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6566. By Bitcoin Core on 2018-03-24

Merge #12760: Docs: Improve documentation on standard communication channels

30d1a0ae37 Docs: Improve documentation on standard communication channels (Jim Posen)

Pull request description:

  More information about connection on IRC will hopefully help new contributors.

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6565. By Bitcoin Core on 2018-03-24

Merge #12772: [CI]: bump travis timeout for make check to 50m

bc308ba999 [CI]: bump travis timeout for make check to 50m (Karl-Johan Alm)

Pull request description:

  The travis windows build sometimes times out on `make check`. Bump the timeout from 20 to 50 minutes.

  This is a short-term measure. We should figure out why the unit tests are slow in Wine.

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6564. By Bitcoin Core on 2018-03-23

Merge #12709: [wallet] shuffle sendmany recipients ordering

6acb02d635 add release note for sendmany output shuffling (Gregory Sanders)
cf6ef3c139 shuffle sendmany recipients ordering to shuffle tx outputs (Gregory Sanders)

Pull request description:

  Unless there is something important I'm missing, we're just possible leaking information by preserving whatever ordering json object ordering is giving us (no guarantees at all).

  This is unneeded for `sendtoaddress` since there is only 1 or 2 outputs, and the change output is shuffled in.

  This will not effect `*raw` behavior by design, since users generally want full control using those apis. Further PRs could add optional args to over-ride that behavior.

  Alternative ideas would be to sort the outputs by some deterministic ordering. (this would require more refactoring since change outputs are created and handled by caller)

  related: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12699

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6563. By Wladimir J. van der Laan on 2018-03-22

Merge #11536: Rename account to label where appropriate

d2527bd Rename wallet_accounts.py test (Russell Yanofsky)
045eeb8 Rename account to label where appropriate (Russell Yanofsky)

Pull request description:

  Rename account to label where appropriate

  This change only updates strings and adds RPC aliases, but should simplify the implementation of address labels in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7729, by getting renaming out of the way and letting that change focus on semantics.

  The difference between accounts and labels is that labels apply only to addresses, while accounts apply to both addresses and transactions (transactions have "from" and "to" accounts). The code associating accounts with transactions is clumsy and unreliable so we would like get rid of it.

  ---

  There is a rebased version of #7729 atop this PR at https://github.com/ryanofsky/bitcoin/commits/pr/label, see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7729#issuecomment-338417139.

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6562. By Wladimir J. van der Laan on 2018-03-22

Merge #12694: Actually disable BnB when there are preset inputs

081bf54 Test that BnB is not used when there are preset inputs (Andrew Chow)
6ef9982 Actually disable BnB when there are preset inputs (Andrew Chow)

Pull request description:

  We don't want to use BnB when there are preset inputs because there
  is some weirdness with making that work with using the KnapsackSolver
  as the fallback. Currently we say that we haven't used bnb when
  there are preset inputs, but we don't actually disable BnB. This fixes
  that.

  I thought this was done originally. I guess it got lost in a rebase somewhere.

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6561. By Bitcoin Core on 2018-03-22

Merge #12742: Make FastRandomContext support standard C++11 RNG interface

1ec1602a45 Make FastRandomContext support standard C++11 RNG interface (Pieter Wuille)

Pull request description:

  This makes it possible to plug it into the various standard C++11 random distribution algorithms and other functions like `std::shuffle`.

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6560. By Wladimir J. van der Laan on 2018-03-22

Merge #12630: Provide useful error message if datadir is not writable.

8674e74 Provide relevant error message if datadir is not writable. (murrayn)

Pull request description:

  If the --datadir exists, but is not writable, the current error message on startup is 'Cannot obtain a lock on data directory foo. Bitcoin Core is probably already running.' This is misleading.

  I believe this PR addresses #11668, although the issue is not Windows-specific.

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6559. By Wladimir J. van der Laan on 2018-03-22

Merge #12048: Use best-fit strategy in Arena, now O(log(n)) instead O(n)

5fbf7c4 fix nits: variable naming, typos (Martin Ankerl)
1e0ee90 Use best-fit strategy in Arena, now O(log(n)) instead O(n) (Martin Ankerl)

Pull request description:

  This replaces the first-fit algorithm used in the Arena with a best-fit. According to "Dynamic Storage Allocation: A Survey and Critical Review", Wilson et. al. 1995, http://www.scs.stanford.edu/14wi-cs140/sched/readings/wilson.pdf, both startegies work well in practice.

  The advantage of using best-fit is that we can switch the O(n) allocation to O(log(n)). Additionally, some previously O(log(n)) operations are now O(1) operations by using hash maps. The end effect is that the benchmark runs about 2.5 times faster on my machine:

      # Benchmark, evals, iterations, total, min, max, median
      old: BenchLockedPool, 5, 530, 5.25749, 0.00196938, 0.00199755, 0.00198172
      new: BenchLockedPool, 5, 1300, 5.11313, 0.000781493, 0.000793314, 0.00078606

  I've run all unit tests and benchmarks, and increased the number of iterations so that BenchLockedPool takes about 5 seconds again.

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6558. By Wladimir J. van der Laan on 2018-03-22

Merge #12076: qa: Use node.datadir instead of tmpdir in test framework

c8330d4 qa: Use node.datadir instead of tmpdir in test framework (MarcoFalke)

Pull request description:

  Commit c53c9831eedaf3b311bb942945268830f9ba3abc introduced the utility function `get_datadir_path`, however not all places in the code use this util function. Using the util function everywhere makes it easier to review pull requests related to the datadir.

  This commit replaces datadir path creation with the `datadir` member of `TestNode`, which itself uses `get_datadir_path`.

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6557. By Wladimir J. van der Laan on 2018-03-22

Merge #12718: [Tests] Require exact match in assert_start_raises_init_eror (jnewbery)

fae1374 qa: Allow for partial_match when checking init error (MarcoFalke)
5812273 [Tests] Require exact match in assert_start_raises_init_eror() (John Newbery)
0ec08a6 [Tests] Move assert_start_raises_init_error method to TestNode (John Newbery)

Pull request description:

  Extracted from #12379, because the changes are important on their own.

  This allows for exact testing, since the match can be specified with a strict regex. Internal details (such as exact formatting of the error message) can still be fuzzed away by regex wildcards.

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