doc: add release notes for #33671 (getbalances nonmempool field)
What the developer wrote
Authored by Pablo Martin
doc: add release notes for #33671 (getbalances nonmempool field)
What changed, and why it matters
This commit only adds documentation: a new release-notes file describing a previously merged RPC improvement. No code changes are present, and there is no security issue in the commit itself.
No action required; this is a documentation-only commit.
Security signals we found
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Evidence from the diff
The commit creates doc/release-notes-33671.md, an 11-line release note explaining that the getbalances RPC now reports a nonmempool balance field. The underlying change was already merged via PR #33671; this commit is purely informational documentation.
Changed components
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+Updated RPCs
+------------
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+- `getbalances` now includes a `nonmempool` field under `mine`, reporting
+ the net balance of wallet transactions that are not in the mempool (e.g.
+ due to too low a feerate, too many unconfirmed ancestors, or a too-large
+ `OP_RETURN` output). This value is always negative, and is typically an
+ over-estimate since it accounts for coins being spent but not for change
+ outputs returning to the wallet (which are also outside the mempool).
+ Without this field, funds involved in non-mempool transactions could
+ appear to go missing from the wallet balance. (#33671)
Why this scored 15/100
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