Github-Pull: #8884
Rebased-From: a78e5428

These are text files but their encoding does not depend on the locale.
Not all of them require utf8 but it is better to fix it at something
to remove potential unpredictability.

This is necessary on FreeBSD where no locale is set by default,
and apparently Python defaults not only the terminal encoding to the locale
but that of every text file. So without LOCALE environment it defaults text
file encoding to ASCII. This causes problems with e.g. `bitcoin.conf`.

Luckily the locale doesn't affect the default encoding for str.encode() and
bytes.decode() on Python 3, so this is the only change necessary.

Github-Pull: #8840
Rebased-From: 30930e84

Github-Pull: #8860
Rebased-From: fa7c35c4

Github-Pull: #8780
Rebased-From: fa6e71b2

Github-Pull: #8857
Rebased-From: fa666094

Also fix a bug in the sync_with_ping() helper function

Github-Pull: #8854
Rebased-From: b5fd6669

Github-Pull: #8841
Rebased-From: 46a4774d

This is necessary on FreeBSD and MacOSX, at least.

See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8834#issuecomment-250450213

Github-Pull: #8839
Rebased-From: 1d28faf9

Github-Pull: #8836
Rebased-From: da946977

Github-Pull: #8835
Rebased-From: fa156c60

Github-Pull: #8834
Rebased-From: fa9cd25e

Github-Pull: #8832
Rebased-From: fa05cfdf

Github-Pull: #8765
Rebased-From: c6f5ca82

Github-Pull: #8829
Rebased-From: 54e5d7c1

Github-Pull: #8827
Rebased-From: a0f8482f

This pings regularly while building a big block in p2p-segwit.py, to prevent timeout

Github-Pull: #8803
Rebased-From: 0637b02f

9dfa0c8 Implement NULLDUMMY softfork (Johnson Lau)
cef633c Fix broken sendcmpct test in p2p-compactblocks.py (Suhas Daftuar)
fb8706e Add p2p test for BIP 152 (compact blocks) (Suhas Daftuar)
f6be478 Add support for compactblocks to mininode (Suhas Daftuar)
4295a7a Tests: refactor compact size serialization in mininode (Suhas Daftuar)
ff893aa Implement SipHash in Python (Pieter Wuille)
198494c Allow changing BIP9 parameters on regtest (Suhas Daftuar)
23feab1 Remove maxuploadtargets recommended minimum (Jonas Schnelli)
a5ec248 Remove createwitnessaddress (Johnson Lau)
b394a96 Add basic test for IsStandard witness transaction blinding (instagibbs)
1672225 Do not store witness txn in rejection cache (Pieter Wuille)

Github-Pull: #8636
Rebased-From: 482f852d

Python lambda use was incorrect.

sendcmpct messages need to be synchronized with RPC calls to generate().

Headers need to be synced (eg with getheaders) for cmpctblock announcements
to start.

Last test omitted sending a sendcmpct message.

Github-Pull: #8739
Rebased-From: 157254a4)

Github-Pull: #8418
Rebased-From: 45c7ddd1

Github-Pull: #8418
Rebased-From: 9a22a6c0

Github-Pull: #8418
Rebased-From: a8689fdf

Github-Pull: #8418
Rebased-From: 9c8593d2

Github-Pull: #8418
Rebased-From: 56c87e92

Github-Pull: #8712
Rebased-From: 1b6bcdd3

This RPC command is unsafe as it will return an address even if the script is invalid.

