doc: update release notes for 28.1rc1

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 303 deletions

diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index d9e6a34d0f..21221a83a0 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Bitcoin Core version 28.0 is now available from:
+Bitcoin Core version 28.1rc1 is now available from:
 
-  <https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-28.0/>
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-28.1/test.rc1>
 
 This release includes new features, various bug fixes and performance
 improvements, as well as updated translations.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ wallet versions of Bitcoin Core are generally supported.
 
 Running Bitcoin Core binaries on macOS requires self signing.
 ```
-cd /path/to/bitcoin-28.0/bin
+cd /path/to/bitcoin-28.x/bin
 xattr -d com.apple.quarantine bitcoin-cli bitcoin-qt bitcoin-tx bitcoin-util bitcoin-wallet bitcoind test_bitcoin
 codesign -s - bitcoin-cli bitcoin-qt bitcoin-tx bitcoin-util bitcoin-wallet bitcoind test_bitcoin
 ```
@@ -44,328 +44,45 @@ unsupported systems.
 Notable changes
 ===============
 
-Testnet4/BIP94 support
------
+### P2P
 
-Support for Testnet4 as specified in [BIP94](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0094.mediawiki)
-has been added. The network can be selected with the `-testnet4` option and
-the section header is also named `[testnet4]`.
+- #30568 addrman: change internal id counting to int64_t
 
-While the intention is to phase out support for Testnet3 in an upcoming
-version, support for it is still available via the known options in this
-release. (#29775)
+### Key
 
-Windows Data Directory
-----------------------
+- #31166 key: clear out secret data in DecodeExtKey
 
-The default data directory on Windows has been moved from `C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin`
-to `C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Bitcoin`. Bitcoin Core will check the existence
-of the old directory first and continue to use that directory for backwards
-compatibility if it is present. (#27064)
+### Build
 
-JSON-RPC 2.0 Support
---------------------
+- #31013 depends: For mingw cross compile use `-gcc-posix` to prevent library conflict
 
-The JSON-RPC server now recognizes JSON-RPC 2.0 requests and responds with
-strict adherence to the [specification](https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification).
-See [JSON-RPC-interface.md](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/JSON-RPC-interface.md#json-rpc-11-vs-20) for details. (#27101)
+### Test
 
-JSON-RPC clients may need to be updated to be compatible with the JSON-RPC server.
-Please open an issue on GitHub if any compatibility issues are found.
+- #31016 test: add missing sync to feature_fee_estimation.py
 
-libbitcoinconsensus Removal
----------------------------
+### Doc
 
-The libbitcoin-consensus library was deprecated in 27.0 and is now completely removed. (#29648)
+- #31007 doc: add testnet4 section header for config file
 
-P2P and Network Changes
------------------------
+### CI
 
-- Previously if Bitcoin Core was listening for P2P connections, either using
-  default settings or via `bind=addr:port` it would always also bind to
-  `127.0.0.1:8334` to listen for Tor connections. It was not possible to switch
-  this off, even if the node didn't use Tor. This has been changed and now
-  `bind=addr:port` results in binding on `addr:port` only. The default behavior
-  of binding to `0.0.0.0:8333` and `127.0.0.1:8334` has not been changed.
+- #30961 ci: add LLVM_SYMBOLIZER_PATH to Valgrind fuzz job
 
-  If you are using a `bind=...` configuration without `bind=...=onion` and rely
-  on the previous implied behavior to accept incoming Tor connections at
-  `127.0.0.1:8334`, you need to now make this explicit by using
-  `bind=... bind=127.0.0.1:8334=onion`. (#22729)
+### Misc
 
