[0.13] release notes: Mention new relevance of non-mining nodes on network policy; and misc fixes #8490

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luke-jr commented at 10:16 pm on August 8, 2016: member
in doc/release-notes.md: in c1cc8c25a9 outdated
186+deterministic wallet. 187 188 There is no distinction between internal (change) and external keys. 189 190-HD wallets are incompatible with older versions of Bitcoin Core. 191+Deterministic wallets are incompatible with older versions of Bitcoin Core.
rebroad commented at 5:09 am on August 9, 2016:

“HD” is no longer the term used?

luke-jr commented at 6:06 am on August 9, 2016:

“HD” is the term for hierarchical deterministic wallets. I am making the observation that Core 0.13’s is not really hierarchical. TBD if anyone agrees or if I should back this change out.
jonasschnelli added the label Docs and Output on Aug 9, 2016
jonasschnelli commented at 7:02 am on August 9, 2016: contributor

I think it is confusing if we would use a different term then HD (hierarchical deterministic). We are using HD. The seed is not on the same hierarchical level then the derived keys. We are deriving m/0'/0'/k' which is kind of the proposed path after BIP32.
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[0.13] release notes: Mention new relevance of non-mining nodes on network policy; and misc fixes
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luke-jr commented at 9:14 pm on August 9, 2016: member

Removed HD wallet changes.
MarcoFalke added this to the milestone 0.13.0 on Aug 10, 2016
MarcoFalke added the label Mining on Aug 10, 2016

in doc/release-notes.md: in a90544c51d outdated

37@@ -38,6 +38,35 @@ report issues about Windows XP to the issue tracker.
38 Notable changes
39 ===============
40 
41+Non-mining nodes may influence miner policy
42+-------------------------------------------
43+
44+As a side-effect of Compact Blocks support (see below), ordinary non-mining
45+nodes will download and upload blocks faster if those blocks were produce by

sipa commented at 6:49 pm on August 11, 2016:

produced

sipa commented at 7:00 pm on August 11, 2016: member
ACK the sigops change section.

Regarding the relay influence section:
- I don’t think the CB effect is very significant… miners can and will peer with each other, even ignoring things like faster relay network protocols.
- When ignoring non-random-public-P2P-network relay between miners, full nodes have always had influence through policy decisions through the signature cache.
- The strongest effect non-mining full nodes have is through economic majority agreeing or disagreeing with consensus changes, which is independent from policy.
I do think it is relevant to mention the change here, but maybe we can just turn it into a paragraph in the compact blocks section?
luke-jr force-pushed on Aug 11, 2016
luke-jr commented at 8:53 pm on August 11, 2016: member

@sipa How’s this?
sipa commented at 9:22 pm on August 11, 2016: member

ACK
MarcoFalke commented at 10:32 am on August 16, 2016: member

Needs merge conflict solved, if still relevant.
doc/release-notes: Misc 4f5529351f
doc/release-notes: Mention the relevance of Compact Blocks on non-mining nodes' influence on network policy 40d705cb70
doc/release-notes: Document changed bytespersigop behaviour 5e499e7a56
sipa commented at 10:46 am on August 16, 2016: member

Rebased version: https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commits/relnotes-luke
luke-jr force-pushed on Aug 16, 2016
luke-jr commented at 7:13 pm on August 16, 2016: member

Thanks, pushed that here.
laanwj merged this on Aug 17, 2016
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laanwj referenced this in commit a402396dce on Aug 17, 2016
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