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Author: ThomasV <thomasv@gitorious>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:58:31 +0200
release notes for 2.0
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+# Release 2.0
+
+ * New address derivation (BIP39 + BIP32 + BIP44).
+
+ * 8 bits of the seed phrase are used to store a version number. The
+ current version number (0x01) refers to the current wallet
+ structure (BIP44). The version number also serves as a checksum for
+ the seed, and it will prevent the import of seeds from incompatible
+ wallets.
+
+ * New serialization format for unsigned or partially signed
+ transactions, that includes the master public key and derivation
+ needed to sign inputs. This new format is compact enough to
+ send transactions to cold storage using QR codes
+
+ * Deterministic Multisig wallets using parallel BIP32 derivations and
+ P2SH addresses (2 of 2, 2 of 3).
+
+ * New plugins:
+ - Trezor: support for the Trezor hardware wallet by SatoshiLabs
+ - Cosigner Pool: shared memory pool for partially signed transactions
+
+ * BIP70: verification of signed payment requests
+ - Verification is pure python, using tlslite.
+ - In the GUI, payment requests are in the 'Invoices' tab.
+
+ * New 'Receive' tab:
+ - create and manage payment requests, with QR Codes
+ - the former Receive tab was renamed to 'Addresses'
+ - the former Point of Sale plugin is replaced by a resizeable
+ window that pops up if you click on the QR code
+
+ * The 'Send' tab in the Qt GUI supports transactions with multiple
+ outputs, and with OP_RETURN "message"
+
+ * The GUI can use the daemon: "electrum -d". The daemon can serve
+ several clients. It times out if no client uses if for more than 5
+ minutes.
+
+ * Wallet files are saved as JSON instead of Python.
+
+ * Documentation is now hosted on a wiki: http://electrum.orain.org
+
+
+
# Release 1.9.8
-(This release includes features initially planned for version 2.0)
* Electrum servers were upgraded to version 0.9. The new server stores
a Patrica tree of all UTXOs, an idea proposed by Alan Reiner in the
