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+Tools and Utilities
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+- CLI -addrinfo now returns the full set of known addresses. In previous versions (v22.0 - v30.0) the set of returned
+  addresses was filtered for quality and recency. This was changed since it does not match the logic for selecting peers
+  to connect to, which does not filter. Note: CLI -addrinfo now requires bitcoind v26.0 or later, as it uses the
+  getaddrmaninfo RPC internally. Users querying older, unmaintained node versions would need to use an older bitcoin-cli
+  version. (#26988)