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(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to release-notes at release time)
Notable changes
Random-cookie RPC authentication
When no -rpcpassword is specified, the daemon now uses a special 'cookie'
file for authentication. This file is generated with random content when the
daemon starts, and deleted when it exits. Its contents are used as
authentication token. Read access to this file controls who can access through
RPC. By default it is stored in the data directory but its location can be
overridden with the option -rpccookiefile.
This is similar to Tor's CookieAuthentication: see https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
This allows running bitcoind without having to do any manual configuration.
Low-level RPC API changes
- Monetary amounts can be provided as strings. This means that for example the argument to sendtoaddress can be "0.0001" instead of 0.0001. This can be an advantage if a JSON library insists on using a lossy floating point type for numbers, which would be dangerous for monetary amounts.
Option parsing behavior
Command line options are now parsed strictly in the order in which they are
specified. It used to be the case that -X -noX ends up, unintuitively, with X
set, as -X had precedence over -noX. This is no longer the case. Like for
other software, the last specified value for an option will hold.
0.12.0 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.