This is a new minor version release, including important security updates and changes to network policies. All Dogecoin Core users, miners, services, relay operators and wallet users are strongly recommended to upgrade.

This release can be installed over an existing 1.14 installation seamlessly, without the need for uninstallation, re-indexation or re-download. Simply shut down your running Dogecoin-QT or dogecoind, perform the installation and restart your node.

Important Security Updates

This release contains fixes for 2 high severity vulnerabilities that affect most Dogecoin Core users:

• Remote Code Execution in Dogecoin QT (CVE-2021-3401)
• Sensitive Information Exposure on Unix platforms (CVE-2019-15947)

Dogecoin QT (Graphical User Interface) users on all platforms and wallet users on the Linux platform are urged to please update their installations to this version immediately, to prevent malicious actors from exploiting these vulnerabilities.

Fee Reductions

This release finalizes a new minimum fee recommendation for all participants on the Dogecoin network, following the reduction of relay and mining defaults in 1.14.4. With this release, the minimum fees when creating transactions are recommended to be as follows: