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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:13:33 +0100
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Subject: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 25.1 released
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Bitcoin Core version v25.1 is now available from:

    https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-25.1/

Or through BitTorrent:

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This release includes various bug fixes and performance
improvements, as well as updated translations.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:

  <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>

To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:

  <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/>

How to Upgrade
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If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has comple=
tely
shut down (which might take a few minutes in some cases), then run the
installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt` (on mac=
OS)
or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux).

Upgrading directly from a version of Bitcoin Core that has reached its EOL =
is
possible, but it might take some time if the data directory needs to
be migrated. Old
wallet versions of Bitcoin Core are generally supported.

Compatibility
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Bitcoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems
using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.15+, and Windows 7 and newer.  Bitcoin
Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not as
frequently tested on them.  It is not recommended to use Bitcoin Core on
unsupported systems.

Notable changes
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### P2P

- #27626 Parallel compact block downloads, take 3
- #27743 p2p: Unconditionally return when compact block status =3D=3D
READ_STATUS_FAILED

### Fees

- #27622 Fee estimation: avoid serving stale fee estimate

### RPC

- #27727 rpc: Fix invalid bech32 address handling

### Rest

- #27853 rest: fix crash error when calling /deploymentinfo
- #28551 http: bugfix: allow server shutdown in case of remote client
disconnection

### Wallet

- #28038 wallet: address book migration bug fixes
- #28067 descriptors: do not return top-level only funcs as sub descriptors
- #28125 wallet: bugfix, disallow migration of invalid scripts
- #28542 wallet: Check for uninitialized last processed and
conflicting heights in MarkConflicted

### Build

- #27724 build: disable boost multi index safe mode in debug mode
- #28097 depends: xcb-proto 1.15.2
- #28543 build, macos: Fix qt package build with new Xcode 15 linker
- #28571 depends: fix unusable memory_resource in macos qt build

### Gui

- gui#751 macOS, do not process actions during shutdown

### Miscellaneous

- #28452 Do not use std::vector =3D {} to release memory

### CI

- #27777 ci: Prune dangling images on RESTART_CI_DOCKER_BEFORE_RUN
- #27834 ci: Nuke Android APK task, Use credits for tsan
- #27844 ci: Use podman stop over podman kill
- #27886 ci: Switch to amd64 container in "ARM" task

Credits
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Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

- Abubakar Sadiq Ismail
- Andrew Chow
- Bruno Garcia
- Gregory Sanders
- Hennadii Stepanov
- MacroFake
- Matias Furszyfer
- Michael Ford
- Pieter Wuille
- stickies-v
- Will Clark

As well as to everyone that helped with translations on
[Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/).