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See #29782.
Github-Pull: #29782
Rebased-From: 0ead466a0c
Pretty much all library packages were renamed in the 64-bit time_t
migration to add `t64` (even on 64-bit platforms).
Instead of complicating the doc with conditional package names, suggest
installing the `-dev` packages which still have the same name, and
besides that, are the right way to go about it as they contain the
"user facing" C++ headers needed to build against Qt5.
For Fedora, devel packages are already suggested.
This affects Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian Testing.
Github-Pull: #29764
Rebased-From: a3c6a13cb2
efb70cd645 doc: correct function name in AssumeUTXO design docs (jrakibi)
Pull request description:
Corrected the function name from `CompleteSnapshotValidation()` to `MaybeCompleteSnapshotValidation()` in the assumeutxo design documentation.
This change ensures that the documentation accurately reflects the actual function name used in the code
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fccfdb25b2 doc: Update OpenBSD build docs to 7.4 (Jesse Barton)
Pull request description:
Updated OpenBSD Build doc for 7.4 after testing all build options. No issues on my end.
Also added a note about referring to depends/README.md for detailed instructions on required dependencies.
This was added in reference to a conversation in #29443
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Tested and used all build options on OpenBSD 7.4 with no issues.
Added a note about referring to depends/README.md for detailed instructions on required dependencies.
This was added in reference to a conversation in #29443
29029df5c7 [doc] v3 signaling in mempool-replacements.md (glozow)
e643ea795e [fuzz] v3 transactions and sigop-adjusted vsize (glozow)
1fd16b5c62 [functional test] v3 transaction submission (glozow)
27c8786ba9 test framework: Add and use option for tx-version in MiniWallet methods (MarcoFalke)
9a1fea55b2 [policy/validation] allow v3 transactions with certain restrictions (glozow)
eb8d5a2e7d [policy] add v3 policy rules (glozow)
9a29d470fb [rpc] return full string for package_msg and package-error (glozow)
158623b8e0 [refactor] change Workspace::m_conflicts and adjacent funcs/structs to use Txid (glozow)
Pull request description:
See #27463 for overall package relay tracking.
Delving Bitcoin discussion thread: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/v3-transaction-policy-for-anti-pinning/340
Delving Bitcoin discussion for LN usage: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/lightning-transactions-with-v3-and-ephemeral-anchors/418
Rationale:
- There are various pinning problems with RBF and our general ancestor/descendant limits. These policies help mitigate many pinning attacks and make package RBF feasible (see #28984 which implements package RBF on top of this). I would focus the most here on Rule 3 pinning. [1][2]
- Switching to a cluster-based mempool (see #27677 and #28676) requires the removal of CPFP carve out, which applications depend on. V3 + package RBF + ephemeral anchors + 1-parent-1-child package relay provides an intermediate solution.
V3 policy is for "Priority Transactions." [3][4] It allows users to opt in to more restrictive topological limits for shared transactions, in exchange for the more robust fee-bumping abilities that offers. Even though we don't have cluster limits, we are able to treat these transactions as having as having a maximum cluster size of 2.
Immediate benefits:
- You can presign a transaction with 0 fees (not just 1sat/vB!) and add a fee-bump later.
- Rule 3 pinning is reduced by a significant amount, since the attacker can only attach a maximum of 1000vB to your shared transaction.
This also enables some other cool things (again see #27463 for overall roadmap):
- Ephemeral Anchors
- Package RBF for these 1-parent-1-child packages. That means e.g. a commitment tx + child can replace another commitment tx using the child's fees.
- We can transition to a "single anchor" universe without worrying about package limit pinning. So current users of CPFP carve out would have something else to use.
- We can switch to a cluster-based mempool [5] (#27677#28676), which removes CPFP carve out [6].
[1]: Original mailing list post and discussion about RBF pinning problems https://gist.github.com/glozow/25d9662c52453bd08b4b4b1d3783b9ff, https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-January/019817.html
[2]: A FAQ is "we need this for cluster mempool, but is this still necessary afterwards?" There are some pinning issues that are fixed here and not fully fixed in cluster mempool, so we will still want this or something similar afterward.
[3]: Mailing list post for v3 https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-September/020937.html
[4]: Original PR #25038 also contains a lot of the discussion
[5]: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/an-overview-of-the-cluster-mempool-proposal/393/7
[6]: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/an-overview-of-the-cluster-mempool-proposal/393#the-cpfp-carveout-rule-can-no-longer-be-supported-12
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25dc87e6f8 libconsensus: deprecate (Cory Fields)
Pull request description:
This library has existed for nearly 10 years with very little known uptake or impact. It has become a maintenance burden. In several cases it dictates our code/library structure (for example necessitating LIBBITCOIN_CRYPTO_BASE), as well as build-system procedures (building multiple copies of object files especially for the lib).
Several discussions have arisen wrt migrating it to CMake and it has become difficult to justify adding more complexity for a library that is virtually unused anyway.
See for example the discussions:
https://github.com/hebasto/bitcoin/pull/41https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29123
And here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29180
Where it is pointed out that the libbitcoinconsensus functions are slower than those the internal bitcoind equivalents due to the missing sha2 implementations.
Instead, we (fanquake, hebasto, TheCharlatan, and I) propose simply not migrating it to CMake and letting it end with v27. Any remaining use-cases could be handled in the future by libbitcoinkernel.
If there are any users currently using libbitcoinconsensus, please chime in with your use-case!
Edit: Corrected final release to be v27.
