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| 1 | +Bitcoin Core version 28.3 is now available from: |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | + <https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-28.3/> |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +This release includes various bug fixes and performance |
| 6 | +improvements, as well as updated translations. |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub: |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | + <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues> |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to: |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | + <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/> |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +How to Upgrade |
| 17 | +============== |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely |
| 20 | +shut down (which might take a few minutes in some cases), then run the |
| 21 | +installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt` (on macOS) |
| 22 | +or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux). |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +Upgrading directly from a version of Bitcoin Core that has reached its EOL is |
| 25 | +possible, but it might take some time if the data directory needs to be migrated. Old |
| 26 | +wallet versions of Bitcoin Core are generally supported. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +Compatibility |
| 29 | +============== |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +Bitcoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems |
| 32 | +using the Linux Kernel 3.17+, macOS 11.0+, and Windows 7 and newer. Bitcoin |
| 33 | +Core should also work on most other UNIX-like systems but is not as |
| 34 | +frequently tested on them. It is not recommended to use Bitcoin Core on |
| 35 | +unsupported systems. |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +Notable changes |
| 38 | +=============== |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +### Mempool & Policy |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | + The minimum block feerate (`-blockmintxfee`) has been changed to 1 satoshi per kvB. It can still be changed using the |
| 43 | +configuration option. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +- The default minimum relay feerate (`-minrelaytxfee`) and incremental relay feerate (`-incrementalrelayfee`) have been |
| 46 | +changed to 100 satoshis per kvB. They can still be changed using their respective configuration options, but it is |
| 47 | +recommended to change both together if you decide to do so. |
| 48 | + - Other minimum feerates (e.g. the dust feerate, the minimum returned by the fee estimator, and all feerates used by |
| 49 | + the wallet) remain unchanged. The mempool minimum feerate still changes in response to high volume. |
| 50 | + - Note that unless these lower defaults are widely adopted across the network, transactions created with lower fee |
| 51 | + rates are not guaranteed to propagate or confirm. The wallet feerates remain unchanged; `-mintxfee` must be changed |
| 52 | + before attempting to create transactions with lower feerates using the wallet. |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +- #33106 policy: lower the default blockmintxfee, incrementalrelayfee, minrelaytxfee |
| 55 | +- #33504 mempool: Do not enforce TRUC checks on reorg |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +### P2P |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +- #33395 net: do not apply whitelist permissions to onion inbounds |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +### Test |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +- #32765 test: Fix list index out of range error in feature_bip68_sequence.py |
| 64 | +- #33001 test: Do not pass tests on unhandled exceptions |
| 65 | +- #30125 test: improve BDB parser (handle internal/overflow pages, support all page sizes) |
| 66 | +- #30948 test: Add missing sync_mempools() to fill_mempool() |
| 67 | +- #30784 test: add BulkTransaction helper to unit test transaction utils |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +### Build |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +- #32678 guix: warn and abort when SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set |
| 72 | +- #32943 depends: Force CMAKE_EXPORT_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY=TRUE |
| 73 | +- #33073 guix: warn SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set in guix-codesign |
| 74 | +- #33563 build: fix depends Qt download link |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +### Doc |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +- #32776 doc: taproot became always active in v24.0 |
| 79 | +- #32777 doc: fix Transifex 404s |
| 80 | +- #33070 doc/zmq: fix unix socket path example |
| 81 | +- #33133 rpc: fix getpeerinfo ping duration unit docs |
| 82 | +- #33236 doc: Remove wrong and redundant doxygen tag |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +### Misc |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +- #33340 Fix benchmark CSV output |
| 87 | +- #33482 contrib: fix macOS deployment with no translations |
| 88 | +- #33581 ci: Properly include $FILE_ENV in DEPENDS_HASH |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | +Credits |
| 91 | +======= |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: |
| 94 | +- 0xB10C |
| 95 | +- amisha |
| 96 | +- Ava Chow |
| 97 | +- fanquake |
| 98 | +- glozow |
| 99 | +- Hennadii Stepanov |
| 100 | +- MarcoFalke |
| 101 | +- Martin Zumsande |
| 102 | +- romanz |
| 103 | +- Sjors Provoost |
| 104 | +- theStack |
| 105 | +- Vasil Dimov |
| 106 | +- willcl-ark |
| 107 | +- zaidmstrr |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +As well as to everyone that helped with translations on |
| 110 | +[Transifex](https://explore.transifex.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/). |
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