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Dash Core version v20.0.0

Release is now available from:

https://www.dash.org/downloads/#wallets

This is a new major version release, bringing new features, various bugfixes and other improvements.

This release is mandatory for all nodes.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:

https://github.com/dashpay/dash/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/Dash-Qt (on Mac) or dashd/dash-qt (on Linux). If you upgrade after DIP0003 activation and you were using version < 0.13 you will have to reindex (start with -reindex-chainstate or -reindex) to make sure your wallet has all the new data synced. Upgrading from version 0.13 should not require any additional actions.

Downgrade warning

Downgrade to a version < v19.2.0

Downgrading to a version older than v19.2.0 is not supported due to changes in the evodb database. If you need to use an older version, you must either reindex or re-sync the whole chain.

Notable changes

ChainLock-based random beacon

To improve long-living masternode quorum (LLMQ) selection, the v20 hard fork will enable a new random beacon using ChainLock signatures as described in DIP-0029. ChainLock signatures will be stored in the Coinbase transaction to be used as a source of randomness during quorum member calculations. This change increases the decentralization in the source of randomness and prevents masternodes or miners from being able to manipulate the LLMQ process.

Treasury expansion

Currently, 10% of block rewards are set aside for the Dash DAO treasury which funds development and other network efforts. Once the v20 hard fork goes into effect on mainnet, the treasury system allotment will increase to 20% of block rewards to align with the proposal approved in September. Miner and masternode rewards will change to 20% and 60% respectively upon activation of the change, previous reallocation periods are ignored.

Asset lock and unlock transactions

The asset lock process provides a mechanism for locking and unlocking Dash in a credit pool. This credit pool mirrors the available credit supply in Dash Platform. When a certain amount of Dash is locked, a proportional number of credits are issued to the identity specified by the transaction issuer. The identity then uses the credits to pay fees for operations done on Dash Platform. Masternode identities receive the fees and can convert them back to Dash by withdrawing them from Dash Platform.

Note: The asset lock feature is activated by the v20 hard fork while the asset unlock feature will be activated later by another hard fork.

Coinbase Transaction Changes

Once v20 activates, Coinbase transactions in all mined blocks must be of version 3.

Version 3 of the Coinbase transaction will include the following new fields:

  • bestCLSignature (BLSSignature) will hold the best Chainlock signature known at the moment
  • bestCLHeightDiff (uint32) is equal to the diff in heights from the mined block height
  • creditPoolBalance (int64) is equal to all the duffs locked in all previous blocks minus all the duffs unlocked in all previous blocks plus all the block subsidy paid to evonodes on Platform.

Although miners are forced to include a version 3 Coinbase transaction, the actual real-time best Chainlock signature isn't required as long as blocks contain a bestCLSignature equal to (or newer than) the previous block.

Note: Until the first bestCLSignature is included in a Coinbase transaction once v20 activates, null bestCLSignature and bestCLHeightDiff values are perfectly valid.

Testnet Breaking Changes

Enhanced hard fork

Full implementation of the DIP-0023 enhanced hard fork mechanism has been completed. This improved activation mechanism includes signaling from both masternodes and miners while also ensuring sufficient upgrade time is available to partners. This new system is enabled on testnet and devnets by the v20 activation and a newly introduced SPORK_24_TEST_EHF spork.

Fixed subsidy base after v20

Starting from v20 activation, the base block subsidy on testnet and devnets will no longer be calculated based on previous block difficulty. This change mimics mainnet behaviour. It also simplifies calculations for Platform which would not need to constantly get block's difficulty in order to calculate platform reward.

Sentinel deprecation

Sentinel functionality has been integrated directly into v20.0.0, so it will no longer be necessary for masternodes to run the standalone Sentinel application. During the superblock maturity window (1662 blocks), payee masternodes will try to create, sign and submit a superblock candidate. Several RPC commands have been updated to prevent conflicts between v20.0.0 and existing Sentinel installs. It is recommended to remove or disable Sentinel after updating masternodes to v20.0.0.

P2P and network changes

Removal of reject network messages from Dash Core (BIP61)

This feature has been disabled by default since Dash Core version 19.0.0. Nodes on the network can not generally be trusted to send valid ("reject") messages, so this should only ever be used when connected to a trusted node.

