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This commit only deletes release-note documentation files from the Bitcoin Core repository and moves them to the project's wiki. No program code, configuration defaults, or executable behavior was changed. It is purely a documentation housekeeping step before creating a new release branch.
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The commit removes 24 markdown files under doc/release-notes-*.md (206 lines total) and references a wiki draft for v30.0 release notes. The diff consists entirely of file deletions; there are no source-code modifications, build system changes, or functional changes to Bitcoin Core.
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diff --git a/doc/release-30635.md b/doc/release-30635.md
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-Updated RPCs
-------------
-
-- The waitfornewblock now takes an optional `current_tip` argument. It is also no longer hidden. (#30635)
-- The waitforblock and waitforblockheight RPCs are no longer hidden. (#30635)
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-- Logs now include which peer sent us a header. Additionally there are fewer
- redundant header log messages. A side-effect of this change is that for
- some untypical cases new headers aren't logged anymore, e.g. a direct
- `BLOCK` message with a previously unknown header and `submitheader` RPC. (#27826)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-31278.md b/doc/release-notes-31278.md
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-RPC and Startup Option
----
-The `-paytxfee` startup option and the `settxfee` RPC are now deprecated and will be removed in Bitcoin Core 31.0. They allowed 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`. (#31278)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-31375-31679.md b/doc/release-notes-31375-31679.md
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-New command line interface
---------------------------
-
-A new `bitcoin` command line tool has been added to make features more
-discoverable and convenient to use. The `bitcoin` tool just calls other
-executables and does not implement any functionality on its own. Specifically
-`bitcoin node` is a synonym for `bitcoind`, `bitcoin gui` is a synonym for
-`bitcoin-qt`, and `bitcoin rpc` is a synonym for `bitcoin-cli -named`. Other
-commands and options can be listed with `bitcoin help`. The new tool does not
-replace other tools, so existing commands should continue working and there are
-no plans to deprecate them.
-
-Install changes
----------------
-
-The `test_bitcoin` executable is now located in `libexec/` rather than `bin/`.
-It can still be executed directly, or accessed through the new `bitcoin` command
-line tool as `bitcoin test`.
-
-Other executables which are only part of source releases and not built by
-default: `test_bitcoin-qt`, `bench_bitcoin`, `bitcoin-chainstate`,
-`bitcoin-node`, and `bitcoin-gui` are also now installed in `libexec/`
-instead of `bin/` and can be accessed through the `bitcoin` command line tool.
-See `bitcoin help` output for details.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-31385.md b/doc/release-notes-31385.md
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-RPC
-
-The `submitpackage` RPC, which allows submissions of child-with-parents
-packages, no longer requires that all unconfirmed parents be present. The
-package may contain other in-mempool ancestors as well. (#31385)
-
-P2P
-
-Opportunistic 1-parent-1-child package relay has been improved to handle
-situations when the child already has unconfirmed parent(s) in the mempool.
-This means that 1p1c packages can be accepted and propagate, even if they are
-connected to broader topologies: multi-parent-1-child (where only 1 parent
-requires fee-bumping), grandparent-parent-child (where only parent requires
-fee-bumping) etc. (#31385)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-31603.md b/doc/release-notes-31603.md
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-Updated RPCs
---------
-
-- Any RPC in which one of the parameters are descriptors will throw an error
-if the provided descriptor contains a whitespace at the beginning or the end
-of the public key within a fragment - e.g. `pk( KEY)` or `pk(KEY )`.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-31802.md b/doc/release-notes-31802.md
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-A new (experimental) Mining interface was introduced to support Stratum v2 or other mining client software, see #31098. When the node is started with `bitcoin node -m -ipcbind=unix` the node will listen on a unix socket for IPC client connections. The `-m` option launches a new binary `bitcoin-node` instead of `bitcoind`.
