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1 # Release v0.2.1.1 (9th June 2020) 2 3 Bugfix release. Thanks to everyone who reported the bug and jmacxx who wrote 4 the pull request to fix it. And thanks to everyone who contributed in general 5 to electrum personal server. 6 7 * Fixed bug where the server would crash in certain conditions. Instead the 8 server should have caught the error and continued. 9 10 # Release v0.2.1 (4th June 2020) 11 12 New release, thanks to contributions by DriftwoodPalace, m-schmoock and wiredcheetah 13 And thanks to everyone else who contributed via discussion and donations 14 15 * Massive speedup to startup time and initial import of addresses. This is done 16 using the descriptor wallets feature of Bitcoin Core 0.20. The speedup is 17 very helpful when running Electrum Personal Server on low powered devices 18 such as the raspberry pi 19 * Close the connection to client if it requests an unknown address or if the 20 connection to the Bitcoin node is lost. The user will see a red dot in 21 Electrum indicating that something is wrong which should prompt them to fix. 22 * Increase default polling interval to make the server more responsive to new 23 transactions and confirmations 24 * Reduce spam in the debug log and info log 25 * Various other tweaks and bug fixes 26 27 # Release v0.2.0 (5th December 2019) 28 29 New release, thanks to code contributions by suvayu, andrewtoth and Sosthene00 30 And thanks to everyone else who contributed via discussion and donations 31 32 * Implemented tor broadcasting of transactions, which happens by default if tor 33 is running on the same machine. 34 * Also check that the last address of each master public key has been imported, 35 along with the first three. 36 * Add bandwidth usage per day and blockchain size to the server banner 37 * Support using `vsize` instead of `size` for the mempool calculation, which is 38 the correct behaviour for Bitcoin Core 0.19 39 * Allow rescan date to also be passed via CLI args. Wait for any rescanning to 40 finish on startup. This allows Electrum Personal Server to be more easily 41 used with scripting. 42 * Various other bugfixes 43 44 # Release v0.1.7 (26th April 2019) 45 46 New release, thanks to code contributions by suvayu and andrewtoth 47 And thanks to everyone else who contributed via discussion and donations 48 49 * If pruning is enabled and block is not available then send dummy merkle 50 proof, which Electrum will accept if run with the command line 51 flag --skipmerklecheck 52 * Added option to allow broadcasting unconfirmed transactions via any 53 system call, for example it could be a shell script which broadcasts 54 via SMS or radio. 55 * Added option which allows disabling the mempool histogram feature 56 which is useful on low-powered devices when the mempool is large. 57 * Deprecated electrum-personal-server-rescan script in favour of 58 electrum-personal-server --rescan 59 * Releases will now also be packaged as windows binaries using pyinstaller. 60 * No longer adds orphaned coinbase txes as unconfirmed. 61 * Fix bug involving transactions with unconfirmed inputs. 62 * Various other bugfixes 63 64 # Release v0.1.6 - (15th November 2018) 65 66 New release, thanks to code contributions by suvayu and andrewtoth 67 And thanks to everyone else who contributed to issues and discussion 68 69 * Made installable with pip, thanks to suvayu 70 * Fix bug where coinbase transactions would be ignored, thanks to andrewtoth 71 * Support Electrum protocol version 1.4 72 * Support blockchain.transaction.id_from_pos which is necessary for 73 Lightning support in Electrum 74 * Increase default initial_import_count to 1000 75 * Added or clarified various error and info messages 76 * Disabled transaction broadcasting when blocksonly is enabled for privacy 77 * Fixed various small bugs 78 79 80 # Release v0.1.5 - (7th September 2018) 81 82 Bugfix release 83 84 * Fixed crash bug caused by behavour of getaddressesbylabel 85 86 87 # Release v0.1.4 - (5th September 2018) 88 89 * Used 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost to help improve windows support 90 * Fixed crash bug if the client requests an out-of-range header 91 * Supported Bitcoin Core 0.17 which deprecates accounts 92 93 94 # Release v0.1.3 - (4th July 2018) 95 96 Bugfix release, mainly to correctly support Electrum 3.2 97 98 * Added support for raw block headers 99 * Implemented protocol method `blockchain.block.headers` 100 * Make the address status of a empty address be None 101 * Fixed bug involving rare situation where the result of the listtransactions 102 RPC call did not have an `address` field 103 104 105 # Release v0.1.2 - (30th June 2018) 106 107 * Added support for mempool histogram feature 108 * Handles conflicted transactions, for when a chain reorg happens 109 * Added IP address whitelisting feature 110 * Bugfix when Electrum requests block headers out of range 111 * Bugfix when listtransactions has more than 1000 entries 112 * Added many more tests, which now use py.test 113 * Added regtest support 114 115 116 # Release v0.1.1 - (1st April 2018) 117 118 Bugfix release, thanks to 119 120 * Added option to manually configure rpc_user and rpc_password, instead of using 121 the .cookie file. 122 * Made json-rpc error messages have more detail. 123 * Added method for user to configure Electrum Personal Server's current working 124 directory, which is useful for running it from systemd or another automated 125 tool. 126 * Updated readme file to add information that tripped people up. 127 * Now handles conflicted transactions. 128 129 130 # Beta release v0.1 - (29th Mar 2018) 131 132 Released first beta version. 133 134 * Merkle proofs supported using bitcoind's `gettxoutproof` RPC call. 135 * Deterministic wallets implemented which support all Electrum master public 136 key formats. 137 * Created rescan script which allows rescanning from a given block height 138 instead of scanning the entire blockchain. Also allows the user to input a 139 dd/mm/yyyy timestamp, which is converted to a block height (with 2 weeks 140 safety) to rescan from there. 141 * Automated tests created for merkle proofs, deterministic wallets and 142 monitoring of transactions. 143 * SSL server socket is used and a default SSL certificate is included in the 144 repository, which users can replace with their own. 145 * No longer depends on pybitcointools' transaction code. That package is only 146 used for bip32 support for deterministic wallets. Bech32 addresses now 147 supported. 148 * RPC auth details can be obtained from the .cookie file. 149 * Bitcoin Core's multi-wallet feature supported. 150 151 152 # Alpha release - (8th Feb 2018) 153 154 Released first alpha version which builds address history from bitcoin'd 155 wallet, monitors addresses for new transactions and accepts connections from 156 Electrum wallet. 157