bitcoin/bitcoin — pull request #5079 by petertodd (2014-10-13 14:26:43+00:00)
Title: Accept any sequence of PUSHDATAs in OP_RETURN outputs

Previously only one PUSHDATA was allowed, needlessly limiting applications such as matching OP_RETURN contents with bloom filters that operate on a per-PUSHDATA level. Now any combination that passes IsPushOnly() is allowed, so long as the total size of the scriptPubKey is less than 42 bytes. (unchanged modulo non-minimal PUSHDATA encodings)

Also, this fixes the odd bug where previously the PUSHDATA could be replaced by any single opcode, even sigops consuming opcodes such as CHECKMULTISIG. (20 sigops!)

Finally, fix a weird corner-case bug is also fixed for TX_SCRIPTHASH outputs.