This is a new minor version release, including various bugfixes and performance improvements. It is a recommended update for all users.
This release can be installed over an existing 1.14 installation seamlessly, without the need for uninstallation, re-indexation or re-download. Simply shut down your running Dogecoin-QT or dogecoind, perform the installation and restart your node.
Enabling Future Fee Reductions
Prepares the network for a reduction of the recommended fees by reducing the default fee requirement 1000x for transaction relay and 100x for mining. At the same time it increases freedom for miner, wallet and node operators to agree on fees regardless of defaults coded into the Dogecoin Core software by solidifying fine-grained controls for operators to deviate from built-in defaults.
This realizes the first part of a two-stage update to lower the fee recommendation - a followup release will implement the lower fee recommendation, once the network has adapted to the relay defaults introduced with this version of Dogecoin Core.
Synchronization Improvements
Removes a bug in the network layer where a 1.14 node would open many parallel requests for headers to its peers, increasing the total data transferred during initial block download up to 50 times the required data, per peer, unnecessarily. As a result, synchronization time has been reduced by around 2.5 times.
RPC Improvements
getpeerinfo now includes feefilter value for each peer, to be able to diagnose transaction relay issues.
Other notable changes
- Proactively disconnect peers sending block headers which would build on an invalid chain.
- Improve handling and logging of invalid blocks and their descendants
- Add menu option to import a private key
- Add column to peers table showing bytes sent/received, accessible via "Debug Window" from the "Help" menu.
- Add GUI for adding peers manually, accessible from the peers table of the Debug Window.
- Regtest network can now generate AuxPoW blocks.
- Corrections to French Canadian, Chinese, German, Indonesian, Korean, Polish and Portuguese translations