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diff --git a/doc/release-notes-19219.md b/doc/release-notes-19219.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b5ee885ddc --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes-19219.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +#### Changes regarding misbehaving peers + +Peers that misbehave (e.g. send us invalid blocks) are now referred to as +discouraged nodes in log output, as they're not (and weren't) strictly banned: +incoming connections are still allowed from them, but they're preferred for +eviction. + +Furthermore, a few additional changes are introduced to how discouraged +addresses are treated: + +- Discouraging an address does not time out automatically after 24 hours + (or the `-bantime` setting). Depending on traffic from other peers, + discouragement may time out at an indeterminate time. + +- Discouragement is not persisted over restarts. + +- There is no method to list discouraged addresses. They are not returned by + the `listbanned` RPC. That RPC also no longer reports the `ban_reason` + field, as `"manually added"` is the only remaining option. + +- Discouragement cannot be removed with the `setban remove` RPC command. + If you need to remove a discouragement, you can remove all discouragements by + stop-starting your node. |