John Smith [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-09-03 🗒️ Summary of this message: Bitcoin version ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-09-03
🗒️ Summary of this message: Bitcoin version 0.4 release candidate 1 is available for testing, featuring wallet private key encryption and a reworking of internal critical section mutexes.
📝 Original message:On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Bitcoin version 0.4 release candidate 1 is ready for initial testing;
> please grab the source from github and try to break it.
>
> The big, visible change is wallet private key encryption, which is NOT
> turned on by default.
>
> The big, invisible change is a reworking of internal critical section
> mutexes to fix some chronic problems with bitcoind becoming
> unresponsive due to deadlocks.
>

Great, congrats!

The mutex overhaul was badly needed. I'm glad to see the project move this
fast in a sudden.

JS
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