Major changes
- Protection from transaction flooding is easier
- Block file pruning
- Big endian support
- Memory usage optimization
- Fee estimation changes
- Privacy: Disable wallet transaction broadcast
- Privacy: Stream isolation for Tor
More: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.0
NOTE:
- Counterparty requires access to an address index, and for Bitcoin Core that is included in btcdrak’s release here: https://github.com/btcdrak/bitcoin/releases/ (we may need to wait couple of days until btcdrak releases 0.11.0-addrindex.
- There’s a new feature called “block pruning” (disabled by default). It doesn’t seem Counterparty would support it because
getrawtransaction
and such can’t work when block pruning is enabled