diff --git a/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml b/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml
index 793bf066f..db6d66514 100644
--- a/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml
+++ b/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ packages:
 - "binutils"
 - "bsdmainutils"
 - "ca-certificates"
+- "cmake"
 - "curl"
 - "faketime"
 - "git"
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ script: |
   FAKETIME_HOST_PROGS="gcc g++"
   FAKETIME_PROGS="date ar ranlib nm"
   HOST_CFLAGS="-O2 -g"
-  HOST_CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g"
+  HOST_CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -Wno-psabi"
   HOST_LDFLAGS_BASE="-static-libstdc++ -Wl,-O2"
 
   export QT_RCC_TEST=1
diff --git a/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx.yml b/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx.yml
index f0c9dde97..bcfa4c66a 100644
--- a/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx.yml
+++ b/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ architectures:
 - "amd64"
 packages:
 - "ca-certificates"
+- "cmake"
 - "curl"
 - "g++"
 - "git"
diff --git a/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml b/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml
index b75657d78..37273e9cc 100644
--- a/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml
+++ b/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ suites:
 architectures:
 - "amd64"
 packages:
+- "cmake"
 - "curl"
 - "g++"
 - "git"
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-litecoin.md b/doc/release-notes-litecoin.md
index 584522cf3..d6d0487af 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes-litecoin.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes-litecoin.md
@@ -1,1130 +1,400 @@
-Litecoin Core version 0.18.1 is now available from:
+0.21.1 Release Notes
+====================
 
-  <https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.18.1/>
+Summary:
+==============
+In this update to Litecoin Core, Taproot has been activated, enhancing Litecoin’s security, privacy and scalability. Litecoin Core 0.21.1 is the most significant update in years - with performance improvements, new features (like Taproot), bug fixes and updated translations - and sets the foundations for MWEB’s imminent arrival. 
 
-This is a major version release, including new features, various bug
-fixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
+Litecoin Core 0.21.1 is available now, right here: <https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.21.1/>.
 
-Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
+As always, we welcome the expertise of the community. To report bugs please use the issue tracker at GitHub - <https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/issues > - and to get security and update notifications subscribe via <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/litecoin-dev>. 
 
-  <https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/issues>
+Anyone can contribute to Litecoin Core. Please scroll down to ‘How to contribute to Litecoin Core’ for details.
 
-To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
+By downloading or upgrading Litecoin Core, you’re helping to secure the network, so thank you and enjoy the upgrade!
 
-  <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/litecoin-dev>
 
-How to Upgrade
+How to upgrade: 
 ==============
 
-If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has
-completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
-versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
-`/Applications/Litecoin-Qt` (on Mac) or `litecoind`/`litecoin-qt` (on
-Linux).
+Firstly, thank you for running Litecoin Core and helping secure the network!
 
-The first time you run version 0.15.0 or newer, your chainstate database
-will be converted to a new format, which will take anywhere from a few
-minutes to half an hour, depending on the speed of your machine.
+As you’re running an older version of Litecoin Core, shut it down. Wait until it’s completely shut down  - which might take a few minutes for older versions - then follow these simple steps:
+For Windows: simply run the installer 
+For Mac: copy over to `/Applications/Litecoin-Qt` 
+For Linux: copy cover `litecoind`/`litecoin-qt`.
 
-Note that the block database format also changed in version 0.8.0 and
-there is no automatic upgrade code from before version 0.8 to version
-0.15.0 or later. Upgrading directly from 0.7.x and earlier without
-redownloading the blockchain is not supported.  However, as usual, old
-wallet versions are still supported.
+NB: upgrading directly from an ‘end of life’ version of Litecoin Core is possible, but it might take a while if the data directory needs to be migrated. Old wallet versions of Litecoin Core are generally supported.
+ 
 
-Compatibility
+Compatibility:
 ==============
 
-Litecoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems
-using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.10+, and Windows 7 and newer. It is not
-recommended to use Litecoin Core on unsupported systems.
+Litecoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.10+,  Windows 7 and newer. It’s not recommended to use Litecoin Core on unsupported systems.
 
-Litecoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not
-as frequently tested on them.
+Litecoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems, but is not as frequently tested on them.
 
-From 0.17.0 onwards, macOS <10.10 is no longer supported. 0.17.0 is
-built using Qt 5.9.x, which doesn't support versions of macOS older than
-10.10. Additionally, Litecoin Core does not yet change appearance when
-macOS "dark mode" is activated.
+From Litecoin Core 0.21.1 onwards, macOS versions earlier than 10.12 are no longer supported. Additionally, Litecoin Core doesn’t yet change appearance when macOS "dark mode" is activated.
 
