docs Remove 31.0 release notes fragments
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This commit only deletes documentation files—specifically, draft release-notes fragments for the upcoming 31.0 release. No program code, configuration defaults, or runtime behavior is changed. It is a routine housekeeping change and has no security relevance on its own.
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The commit removes 18 markdown files under doc/release-notes-*.md. These files are aggregated into the final release notes at release time; deleting the fragments does not alter Bitcoin Core’s binaries, RPC behavior, P2P logic, wallet code, or build system. The deleted text describes features already merged elsewhere (cluster mempool, private broadcast, new REST endpoints, etc.), but the deletion itself is purely documentation cleanup.
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes-24539.md b/doc/release-notes-24539.md
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-New settings
-------------
-- `-txospenderindex` enables the creation of a transaction output spender
- index that, if present, will be scanned by `gettxspendingprevout` if a
- spending transaction was not found in the mempool.
- (#24539)
-
-Updated RPCs
-------------
-- `gettxspendingprevout` has 2 new optional arguments: `mempool_only` and `return_spending_tx`.
- If `mempool_only` is true it will limit scans to the mempool even if `txospenderindex` is available.
- If `return_spending_tx` is true, the full spending tx will be returned.
- In addition if `txospenderindex` is available and a confirmed spending transaction is found,
- its block hash will be returned. (#24539)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-29415.md b/doc/release-notes-29415.md
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-P2P and network changes
------------------------
-
-- Normally local transactions are broadcast to all connected peers with
- which we do transaction relay. Now, for the `sendrawtransaction` RPC
- this behavior can be changed to only do the broadcast via the Tor or
- I2P networks. A new boolean option `-privatebroadcast` has been added
- to enable this behavior. This improves the privacy of the transaction
- originator in two aspects:
- 1. Their IP address (and thus geolocation) is never known to the
- recipients.
- 2. If the originator sends two otherwise unrelated transactions, they
- will not be linkable. This is because a separate connection is used
- for broadcasting each transaction. (#29415)
-
-- New RPCs have been added to introspect and control private broadcast:
- `getprivatebroadcastinfo` reports transactions currently being privately
- broadcast, and `abortprivatebroadcast` removes matching
- transactions from the private broadcast queue.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32138.md b/doc/release-notes-32138.md
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-RPC and Startup Option
----
-The `-paytxfee` startup option and the `settxfee` RPC are now deleted after being deprecated in Bitcoin Core 30.0. They used to allow the user to set a static fee rate for wallet transactions, which could potentially lead to overpaying or underpaying. Users should instead rely on fee estimation or specify a fee rate per transaction using the `fee_rate` argument in RPCs such as `fundrawtransaction`, `sendtoaddress`, `send`, `sendall`, and `sendmany`. (#32138)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33199.md b/doc/release-notes-33199.md
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-Fee Estimation
-========================
-
-- The Bitcoin Core fee estimator minimum fee rate bucket was updated from **1 sat/vB** to **0.1 sat/vB**,
- which matches the node’s default `minrelayfee`.
- This means that for a given confirmation target, if a sub-1 sat/vB fee rate bucket is the minimum tracked
- with sufficient data, its average value will be returned as the fee rate estimate.
-
-- Note: Restarting a node with this change invalidates previously saved estimates in `fee_estimates.dat`, the fee estimator will start tracking fresh stats.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33555.md b/doc/release-notes-33555.md
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-Build System
-------------
-
-- The minimum supported Clang compiler version has been raised to 17.0
- (#33555).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33629.md b/doc/release-notes-33629.md
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-Mempool
-=======
-
-The mempool has been reimplemented with a new design ("cluster mempool"), to
-facilitate better decision-making when constructing block templates, evicting
-transactions, relaying transactions, and validating replacement transactions
-(RBF). Most changes should be transparent to users, but some behavior changes
-are noted:
-
-- The mempool no longer enforces ancestor or descendant size/count limits.
- Instead, two new default policy limits are introduced governing connected
- components, or clusters, in the mempool, limiting clusters to 64 transactions
- and up to 101 kB in virtual size. Transactions are considered to be in the
- same cluster if they are connected to each other via any combination of
- parent/child relationships in the mempool. These limits can be overridden
- using command line arguments; see the extended help (`-help-debug`)
- for more information.
-
-- Within the mempool, transactions are ordered based on the feerate at which
- they are expected to be mined, which takes into account the full set, or
- "chunk", of transactions that would be included together (e.g., a parent and
- its child, or more complicated subsets of transactions). This ordering is
- utilized by the algorithms that implement transaction selection for
- constructing block templates; eviction from the mempool when it is full; and
- transaction relay announcements to peers.
-
-- The replace-by-fee validation logic has been updated so that transaction
- replacements are only accepted if the resulting mempool's feerate diagram is
- strictly better than before the replacement. This eliminates all known cases
- of replacements occurring that make the mempool worse off, which was possible
- under previous RBF rules. For singleton transactions (that are in clusters by
- themselves) it's sufficient for a replacement to have a higher fee and
- feerate than the original. See
- [delvingbitcoin.org post](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/an-overview-of-the-cluster-mempool-proposal/393#rbf-can-now-be-made-incentive-compatible-for-miners-11)
- for more information.
