Bitcoin Core v25.1: Bug Fixes, Improvements, Updated Translations

• Bitcoin Core version 25.1 is now available from: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-25.1/
• "This release includes various bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations."
• "Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub."

Notable changes

P2P

• #27626 Parallel compact block downloads, take 3
• #27743 p2p: Unconditionally return when compact block status == READ_STATUS_FAILED

Fees

• #27622 Fee estimation: avoid serving stale fee estimate

RPC

• #27727 rpc: Fix invalid bech32 address handling

Rest

• #27853 rest: fix crash error when calling /deploymentinfo
• #28551 http: bugfix: allow server shutdown in case of remote client disconnection

Wallet

• #28038 wallet: address book migration bug fixes
• #28067 descriptors: do not return top-level only funcs as sub descriptors
• #28125 wallet: bugfix, disallow migration of invalid scripts
• #28542 wallet: Check for uninitialized last processed and conflicting heights in MarkConflicted

Build

• #27724 build: disable boost multi index safe mode in debug mode
• #28097 depends: xcb-proto 1.15.2
• #28543 build, macos: Fix qt package build with new Xcode 15 linker
• #28571 depends: fix unusable memory_resource in macos qt build

Gui

• gui#751 macOS, do not process actions during shutdown

Miscellaneous

• #28452 Do not use std::vector = {} to release memory

CI

• #27777 ci: Prune dangling images on RESTART_CI_DOCKER_BEFORE_RUN
• #27834 ci: Nuke Android APK task, Use credits for tsan
• #27844 ci: Use podman stop over podman kill
• #27886 ci: Switch to amd64 container in "ARM" task

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

• Abubakar Sadiq Ismail
• Andrew Chow
• Bruno Garcia
• Gregory Sanders
• Hennadii Stepanov
• MacroFake
• Matias Furszyfer
• Michael Ford
• Pieter Wuille
• stickies-v
• Will Clark
• As well as to everyone that helped with translations on Transifex.

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