-In addition to previously-supported CPU platforms, this release's
-pre-compiled distribution also provides binaries for the RISC-V
-platform.
+The node's known peers are persisted to disk in a file called `peers.dat`. The format of this file has been changed in a backwards-incompatible way in order to accommodate the storage of Tor v3 and other BIP155 addresses. This means that if the file is modified by 0.21 or newer then older versions will not be able to read it. Those old versions, in the event of a downgrade, will log an error message - "incorrect keysize in addrman deserialization" and will continue normal operation as if the file was missing, creating a new empty one. (#19954, #20284)
 
-Known issues
-============
 
-Wallet GUI
-----------
-
-For advanced users who have both (1) enabled coin control features, and
-(2) are using multiple wallets loaded at the same time: The coin control
-input selection dialog can erroneously retain wrong-wallet state when
-switching wallets using the dropdown menu. For now, it is recommended
-not to use coin control features with multiple wallets loaded.
-
-Notable changes
+Notable changes:
 ===============
 
-Mining
-------
+P2P and network changes
+-----------------------
 
-- Calls to `getblocktemplate` will fail if the segwit rule is not
-  specified.  Calling `getblocktemplate` without segwit specified is
-  almost certainly a misconfiguration since doing so results in lower
-  rewards for the miner.  Failed calls will produce an error message
-  describing how to enable the segwit rule.
+- The mempool now tracks whether transactions submitted via the wallet or RPCs
+  have been successfully broadcast. Every 10-15 minutes, the node will try to
+  announce unbroadcast transactions until a peer requests it via a `getdata`
+  message or the transaction is removed from the mempool for other reasons.
+  The node will not track the broadcast status of transactions submitted to the
+  node using P2P relay. This version reduces the initial broadcast guarantees
+  for wallet transactions submitted via P2P to a node running the wallet. (#18038)
 
-Configuration option changes
-----------------------------
+- The size of the set of transactions that peers have announced and we consider
+  for requests has been reduced from 100000 to 5000 (per peer), and further
+  announcements will be ignored when that limit is reached. If you need to dump
+  (very) large batches of transactions, exceptions can be made for trusted
+  peers using the "relay" network permission. For localhost for example it can
+  be enabled using the command line option `-whitelist=relay@127.0.0.1`.
+  (#19988)
 
-- A warning is printed if an unrecognized section name is used in the
-  configuration file.  Recognized sections are `[test]`, `[main]`, and
-  `[regtest]`.
+- This release adds support for Tor version 3 hidden services, and rumoring them
+  over the network to other peers using
+  [BIP155](https://github.com/Litecoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0155.mediawiki).
+  Version 2 hidden services are still fully supported by Litecoin Core, but the
+  Tor network will start
+  [deprecating](https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline) them in the
+  coming months. (#19954)
 
-- Four new options are available for configuring the maximum number of
-  messages that ZMQ will queue in memory (the "high water mark") before
-  dropping additional messages.  The default value is 1,000, the same as
-  was used for previous releases.  See the [ZMQ
-  documentation](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/doc/zmq.md#usage)
-  for details.
+- The Tor onion service that is automatically created by setting the
+  `-listenonion` configuration parameter will now be created as a Tor v3 service
+  instead of Tor v2. The private key that was used for Tor v2 (if any) will be
+  left untouched in the `onion_private_key` file in the data directory (see
+  `-datadir`) and can be removed if not needed. Litecoin Core will no longer
+  attempt to read it. The private key for the Tor v3 service will be saved in a
+  file named `onion_v3_private_key`. To use the deprecated Tor v2 service (not
+  recommended), the `onion_private_key` can be copied over
+  `onion_v3_private_key`, e.g: `cp -f onion_private_key onion_v3_private_key`. (#19954)
 
-- The `rpcallowip` option can no longer be used to automatically listen
-  on all network interfaces.  Instead, the `rpcbind` parameter must be
-  used to specify the IP addresses to listen on.  Listening for RPC
-  commands over a public network connection is insecure and should be
-  disabled, so a warning is now printed if a user selects such a
-  configuration.  If you need to expose RPC in order to use a tool like
-  Docker, ensure you only bind RPC to your localhost, e.g. `docker run
-  [...] -p 127.0.0.1:9332:9332` (this is an extra `:9332` over the
-  normal Docker port specification).
+- The client writes a file (`anchors.dat`) at shutdown with the network addresses
+  of the node’s two outbound block-relay-only peers (so called "anchors"). The
+  next time the node starts, it reads this file and attempts to reconnect to those
+  same two peers. This prevents an attacker from using node restarts to trigger a
+  complete change in peers, which would be something they could use as part of an
+  eclipse attack. (#17428)
 
-- The `rpcpassword` option now causes a startup error if the password
-  set in the configuration file contains a hash character (#), as it's
-  ambiguous whether the hash character is meant for the password or as a
-  comment.
+- This release adds support for serving
+  [BIP157](https://github.com/Litecoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0157.mediawiki) compact
+  filters to peers on the network when enabled using
+  `-blockfilterindex=1 -peercfilters=1`. (#16442)
 
-- The `whitelistforcerelay` option is used to relay transactions from
-  whitelisted peers even when not accepted to the mempool. This option
-  now defaults to being off, so that changes in policy and
-  disconnect/ban behavior will not cause a node that is whitelisting
-  another to be dropped by peers.  Users can still explicitly enable
-  this behavior with the command line option (and may want to consider
-  [contacting](mailto:contact@litecoin.org) the Litecoin Core
-  project to let us know about their use-case, as this feature could be
-  deprecated in the future).
+- This release implements
+  [BIP339](https://github.com/Litecoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0339.mediawiki)
+  wtxid relay. When negotiated, transactions are announced using their wtxid
+  instead of their txid. (#18044).
 
