BU Release for Bitcoin Cash (BCH): BUCash 1.5.0.0

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Download the latest Bitcoin Cash compatible release of Bitcoin Unlimited (1.5.0.0, 14 October 2018) from:

https://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/download

This release is a major release compatible with the bitcoincash.org specification for the 15 November 2018 general upgrade:

• https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org/blob/master/spec/2018-nov-upgrade.md (Nov 15th '18 Protocol Upgrade)

List of notable changes and fixes to the code base:

• Implementation of November 2018 upgrades feature (see the specification for more details)
  • CTOR: Canonical Transaction Ordering
    
    
  • CDSV: OP_CHECKDATASIG[VERIFY]
    
    
  • CLEAN_STACK: Enforce "clean stack" rule
    
    
  • FORCE_PUSH: Enforce "push only" rule for scriptSig
    
    
  • 100 byte MIN TXN SIZE: Enforce minimum transaction size
    
    
• Add configuration parameters to allow miners to specify their BIP135 votes. See this guide from more details
  
  
• Multithreaded transaction admission to the mempool (ATMP)
  
  
• Parallelize message processing
  
  
• Fastfilters: a faster than Bloom Filter probabilistic data structure
  
  
• Various improvements to the Request Manager
  
  
• Add tracking of ancestor packages and expose ancestor/descendant information over RPC
  
  
• Remove trickle logic in dealing with transactions INV
  
  
• Implement shared lock semantics for the UTXO

Release notes: https://github.com/BitcoinUnlimited/BitcoinUnlimited/blob/dev/doc/release-notes/release-notes-bucash1.5.0.0.md

Ubuntu PPA repository for BUcash 1.5.0.0 has also been updated.

hat tip @sickpig for text.