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February 23, 2016Protocol & scalingSoftware releasesdocumented

Bitcoin Core v0.12.0 is released

Bitcoin Core v0.12.0 added major networking, mempool, wallet, and performance improvements.

The release introduced optional pruning support, clarified fee behavior, improved signature validation performance, and expanded ZeroMQ notifications. It also deployed CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY support after the earlier BIP 65 soft fork.