-Wallet changes
---------------
-When creating a transaction with a fee above `-maxtxfee` (default 0.1 LTC),
-the RPC commands `walletcreatefundedpsbt` and  `fundrawtransaction` will now fail
-instead of rounding down the fee. Beware that the `feeRate` argument is specified
-in LTC per kilobyte, not litoshi per byte.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- A new short [document](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/doc/JSON-RPC-interface.md)
-  about the JSON-RPC interface describes cases where the results of an
-  RPC might contain inconsistencies between data sourced from different
-  subsystems, such as wallet state and mempool state.  A note is added
-  to the [REST interface documentation](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/doc/REST-interface.md)
-  indicating that the same rules apply.
-
-- Further information is added to the [JSON-RPC
-  documentation](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/doc/JSON-RPC-interface.md)
-  about how to secure this interface.
-
-- A new [document](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/doc/litecoin-conf.md)
-  about the `litecoin.conf` file describes how to use it to configure
-  Litecoin Core.
-
-- A new document introduces Litecoin Core's BIP174 [Partially-Signed
-  Litecoin Transactions
-  (PSBT)](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/doc/psbt.md)
-  interface, which is used to allow multiple programs to collaboratively
-  work to create, sign, and broadcast new transactions.  This is useful
-  for offline (cold storage) wallets, multisig wallets, coinjoin
-  implementations, and many other cases where two or more programs need
-  to interact to generate a complete transaction.
-
-- The [output script
-  descriptor](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/doc/descriptors.md)
-  documentation has been updated with information about new features in
-  this still-developing language for describing the output scripts that
-  a wallet or other program wants to receive notifications for, such as
-  which addresses it wants to know received payments.  The language is
-  currently used in multiple new and updated RPCs described in these
-  release notes and is expected to be adapted to other RPCs and to the
-  underlying wallet structure.
-
-Build system changes
---------------------
-
-- A new `--disable-bip70` option may be passed to `./configure` to
-  prevent Litecoin-Qt from being built with support for the BIP70 payment
-  protocol or from linking libssl.  As the payment protocol has exposed
-  Litecoin Core to libssl vulnerabilities in the past, builders who don't
-  need BIP70 support are encouraged to use this option to reduce their
-  exposure to future vulnerabilities.
-
-- The minimum required version of Qt (when building the GUI) has been
-  increased from 5.2 to 5.5.1 (the [depends
-  system](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/depends/README.md)
-  provides 5.9.7)
-
-New RPCs
---------
-
-- `getnodeaddresses` returns peer addresses known to this node. It may
-  be used to find nodes to connect to without using a DNS seeder.
-
-- `listwalletdir` returns a list of wallets in the wallet directory
-  (either the default wallet directory or the directory configured by
-  the `-walletdir` parameter).
-
-- `getrpcinfo` returns runtime details of the RPC server. At the moment,
-  it returns an array of the currently active commands and how long
-  they've been running.
-
-- `deriveaddresses` returns one or more addresses corresponding to an
-  [output descriptor](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/doc/descriptors.md).
-
-- `getdescriptorinfo` accepts a descriptor and returns information about
-  it, including its computed checksum.
-
-- `joinpsbts` merges multiple distinct PSBTs into a single PSBT. The
-  multiple PSBTs must have different inputs. The resulting PSBT will
-  contain every input and output from all of the PSBTs. Any signatures
-  provided in any of the PSBTs will be dropped.
-
-- `analyzepsbt` examines a PSBT and provides information about what
-  the PSBT contains and the next steps that need to be taken in order
-  to complete the transaction. For each input of a PSBT, `analyzepsbt`
-  provides information about what information is missing for that
-  input, including whether a UTXO needs to be provided, what pubkeys
-  still need to be provided, which scripts need to be provided, and
-  what signatures are still needed. Every input will also list which
-  role is needed to complete that input, and `analyzepsbt` will also
-  list the next role in general needed to complete the PSBT.
-  `analyzepsbt` will also provide the estimated fee rate and estimated
-  virtual size of the completed transaction if it has enough
-  information to do so.
-
-- `utxoupdatepsbt` searches the set of Unspent Transaction Outputs
-  (UTXOs) to find the outputs being spent by the partial transaction.
-  PSBTs need to have the UTXOs being spent to be provided because
-  the signing algorithm requires information from the UTXO being spent.
-  For segwit inputs, only the UTXO itself is necessary.  For
-  non-segwit outputs, the entire previous transaction is needed so
-  that signers can be sure that they are signing the correct thing.
-  Unfortunately, because the UTXO set only contains UTXOs and not full
-  transactions, `utxoupdatepsbt` will only add the UTXO for segwit
-  inputs.
+- This release implements the proposed Taproot consensus rules
+  ([BIP341](https://github.com/Litecoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki) and
+  [BIP342](https://github.com/Litecoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0342.mediawiki)),
+  without activation on mainnet. (#19553)
 
 Updated RPCs
 ------------
 
-Note: some low-level RPC changes mainly useful for testing are described
-in the Low-level Changes section below.
+- The `getpeerinfo` RPC has a new `network` field that provides the type of
+  network ("ipv4", "ipv6", or "onion") that the peer connected through. (#20002)
 
