What the developer wrote
Authored by stratospher
doc: add release notes for #26988
What changed, and why it matters
This commit only adds a release note describing a prior change to the bitcoin-cli -addrinfo command. It does not change any code, behavior, or security properties of the software. The release note explains that -addrinfo now returns all known network addresses instead of a filtered subset, and that it requires a newer node version. There is no security issue in this documentation commit itself.
No action required. This is a documentation-only release note with no security relevance.
Security signals we found
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Evidence from the diff
Commit b3046cca is a documentation-only change creating doc/release-notes-26988.md. The file describes pull request #26988, which changed the bitcoin-cli -addrinfo output to return the full address manager state via the getaddrmaninfo RPC rather than a filtered view. The commit contains no executable code, no RPC behavior changes, no consensus changes, and no cryptographic modifications. It is purely a release-notes addition.
Changed components
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+Tools and Utilities
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+- CLI -addrinfo now returns the full set of known addresses. In previous versions (v22.0 - v30.0) the set of returned
+ addresses was filtered for quality and recency. This was changed since it does not match the logic for selecting peers
+ to connect to, which does not filter. Note: CLI -addrinfo now requires bitcoind v26.0 or later, as it uses the
+ getaddrmaninfo RPC internally. Users querying older, unmaintained node versions would need to use an older bitcoin-cli
+ version. (#26988)
Why this scored 17/100
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