dogecoin/dogecoin v1.14.7

Dogecoin Core 1.14.7

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This is a new minor version release, including enhancements to several RPC methods and important security updates for Dogecoin-Qt.

Dogecoin-Qt users on any platform are strongly recommended to upgrade.

A full description of all changes is available in the release notes

Security Updates

• Disable BIP-70 payment server by default
• Reduce the build scope of the Qt dependency
• Backport patches for all Qt versions until 5.15.12 + community patches to the pinned Qt 5.7.1
• Added security guidance to INSTALL.md
• Updated the rpcuser.py script to improve the password and salt generation methods it uses

Enhancements

• estimatefee and estimatesmartfee are now maintained and tuned to Dogecoin parametrization
• Added fully verbose transaction decoding to getblock
• Added a height parameter to -walletnotify
• Added the getblockstats RPC method

RPC Changes

• verbosity parameter to getblock now accepts both integers and booleans
• Added a height parameter to importpubkey and importaddress

Translation Updates

• Chinese
• Dutch
• French
• French-Canadian
• Italian
• Korean
• Polish

Updates to pinned dependencies and subtrees

• Updated the depends, CI and build system to Ubuntu Focal
• Updated expat to version 2.5.0
• Updated the secp256k1 subtree to 44c2452
• Updated zlib to version 1.3
• Updated protobuf to version 3.6.1
• Updated fontconfig to version 2.12.6
• Removed dependency on libx11