-- `getpeerinfo` now returns an additional `minfeefilter` field set to
-  the peer's BIP133 fee filter.  You can use this to detect that you
-  have peers that are willing to accept transactions below the default
-  minimum relay fee.
+- The `getpeerinfo` RPC now has additional `last_block` and `last_transaction`
+  fields that return the UNIX epoch time of the last block and the last *valid*
+  transaction received from each peer. (#19731)
 
-- The mempool RPCs, such as `getrawmempool` with `verbose=true`, now
-  return an additional "bip125-replaceable" value indicating whether the
-  transaction (or its unconfirmed ancestors) opts-in to asking nodes and
-  miners to replace it with a higher-feerate transaction spending any of
-  the same inputs.
+- `getnetworkinfo` now returns two new fields, `connections_in` and
+  `connections_out`, that provide the number of inbound and outbound peer
+  connections. These new fields are in addition to the existing `connections`
+  field, which returns the total number of peer connections. (#19405)
 
-- `settxfee` previously silently ignored attempts to set the fee below
-  the allowed minimums.  It now prints a warning.  The special value of
-  "0" may still be used to request the minimum value.
+- Exposed transaction version numbers are now treated as unsigned 32-bit
+  integers instead of signed 32-bit integers. This matches their treatment in
+  consensus logic. Versions greater than 2 continue to be non-standard
+  (matching previous behavior of smaller than 1 or greater than 2 being
+  non-standard). Note that this includes the `joinpsbt` command, which combines
+  partially-signed transactions by selecting the highest version number.
+  (#16525)
 
-- `getaddressinfo` now provides an `ischange` field indicating whether
-  the wallet used the address in a change output.
+- `getmempoolinfo` now returns an additional `unbroadcastcount` field. The
+  mempool tracks locally submitted transactions until their initial broadcast
+  is acknowledged by a peer. This field returns the count of transactions
+  waiting for acknowledgement.
 
-- `importmulti` has been updated to support P2WSH, P2WPKH, P2SH-P2WPKH,
-  and P2SH-P2WSH. Requests for P2WSH and P2SH-P2WSH accept an additional
-  `witnessscript` parameter.
+- Mempool RPCs such as `getmempoolentry` and `getrawmempool` with
+  `verbose=true` now return an additional `unbroadcast` field. This indicates
+  whether initial broadcast of the transaction has been acknowledged by a
+  peer. `getmempoolancestors` and `getmempooldescendants` are also updated.
 
-- `importmulti` now returns an additional `warnings` field for each
-  request with an array of strings explaining when fields are being
-  ignored or are inconsistent, if there are any.
+- The `getpeerinfo` RPC no longer returns the `banscore` field unless the configuration
+  option `-deprecatedrpc=banscore` is used. The `banscore` field will be fully
+  removed in the next major release. (#19469)
 
-- `getaddressinfo` now returns an additional `solvable` boolean field
-  when Litecoin Core knows enough about the address's scriptPubKey,
-  optional redeemScript, and optional witnessScript in order for the
-  wallet to be able to generate an unsigned input spending funds sent to
-  that address.
+- The `testmempoolaccept` RPC returns `vsize` and a `fees` object with the `base` fee
+  if the transaction would pass validation. (#19940)
 
-- The `getaddressinfo`, `listunspent`, and `scantxoutset` RPCs now
-  return an additional `desc` field that contains an output descriptor
-  containing all key paths and signing information for the address
-  (except for the private key).  The `desc` field is only returned for
-  `getaddressinfo` and `listunspent` when the address is solvable.
+- The `getpeerinfo` RPC now returns a `connection_type` field. This indicates
+  the type of connection established with the peer. It will return one of six
+  options. For more information, see the `getpeerinfo` help documentation.
+  (#19725)
 
-- `importprivkey` will preserve previously-set labels for addresses or
-  public keys corresponding to the private key being imported.  For
-  example, if you imported a watch-only address with the label "cold
-  wallet" in earlier releases of Litecoin Core, subsequently importing
-  the private key would default to resetting the address's label to the
-  default empty-string label ("").  In this release, the previous label
-  of "cold wallet" will be retained.  If you optionally specify any
-  label besides the default when calling `importprivkey`, the new label
-  will be applied to the address.
+- The `getpeerinfo` RPC no longer returns the `addnode` field by default. This
+  field will be fully removed in the next major release.  It can be accessed
+  with the configuration option `-deprecatedrpc=getpeerinfo_addnode`. However,
+  it is recommended to instead use the `connection_type` field (it will return
+  `manual` when addnode is true). (#19725)
 
-- See the [Mining](#mining) section for changes to `getblocktemplate`.
+- The `getpeerinfo` RPC no longer returns the `whitelisted` field by default. 
+  This field will be fully removed in the next major release. It can be accessed 
+  with the configuration option `-deprecatedrpc=getpeerinfo_whitelisted`. However, 
+  it is recommended to instead use the `permissions` field to understand if specific 
+  privileges have been granted to the peer. (#19770)
 
-- `getmininginfo` now omits `currentblockweight` and `currentblocktx`
-  when a block was never assembled via RPC on this node.
+- The `walletcreatefundedpsbt` RPC call will now fail with
+  `Insufficient funds` when inputs are manually selected but are not enough to cover
+  the outputs and fee. Additional inputs can automatically be added through the
+  new `add_inputs` option. (#16377)
 
-- The `getrawtransaction` RPC & REST endpoints no longer check the
-  unspent UTXO set for a transaction. The remaining behaviors are as
-  follows: 1. If a blockhash is provided, check the corresponding block.
-  2. If no blockhash is provided, check the mempool. 3. If no blockhash
-  is provided but txindex is enabled, also check txindex.
+- The `fundrawtransaction` RPC now supports `add_inputs` option that when `false`
+  prevents adding more inputs if necessary and consequently the RPC fails.
 
