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depends: Update Qt to 6.8.3

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Hennadii Stepanov

45/100 · Thin
depends: Update Qt to 6.8.3
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component! No meaningful explanatory body
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit updates the Qt graphical toolkit used by Bitcoin Core from version 6.7.3 to 6.8.3. It changes download URLs, checksums, build settings, and patches. The update itself is a routine dependency refresh, but any Qt upgrade can introduce or fix security issues in the user interface code. The commit does not mention any specific security problem, and the visible changes are mostly build-compatibility and reproducibility adjustments rather than obvious vulnerability fixes.

Recommended action

Treat as a standard dependency update. Review Qt 6.8.3 release notes and security advisories from Qt Project/The Qt Company for any CVEs fixed between 6.7.3 and 6.8.3. Verify SHA-256 hashes against official Qt downloads. No immediate security response is indicated by this commit alone.

Security signals we found

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Dependency version bump (Qt 6.7.3 -> 6.8.3)

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New patch disabling macOS 15 SDK feature to avoid undefined symbol at link time

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Removed Windows 11 style patch now upstreamed in Qt 6.8.3

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Build option change to preserve reproducible builds (-no-feature-libstdcpp_assertions)

05

No explicit security fix or CVE reference in commit message or diff

Risk score

Why this scored 25/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 3/15
Affected reach 8/15
Confidence 4/10
Evidence quality 2/5
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