Bitcoin ABC 0.22.14 Release Notes

Bitcoin ABC version 0.22.14 is now available from:

https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.22.14/

This release includes the following features and fixes:

• The node’s known peers are persisted to disk in a file called peers.dat. The format of this file has been changed in a backwards-incompatible way in order to accommodate the storage of Tor v3 and other BIP155 addresses. This means that if the file is modified by 0.22.14 or newer then older versions will not be able to read it. Those old versions, in the event of a downgrade, will log an error message “Incorrect keysize in addrman deserialization” and will continue normal operation as if the file was missing, creating a new empty one.
• The Tor onion service that is automatically created by setting the -listenonion configuration parameter will now be created as a Tor v3 service instead of Tor v2. The private key that was used for Tor v2 (if any) will be left untouched in the onion_private_key file in the data directory (see -datadir) and can be removed if not needed. Bitcoin ABC will no longer attempt to read it. The private key for the Tor v3 service will be saved in a file named onion_v3_private_key. To use the deprecated Tor v2 service (not recommended), then onion_private_key can be copied over onion_v3_private_key, e.g. cp -f onion_private_key onion_v3_private_key.