-
-IPC connectivity introduces new dependencies (see [multiprocess.md](multiprocess.md)), which are only included in the `bitcoin-node` and `bitcoin-gui` binaries (not in `bitcoind` and `bitcoin-qt`). Those new binaries are now built by default (controlled by `ENABLE_IPC`). If you don't intend to use IPC, nothing changes and there is no need to use `bitcoin -m`, `bitcoin-node` or `bitcoin-gui`(#31802)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-31829.md b/doc/release-notes-31829.md
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-P2P
-
-- The transaction orphanage, which holds transactions with missing inputs temporarily while the node attempts to fetch
-its parents, now has improved Denial of Service protections. Previously, it enforced a maximum number of unique
-transactions (default 100, configurable using `-maxorphantx`). Now, its limits are as follows: the number of entries
-(unique by wtxid and peer), plus each unique transaction's input count divided by 10, must not exceed 3,000. The total
-weight of unique transactions must not exceed 404,000 Wu multiplied by the number of peers.
-
-- The `-maxorphantx` option no longer has any effect, since the orphanage no longer limits the number of unique
-transactions. Users should remove this configuration option if they were using it, as the setting will cause an
-error in future versions when it is no longer recognized.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-31953.md b/doc/release-notes-31953.md
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-# RPC
-
-- The RPCs psbtbumpfee and bumpfee allow a replacement under fullrbf and no
- longer require BIP-125 signalling. (#31953)
-
-# GUI
-
-- A transaction's fee bump is allowed under fullrbf and no longer requires
- BIP-125 signalling. (#31953)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32406.md b/doc/release-notes-32406.md
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-- `-datacarriersize` is increased to 100,000 which effectively uncaps the limit (as the maximum transaction size limit will be hit first). It can be overridden with -datacarriersize=83 to revert to the limit enforced in previous versions. Both `-datacarrier` and `-datacarriersize` options have been marked as deprecated and are expected to be removed in a future release. (#32406)
-
-- Multiple data carrier (OP_RETURN) outputs in a transaction are now permitted for relay and mining. The `-datacarriersize` limit applies to the aggregate size of the scriptPubKeys across all such outputs in a transaction, not including the scriptPubKey size itself. (#32406)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32425.md b/doc/release-notes-32425.md
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-Updated settings
-----------------
-
-- Previously, `-proxy` specified the proxy for all networks (except I2P which
- uses `-i2psam`) and only the Tor proxy could have been specified separately
- via `-onion`. Now, the syntax of `-proxy` has been extended and it is possible
- to specify separately the proxy for IPv4, IPv6, Tor and CJDNS by appending `=`
- followed by the network name, for example `-proxy=127.0.0.1:5555=ipv6`
- configures a proxy only for IPv6. The `-proxy` option can be used multiple
- times to define different proxies for different networks, such as
- `-proxy=127.0.0.1:4444=ipv4 -proxy=10.0.0.1:6666=ipv6`. Later settings
- override earlier ones for the same network; this can be used to remove an
- earlier all-networks proxy and use direct connections only for a given
- network, for example `-proxy=127.0.0.1:5555 -proxy=0=cjdns`. (#32425)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32459.md b/doc/release-notes-32459.md
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-GUI changes
-
-- Custom column widths in the Transactions tab are reset as a side-effect of legacy wallet removal. (#32459)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32500.md b/doc/release-notes-32500.md
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-### Updated Settings
-
-- The `-upnp` setting has now been fully removed. Use `-natpmp` instead. (#32500)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32521.md b/doc/release-notes-32521.md
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-### Policy
-
-The maximum number of potentially executed legacy signature operations in a
-single standard transaction is now limited to 2500. Signature operations in all
-previous output scripts, in all input scripts, as well as all P2SH redeem
-scripts (if there are any) are counted toward the limit. The new limit is
-assumed to not affect any known typically formed standard transactions. The
-change was done to prepare for a possible BIP54 deployment in the future.
-(#32521)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32530.md b/doc/release-notes-32530.md
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-# Updated Settings
-
-- The `-maxmempool` and `-dbcache` startup parameters are now capped on 32-bit systems to 500MB and
- 1GiB respectively.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32540.md b/doc/release-notes-32540.md
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-New RPCs
---------
-
-- A new REST API endpoint (`/rest/spenttxouts/BLOCKHASH`) has been introduced for
- efficiently fetching spent transaction outputs using the block's undo data (#32540).
