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4b4711369880369729893ba7baef11ba2a36cf4b validation: Reword CheckForkWarningConditions and call it also during IBD and at startup (Martin Zumsande) 2f51951d03cc1f8917e0fc931dce674f9bfedaf5 p2p: Add warning message when receiving headers for blocks cached as invalid (Martin Zumsande) Pull request description: In case of corruption that leads to a block being marked as invalid that is seen as valid by the rest of the network, the user currently doesn't receive good error messages, but will often be stuck in an endless headers-sync loop with no explanation (#26391). This PR improves warnings in two ways: - When we receive a header that is already saved in our disk, but invalid, add a warning. This will happen repeatedly during the headerssync loop (see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/26391#issuecomment-1291765534 on how to trigger it artificially). - Removes the IBD check from `CheckForkWarningConditions` and adds a call to the function during init (`LoadChainTip()`). The existing check was added in55ed3f1475a long time ago when we had more sophisticated fork detection that could lead to false positives during IBD, but that logic was removed infa62304c97so that I don't see a reason to suppress the warning anymore. Fixes #26391 (We'll still do the endless looping, trying to find a peer with a headers that we can use, but will now repeatedly log warnings while doing so). ACKs for top commit: glozow: ACK `git range-diff 6d2c8ea9dbd77c71051935b5ab59224487509559...4b4711369880369729893ba7baef11ba2a36cf4b` theStack: re-ACK 4b4711369880369729893ba7baef11ba2a36cf4b sedited: ACK 4b4711369880369729893ba7baef11ba2a36cf4b Tree-SHA512: 78bc53606374636d616ee10fdce0324adcc9bcee2806a7e13c9471e4c02ef00925ce6daef303bc153b7fcf5a8528fb4263c875b71d2e965f7c4332304bc4d922
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/license/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled during the generation of the build system) with: ctest. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: build/test/functional/test_runner.py
(assuming build is your build directory).
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is tested on Windows, Linux, and macOS. The CI must pass on all commits before merge to avoid unrelated CI failures on new pull requests.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.