Since Dash Core version 20.0.0 there are extra changes:

The removal of BIP61 REJECT message support also has the following minor RPC and logging implications:

  • testmempoolaccept and sendrawtransaction no longer return the P2P REJECT code when a transaction is not accepted to the mempool. They still return the verbal reject reason.

  • Log messages that previously reported the REJECT code when a transaction was not accepted to the mempool now no longer report the REJECT code. The reason for rejection is still reported.

Transaction rebroadcast

The mempool now tracks whether transactions submitted via the wallet or RPCs have been successfully broadcast. Every 10-15 minutes, the node will try to announce unbroadcast transactions until a peer requests it via a getdata message or the transaction is removed from the mempool for other reasons. The node will not track the broadcast status of transactions submitted to the node using P2P relay. This version reduces the initial broadcast guarantees for wallet transactions submitted via P2P to a node running the wallet.

To improve wallet privacy, the frequency of wallet rebroadcast attempts is reduced from approximately once every 15 minutes to once every 1-3 hours. To maintain a similar level of guarantee for initial broadcast of wallet transactions, the mempool tracks these transactions as a part of the newly introduced unbroadcast set.

MNLISTDIFF P2P message

Starting with protocol version 70230, the following fields are added to the MNLISTDIFF message after newQuorums.

Field Type Size Description
quorumsCLSigsCount compactSize uint 1-9 Number of quorumsCLSigs elements
quorumsCLSigs quorumsCLSigsObject[] variable ChainLock signature used to calculate members per quorum indexes (in newQuorums)

The content of quorumsCLSigsObject:

Field Type Size Description
signature BLSSig 96 ChainLock signature
indexSetCount compactSize uint 1-9 Number of quorum indexes using the same signature for their member calculation
indexSet uint16_t[] variable Quorum indexes corresponding in newQuorums using signature for their member calculation

Note: The quorumsCLSigs field in both RPC and P2P will only be populated after the v20 activation.

Other

  • It is possible to run Dash Core as an I2P service and connect to such services. Please read docs for more information.
  • Removed support for Tor v2, LEGACYTXLOCKREQUEST ("ix") message and NODE_GETUTXO (bit 1) node service bit.

GUI

Add more granular CoinJoin options to let users control the number of CoinJoin sessions and also the min/max number of denominations for wallets to create while mixing.

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Changes

The new RPCs are:

  • addpeeraddress Add the address of a potential peer to the address manager. This RPC is for testing only.

  • The getindexinfo RPC returns the actively running indices of the node, including their current sync status and height. It also accepts an index_name to specify returning only the status of that index.

  • protx listdiff RPC returns a full deterministic masternode list diff between two heights.

The removed RPCs are:

  • gobject vote-conf is no longer available.

Changes in existing RPCs introduced through bitcoin backports:

  • The fundrawtransaction, sendmany, sendtoaddress, and walletcreatefundedpsbt RPC commands have been updated to include two new fee estimation methods, DASH/kB and duff/B. The target is the fee expressed explicitly in the given form. In addition, the estimate_mode parameter is now case insensitive for all of the above RPC commands.

  • Soft fork reporting in the getblockchaininfo return object has been updated. For full details, see the RPC help text. In summary:

    • The bip9_softforks sub-object is no longer returned
    • The softforks sub-object now returns an object keyed by soft fork name, rather than an array
    • Each softfork object in the softforks object contains a type value which is either buried (for soft fork deployments where the activation height is hard-coded into the client implementation), or bip9(for soft fork deployments where activation is controlled by BIP 9 signaling).

  • getblocktemplate no longer returns a rules array containing CSV (the BIP 9 deployments that are currently in active state).

  • The gettransaction RPC now accepts a third (boolean) argument, verbose. If set to true, a new decoded field will be added to the response containing the decoded transaction. This field is equivalent to RPC decoderawtransaction, or RPC getrawtransaction when verbose is passed.

  • testmempoolaccept and sendrawtransaction no longer return the P2P REJECT code when a transaction is not accepted to the mempool. See the Section Removal of reject network messages from Dash Core (BIP61) above for details on the removal of BIP61 REJECT message support.

  • A new descriptor type, sortedmulti(...), has been added to support multisig scripts where the public keys are sorted lexicographically in the resulting script.

