diff --git a/doc/relnotes/README.md b/doc/relnotes/README.md index b1e58d912..e82c3723a 100644 --- a/doc/relnotes/README.md +++ b/doc/relnotes/README.md @@ -12,6 +12,33 @@ evil organizations. # Hush 3.7.1 "Neologistic Nautilus" +``` +638 files changed, 1484 insertions(+), 962 deletions(-) +``` + +This is an OPTIONAL release for average Hush users, but is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for service providers, such as lite wallet server ops, mining pools, exchanges, bots, etc. + +## Notable Changes + + * :tada: More internals code related to unused Sprout transactions was removed, making Hush run and compile faster and use less memory. + * :smile: We now give a more useful error message when a user attempts to make a tx before the node is synced. + * :nerd: `z_sendmany` RPC docs now show an example of a z2z transaction + * :unicorn: Various security + privacy improvements to the network Peer To Peer (p2p) layer, including: + * The deprecated `alert` p2p message is no longer processed and nodes using it will be banned. + * `try-before-evict` ported from BTC core, which helps protect again Eclipse and Sybil Attacks + * "Feeler connections" ported from BTC, another technique which makes Eclipse and Sybil Attacks harder and more expensive + * From the paper "Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network" Ethan Heilman, Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/263.pdf + * Related to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8282 + * :money_mouth: New RPC: `z_getbalances` returns a list of all zaddrs with non-zero balance. + * An optional paramater can filter addresses to those with a specified minimum balance, such as + `z_getbalances 0.1` will only show HUSH zaddrs with at least 0.1 HUSH. + * :rainbow: "Automagic `z_sendmany`" makes the RPC easier to use and also improves privacy + * The `z_sendmany` RPC now understands a symbolic from address of `z` which means: + * Randomly choose any zaddr with enough balance as from address + * This means CLI users no longer need to run multiple RPC's to find a zaddr with enough balance and specify it themselves + * It also means that CLI shell history and cronjobs or source code does not contain the source zaddr, improving privacy. + + # Hush 3.7.0 "Diffy The DAA Kungfoo Cuckoo" ```