Prepare for release 0.10.0-beta.

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@@ -3,6 +3,161 @@ User visible changes for btcd
   A full-node bitcoin implementation written in Go
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+Changes in 0.10.0 (Sun Mar 01 2015)
+  - Protocol and network related changes:
+    - Add a new checkpoint at block height 343185
+    - Implement BIP066 which includes support for version 3 blocks, a new
+      consensus rule which prevents non-DER encoded signatures, and a
+      double-threshold switchover mechanism
+    - Rather than announcing all known addresses on getaddr requests which
+      can possibly result in multiple messages, randomize the results and
+      limit them to the max allowed by a single message (1000 addresses)
+    - Add more reserved IP spaces to the address manager
+  - Transaction relay (memory pool) changes:
+    - Make transactions which contain reserved opcodes nonstandard
+    - No longer accept or relay free and low-fee transactions that have
+      insufficient priority to be mined in the next block
+    - Implement support for the following rules specified by BIP0062:
+      - ECDSA signature must use strict DER encoding (rule 1)
+      - The signature script must only contain push operations (rule 2)
+      - All push operations must use the smallest possible encoding (rule 3)
+      - All stack values interpreted as a number must be encoding using the
+        shortest possible form (rule 4)
+      - NOTE: Rule 1 was already enforced, however the entire script now
+        evaluates to false rather than only the signature verification as
+        required by BIP0062
+    - Allow transactions with nulldata transaction outputs to be treated as
+      standard
+  - Mining support changes:
+    - Modify the getblocktemplate RPC to generate and return block templates
+      for version 3 blocks which are compatible with BIP0066
+    - Allow getblocktemplate to serve blocks when the current time is
+      less than the minimum allowed time for a generated block template
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/209)
+  - Crypto changes:
+    - Optimize scalar multiplication by the base point by using a
+      pre-computed table which results in approximately a 35% speedup
+     (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcec/issues/2)
+    - Optimize general scalar multiplication by using the secp256k1
+      endomorphism which results in approximately a 17-20% speedup
+     (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcec/issues/1)
+    - Optimize general scalar multiplication by using non-adjacent form
+      which results in approximately an additional 8% speedup
+     (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcec/issues/3)
+  - Implement optional address indexing:
+    - Add a new parameter --addrindex which will enable the creation of an
+      address index which can be queried to determine all transactions which
+      involve a given address
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/190)
+    - Add a new logging subsystem for address index related operations
+    - Support new searchrawtransactions RPC
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/185)
+  - RPC changes:
+    - Require TLS version 1.2 as the minimum version for all TLS connections
+    - Provide support for disabling TLS when only listening on localhost
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/pull/192)
+    - Modify help output for all commands to provide much more consistent
+      and detailed information
+    - Correct case in getrawtransaction which would refuse to serve certain
+      transactions with invalid scripts
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/210)
+    - Correct error handling in the getrawtransaction RPC which could lead
+      to a crash in rare cases
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/196)
+    - Update getinfo RPC to include the appropriate 'timeoffset' calculated
+      from the median network time
+    - Modify listreceivedbyaddress result type to include txids field so it
+      is compatible
+    - Add 'iswatchonly' field to validateaddress result
+    - Add 'startingpriority' and 'currentpriority' fields to getrawmempool
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/178)
+    - Don't omit the 'confirmations' field from getrawtransaction when it is
+      zero
+  - Websocket changes:
+    - Modify the behavior of the rescan command to automatically register
+      for notifications about transactions paying to rescanned addresses
+      or spending outputs from the final rescan utxo set when the rescan
+      is through the best block in the chain
+  - btcctl utility changes:
+    - Make the list of commands available via the -l option rather than
+      dumping the entire list on usage errors
+    - Alphabetize and categorize the list of commands by chain and wallet
+    - Make the help option only show the help options instead of also
+      dumping all of the commands
+    - Make the usage syntax much more consistent and correct a few cases of
+      misnamed fields
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/305)
+    - Improve usage errors to show the specific parameter number, reason,
+      and error code
+    - Only show the usage for specific command is shown when a valid command
+      is provided with invalid parameters
+    - Add support for a SOCK5 proxy
+    - Modify output for integer fields (such as timestamps) to display
+      normally instead in scientific notation
+    - Add invalidateblock command
+    - Add reconsiderblock command
+    - Add createnewaccount command
+    - Add renameaccount command
+    - Add searchrawtransactions command
+    - Add importaddress command
+    - Add importpubkey command
+  - showblock utility changes:
+    - Remove utility in favor of the RPC getblock method
+  - Notable developer-related package changes:
+    - Many of the core packages have been relocated into the btcd repository
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/214)
+    - A new version of the btcjson package that has been completely
+      redesigned from the ground up based based upon how the project has
+      evolved and lessons learned while using it since it was first written
+      is now available in the btcjson/v2/btcjson directory
+      - This will ultimately replace the current version so anyone making
+        use of this package will need to update their code accordingly
+    - The btcec package now provides better facilities for working directly
+      with its public and private keys without having to mix elements from
+      the ecdsa package
+    - Update the script builder to ensure all rules specified by BIP0062 are
+      adhered to when creating scripts
+    - The blockchain package now provides a MedianTimeSource interface and
+      concrete implementation for providing time samples from remote peers
+      and using that data to calculate an offset against the local time
+  - Misc changes:
+    - Fix a slow memory leak due to tickers not being stopped
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/189)
+    - Fix an issue where a mix of orphans and SPV clients could trigger a
+      condition where peers would no longer be served
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/231)
+    - The RPC username and password can now contain symbols which previously
+      conflicted with special symbols used in URLs
+    - Improve handling of obtaining random nonces to prevent cases where it
+      could error when not enough entropy was available
+    - Improve handling of home directory creation errors such as in the case
+      of unmounted symlinks (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/193)
+    - Improve the error reporting for rejected transactions to include the
+      inputs which are missing and/or being double spent
+    - Update sample config file with new options and correct a comment
+      regarding the fact the RPC server only listens on localhost by default
+      (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/218)
+    - Update the continuous integration builds to run several tools which
+      help keep code quality high
+    - Significant amount of internal code cleanup and improvements
+    - Other minor internal optimizations
+  - Code Contributors (alphabetical order):
+    - Beldur
+    - Ben Holden-Crowther
+    - Dave Collins
+    - David Evans
+    - David Hill
+    - Guilherme Salgado
+    - Javed Khan
+    - Jimmy Song
+    - John C. Vernaleo
+    - Jonathan Gillham
+    - Josh Rickmar
+    - Michael Ford
+    - Michail Kargakis
+    - kac
+    - Olaoluwa Osuntokun
+
 Changes in 0.9.0 (Sat Sep 20 2014)
   - Protocol and network related changes:
     - Add a new checkpoint at block height 319400

cmd/btcctl/version.go

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version.go

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 // versioning 2.0.0 spec (http://semver.org/).
 const (
 	appMajor uint = 0
-	appMinor uint = 9
+	appMinor uint = 10
 	appPatch uint = 0
 
 	// appPreRelease MUST only contain characters from semanticAlphabet