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Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning: many 0.7 nodes break on large
 number of tx/block; fork risk
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On 3/12/2013 5:18 AM=2C Jorge Tim=F3n wrote:
> A related question...some people mentioned yesterday on #bitcoin-dev
> that 0.5 appeared to be compatible with 0.8.
> Was that only for the "fatal block" and would have forked 0.8 later
> too or is it something else?
> I'm having a hard time understanding this 0.5 thing=2C if someone can
> bring some light to it I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
It was reported that not all 0.7 died from the BDB error either. This=20
will likely take a post-mortem to determine exactly what build=20
environments and versions are incompatible=2C by feeding each the bloated=20
block (hopefully there are lots of snapshots of the bad chain being the=20
best height for testing=3B I forgot to get one).