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Software releases & security

A version-aware reading path through releases, builds, upgrades, vulnerabilities and defensive operation in the public archive.

What this guide includes.

This guide combines release and security tags. Release matches are broad because version, upgrade, build, compile, patch and repository terms all qualify; security matches include attacks, vulnerabilities, denial of service and related language.

Limit: Historical software guidance can be obsolete or unsafe. The records document project history and must not be used as present-day operational security instructions.

The shape of this source set.

Counts describe indexed records, not distinct claims or unique ideas. Cross-posts, reply threads and multi-tag records can overlap.

Records by year

  1. 3
  2. 17
  3. 281

Records by venue

VenueRecordsShare
BitcoinTalk28695.0%
bitcoin-list103.3%
Cryptography list41.3%
P2P Research list10.3%

Matching tag counts

  • releases26889.0% of this guide
  • security6722.3% of this guide

Tag counts can sum above the 301 unique records in this guide.

Three questions to carry into the sources.

These prompts organize close reading. They are not quotations or claims attributed to Satoshi.

  1. 01

    Version context

    Anchor technical claims to the date and named release before comparing them with later Bitcoin Core behavior.

  2. 02

    Incidents and response

    Use the security-tagged subset to locate vulnerability and attack discussion without treating every release post as a security event.

  3. 03

    Maintenance history

    Follow the shift from launch announcements into routine builds, upgrades and network support.

Ten coordinates across the record.

The generator removes repeated normalized subjects, then selects an even chronological spread. It is a reproducible orientation set—not a ranking of importance or a random sample.

  1. 01

    · Cryptography list

    Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

    security
  2. 02

    · BitcoinTalk

    Re: Make your "we accept Bitcoin" logo

    releases
  3. 03

    · BitcoinTalk

    Re: Bitcoin in Ubuntu 10.04

    releases
  4. 04

    · BitcoinTalk

    Re: Runaway CPU usage for 64bit BitCoin (Linux Client)

    releases
  5. 05

    · BitcoinTalk

    Warning: don't use -server or bitcoind where you web browse (v0.3.2 and lower)

    releasessecurity
  6. 06

    · BitcoinTalk

    Re: Mac Client Problems Outlined...

    releases
  7. 07

    · BitcoinTalk

    Version 0.3.9 rc1, please test

    releases
  8. 08

    · BitcoinTalk

    Version 0.3.12

    releases
  9. 09

    · BitcoinTalk

    Re: Win7 64bit since last patch Tues now crashes

    releases
  10. 10

    · bitcoin-list

    [bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.3.19 is released

    releasessecurity

Need every match? Open the searchable archive with the primary tag applied. For combined-tag coverage, use the exact selection rule recorded above.

Three pointers into the full record.

Each preview is an existing archive excerpt of no more than 18 words from a separate source record. Complete wording stays at the linked archive.

  1. · bitcoin-list

    Bitcoin v0.1.2 is now available for download. See [link] for the download link. All the problems I've been…
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  2. · bitcoin-list

    Please upgrade to 0.3.6 ASAP to get an important bugfix. See the bitcoin.org homepage for download links.
    Read the complete record in context ↗
  3. · bitcoin-list

    This is a minor release to add some DoS protection. Changes: - Added some DoS limits, though it's…
    Read the complete record in context ↗

Exact tags, documented era, pinned bytes.

The network-free builder verifies correspondence dataset v1.0.0 by SHA-256, includes only records marked documented-project-era, and matches exact labels in each record’s topics array. The disputed 2014 account message is excluded. Topic labels were created for discovery from subjects, normalized source text and linked quotation categories; they are not human-authored abstracts.

When citing a statement, cite the linked original or archival record—not this guide’s count alone. Source rights remain with their respective holders; this page adds original organization, statistics and limited excerpts.