Technical Changelog
- v0.8.6.1
- Bitcoin 0.8.6 Fixes
- Fixed rare issue involving relay of invalid transactions.
- Fixed rare MacOS X crash during GUI send.
- Fixed the MacOS X leveldb corruption issue.
- More informative debug.log messages about peers and messages.
- Timestamps enabled by default in debug.log.
- Litecoin Changes
- Default mintxfee reduced by 20x to 0.001 LTC per kilobyte.
- Dust thresholds reduced by 10x.
- More fairness: High priority area reduced to 17KB per block. High priority tx size limit reduced to 5KB. See notes in commits to learn more.
- Coin Control 0.8.5
- SSE2 PoW validation
- Disable Wallet Mode
- Optional advanced feature for relay-only or mining nodes where a wallet is not required. Operating litecoind with disablewallet saves between 40-200MB of RAM.
- Disconnect nodes older than protocol version 70002 (Litecoin 0.8.3.7)
- Disallow connections from clients that are a dangerously old. Along with the alerts this is to encourage those users to upgrade their client to better protect both themselves and the entire network.
- Add verifychain and getbestblockhash
- Fix MacOS X dock icon menu.
More at the Litecoin Blog: http://blog.litecoin.org/2013/12/litecoin-086-release-notes.html