-- `unloadwallet` is now synchronous, meaning it will not return until
-  the wallet is fully unloaded.
+Changes to Wallet or GUI related RPCs can be found in the GUI or Wallet section below.
 
-- `importmulti` now supports importing of addresses from descriptors. A
-  "desc" parameter can be provided instead of the "scriptPubKey" in a
-  request, as well as an optional range for ranged descriptors to
-  specify the start and end of the range to import. Descriptors with key
-  origin information imported through `importmulti` will have their key
-  origin information stored in the wallet for use with creating PSBTs.
-  More information about descriptors can be found
-  [here](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/doc/descriptors.md).
+New RPCs
+--------
 
-- `listunspent` has been modified so that it also returns
-  `witnessScript`, the witness script in the case of a P2WSH or
-  P2SH-P2WSH output.
+- The `getindexinfo` RPC returns the actively running indices of the node,
+  including their current sync status and height. It also accepts an `index_name`
+  to specify returning the status of that index only. (#19550)
 
-- `createwallet` now has an optional `blank` argument that can be used
-  to create a blank wallet. Blank wallets do not have any keys or HD
-  seed.  They cannot be opened in software older than 0.18. Once a blank
-  wallet has a HD seed set (by using `sethdseed`) or private keys,
-  scripts, addresses, and other watch only things have been imported,
-  the wallet is no longer blank and can be opened in 0.17.x. Encrypting
-  a blank wallet will also set a HD seed for it.
 
-Deprecated or removed RPCs
---------------------------
+Updated settings
+----------------
 
-- `signrawtransaction` is removed after being deprecated and hidden
-  behind a special configuration option in version 0.17.0.
+- The same ZeroMQ notification (e.g. `-zmqpubhashtx=address`) can now be
+  specified multiple times to publish the same notification to different ZeroMQ
+  sockets. (#18309)
 
-- The 'account' API is removed after being deprecated in v0.17.  The
-  'label' API was introduced in v0.17 as a replacement for accounts.
-  See the [release notes from
-  v0.17](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.17.0.md#label-and-account-apis-for-wallet)
-  for a full description of the changes from the 'account' API to the
-  'label' API.
+- The `-banscore` configuration option, which modified the default threshold for
+  disconnecting and discouraging misbehaving peers, has been removed as part of
+  changes in 0.20.1 and in this release to the handling of misbehaving peers.
+  Refer to "Changes regarding misbehaving peers" in the 0.20.1 release notes for
+  details. (#19464)
 
-- `addwitnessaddress` is removed after being deprecated in version
-  0.16.0.
+- The `-debug=db` logging category, which was deprecated in 0.20 and replaced by
+  `-debug=walletdb` to distinguish it from `coindb`, has been removed. (#19202)
 
-- `generate` is deprecated and will be fully removed in a subsequent
-  major version.  This RPC is only used for testing, but its
-  implementation reached across multiple subsystems (wallet and mining),
-  so it is being deprecated to simplify the wallet-node interface.
-  Projects that are using `generate` for testing purposes should
-  transition to using the `generatetoaddress` RPC, which does not
-  require or use the wallet component. Calling `generatetoaddress` with
-  an address returned by the `getnewaddress` RPC gives the same
-  functionality as the old `generate` RPC.  To continue using `generate`
-  in this version, restart litecoind with the `-deprecatedrpc=generate`
-  configuration option.
+- A `download` permission has been extracted from the `noban` permission. For
+  compatibility, `noban` implies the `download` permission, but this may change
+  in future releases. Refer to the help of the affected settings `-whitebind`
+  and `-whitelist` for more details. (#19191)
 
-- Be reminded that parts of the `validateaddress` command have been
-  deprecated and moved to `getaddressinfo`. The following deprecated
-  fields have moved to `getaddressinfo`: `ismine`, `iswatchonly`,
-  `script`, `hex`, `pubkeys`, `sigsrequired`, `pubkey`, `embedded`,
-  `iscompressed`, `label`, `timestamp`, `hdkeypath`, `hdmasterkeyid`.
+- Netmasks that contain 1-bits after 0-bits (the 1-bits are not contiguous on
+  the left side, e.g. 255.0.255.255) are no longer accepted. They are invalid
+  according to RFC 4632. Netmasks are used in the `-rpcallowip` and `-whitelist`
+  configuration options and in the `setban` RPC. (#19628)
 
