doc: Release note for export watchonly wallet gui action
What the developer wrote
Authored by Ava Chow
doc: Release note for export watchonly wallet gui action
What changed, and why it matters
This commit only adds a release note describing a new graphical menu option in the Bitcoin Core wallet. It documents a feature that lets users create a watch-only wallet file from an existing descriptor wallet, matching an existing RPC command. There is no code change and no security issue.
No security action needed; this is a documentation-only release note.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The diff creates doc/release-notes-gui-872.md, a documentation-only release note. It explains that the GUI now exposes an action to export a watch-only wallet, equivalent to the exportwatchonlywallet RPC. No source code, logic, or configuration is modified.
Changed components
doc/release-notes-gui-872.mdInspect captured patch +7 / −0
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+* A menu action has been added to allow creating a watchonly wallet file from
+ an existing descriptor wallet. This option mirrors the `exportwatchonlywallet`
+ RPC - the exported file can be imported to another node using the Restore
+ Wallet menu action.
Why this scored 15/100
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