1 Bitcoin version 0.7.2 is now available from:
2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.2
4 This is a bug-fix minor release.
6 Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
7 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
12 If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
13 until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
14 versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
15 /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
17 If you were running on Linux with a version that might have been compiled
18 with a different version of Berkeley DB (for example, if you were using an
19 Ubuntu PPA version), then run the old version again with the -detachdb
20 argument and shut it down; if you do not, then the new version will not
21 be able to read the database files and will exit with an error.
23 Explanation of -detachdb (and the new "stop true" RPC command):
24 The Berkeley DB database library stores data in both ".dat" and
25 "log" files, so the database is always in a consistent state,
26 even in case of power failure or other sudden shutdown. The
27 format of the ".dat" files is portable between different
28 versions of Berkeley DB, but the "log" files are not-- even minor
29 version differences may have incompatible "log" files. The
30 -detachdb option moves any pending changes from the "log" files
31 to the "blkindex.dat" file for maximum compatibility, but makes
32 shutdown much slower. Note that the "wallet.dat" file is always
33 detached, and versions prior to 0.6.0 detached all databases
39 * Prevent RPC 'move' from deadlocking. This was caused by trying to lock the
42 * Fix use-after-free problems in initialization and shutdown, the latter of
43 which caused Bitcoin-Qt to crash on Windows when exiting.
45 * Correct library linking so building on Windows natively works.
47 * Avoid a race condition and out-of-bounds read in block creation/mining code.
49 * Improve platform compatibility quirks, including fix for 100% CPU utilization
52 * A few minor corrections to error handling, and updated translations.
54 * OSX 10.5 supported again
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57 Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
67 Wladimir J. van der Laan