1 Bitcoin version 0.5.1 is now available for download at:
2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.1/
4 This is a bugfix-only release.
6 This release includes 13 translations, including 5 new translations:
7 Italian, Hungarian, Ukranian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Simplified Chinese.
8 More translations are welcome; join the project at Transifex if you can help:
9 https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/
11 Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
12 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
14 Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer
15 distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them
17 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.5.1 # .tar.gz
18 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.5.1 # .zip
20 For Ubuntu users, there is a new ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which
21 you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep
22 bitcoin up-to-date. Just type
23 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
24 in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.
29 Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally
30 disabled for the 0.5.0 release binaries).
32 The code that finds peers via "dns seeds" no longer stops bitcoin startup
33 if one of the dns seed machines is down.
35 Tooltips on the transaction list view were rendering incorrectly (as black boxes
36 or with a transparent background).
38 Prevent a denial-of-service attack involving flooding a bitcoin node with
41 The wallet passphrase dialog now warns you if the caps lock key was pressed.
43 Improved searching in addresses and labels in bitcoin-qt.