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We’re pleased to announce the release of Bitcoin Core 0.17, a major new version containing many new features as well as bug fixes and other improvements.

CVE-2018-17144 Full Disclosure

A full disclosure of the impact of CVE-2018-17144, a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.3 and 0.17.0RC4.

Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 Released

Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 is now available with a fix for a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting earlier versions of Bitcoin Core.

Bitcoin Core 0.16.2 Released

Bitcoin Core 0.16.2 is now available with new bug fixes and minor updates.

Bitcoin Core 0.16.1 Released

Bitcoin Core 0.16.1 has been released with the latest bug fixes and minor updates

Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 Released

Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 has been released with default wallet support for segwit.

2017

Bitcoin Core 0.15.1 Released

The latest stable version of Bitcoin Core is now available.

Bitcoin Core 0.15.0.1 Released

Bitcoin Core 0.15.0.1 has been released with a fix for a minor bug causing crashes when upgrading to 0.15.0.

Bitcoin Core 0.15.0 Released

The latest stable version of Bitcoin Core is now available.

Correcting misinformation on Segwit2x and btc1

Bitcoin Core 0.14.2 Released

Bitcoin Core 0.14.2 has been released with a security fix for users who manually enable the UPnP option.

Bitcoin Core 0.14.1 Released

The latest stable version of Bitcoin Core is now available.

Technology roadmap - Prioritized block download with using full block SPV mode

Prioritized block download with using full block SPV mode

Technology roadmap - Schnorr signatures and signature aggregation

Status and explanation of Schnorr signatures and signature aggregation

On-chain scaling - a review of historical performance optimization made to Bitcoin’s reference software. Part 1

Development milestones that helped preserve a reliable experience for users of the Bitcoin software client over the years.

Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 Released with Performance Improvements

Multiple significant performance improvements for miners and new full nodes are available in the latest Bitcoin Core release.

Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 Released

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Bitcoin Core 0.13.2.

2016

Segregated Witness Costs and Risks

A summary of some of the costs and expected risks of deploying segregated witness.

Bitcoin Core 0.13.1 Released with Segregated Witness

The first release of Bitcoin Core that supports activation of segregated witness is now available.

Segregated Witness Upgrade Guide

Almost two years of iterative design, development, and testing has gone into the version of segwit being released in Bitcoin Core 0.13.1, with much of the ef...

Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 Released!

We’re pleased to announce the official release of Bitcoin Core 0.13.0.

Segregated witness: the next steps

Segregated witness (segwit) is approaching release. This post provides some background information, details about how segwit was tested, information about h...

CSV 軟分叉 - 礦工升級重要指引

比特幣的共識規則現正有一項軟分叉進行中，雖然一切看起來均運作正常，礦工和礦池負責人絕對不能忽視以下的重要資訊和工作清單。

Version bits FAQ for miners

The “version bits” BIP9 system is a way to introduce backward compatible rule changes to the Bitcoin consensus rules, known as a soft fork.

Compact Blocks FAQ

Compact block relay, BIP152, is a method of reducing the amount of bandwidth used to propagate new blocks to full nodes.

Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 Released!

We are pleased to announce the release of Bitcoin Core 0.12.1. This maintenance update includes the first soft fork deployment utilising version bits

New Repository Maintainer Appointed

Hereby I’m announcing Marco Falke as the new Testing & QA maintainer for Bitcoin Core.

Keep updated!

In an effort to increase communications, we are now providing opt-in, announcement-only information for users of Bitcoin Core to receive notifications of sec...

The first successful Zero-Knowledge Contingent Payment

Announcement for the first Zero-Knowledge Contingent Payment on the Bitcoin network.

Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 Released!

We’re very excited to announce the official release of Bitcoin Core v0.12.0. A lot of hard work has gone into this release and it may just be the biggest one...

有關Bitcoin Core溝通渠道的澄清

最初，bitcoin.org是用作放置比特幣白皮書，並成為比特幣軟件的主頁。後來，這網站提供了比特幣教育資訊，但這與現時的Bitcoin Core計劃並無關係。Bitcoin Core的正式網站是bitcoincore.org，而雖然其它網站仍會提供有關Bitcoin Core的資訊，他們的觀點並不代表Bitco...

Segregated Witness Benefits

This page summarises some of the benefits of segregated witness.

Launch of Segregated Witness Testnet

We are extremely pleased and excited to announce the release of the Segregated Witness Testnet

Core Development Visualisation for 2015

The following video shows commit activity in the Bitcoin Core repository during 2015.

Bitcoin Core 聲明 -- 2016-01-07

比特幣是「點對點電子貨幣，無需經過任何金融機構，就可以在網上由一人直接付款給另一人」。我們的理想，是把比特幣系統的靈活性擴充至可以有效處理極大規模的交易，而同時保障安全以及去中心化的核心性質，因為這是令比特幣獨一無二的要素。