-- Bitcoin Core will now fail to start up if any of its P2P binds fail, rather
-  than the previous behaviour where it would only abort startup if all P2P
-  binds had failed. (#22729)
-
-- UNIX domain sockets can now be used for proxy connections. Set `-onion` or `-proxy`
-  to the local socket path with the prefix `unix:` (e.g. `-onion=unix:/home/me/torsocket`).
-  (#27375)
-
-- UNIX socket paths are now accepted for `-zmqpubrawblock` and `-zmqpubrawtx` with
-  the format `-zmqpubrawtx=unix:/path/to/file` (#27679)
-
-- Additional "in" and "out" flags have been added to `-whitelist` to control whether
-  permissions apply to inbound connections and/or manual ones (default: inbound only). (#27114)
-
-- Transactions having a feerate that is too low will be opportunistically paired with
-  their child transactions and submitted as a package, thus enabling the node to download
-  1-parent-1-child packages using the existing transaction relay protocol. Combined with
-  other mempool policies, this change allows limited "package relay" when a parent transaction
-  is below the mempool minimum feerate. Topologically Restricted Until Confirmation (TRUC)
-  parents are additionally allowed to be below the minimum relay feerate (i.e., pay 0 fees).
-  Use the `submitpackage` RPC to submit packages directly to the node. Warning: this P2P
-  feature is limited (unlike the `submitpackage` interface, a child with multiple unconfirmed
-  parents is not supported) and not yet reliable under adversarial conditions. (#28970)
-
-Mempool Policy Changes
-----------------------
-
-- Transactions with version number set to 3 are now treated as standard on all networks (#29496),
-  subject to opt-in Topologically Restricted Until Confirmation (TRUC) transaction policy as
-  described in [BIP 431](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0431.mediawiki).  The
-  policy includes limits on spending unconfirmed outputs (#28948), eviction of a previous descendant
-  if a more incentive-compatible one is submitted (#29306), and a maximum transaction size of 10,000vB
-  (#29873). These restrictions simplify the assessment of incentive compatibility of accepting or
-  replacing TRUC transactions, thus ensuring any replacements are more profitable for the node and
-  making fee-bumping more reliable.
-
-- Pay To Anchor (P2A) is a new standard witness output type for spending,
-  a newly recognised output template. This allows for key-less anchor
-  outputs, with compact spending conditions for additional efficiencies on
-  top of an equivalent `sh(OP_TRUE)` output, in addition to the txid stability
-  of the spending transaction.
-  N.B. propagation of this output spending on the network will be limited
-  until a sufficient number of nodes on the network adopt this upgrade. (#30352)
-
-- Limited package RBF is now enabled, where the proposed conflicting package would result in
-  a connected component, aka cluster, of size 2 in the mempool. All clusters being conflicted
-  against must be of size 2 or lower. (#28984)
-
-- The default value of the `-mempoolfullrbf` configuration option has been changed from 0 to 1,
-  i.e. `mempoolfullrbf=1`. (#30493)
-
-Updated RPCs
-------------
-
-- The `dumptxoutset` RPC now returns the UTXO set dump in a new and
-  improved format. Correspondingly, the `loadtxoutset` RPC now expects
-  this new format in the dumps it tries to load. Dumps with the old
-  format are no longer supported and need to be recreated using the
-  new format to be usable. (#29612)
-
-- AssumeUTXO mainnet parameters have been added for height 840,000.
-  This means the `loadtxoutset` RPC can now be used on mainnet with
-  the matching UTXO set from that height. (#28553)
-
-- The `warnings` field in `getblockchaininfo`, `getmininginfo` and
-  `getnetworkinfo` now returns all the active node warnings as an array
-  of strings, instead of a single warning. The current behaviour
-  can be temporarily restored by running Bitcoin Core with the configuration
-  option `-deprecatedrpc=warnings`. (#29845)
-
-- Previously when using the `sendrawtransaction` RPC and specifying outputs
-  that are already in the UTXO set, an RPC error code of `-27` with the
-  message "Transaction already in block chain" was returned in response.
-  The error message has been changed to "Transaction outputs already in utxo set"
-  to more accurately describe the source of the issue. (#30212)
-
-- The default mode for the `estimatesmartfee` RPC has been updated from `conservative` to `economical`,
-  which is expected to reduce over-estimation for many users, particularly if Replace-by-Fee is an option.
-  For users that require high confidence in their fee estimates at the cost of potentially over-estimating,
-  the `conservative` mode remains available. (#30275)
-
-- RPC `scantxoutset` now returns 2 new fields in the "unspents" JSON array: `blockhash` and `confirmations`.
-  See the scantxoutset help for details. (#30515)
-
-- RPC `submitpackage` now allows 2 new arguments to be passed: `maxfeerate` and `maxburnamount`. See the
-  subtmitpackage help for details. (#28950)
-
-Changes to wallet-related RPCs can be found in the Wallet section below.
-
-Updated REST APIs
------------------
-- Parameter validation for `/rest/getutxos` has been improved by rejecting
-  truncated or overly large txids and malformed outpoint indices via raising
-  an HTTP_BAD_REQUEST "Parse error". These requests were previously handled
-  silently. (#30482, #30444)
-
-Build System
-------------
-
-- GCC 11.1 or later, or Clang 16.0 or later,
-are now required to compile Bitcoin Core. (#29091, #30263)
-
-- The minimum required glibc to run Bitcoin Core is now
-2.31. This means that RHEL 8 and Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
-are no-longer supported. (#29987)
-
-- `--enable-lcov-branch-coverage` has been removed, given
-incompatibilities between lcov version 1 & 2. `LCOV_OPTS`
-should be used to set any options instead. (#30192)
-
-Updated Settings
-----------------
-
-- When running with `-alertnotify`, an alert can now be raised multiple
-times instead of just once. Previously, it was only raised when unknown
-new consensus rules were activated. Its scope has now been increased to
-include all kernel warnings. Specifically, alerts will now also be raised
-when an invalid chain with a large amount of work has been detected.
-Additional warnings may be added in the future. (#30058)
-
-Changes to GUI or wallet related settings can be found in the GUI or Wallet section below.
-
-Wallet
-------
-
-- The wallet now detects when wallet transactions conflict with the mempool. Mempool-conflicting
-  transactions can be seen in the `"mempoolconflicts"` field of `gettransaction`. The inputs
-  of mempool-conflicted transactions can now be respent without manually abandoning the
-  transactions when the parent transaction is dropped from the mempool, which can cause wallet
-  balances to appear higher. (#27307)
-
-- A new `max_tx_weight` option has been added to the RPCs `fundrawtransaction`, `walletcreatefundedpsbt`, and `send`.
-It specifies the maximum transaction weight. If the limit is exceeded during funding, the transaction will not be built.
-The default value is 4,000,000 WU. (#29523)
-
-- A new `createwalletdescriptor` RPC allows users to add new automatically generated
-  descriptors to their wallet. This can be used to upgrade wallets created prior to the
-  introduction of a new standard descriptor, such as taproot. (#29130)
-
-- A new RPC `gethdkeys` lists all of the BIP32 HD keys in use by all of the descriptors in the wallet.
-  These keys can be used in conjunction with `createwalletdescriptor` to create and add single key
-  descriptors to the wallet for a particular key that the wallet already knows. (#29130)
-
-- The `sendall` RPC can now spend unconfirmed change and will include additional fees as necessary
-  for the resulting transaction to bump the unconfirmed transactions' feerates to the specified feerate. (#28979)
-
-- In RPC `bumpfee`, if a `fee_rate` is specified, the feerate is no longer restricted
-  to following the wallet's incremental feerate of 5 sat/vb. The feerate must still be
-  at least the sum of the original fee and the mempool's incremental feerate. (#27969)
-
-GUI Changes
------------
-
-- The "Migrate Wallet" menu allows users to migrate any legacy wallet in their wallet
-directory, regardless of the wallets loaded. (gui#824)
-
-- The "Information" window now displays the maximum mempool size along with the
-mempool usage. (gui#825)
-
-Low-level Changes
-=================
-
-Tests
------
-
-- The BIP94 timewarp attack mitigation is now active on the `regtest` network. (#30681)
-
-- A new `-testdatadir` option has been added to `test_bitcoin` to allow specifying the
-  location of unit test data directories. (#26564)
-
-Blockstorage
-------------
-
-- Block files are now XOR'd by default with a key stored in the blocksdir.
-Previous releases of Bitcoin Core or previous external software will not be able to read the blocksdir with a non-zero XOR-key.
-Refer to the `-blocksxor` help for more details. (#28052)
-
-Chainstate
-----------
-
-- The chainstate database flushes that occur when blocks are pruned will no longer
-empty the database cache. The cache will remain populated longer, which significantly
-reduces the time for initial block download to complete. (#28280)
-
-Dependencies
-------------
-
-- The dependency on Boost.Process has been replaced with cpp-subprocess, which is contained in source.
-Builders will no longer need Boost.Process to build with external signer support. (#28981)
+- #31267 refactor: Drop deprecated space in `operator""_mst`
 