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32604.md b/doc/release-notes-32604.md
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-Logging
--------
-Unconditional logging to disk is now rate limited by giving each source location
-a quota of 1MiB per hour. Unconditional logging is any logging with a log level
-higher than debug, that is `info`, `warning`, and `error`. All logs will be
-prefixed with `[*]` if there is at least one source location that is currently
-being suppressed. (#32604)
-
-When `-logsourcelocations` is enabled, the log output now contains the entire
-function signature instead of just the function name. (#32604)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32618.md b/doc/release-notes-32618.md
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-Wallet
-------
-
-* Since descriptor wallets do not allow mixing watchonly and non-watchonly descriptors,
-the `include_watchonly` option (and its variants in naming) are removed from all RPCs
-that had it.
-* The `iswatchonly` field is removed from any RPCs that returned it.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32845.md b/doc/release-notes-32845.md
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-Updated RPCs
-------------
-
-- `unloadwallet` - Return RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER when both the RPC wallet endpoint
-and wallet_name parameters are unspecified. Previously the RPC failed with a JSON
-parsing error.
-- `getdescriptoractivity` - Mark blockhashes and scanobjects arguments as required,
-so the user receives a clear help message when either is missing. As in `unloadwallet`,
-previously the RPC failed with a JSON parsing error.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32896.md b/doc/release-notes-32896.md
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-Updated RPCs
-------------
-The following RPCs now contain a `version` parameter that allows
-the user to create transactions of any standard version number (1-3):
-- `createrawtransaction`
-- `createpsbt`
-- `send`
-- `sendall`
-- `walletcreatefundedpsbt`
-
-Wallet
-------
-Support has been added for spending TRUC transactions received by the
-wallet, as well as creating TRUC transactions. The wallet ensures that
-TRUC policy rules are being met. The wallet will throw an error if the
-user is trying to spend TRUC utxos with utxos of other versions.
-Additionally, the wallet will treat unconfirmed TRUC sibling
-transactions as mempool conflicts. The wallet will also ensure that
-transactions spending TRUC utxos meet the required size restrictions.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-32944-28710-32438-31250.md b/doc/release-notes-32944-28710-32438-31250.md
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-# Legacy Wallet Removal
-
-BDB legacy wallets can no longer be created or loaded. They can be migrated to
-the new descriptor wallet format. Refer to the `migratewallet` RPC for more
-details.
-
-The legacy wallet removal drops redundant options in the bitcoin-wallet tool,
-such as `-withinternalbdb`, `-legacy`, and `-descriptors`. Moreover, the
-legacy-only RPCs `addmultisigaddress`, `dumpprivkey`, `dumpwallet`,
-`importaddress`, `importmulti`, `importprivkey`, `importpubkey`,
-`importwallet`, `newkeypool`, `sethdseed`, and `upgradewallet`, are removed.
-(#32944, #28710, #32438, #31250)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33004.md b/doc/release-notes-33004.md
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-Updated settings
-----------------
-
-* The `-natpmp` option is now set to `1` by default. This means nodes with `-listen` enabled (the
- default) but running behind a firewall, such as a local network router, will be reachable if the
- firewall/router supports any of the `PCP` or `NAT-PMP` protocols.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33106.md b/doc/release-notes-33106.md
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-Mining and Transaction Relay Policy
-=========================
-
-The minimum block feerate (`-blockmintxfee`) has been changed to 1 satoshi per kvB. It can still be changed using the
-configuration option.
-
-The default minimum relay feerate (`-minrelaytxfee`) and incremental relay feerate (`-incrementalrelayfee`) have been
-changed to 100 satoshis per kvB. They can still be changed using their respective configuration options, but it is
-recommended to change both together if you decide to do so.
-
-Other minimum feerates (e.g. the dust feerate, the minimum returned by the fee estimator, and all feerates used by the
-wallet) remain unchanged. The mempool minimum feerate still changes in response to high volume.
-
-Note that unless these lower defaults are widely adopted across the network, transactions created with lower fee rates
-are not guaranteed to propagate or confirm. The wallet feerates remain unchanged; `-mintxfee` must be changed before
-attempting to create transactions with lower feerates using the wallet.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-33183.md b/doc/release-notes-33183.md
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-Updated RPCs
-------------
-
-Transaction Script validation errors used to return the reason for the error prefixed by either
-"mandatory-script-verify-flag-failed" if it was a consensus error, or "non-mandatory-script-verify-flag"
-(without "-failed") if it was a standardness error. This has been changed to "block-script-verify-flag-failed"
-and "mempool-script-verify-flag-failed" for all block and mempool errors respectively.
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