Namecoin Core 0.21.1

This is a new release off the Namecoin Core 0.21 branch. It incorporates changes made in the upstream Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 release.

Note that the main change in the upstream release is the activation logic for taproot. In Namecoin, the taproot logic is still incomplete, and activation is disabled at the moment.

Namecoin Core 0.21.0.1

This release is identical to the major 0.21.0 release in the main codebase, but includes some fixes to build scripts that allow it to work properly with Gitian.

Namecoin Core 0.21.0

This is a new major release of Namecoin Core. It is based on the upstream release of Bitcoin Core 0.21.0.

It contains some user-visible, Namecoin-specific changes to the RPC interface. In particular:

• #194: name_show now errors by default for expired names instead of returning them.
• #329: An optional new index can be created, which allows looking up names by hash.
• #362: The new RPC method namepsbt can be used to construct PSBTs with name operations.

Namecoin Core 0.20.1

This is a new bug-fix release in the 0.20 release series. It is based on upstream Bitcoin Core 0.20.1.

Namecoin Core 0.20.0

This is a new major release of Namecoin Core. It contains all the updates done in upstream Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 and minor general improvements to the Namecoin code.

Namecoin Core 0.19.1

This is a new minor release for Namecoin Core 0.19, which includes the changes from upstream Bitcoin Core 0.19.1.

Namecoin Core 0.19.0.1

This is a bug-fix release for Namecoin Core 0.19, which includes in particular the upstream fix for an uninitialised variable read from Bitcoin Core 0.19.0.1.

Namecoin Core 0.19.0

This is a new major release of Namecoin Core. It contains all of the updates done in upstream Bitcoin Core 0.19.0, minor improvements to the Namecoin code, and the following Namecoin-specific user visible change:

The mempool now allows multiple updates of a single name (in a chain of transactions). This is something that is allowed in blocks already, i.e. it is just a policy change. The name_update RPC command still prevents such transactions from being created for now, until miners and relaying nodes have updated sufficiently. More details can be found in #322.

Namecoin Core 0.18.1

This is a new minor release in the 0.18 release series. It contains upstream changes and corresponds to Bitcoin Core 0.18.1.

Namecoin Core 0.18.0

This is a new major release of Namecoin Core. It is mostly based on Bitcoin Core 0.18.0. Important Namecoin-specific changes are the following:

• BIP16, CSV and Segwit will be activated at block height 475,000 on mainnet and 232,000 on testnet. See #239 for a discussion.
• The options argument for name_new, name_firstupdate and name_update can now be used to specify per-RPC encodings for names and values by setting the nameEncoding and valueEncoding fields, respectively.
• name_scan now accepts an optional options argument, which can be used to specify filtering conditions (based on number of confirmations, prefix and regexp matches of a name). See #237 for more details.
• name_filter has been removed. Instead, name_scan with the newly added filtering options can be used.
• ismine is no longer added to RPC results if no wallet is associated to an RPC call.