-- The `addresses` field has been removed from the `validateaddress`
-  and `getaddressinfo` RPC methods.  This field was confusing since
-  it referred to public keys using their P2PKH address.  Clients
-  should use the `embedded.address` field for P2SH or P2WSH wrapped
-  addresses, and `pubkeys` for inspecting multisig participants.
+- The `-blocksonly` setting now completely disables fee estimation. (#18766)
 
-REST changes
+Changes to Wallet or GUI related settings can be found in the GUI or Wallet section below.
+Tools and Utilities
+-------------------
+
+- A new `Litecoin-cli -netinfo` command provides a network peer connections
+  dashboard that displays data from the `getpeerinfo` and `getnetworkinfo` RPCs
+  in a human-readable format. An optional integer argument from `0` to `4` may
+  be passed to see increasing levels of detail. (#19643)
+
+- A new `Litecoin-cli -generate` command, equivalent to RPC `generatenewaddress`
+  followed by `generatetoaddress`, can generate blocks for command line testing
+  purposes. This is a client-side version of the former `generate` RPC. See the
+  help for details. (#19133)
+
+- The `Litecoin-cli -getinfo` command now displays the wallet name and balance for
+  each of the loaded wallets when more than one is loaded (e.g. in multiwallet
+  mode) and a wallet is not specified with `-rpcwallet`. (#18594)
+
+- The `connections` field of `Litecoin-cli -getinfo` is now expanded to return a JSON
+  object with `in`, `out` and `total` numbers of peer connections. It previously
+  returned a single integer value for the total number of peer connections. (#19405)
+
+New settings
 ------------
 
-- A new `/rest/blockhashbyheight/` endpoint is added for fetching the
-  hash of the block in the current best blockchain based on its height
-  (how many blocks it is after the Genesis Block).
+- The `startupnotify` option is used to specify a command to
+  execute when Litecoin Core has finished with its startup
+  sequence. (#15367)
 
-Graphical User Interface (GUI)
-------------------------------
+Wallet
+------
 
-- A new Window menu is added alongside the existing File, Settings, and
-  Help menus.  Several items from the other menus that opened new
-  windows have been moved to this new Window menu.
+- Backwards compatibility has been dropped for two `getaddressinfo` RPC
+  deprecations, as notified in the 0.20 release notes. The deprecated `label`
+  field has been removed as well as the deprecated `labels` behavior of
+  returning a JSON object containing `name` and `purpose` key-value pairs. Since
+  0.20, the `labels` field returns a JSON array of label names. (#19200)
 
-- In the Send tab, the checkbox for "pay only the required fee" has been
-  removed.  Instead, the user can simply decrease the value in the
-  Custom Feerate field all the way down to the node's configured minimum
-  relay fee.
+- To improve wallet privacy, the frequency of wallet rebroadcast attempts is
+  reduced from approximately once every 15 minutes to once every 12-36 hours.
+  To maintain a similar level of guarantee for initial broadcast of wallet
+  transactions, the mempool tracks these transactions as a part of the newly
+  introduced unbroadcast set. See the "P2P and network changes" section for
+  more information on the unbroadcast set. (#18038)
 
-- In the Overview tab, the watch-only balance will be the only balance
-  shown if the wallet was created using the `createwallet` RPC and the
-  `disable_private_keys` parameter was set to true.
+- The `sendtoaddress` and `sendmany` RPCs accept an optional `verbose=True`
+  argument to also return the fee reason about the sent tx. (#19501)
 
-- The launch-on-startup option is no longer available on macOS if
-  compiled with macosx min version greater than 10.11 (use
-  CXXFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.11"
-  CFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.11" for setting the deployment sdk
-  version)
+- The wallet can create a transaction without change even when the keypool is
+  empty. Previously it failed. (#17219)
 
-Tools
------
+- The `-salvagewallet` startup option has been removed. A new `salvage` command
+  has been added to the `Litecoin-wallet` tool which performs the salvage
+  operations that `-salvagewallet` did. (#18918)
 
-- A new `litecoin-wallet` tool is now distributed alongside Litecoin
-  Core's other executables.  Without needing to use any RPCs, this tool
-  can currently create a new wallet file or display some basic
-  information about an existing wallet, such as whether the wallet is
-  encrypted, whether it uses an HD seed, how many transactions it
-  contains, and how many address book entries it has.
+- A new configuration flag `-maxapsfee` has been added, which sets the max
+  allowed avoid partial spends (APS) fee. It defaults to 0 (i.e. fee is the
+  same with and without APS). Setting it to -1 will disable APS, unless
+  `-avoidpartialspends` is set. (#14582)
 
-Planned changes
-===============
+- The wallet will now avoid partial spends (APS) by default, if this does not
+  result in a difference in fees compared to the non-APS variant. The allowed
+  fee threshold can be adjusted using the new `-maxapsfee` configuration
+  option. (#14582)
 
-This section describes planned changes to Litecoin Core that may affect
-other Litecoin software and services.
+- The `createwallet`, `loadwallet`, and `unloadwallet` RPCs now accept
+  `load_on_startup` options to modify the settings list. Unless these options
+  are explicitly set to true or false, the list is not modified, so the RPC
+  methods remain backwards compatible. (#15937)
 