Github-Pull: #8699
Rebased-From: 86c3f8db

Github-Pull: #8525
Rebased-From: ca10a03a

Github-Pull: #8525
Rebased-From: 34521e4d

b70b4a2 Trivial: Fix typo (Marty Jones)
702fd2e [copyright] add MIT license headers to .sh scripts where missing (isle2983)
a60d7cc [copyright] Add missing copyright headers (isle2983)
ea2a6be [copyright] add MIT License copyright header to remaining Python files (isle2983)
9a903f9 [copyright] add MIT License copyright header to zmq_sub.py (isle2983)
084cae9 UndoReadFromDisk works on undo files (rev), not on block files. (Pavel Janík)
e34374e [qa] wallet: Check legacy wallet as well (MarcoFalke)
d31ac72 Specify Protobuf version 2 in paymentrequest.proto (fanquake)
5e15fce Minor change in section name (Anders Øyvind Urke-Sætre)
0e2c6bd [Doc] Target protobuf 2.6 in OS X build notes. (Michael Ford)
da94272 [qa] walletbackup: Sync blocks inside the loop (MarcoFalke)
42ea51a net: No longer send local address in addrMe (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
ea51b0f Berkeley DB v6 compatibility fix (Alexey Vesnin)
0a35573 [doc] - clarify statement about parallel jobs in rpc-tests.py (isle2983)
752fbae contrib: Make fix-copyright-headers.py more portable (MarcoFalke)
486650a [doc] Fix typos in comments, doxygen: Fix comment syntax (MarcoFalke)
c18a9ca [qa] pull-tester: Don't mute zmq ImportError (MarcoFalke)
9556745 init: Fix typo in help message for -whitelistforcerelay (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
4f84082 Set jonasschnellis dns-seeder filter flag (Jonas Schnelli)
863ae74 [doc] Update git-subtree-check.sh README (MarcoFalke)
c493f43 Trivial: Fix two VarInt examples in serialize.h (Christian Barcenas)
cb07f19 CDB: fix debug output (crowning-)
75d5484 Add copyright header to wallet_text_fixture.cpp (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
305d8ac Use __func__ to get function name for output printing (MarcoFalke)
464dedd [Wallet] Trivial cleanup of HD wallet changes (Jonas Schnelli)
b17a3f9 document return value of networkhashps for getmininginfo RPC endpoint (Jameson Lopp)
a27cdd8 [qa] abandonconflict: Use assert_equal (MarcoFalke)
befe654 various typos (leijurv)
4e5fc31 Fix a type error that would not compile on Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn) (Jeremy Rubin)
156e305 Corrected JSON typo on setban of net.cpp (Sev)
fa5b249 Bugfix: Allow building libbitcoinconsensus without any univalue (Luke Dashjr)
8b0bdd3 configure: Allow building bench_bitcoin by itself (Luke Dashjr)
749c8a5 [doc] typos, READMEs, comments (Justin Camarena)
fc34928 Do diskspace check before import thread is started (Pieter Wuille)
3b354d2 Add extra message to avoid a long 'Loading banlist' (Pieter Wuille)
30eac2d Use a signal to continue init after genesis activation (Pieter Wuille)
9b00979 Update README.md (Chris Stewart)
8bb1efd [qa] Rework hd wallet dump test (MarcoFalke)
a7aa3cc Enable size accounting in mining unit tests (Suhas Daftuar)
bea02dc [qa]: enable rpcbind_test (whythat)
e111904 [qa]: add parsing for '<host>:<port>' argument form to rpc_url() (whythat)
69d1cd2 net: Ignore `notfound` P2P messages (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
f70be14 [QA] Add walletdump RPC test (including HD- & encryption-tests) (Jonas Schnelli)
1f21d16 prepend license statement to indirectmap (Kaz Wesley)
03b0196 Fix obvious assignment/equality error in test (Jeremy Rubin)
8a7d7ff update name of file bitcoin.qrc (Gaurav Rana)
147003c Add configure check for -latomic (Anthony Towns)
091cdeb Clear witness with vin/vout in CWallet::CreateTransaction() (Suhas Daftuar)
8e03382 [Qt][CoinControl] fix UI bug that could result in paying unexpected fee (Jonas Schnelli)
6b07362 Fix SIGHASH_SINGLE bug in test_framework SignatureHash (Johnson Lau)
a114a02 p2psegwit.py transaction is rejected due to premature witness not size (instagibbs)
3606b6b Update p2p-segwit.py to reflect correct AskFor behavior (instagibbs)
733760a Update btcdrak signing key (BtcDrak)
c6a6291 add witness address to address book (instagibbs)

Github-Pull: #8762
Rebased-From: 12a721b4

Years are set according to 'git log' history

Github-Pull: #8700
Rebased-From: 0766d1ca

Github-Pull: #8676
Rebased-From: 783e930e

Github-Pull: #8702
Rebased-From: 4677b197

Github-Pull: #8701
Rebased-From: 37a7fe9e

Github-Pull: #8737
Rebased-From: b4fb5127

Github-Pull: #8716
Rebased-From: fa644d00

Github-Pull: #8742
Rebased-From: c4084c20

Changed 'build' to 'create', as the section name have changed in newer versions of release-process.md

Github-Pull: #8720
Rebased-From: dad932c2

Homebrew now installs Protobuf version 3 by default, which doesn't currently compile. Install Protobuf 2.6.x from the versions tap instead.

Github-Pull: #8754
Rebased-From: b16a7f60

Github-Pull: #8724
Rebased-From: fad41f30