Bitcoin Core 0.14.3
Bitcoin Core installation binaries can be downloaded from bitcoincore.org and the source-code is available from the Bitcoin Core source repository.
Bitcoin Core version 0.14.3 is now available from:
https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.14.3/
This is a new minor version release, including various bugfixes and performance improvements.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
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Compatibility
Bitcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.8+, and Windows Vista and later.
Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on April 8th, 2014, No attempt is made to prevent installing or running the software on Windows XP, you can still do so at your own risk but be aware that there are known instabilities and issues. Please do not report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker.
Bitcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not frequently tested on them.
Notable changes
Denial-of-Service vulnerability CVE-2018-17144 ——————————-
A denial-of-service vulnerability exploitable by miners has been discovered in Bitcoin Core versions 0.14.0 up to 0.16.2. It is recommended to upgrade any of the vulnerable versions to 0.14.3, 0.15.2 or 0.16.3 as soon as possible.
Known Bugs
Since 0.14.0 the approximate transaction fee shown in Bitcoin-Qt when using coin control and smart fee estimation does not reflect any change in target from the smart fee slider. It will only present an approximate fee calculated using the default target. The fee calculated using the correct target is still applied to the transaction and shown in the final send confirmation dialog.
0.14.3 Change log
Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and git merge commit are mentioned.
Consensus
RPC and other APIs
- #10445
87a21d5
Fix: make CCoinsViewDbCursor::Seek work for missing keys (Pieter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell) - #9853 Return correct error codes in setban(), fundrawtransaction(), removeprunedfunds(), bumpfee(), blockchain.cpp (John Newbery)
P2P protocol and network code
Build system
Miscellaneous
- #10451
3612219
contrib/init/bitcoind.openrcconf: Don’t disable wallet by default (Luke Dashjr) - #10250
e23cef0
Fix some empty vector references (Pieter Wuille) - #10196
d28d583
PrioritiseTransaction updates the mempool tx counter (Suhas Daftuar) - #9497
e207342
Fix CCheckQueue IsIdle (potential) race condition and remove dangerous constructors. (Jeremy Rubin)
GUI
- #9481
7abe7bb
Give fallback fee a reasonable indent (Luke Dashjr) - #9481
3e4d7bf
Qt/Send: Figure a decent warning colour from theme (Luke Dashjr) - #9481
e207342
Show more significant warning if we fall back to the default fee (Jonas Schnelli)
Wallet
- #10308
28b8b8b
Securely erase potentially sensitive keys/values (tjps) - #10265
ff13f59
Make sure pindex is non-null before possibly referencing in LogPrintf call. (Karl-Johan Alm)
Credits
Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
- Cory Fields
- CryptAxe
- fanquake
- Jeremy Rubin
- John Newbery
- Jonas Schnelli
- Gregory Maxwell
- Karl-Johan Alm
- Luke Dashjr
- MarcoFalke
- Matt Corallo
- Mikerah
- Pieter Wuille
- practicalswift
- Suhas Daftuar
- Thomas Snider
- Tjps
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
And to those that reported security issues:
- awemany (for CVE-2018-17144, previously credited as “anonymous reporter”)