What the developer wrote
Authored by Pol Espinasa
add release note
What changed, and why it matters
This commit only adds a release note describing a previously merged feature. It does not change any code, configuration, or behavior. There is no security issue in this commit itself.
No action needed; this is a documentation-only release note addition.
Security signals we found
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Evidence from the diff
The commit creates doc/release-notes-35266, a documentation-only file explaining that the migratewallet RPC now allows not loading the migrated descriptor wallet, which is useful for pruned nodes. The change is purely informational release notes; no executable code is modified.
Changed components
doc/release-notes-35266Inspect captured patch +7 / −0
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+The `migratewallet` RPC now gives the option to not load the descriptor wallet after migrating it from a legacy wallet.
+This will now allow pruned nodes to migrate a wallet out of sync below the pruning height.
+Note that to use the new wallet it must be loaded to a full node anyway.
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Why this scored 15/100
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