  • The RPC gettransaction, listtransactions and listsinceblock responses now also includes the height of the block that contains the wallet transaction, if any.

  • RPC getaddressinfo changes:

    • the label field has been deprecated in favor of the labels field and will be removed in 0.21. It can be re-enabled in the interim by launching with -deprecatedrpc=label.
    • the labels behavior of returning an array of JSON objects containing name and purpose key/value pairs has been deprecated in favor of an array of label names and will be removed in 0.21. The previous behavior can be re-enabled in the interim by launching with -deprecatedrpc=labelspurpose.

  • Error codes have been updated to be more accurate for the following error cases:

    • signmessage now returns RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY (-5) if the passed address is invalid. Previously returned RPC_TYPE_ERROR (-3).
    • verifymessage now returns RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY (-5) if the passed address is invalid. Previously returned RPC_TYPE_ERROR (-3).
    • verifymessage now returns RPC_TYPE_ERROR (-3) if the passed signature is malformed. Previously returned RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY (-5).

  • The settxfee RPC will fail if the fee is set higher than the -maxtxfee command line setting. The wallet will already fail to create transactions with fees higher than -maxtxfee.

  • getmempoolinfo now returns an additional unbroadcastcount field. The mempool tracks locally submitted transactions until their initial broadcast is acknowledged by a peer. This field returns the count of transactions waiting for acknowledgement.

  • Mempool RPCs such as getmempoolentry and getrawmempool with verbose=true now return an additional unbroadcast field. This indicates whether initial broadcast of the transaction has been acknowledged by a peer. getmempoolancestors and getmempooldescendants are also updated.

  • logging and debug rpc support new logging categories validations and i2p

    • gettxoutsetinfo RPC has 2 new parameters and lots of new fields in results. Please check help gettxoutsetinfo for more information.

  • gettxchainlocks Returns the block height each transaction was mined at and whether it is chainlocked or not.

Dash-specific changes in existing RPCs:

  • getblockchaininfo RPC returns the field activation_height for each softfork in locked_in status indicating the expected activation height.

  • getblockchaininfo RPC returns the field ehf and ehf_height for each softfork. ehf_height indicates the minimum height when miner's signals can be accepted for the deployment with ehf set to true.

  • getgovernanceinfo RPC returns two new fields:

    • governancebudget (the governance budget for the next superblock)
    • fundingthreshold (the number of absolute yes votes required for a proposal to be passing)

  • gobject submit will no longer accept submission of triggers.

  • protx diff RPC returns a new field quorumsCLSigs. This field is a list containing: a ChainLock signature and the list of corresponding quorum indexes in newQuorums.

  • protx list: New type evo filters only HPMNs.

  • *_hpmn RPCs were renamed:

    • protx register_hpmn to protx register_evo
    • protx register_fund_hpmn to protx register_fund_evo
    • protx register_prepare_hpmn to protx register_prepare_evo
    • protx update_service_hpmn to protx update_service_evo

    Please note that *_hpmn RPCs are not fully removed; instead they are deprecated so you can still enable them by using the -deprecatedrpc=hpmn option.

  • masternode count returns the total number of evonodes under field evo instead of hpmn.

  • masternodelist: New mode evo filters only HPMNs.

  • Description type string HighPerformance is renamed to Evo: affects most RPCs return MNs details.

Please check help <command> for more detailed information on specific RPCs.

Command-line options

New cmd-line options:

  • -generate Generate blocks immediately, equivalent to RPC generatenewaddress followed by RPC generatetoaddress. Optional positional integer arguments are number of blocks to generate (default: 1) and maximum iterations to try (default: 1000000), equivalent to RPC generatetoaddress nblocks and maxtries arguments.

  • -netinfo Get network peer connection information from the remote server. An optional integer argument from 0 to 4 can be passed for different peers listings (default: 0). Pass help for detailed help documentation.

