Bitcoin Core v28.1 Is Now Available

• Bitcoin Core v28.1 has been released and is now available for download from the BitcoinCore.org.
• This first maintenance release for v28 includes several bug fixes, performance improvements, and updated translations. Users are encouraged to report any bugs using the issue tracker on GitHub.

"Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: fanquake, Hennadii Stepanov, laanwj, MarcoFalke, Martin Zumsande, Marnix, Sebastian Falbesoner. As well as to everyone that helped with translations on Transifex," was stated in the release notes.

What's new

• When the -port configuration option is used, the default onion listening port will now be derived as that port plus 1, instead of the fixed value (8334 on mainnet). This change enables setups with multiple local nodes using different -port options without using -bind, preventing startup failures due to port collisions in version 28.0.
  • Note that if a HiddenServicePort is manually configured in torrc, it may need adjustment when used in conjunction with the -port option.
• Addrman: change internal id counting to int64_t.
• Key: clear out secret data in DecodeExtKey.
• Depends: For mingw cross compile use -gcc-posix to prevent library conflict.
• Depends: Fix CXXFLAGS on NetBSD.
• Test: add missing sync to feature_fee_estimation.py.
• Fuzz: add cstdlib to FuzzedDataProvider.
• Test: fix MIN macro redefinition.
• RPC: Extend scope of validation mutex in generateblock.
• Doc: add testnet4 section header for config file.
• CI: add LLVM_SYMBOLIZER_PATH to Valgrind fuzz job.
• Refactor: Drop deprecated space in operator""_mst
• Util: use explicit cast in MultiIntBitSet::Fill().

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