neobytes/doc/release-notes.md
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Bitcoin Core version 0.12.2 is now available from:

https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.12.2/

This is a new minor version release, including ........, various bugfixes and updated translations.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues

Upgrading and downgrading

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).

Downgrade warning

Downgrade to a version < 0.12.0

Because release 0.12.0 and later will obfuscate the chainstate on every fresh sync or reindex, the chainstate is not backwards-compatible with pre-0.12 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software.

If you want to downgrade after you have done a reindex with 0.12.0 or later, you will need to reindex when you first start Bitcoin Core version 0.11 or earlier.

Notable changes

Example item

Example text.

0.12.1 Change log

Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and git merge commit are mentioned.

RPC and REST

Asm script outputs replacements for OP_NOP2 and OP_NOP3

OP_NOP2 has been renamed to OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY by BIP 65

OP_NOP3 has been renamed to OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY by BIP 112

The following outputs are affected by this change:

  • RPC getrawtransaction (in verbose mode)
  • RPC decoderawtransaction
  • RPC decodescript
  • REST /rest/tx/ (JSON format)
  • REST /rest/block/ (JSON format when including extended tx details)
  • bitcoin-tx -json

Configuration and command-line options

Block and transaction handling

P2P protocol and network code

Validation

Build system

Wallet

GUI

Tests and QA

Miscellaneous

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

As well as everyone that helped translating on Transifex.