nMaxInbound might very well be 0 or -1, if the user prefers to keep
a small number of maxconnections.
Note: nMaxInbound of -1 means that the user set maxconnections
to 8 or less, but we still want to keep an additional slot for
the feeler connection.
Github-Pull: #9008
Rebased-From: fa1c3c2eb0
We normally prefer to connect to peers offering the relevant services.
If we're not connected to enough peers with relevant services, we
probably don't know about them and could use dnsseed's help.
Github-Pull: #8949
Rebased-From: 4630479135
Only allow skipping relevant services until there are four outbound
connections up.
This avoids quickly filling up with peers lacking the relevant
services when addrman has few or none of them.
Github-Pull: #8949
Rebased-From: 9583477288
Base64 contains '/', and the '/' character in credentials is problematic
for AuthServiceProxy which represents the RPC endpoint as an URI with
user and password embedded.
Closes#8399.
Github-Pull: #8858
Rebased-From: 1c80386bce
bf86073 Release notes: correct segwit signalling period start conditions (David A. Harding)
2de93f0 Relase notes: correct segwit activation point (David A. Harding)
5f9c7b0 Release notes: add info about segwit and null dummy soft forks (David A. Harding)
9777fe1 remove redundant tests in p2p-segwit.py (Johnson Lau)
fef7b46 test segwit uncompressed key fixes (Johnson Lau)
4ec21e8 Fix ismine and addwitnessaddress: no uncompressed keys in segwit (Pieter Wuille)
908fced [qa] Add tests for uncompressed pubkeys in segwit (Suhas Daftuar)
b4b8527 Make test framework produce lowS signatures (Johnson Lau)
821f3e6 Require compressed keys in segwit as policy and disable signing with uncompressed keys for segwit scripts (Johnson Lau)
540413d Add standard limits for P2WSH with tests (Johnson Lau)
9bb2a02 [qa] Build v4 blocks in p2p-compactblocktests (Matt Corallo)
df5069b [qa] Send segwit-encoded blocktxn messages in p2p-compactblocks (Matt Corallo)
bcf3806 Update bitcoin-tx to output witness data. (jonnynewbs)
cc6f551 [qa] Fix compact block shortids for a test case (Dagur Valberg Johannsson)
4bb9ce8 Use cmpctblock type 2 for segwit-enabled transfer (Matt Corallo)
890ac25 Fix overly-prescriptive p2p-segwit test for new fetch logic (Matt Corallo)
fe1975a Use cmpctblock type 2 for segwit-enabled transfer (Pieter Wuille)
611cc50 [qa] Fix bug in mininode witness deserialization (Suhas Daftuar)
61e282b [qa] Add support for compactblocks v2 to mininode (Suhas Daftuar)
e47299a [qa] Update p2p-compactblocks.py for compactblocks v2 (Suhas Daftuar)
7a34a46 Add NULLDUMMY verify flag in bitcoinconsensus.h (Johnson Lau)
7ae6242 net: fix a few cases where messages were sent rather than dropped upon disconnection (Cory Fields)
3e80ab7 Add policy: null signature for failed CHECK(MULTI)SIG (Johnson Lau)
0027672 Make non-minimal OP_IF/NOTIF argument non-standard for P2WSH (Johnson Lau)