 Credits
 =======
 
-Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
-- 0xb10c
-- Alfonso Roman Zubeldia
-- Andrew Toth
-- AngusP
-- Anthony Towns
-- Antoine Poinsot
-- Anton A
-- Ava Chow
-- Ayush Singh
-- Ben Westgate
-- Brandon Odiwuor
-- brunoerg
-- bstin
-- Charlie
-- Christopher Bergqvist
-- Cory Fields
-- crazeteam
-- Daniela Brozzoni
-- David Gumberg
-- dergoegge
-- Edil Medeiros
-- Epic Curious
-- Fabian Jahr
 - fanquake
-- furszy
-- glozow
-- Greg Sanders
-- hanmz
-- Hennadii Stepanov
-- Hernan Marino
-- Hodlinator
-- ishaanam
-- ismaelsadeeq
-- Jadi
-- Jon Atack
-- josibake
-- jrakibi
-- kevkevin
-- kevkevinpal
-- Konstantin Akimov
 - laanwj
-- Larry Ruane
-- Lőrinc
-- Luis Schwab
-- Luke Dashjr
 - MarcoFalke
-- marcofleon
-- Marnix
-- Martin Saposnic
 - Martin Zumsande
-- Matt Corallo
-- Matthew Zipkin
-- Matt Whitlock
-- Max Edwards
-- Michael Dietz
-- Murch
-- nanlour
-- pablomartin4btc
-- Peter Todd
-- Pieter Wuille
-- @RandyMcMillan
-- RoboSchmied
-- Roman Zeyde
-- Ryan Ofsky
+- Marnix
 - Sebastian Falbesoner
-- Sergi Delgado Segura
-- Sjors Provoost
-- spicyzboss
-- StevenMia
-- stickies-v
-- stratospher
-- Suhas Daftuar
-- sunerok
-- tdb3
-- TheCharlatan
-- umiumi
-- Vasil Dimov
-- virtu
-- willcl-ark
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
 
 As well as to everyone that helped with translations on
 [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/).