-
-- Two new RPCs have been added: `getmempoolcluster` will provide the set of
- transactions in the same cluster as the given transaction, along with the
- ordering of those transactions and grouping into chunks; and
- `getmempoolfeeratediagram` will return the feerate diagram of the entire
- mempool.
-
-- Chunk size and chunk fees are now also included in the output of `getmempoolentry`.
-
-- The "CPFP Carveout" has been removed from the mempool logic. The CPFP carveout
- allowed one additional child transaction to be added to a package that's already
- at its descendant limit, but only if that child has exactly one ancestor
- (the package's root) and is small (no larger than 10kvB). Nothing is allowed to
- bypass the cluster count limit. It is expected that smart contracting use-cases
- requiring similar functionality employ TRUC transactions and sibling eviction
- instead going forward.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33657.md b/doc/release-notes-33657.md
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-New REST API
-------------
-
-- A new REST API endpoint (`/rest/blockpart/<BLOCK-HASH>.<bin|hex>?offset=<OFFSET>&size=<SIZE>`) has been introduced
- for efficiently fetching a range of bytes from block `<BLOCK-HASH>`.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33770.md b/doc/release-notes-33770.md
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-`-asmap` requires explicit filename
------------------------------------
-
-In previous releases, if `-asmap` was specified without a filename, this would try to load an `ip_asn.map` data file. Now loading an asmap file requires an explicit filename like `-asmap=ip_asn.map`. This change was made to make the option easier to understand, because it was confusing for there to be a default filename not actually loaded by default (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/33386). Also this change makes the option more future-proof, because in upcoming releases, specifying `-asmap` will load embedded asmap data instead of an external file (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28792).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33842.md b/doc/release-notes-33842.md
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-Build System
-------------
-
-- The minimum supported GCC compiler version has been raised to 12.1 (#33842).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33872.md b/doc/release-notes-33872.md
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-P2P and network changes
------------------------
-
-- The `-maxorphantx` startup option has been removed. It was
- previously deprecated and has no effect anymore since v30.0. (#33872)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33892.md b/doc/release-notes-33892.md
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-P2P and network changes
------------------------
-
-- Transactions participating in one-parent-one-child package relay can now have the parent
- with a feerate lower than the `-minrelaytxfee` feerate, even 0 fee. This expands the change
- from 28.0 to also cover packages of non-TRUC transactions. Note that in general the
- package child can have additional unconfirmed parents, but they must already be
- in-mempool for the new package to be relayed. (#33892)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-34031.md b/doc/release-notes-34031.md
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-Net
----
-- `tor` has been removed as a network specification. It
- was deprecated in favour of `onion` in v0.17.0. (#34031)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-34088.md b/doc/release-notes-34088.md
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-- When `-logsourcelocations` is enabled, the log output now contains just the
- function name instead of the entire function signature. (#34088)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-34184.md b/doc/release-notes-34184.md
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-Mining IPC
-----------
-
-- `Mining.createNewBlock` now has a `cooldown` behavior (enabled by default)
- that waits for IBD to finish and for the tip to catch up. This usually
- prevents a flood of templates during startup, but is not guaranteed. (#34184)
-- `Mining.interrupt()` can be used to interrupt `Mining.waitTipChanged` and
- `Mining.createNewBlock`. (#34184)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-34197.md b/doc/release-notes-34197.md
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-Updated RPCs
-------------
-
-- The `getpeerinfo` RPC no longer returns the `startingheight` field unless
- the configuration option `-deprecatedrpc=startingheight` is used. The
- `startingheight` field will be fully removed in the next major release.
- (#34197)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-34512.md b/doc/release-notes-34512.md
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-Updated RPCs
-------------
-
-- The `getblock` RPC now returns a `coinbase_tx` object at verbosity levels 1, 2,
- and 3. It contains `version`, `locktime`, `sequence`, `coinbase` and
- `witness`. This allows for efficiently querying coinbase
- transaction properties without fetching the full transaction data at
- verbosity 2+. (#34512)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-34568.md b/doc/release-notes-34568.md
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-Mining IPC
-----------
-
-The IPC mining interface now requires mining clients to use the latest `mining.capnp` schema. Clients built against older schemas will fail when calling `Init.makeMining` and receive an RPC error indicating the old mining interface is no longer supported. Mining clients must update to the latest schema and regenerate bindings to continue working. (#34568)
-
-Notable IPC mining interface changes since the last release:
-- `Mining.createNewBlock` and `Mining.checkBlock` now require a `context` parameter.
-- `Mining.waitTipChanged` now has a default `timeout` (effectively infinite / `maxDouble`) if the client omits it.
-- `BlockTemplate.getCoinbaseTx()` now returns a structured `CoinbaseTx` instead of raw bytes.
-- Removed `BlockTemplate.getCoinbaseCommitment()` and `BlockTemplate.getWitnessCommitmentIndex()`.
-- Cap’n Proto default values were updated to match the corresponding C++ defaults for mining-related option structs (e.g. `BlockCreateOptions`, `BlockWaitOptions`, `BlockCheckOptions`).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-34692.md b/doc/release-notes-34692.md
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-## Updated settings
-
-- The default `-dbcache` value has been increased to `1024` MiB from `450` MiB
- on systems where at least `4096` MiB of RAM is detected.
- This is a performance increase, but will use more memory.
- To maintain the previous behaviour, set `-dbcache=450`.
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