-- Since version 0.16.0, Litecoin Core’s built-in wallet has defaulted to
-  generating P2SH-wrapped segwit addresses when users want to receive
-  payments. These addresses are backwards compatible with all
-  widely-used software.  Starting with Litecoin Core 0.20 (expected about
-  a year after 0.18), Litecoin Core will default to native segwit
-  addresses (bech32) that provide additional fee savings and other
-  benefits. Currently, many wallets and services already support sending
-  to bech32 addresses, and if the Litecoin Core project sees enough
-  additional adoption, it will instead default to bech32 receiving
-  addresses in Litecoin Core 0.20.
-  P2SH-wrapped segwit addresses will continue to be provided if the user
-  requests them in the GUI or by RPC, and anyone who doesn’t want the
-  update will be able to configure their default address type.
-  (Similarly, pioneering users who want to change their default now may
-  set the `addresstype=bech32` configuration option in any Litecoin Core
-  release from 0.16.0 up.)
+- A new `send` RPC with similar syntax to `walletcreatefundedpsbt`, including
+  support for coin selection and a custom fee rate, is added. The `send` RPC is
+  experimental and may change in subsequent releases. (#16378)
 
-Deprecated P2P messages
------------------------
+- The `estimate_mode` parameter is now case-insensitive in the `bumpfee`,
+  `fundrawtransaction`, `sendmany`, `sendtoaddress`, `send` and
+  `walletcreatefundedpsbt` RPCs. (#11413)
 
-- BIP 61 reject messages are now deprecated. Reject messages have no use
-  case on the P2P network and are only logged for debugging by most
-  network nodes. Furthermore, they increase bandwidth and can be harmful
-  for privacy and security. It has been possible to disable BIP 61
-  messages since v0.17 with the `-enablebip61=0` option. BIP 61 messages
-  will be disabled by default in a future version, before being removed
-  entirely.
+- The `bumpfee` RPC now uses `conf_target` rather than `confTarget` in the
+  options. (#11413)
+
+- `fundrawtransaction` and `walletcreatefundedpsbt` when used with the
+  `lockUnspents` argument now lock manually selected coins, in addition to
+  automatically selected coins. Note that locked coins are never used in
+  automatic coin selection, but can still be manually selected. (#18244)
+
+- The `-zapwallettxes` startup option has been removed and its functionality
+  removed from the wallet.  This option was originally intended to allow for
+  rescuing wallets which were affected by a malleability attack. More recently,
+  it has been used in the fee bumping of transactions that did not signal RBF.
+  This functionality has been superseded with the abandon transaction feature. (#19671)
+
+- The error code when no wallet is loaded, but a wallet RPC is called, has been
+  changed from `-32601` (method not found) to `-18` (wallet not found).
+  (#20101)
+
+### Automatic wallet creation removed
+
+Litecoin Core will no longer automatically create new wallets on startup. It will
+load existing wallets specified by `-wallet` options on the command line or in
+`Litecoin.conf` or `settings.json` files. And by default it will also load a
+top-level unnamed ("") wallet. However, if specified wallets don't exist,
+Litecoin Core will now just log warnings instead of creating new wallets with
+new keys and addresses like previous releases did.
+
+New wallets can be created through the GUI (which has a more prominent create
+wallet option), through the `Litecoin-cli createwallet` or `Litecoin-wallet
+create` commands, or the `createwallet` RPC. (#15454, #20186)
+
+
+### Wallet RPC changes
+
+- The `upgradewallet` RPC replaces the `-upgradewallet` command line option.
+  (#15761)
+
+- The `settxfee` RPC will fail if the fee was set higher than the `-maxtxfee`
+  command line setting. The wallet will already fail to create transactions
+  with fees higher than `-maxtxfee`. (#18467)
+
+- A new `fee_rate` parameter/option denominated in satoshis per vbyte (sat/vB)
+  is introduced to the `sendtoaddress`, `sendmany`, `fundrawtransaction` and
+  `walletcreatefundedpsbt` RPCs as well as to the experimental new `send`
+  RPC. The legacy `feeRate` option in `fundrawtransaction` and
+  `walletcreatefundedpsbt` still exists for setting a fee rate in BTC per 1,000
+  vbytes (BTC/kvB), but it is expected to be deprecated soon to avoid
+  confusion. For these RPCs, the fee rate error message is updated from BTC/kB
+  to sat/vB and the help documentation in BTC/kB is updated to BTC/kvB. The
+  `send` and `sendtoaddress` RPC examples are updated to aid users in creating
+  transactions with explicit fee rates. (#20305, #11413)
+
+- The `bumpfee` RPC `fee_rate` option is changed from BTC/kvB to sat/vB and the
+  help documentation is updated. Users are warned that this is a breaking API
+  change, but it should be relatively benign: the large (100,000 times)
+  difference between BTC/kvB and sat/vB units means that a transaction with a
+  fee rate mistakenly calculated in BTC/kvB rather than sat/vB should raise an
+  error due to the fee rate being set too low. In the worst case, the
+  transaction may send at 1 sat/vB, but as Replace-by-Fee (BIP125 RBF) is active
+  by default when an explicit fee rate is used, the transaction fee can be
+  bumped. (#20305)
+
+GUI changes
+-----------
+
+- Wallets created or loaded in the GUI will now be automatically loaded on
+  startup, so they don't need to be manually reloaded next time Litecoin Core is
+  started. The list of wallets to load on startup is stored in
+  `\<datadir\>/settings.json` and augments any command line or `Litecoin.conf`
+  `-wallet=` settings that specify more wallets to load. Wallets that are
+  unloaded in the GUI get removed from the settings list so they won't load
+  again automatically next startup. (#19754)
+
+- The GUI Peers window no longer displays a "Ban Score" field. This is part of
+  changes in 0.20.1 and in this release to the handling of misbehaving
+  peers. Refer to "Changes regarding misbehaving peers" in the 0.20.1 release
+  notes for details. (#19512)
 
