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Nils Schneider committed Dec 15, 2011
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category: releases
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Bitcoin version 0.5.1 is now available for download at:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.1/>

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.1/>

This is a bugfix-only release.

This release includes 13 translations, including 5 new translations:
Italian, Hungarian, Ukranian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Simplified Chinese.
More translations are welcome; join the project at Transifex if you can help:
<https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/>

<https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/>

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>

<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>

For Ubuntu users, there is a new ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which
you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep
bitcoin up-to-date. Just type
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin

in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.

BUG FIXES
---------

Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally
* Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally
disabled for the 0.5.0 release binaries).

The code that finds peers via "dns seeds" no longer stops bitcoin startup
* The code that finds peers via "dns seeds" no longer stops bitcoin startup
if one of the dns seed machines is down.

Tooltips on the transaction list view were rendering incorrectly (as black boxes
* Tooltips on the transaction list view were rendering incorrectly (as black boxes
or with a transparent background).

Prevent a denial-of-service attack involving flooding a bitcoin node with
* Prevent a denial-of-service attack involving flooding a bitcoin node with
orphan blocks.

The wallet passphrase dialog now warns you if the caps lock key was pressed.
* The wallet passphrase dialog now warns you if the caps lock key was pressed.

Improved searching in addresses and labels in bitcoin-qt.
* Improved searching in addresses and labels in bitcoin-qt.

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