Bitcoin ABC 0.22.0 Release Notes

Bitcoin ABC version 0.22.0 is now available from:

https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.22.0/

This release includes the following features and fixes:

• Bump automatic replay protection to May 2021 upgrade.
• Minor fixes to various RPC help texts.

Network upgrade

At the MTP time of 1605441600 (Nov 15, 2020 12:00:00 UTC), the following changes will become activated:

• Aserti3-2d difficulty adjustment algorithm (also known as the ASERT DAA).
• Coinbase rule requiring at least 8% of the block reward to spend a single output to a common infrastructure fund.

RPC changes

RPCs which have an include_watchonly argument or includeWatching option now default to true for watch-only wallets. Affected RPCs are: getbalance, listreceivedbyaddress, listreceivedbylabel, listtransactions, listsinceblock, gettransaction, walletcreatefundedpsbt, and fundrawtransaction.