- use wildcard for TRANSLATIONS in bitcoin-qt.pro to automatically build all translations present in src/qt/locale (thanks @tcatm)
- rename language files to the usual <lang>_<TERRITORY>
- include recently added language files for es_ES and nb_NO
More Qt GUI updates
- Make USE_SSL qmake build flag actually work
- Improve mac experience, general UI improvements
- Add keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs
Rename App Bundle "Bitcoin-Qt.app" instead of "Bitcoin Qt" for
consistency with Windows/Linux.
Update create_osx_dmg.sh script to use macdeployqt tool.
Add ifdef STATIC to makefile.osx to build bitcoind static or dynamic.
Now it can't be told if this is was a Windows App before. All Mac design principles are fulfilled and some cosmetics have been applied to suit the native look and feel. The biggest change there is the proper use of the Dock icon which takes the role of the Tray icon on Mac.
The QDoubleSpinBox improves entering of Bitcoin amounts, no two separate fields are required anymore. All functionality and validation effects have been retained; pressing the comma key will be internally translated to a period to keep it consistent throughout the application and eases entering in countries which use the comma as decimal separator.
Additionally, Notificator now supports Growl, Mac's native notification system. This is provided via Apple Script in order to avoid linking to Growl on compile time. Other changes involve encapsulation of Toolbar and Menubar creation, loading of Qt's own translation and some clean up.
