Bitcoin Core v24.1 & v23.2 Released

• "This release includes various bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations."

Release v24.1

P2P

• #26878 I2P network optimizations
• #26909 net: prevent peers.dat corruptions by only serializing once
• #27608 p2p: Avoid prematurely clearing download state for other peers
• #27610 Improve performance of p2p inv to send queues

RPC and other APIs

• #26515 rpc: Require NodeStateStats object in getpeerinfo
• #27279 doc: fix/improve warning helps in {create,load,unload,restore}wallet
• #27468 rest: avoid segfault for invalid URI

Build System

• #26944 depends: fix systemtap download URL
• #27462 depends: fix compiling bdb with clang-16 on aarch64

Wallet

• #26595 wallet: be able to specify a wallet name and passphrase to migratewallet
• #26675 wallet: For feebump, ignore abandoned descendant spends
• #26679 wallet: Skip rescanning if wallet is more recent than tip
• #26761 wallet: fully migrate address book entries for watchonly/solvable wallets
• #27053 wallet: reuse change dest when re-creating TX with avoidpartialspends
• #27080 wallet: Zero out wallet master key upon locking so it doesn't persist in memory
• #27473 wallet: Properly handle "unknown" Address Type

GUI changes

• gui#687 Load PSBTs using istreambuf_iterator rather than istream_iterator
• gui#704 Correctly limit overview transaction list

Miscellaneous

• #26880 ci: replace Intel macOS CI job
• #26924 refactor: Add missing includes to fix gcc-13 compile error

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

• Andrew Chow
• Anthony Towns
• Hennadii Stepanov
• John Moffett
• Jon Atack
• Marco Falke
• Martin Zumsande
• Matthew Zipkin
• Michael Ford
• pablomartin4btc
• Sebastian Falbesoner
• Suhas Daftuar
• Thomas Nguyen
• Vasil Dimov

GitHub Repo

Release v23.2

P2P

• #26909 net: prevent peers.dat corruptions by only serializing once
• #27608 p2p: Avoid prematurely clearing download state for other peers
• #27610 Improve performance of p2p inv to send queues

Build system

• #25436 build: suppress array-bounds errors in libxkbcommon
• #25763 bdb: disable Werror for format-security
• #26944 depends: fix systemtap download URL
• #27462 depends: fix compiling bdb with clang-16 on aarch64

Miscellaneous

• #25444 ci: macOS task imrovements
• #26388 ci: Use macos-ventura-xcode:14.1 image for "macOS native" task
• #26924 refactor: Add missing includes to fix gcc-13 compile error

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

• Anthony Towns
• Hennadii Stepanov
• MacroFake
• Martin Zumsande
• Michael Ford
• Suhas Daftuar

As well as to everyone that helped with translations on Transifex.

GitHub Repo