[Bitcoin-development] 0.8.1 plan

2013-03-16 Thread Gavin Andresen
Here's the plan for the 0.8.1 release: A new CheckBlock() rule, in effect until 15 May, that ensure only blocks compatible with old releases are accepted into the main chain (only blocks that touch 4,500 or fewer distinct txids are allowed). A limit of 500k to blocks created, also in effect

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.1 plan

2013-03-16 Thread Alan Reiner
On 03/16/2013 09:13 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote: I chose May 15 arbitrarily; two months seems like a reasonable 'quick' amount of time to give people to upgrade/workaround. Maybe you should wait until after the Bitcoin Conference -- if something goes wacky on May 15th but then everyone is getting