Core: September recap
Hello Dev-Shibes!
Here’s the recap for September 2026 on the Dogecoin Core Wallet. It was a quiet month on master with just one merge, so this time I’m also taking a look at a related side project from chromatic because it touches an ongoing discussion within the Dogecoin.
Dogecoin Core
|Who|Commit|Description|
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|chromatic|f821423 – Relax RPC auth-scheme validation|The RPC server used to accept only the exact string Basic in the Authorization header. Per RFC 7235 the auth scheme is case-insensitive, so basic, BASIC (or even BaSiC) are now accepted too. Non-Basic schemes (e.g. Bearer) are still rejected. Adds a new locale-independent ToLower() helper, since std::tolower() behaves differently under a Turkish locale (the famous “Turkish I” problem: “BASIC” would not match “basic” there). Comes with new unit tests and extended RPC tests.|
|michilumin|47a303a – Merge PR #4022|Merge commit for the above change into master|
Why it matters: some HTTP clients and libraries send the auth scheme in lowercase, and those were getting rejected by the node for no good reason. This is a small standards-compliance fix, nothing changes for setups that already work. The locale-independent lowercase function is a nice detail: making the comparison case-insensitive “the obvious way” would have created a new bug for users running a Turkish system locale.
Side note: Whippet, chromatic’s experimental blocktime fork
Since master was quiet, here’s what’s going on in whippet-experimental-blockchain. Whippet is a Dogecoin fork built purely to experiment with blocktime: 6-second blocks (10x faster than Dogecoin), a consensus rule enforcing a minimum spacing between blocks, and an evaluation of merge-mining risks at that speed. It is explicitly not intended for exchange listings, token sales or speculative trading. It’s a test network, not an investment.
There is also work to do!
random: use BCryptGenRandom for OS entropy on Windows (link)
I still have a few Dogecoins that actually belong to the community. If anyone has an idea for a backport or would like to contribute in any way to attract more developers to the project, please let me know. I’d be happy to hear from you and would gladly send over a (modest) tip!
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Mentions
File checksums in this issue. I welcome any confirmation and testing! whippet-experimental-blockchain#7
Released! github.com/chromatic/whippet-experimental-blockch… If you want to test how L1 scrypt coins work at the speed of light (-ish), give me a hand!
Core: September recap Hello Dev-Shibes! Here’s the recap for September 2026 on the Dogecoin Core Wallet. It was a quiet month on master with just one merge, so this time I’m also taking a look at a related side project from chromatic because it touches an ongoing discussion within the Dogecoin. Dogecoin Core |Who|Commit|Description| |:-|:-|:-| |chromatic|f821423 – Relax RPC auth-scheme validation|The RPC server used to accept only the exact string Basic in the Authorization header. Per RFC 7235 the auth scheme is case-insensitive, so basic, BASIC (or even BaSiC) are now accepted too. Non-Basic schemes (e.g. Bearer) are still rejected. Adds a new locale-independent ToLower() helper, since std::tolower() behaves differently under a Turkish locale (the famous “Turkish I” problem: “BASIC” would not match “basic” there). Comes with new unit tests and extended RPC tests.| |michilumin|47a303a – Merge PR #4022|Merge commit for the above change into master| Why it matters: some HTTP clients and libraries send the auth scheme in lowercase, and those were getting rejected by the node for no good reason. This is a small standards-compliance fix, nothing changes for setups that already work. The locale-independent lowercase function is a nice detail: making the comparison case-insensitive “the obvious way” would have created a new bug for users running a Turkish system locale. Side note: Whippet, chromatic’s experimental blocktime fork Since master was quiet, here’s what’s going on in whippet-experimental-blockchain. Whippet is a Dogecoin fork built purely to experiment with blocktime: 6-second blocks (10x faster than Dogecoin), a consensus rule enforcing a minimum spacing between blocks, and an evaluation of merge-mining risks at that speed. It is explicitly not intended for exchange listings, token sales or speculative trading. It’s a test network, not an investment. There is also work to do! random: use BCryptGenRandom for OS entropy on Windows (link) I still have a few Dogecoins that actually belong to the community. If anyone has an idea for a backport or would like to contribute in any way to attract more developers to the project, please let me know. I’d be happy to hear from you and would gladly send over a (modest) tip!
Gitian checksums here: whippet-experimental-blockchain#4 This release fixes some AuxPow and UAP errors, pulls in some upstream bugfixes, and prepares for a smoother 6-second block confirmation time.