This number can change though as new people are given merge access and others give it up. I believe bitcoin core has 4 or 5 individuals at the moment who have merge access to allow changes to be made to the code. Many features have.
In addition the software contains several bug fixes and improvements. The upgrade is expected to save up to 9 percent of memory for full nodes. As a result bitcoin core 0 19 0 1 contains a total of 550 merged pull requests.
The bitcoin core developer community around wladimir van der laan worked on the release for a total of six months with over a hundred contributors. It is not recommended to use bitcoin core on unsupported systems. Bitcoin core should also work on most other unix like systems but is not as frequently tested on them.
Bitcoin core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems using the linux kernel macos 10 12 and windows 7 and newer. Bitcoin core 0 19 0 released bitcoin core 0 19 0 has been released with new features performance improvements and several bug fixes. The bitcoin core 0 19 1 maintenance release is now available with bug fixes and minor improvements.
For the latest developments related to bitcoin core be sure to visit the project s official website. The users of bitcoin core only accept transactions for that block chain making it the bitcoin block chain that everyone else wants to use. Bitcoin core is programmed to decide which block chain contains valid transactions.