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ACK 25dc87e6f8 - this library has very little, if any impactful real world usage. It has been entirely broken (on various platforms) for long periods of its existence, where nobody even noticed. Pruning this out to save porting, and starting anew with the kernel, is the sane thing to do.
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This library has existed for nearly 10 years with very little known uptake or
impact. It has become a maintenance burden. In several cases it dictates our
code/library structure (for example necessitating LIBBITCOIN_CRYPTO_BASE), as
well as build-system procedures (building multiple copies of object files
especially for the lib).
Several discussions have arisen wrt migrating it to CMake and it has become
difficult to justify adding more complexity for a library that is virtually
unused anyway.
See for example the discussions:
https://github.com/hebasto/bitcoin/pull/41https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29123
Instead, we (fanquake, hebasto, TheCharlatan, and I) propose simply not
migrating it to CMake and letting it end with v27. Any remaining use-cases
could be handled in the future by libbitcoinkernel.
0d627c4ca8 doc: refer to "Node relay options" in policy/README (djschnei21)
Pull request description:
Fixed up #29095, to refer to `-help`, rather than listing every option.
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aaaace2fd1 fuzz: Assume presence of __builtin_*_overflow, without checks (MarcoFalke)
fa223ba5eb Revert "build: Fix undefined reference to __mulodi4" (MarcoFalke)
fa7c751bd9 build: Bump clang minimum supported version to 14 (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Most supported operating systems ship with clang-14 (or later), so bump the minimum to that and allow new code to drop workarounds for previous clang bugs.
For reference:
* https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/clang (`clang-14`)
* https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/clang (`clang-14`)
* CentOS-like 8/9 Stream: All Clang versions from 15 to 17
* FreeBSD 12/13: All Clang versions from 15 to 16
* OpenSuse Tumbleweed ships with https://software.opensuse.org/package/clang (`clang17`); No idea about OpenSuse Leap
On operating systems where the clang version is not shipped by default, the user would have to use GCC, or install clang in a different way. For example:
* https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/g++ (g++-10)
* https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/g++-10
* https://apt.llvm.org/, or nix, or guix, or compile clang from source, ...
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e60fc7d5d3 logging: Replace uses of LogPrintfCategory (Anthony Towns)
f7ce5ac08c logging: add LogError, LogWarning, LogInfo, LogDebug, LogTrace (Anthony Towns)
fbd7642c8e logging: add -loglevelalways=1 option (Anthony Towns)
782bb6a056 logging: treat BCLog::ALL like BCLog::NONE (Anthony Towns)
667ce3e329 logging: Drop BCLog::Level::None (Anthony Towns)
ab34dc6012 logging: Log Info messages unconditionally (Anthony Towns)
dfe98b6874 logging: make [cat:debug] and [info] implicit (Anthony Towns)
c5c76dc615 logging: refactor: pull prefix code out (Anthony Towns)
Pull request description:
Replace `LogPrint*` functions with severity based logging functions:
* `LogInfo(...)`, `LogWarning(...)`, `LogError(...)` for unconditional (uncategorised) logging (replaces `LogPrintf`)
* `LogDebug(CATEGORY, ...)` and `LogTrace(CATEGORY, ...)` for conditional logging (replaces `LogPrint`)
* `LogPrintLevel(CATEGORY, LEVEL, ...)` for when the level isn't known in advance, or a category needs to be added for an info/warning/error log message (mostly unchanged, but rarely needed)
Logs look roughly as they do now with `LogInfo` not having an `[info]` prefix, and `LogDebug` having a `[cat]` prefix, rather than a `[cat:debug]` prefix. This removes `BCLog::Level::None` entirely -- for `LogFlags::NONE` just use `Level::Info`, for any actual category, use `Level::Debug`.
Adds docs to developer-notes about when to use which level.
Adds `-loglevelalways=1` option so that you get `[net:debug]`, `[all:info]`, `[all:warning]` etc, which might be helpful for automated parsing, or just if you like everything to be consistent. Defaults to off to reduce noise in the default config, and to avoid unnecessary changes on upgrades.
Changes the behaviour of `LogPrintLevel(CATEGORY, BCLog::Level::Info, ...)` to be logged unconditionally, rather than only being an additional optional logging level in addition to trace and debug. Does not change the behaviour of `LogPrintLevel(NONE, Debug, ...)` and `LogPrintLevel(NONE, Trace, ...)` being no-ops.
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These provide simple and clear ways to write the most common logging
operations:
LogInfo("msg");
LogDebug(BCLog::LogFlags::NET, "msg");
LogError("msg");
LogWarning("msg");
LogTrace(BCLog::LogFlags::NET, "msg");
For cases where the level cannot be hardcoded, LogPrintLevel(category,
level, ...) remains available.
6666713041 refactor: Rename fs::path::u8string() to fs::path::utf8string() (MarcoFalke)
856c88776f ArgsManager: return path by value from GetBlocksDirPath() (Vasil Dimov)
fa3d9304e8 refactor: Remove pre-C++20 fs code (MarcoFalke)
fa00098e1a Add tests for C++20 std::u8string (MarcoFalke)
fa2bac08c2 refactor: Avoid copy/move in fs.h (MarcoFalke)
faea30227b refactor: Use C++20 std::chrono::days (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
This:
* Removes dead code.
* Avoids unused copies in some places.
* Adds copies in other places for safety.
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fa88953d6f doc: Add link to needs-release-notes label (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
This makes it easier to spot and not forget. C.f. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28597#issuecomment-1845299642
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