What the developer wrote
Authored by Hennadii Stepanov
doc: Add release notes for #32220
What changed, and why it matters
This commit only adds documentation: a new release-notes file explaining that an obscure build-system environment variable was removed and how users can still disable git detection. There is no code change, no bug fix, and no security-relevant behavior change in the commit itself.
No action required; this is a documentation-only release-note addition. Review the underlying PR #32220 separately if assessing the actual build-system change.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The diff creates doc/release-notes-32220.md describing the removal of the undocumented BITCOIN_GENBUILD_NO_GIT environment variable and the alternative -DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_Git=ON CMake option. The commit is purely documentation; it does not modify build logic, binaries, or runtime behavior.
Changed components
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+### Build System
+
+- The undocumented `BITCOIN_GENBUILD_NO_GIT` environment variable is no longer
+ required and has been removed. The build system now automatically detects
+ when it is being built from a source archive or as a subproject of a git-aware
+ parent project and skips git metadata fetching.
+
+ Users who need to disable git execution explicitly can still do so by
+ configuring with `-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_Git=ON`.
Why this scored 15/100
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