  • -coinstatsindex Maintain coinstats index used by the gettxoutset RPC (default: false)

  • -fastprune Use smaller block files and lower minimum prune height for testing purposes

  • -i2psam=ip:port I2P SAM proxy to reach I2P peers and accept I2P connections (default: none)

  • -i2pacceptincoming If set and -i2psam is also set then incoming I2P connections are accepted via the SAM proxy. If this is not set but -i2psam is set then only outgoing connections will be made to the I2P network. Ignored if -i2psam is not set. Listening for incoming I2P connections is done through the SAM proxy, not by binding to a local address and port (default: 1)

  • -llmqmnhf Override the default LLMQ type used for EHF. (default: llmq_devnet, devnet-only)

  • -llmqtestinstantsend Override the default LLMQ type used for InstantSend. Used mainly to test Platform. (default: llmq_test_instantsend, regtest-only)

  • -llmqtestinstantsenddip0024 Override the default LLMQ type used for InstantSendDIP0024. Used mainly to test Platform. (default: llmq_test_dip0024, regtest-only)

  • -mnemonicbits User defined mnemonic security for HD wallet in bits (BIP39). Only has effect during wallet creation/first start (allowed values: 128, 160, 192, 224, 256; default: 128)

  • -chainlocknotify=<cmd> Execute command when the best chainlock changes %s in cmd is replaced by chainlocked block hash.

Removed cmd-line options:

  • -dropmessagestest

  • -upgradewallet replaced by upgradewallet rpc

Changes in existing cmd-line options:

  • -fallbackfee was 0 (disabled) by default for the main chain, but 1000 by default for the test chains. Now it is 0 by default for all chains. Testnet and regtest users will have to add fallbackfee=1000 to their configuration if they weren't setting it and they want it to keep working like before.

  • The dash-cli -getinfo command now displays the wallet name and balance for each of the loaded wallets when more than one is loaded (e.g. in multiwallet mode) and a wallet is not specified with -rpcwallet.

  • A download permission has been extracted from the noban permission. For compatibility, noban implies the download permission, but this may change in future releases. Refer to the help of the affected settings -whitebind and -whitelist for more details.

  • -vbparams accepts useehf.

  • -instantsendnotify=<cmd> %w is replaced by wallet name.

Please check Help -> Command-line options in Qt wallet or dashd --help for more information.

JSON-RPC

All JSON-RPC methods accept a new named parameter called args that can contain positional parameter values. This is a convenience to allow some parameter values to be passed by name without having to name every value. The python test framework and dash-cli tool both take advantage of this, so for example:

dash-cli -named createwallet wallet_name=mywallet load_on_startup=1

Can now be shortened to:

dash-cli -named createwallet mywallet load_on_startup=1

Switch from Gitian to Guix

Starting from v20.0.0 deterministic builds are going to be produced using the Guix build system. See contrib/guix/README.md. The previously used Gitian build system is no longer supported and is not guaranteed to produce any meaningful results.

Backports from Bitcoin Core

This release introduces many updates from Bitcoin v0.20-v22.0 as well as numerous updates from Bitcoin v23.0 and v25.0. Bitcoin changes that do not align with Dash’s product needs, such as SegWit and RBF, are excluded from our backporting. For additional detail on what’s included in Bitcoin, please refer to their release notes.

v20.0.0 Change log

See detailed set of changes.

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

  • Ivan Shumkov (shumkov)
  • Kittywhiskers Van Gogh (kittywhiskers)
  • Konstantin Akimov (knst)
  • Munkybooty
  • Odysseas Gabrielides (ogabrielides)
  • PanderMusubi (Pander)
  • PastaPastaPasta
  • strophy
  • thephez
  • UdjinM6
  • Vijay Das Manikpuri (vijaydasmp)

As well as everyone that submitted issues, reviewed pull requests and helped debug the release candidates.

Older releases

Dash was previously known as Darkcoin.

Darkcoin tree 0.8.x was a fork of Litecoin tree 0.8, original name was XCoin which was first released on Jan/18/2014.

Darkcoin tree 0.9.x was the open source implementation of masternodes based on the 0.8.x tree and was first released on Mar/13/2014.

Darkcoin tree 0.10.x used to be the closed source implementation of Darksend which was released open source on Sep/25/2014.

Dash Core tree 0.11.x was a fork of Bitcoin Core tree 0.9, Darkcoin was rebranded to Dash.

Dash Core tree 0.12.0.x was a fork of Bitcoin Core tree 0.10.

Dash Core tree 0.12.1.x was a fork of Bitcoin Core tree 0.12.

These release are considered obsolete. Old release notes can be found here: