Bitcoin ABC 0.33.8 Release Notes

Bitcoin ABC version 0.33.8 is now available from:

https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.33.8/

This release includes the following features and fixes:

• The implementation of the point multiplication algorithm used for signing and public key generation in libsepc256k1 was changed, resulting in improved performance for those operations. The related cmake option SECP256K1_ECMULT_GEN_PRECISION was replaced with SECP256K1_ECMULT_GEN_KB. This changes the supported precomputed table sizes for these operations. The new supported sizes are 2 KiB, 22 KiB, or 86 KiB (while the old supported sizes were 32 KiB, 64 KiB, or 512 KiB).