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New command line interface
A new bitcoin command line tool has been added to make features more
discoverable and convenient to use. The bitcoin tool just calls other
executables and does not implement any functionality on its own. Specifically
bitcoin node is a synonym for bitcoind, bitcoin gui is a synonym for
bitcoin-qt, and bitcoin rpc is a synonym for bitcoin-cli -named. Other
commands and options can be listed with bitcoin help. The new tool does not
replace other tools, so existing commands should continue working and there are
no plans to deprecate them.
Install changes
The test_bitcoin executable is now located in libexec/ rather than bin/.
It can still be executed directly, or accessed through the new bitcoin command
line tool as bitcoin test.
Other executables which are only part of source releases and not built by
default: test_bitcoin-qt, bench_bitcoin, bitcoin-chainstate,
bitcoin-node, and bitcoin-gui are also now installed in libexec/
instead of bin/ and can be accessed through the bitcoin command line tool.
See bitcoin help output for details.