 Low-level changes
 =================
 
-This section describes RPC changes mainly useful for testing, mostly not
-relevant in production. The changes are mentioned for completeness.
-
 RPC
 ---
 
-- The `submitblock` RPC previously returned the reason a rejected block
-  was invalid the first time it processed that block, but returned a
-  generic "duplicate" rejection message on subsequent occasions it
-  processed the same block.  It now always returns the fundamental
-  reason for rejecting an invalid block and only returns "duplicate" for
-  valid blocks it has already accepted.
+- To make RPC `sendtoaddress` more consistent with `sendmany` the following error
+    `sendtoaddress` codes were changed from `-4` to `-6`:
+  - Insufficient funds
+  - Fee estimation failed
+  - Transaction has too long of a mempool chain
 
-- A new `submitheader` RPC allows submitting block headers independently
-  from their block.  This is likely only useful for testing.
+- The `sendrawtransaction` error code for exceeding `maxfeerate` has been changed from
+  `-26` to `-25`. The error string has been changed from "absurdly-high-fee" to
+  "Fee exceeds maximum configured by user (e.g. -maxtxfee, maxfeerate)." The
+  `testmempoolaccept` RPC returns `max-fee-exceeded` rather than `absurdly-high-fee`
+  as the `reject-reason`. (#19339)
 
-- The `signrawtransactionwithkey` and `signrawtransactionwithwallet`
-  RPCs have been modified so that they also optionally accept a
-  `witnessScript`, the witness script in the case of a P2WSH or
-  P2SH-P2WSH output. This is compatible with the change to
-  `listunspent`.
+- To make wallet and rawtransaction RPCs more consistent, the error message for
+  exceeding maximum feerate has been changed to "Fee exceeds maximum configured by user (e.g. -maxtxfee, maxfeerate)." (#19339)
 
-- For the `walletprocesspsbt` and `walletcreatefundedpsbt` RPCs, if the
-  `bip32derivs` parameter is set to true but the key metadata for a
-  public key has not been updated yet, then that key will have a
-  derivation path as if it were just an independent key (i.e. no
-  derivation path and its master fingerprint is itself).
+Tests
+-----
 
-Configuration
--------------
+- The `generateblock` RPC allows testers using regtest mode to
+  generate blocks that consist of a custom set of transactions. (#17693)
 
-- The `-usehd` configuration option was removed in version 0.16. From
-  that version onwards, all new wallets created are hierarchical
-  deterministic wallets. This release makes specifying `-usehd` an
-  invalid configuration option.
-
-Network
--------
-
-- This release allows peers that your node automatically disconnected
-  for misbehavior (e.g. sending invalid data) to reconnect to your node
-  if you have unused incoming connection slots.  If your slots fill up,
-  a misbehaving node will be disconnected to make room for nodes without
-  a history of problems (unless the misbehaving node helps your node in
-  some other way, such as by connecting to a part of the Internet from
-  which you don't have many other peers).  Previously, Litecoin Core
-  banned the IP addresses of misbehaving peers for a period of time
-  (default of 1 day); this was easily circumvented by attackers with
-  multiple IP addresses. If you manually ban a peer, such as by using
-  the `setban` RPC, all connections from that peer will still be
-  rejected.
-
-Wallet
--------
-
-- The key metadata will need to be upgraded the first time that the HD
-  seed is available.  For unencrypted wallets this will occur on wallet
-  loading.  For encrypted wallets this will occur the first time the
-  wallet is unlocked.
-
-- Newly encrypted wallets will no longer require restarting the
-  software. Instead such wallets will be completely unloaded and
-  reloaded to achieve the same effect.
-
-- A sub-project of Litecoin Core now provides Hardware Wallet Interaction
-  (HWI) scripts that allow command-line users to use several popular
-  hardware key management devices with Litecoin Core.  See their [project
-  page](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI#readme) for details.
-
-Security
---------
-
-- This release changes the Random Number Generator (RNG) used from
-  OpenSSL to Litecoin Core's own implementation, although entropy
-  gathered by Litecoin Core is fed out to OpenSSL and then read back in
-  when the program needs strong randomness. This moves Litecoin Core a
-  little closer to no longer needing to depend on OpenSSL, a dependency
-  that has caused security issues in the past.  The new implementation
-  gathers entropy from multiple sources, including from hardware
-  supporting the rdseed CPU instruction.
-
-Changes for particular platforms
---------------------------------
-
-- On macOS, Litecoin Core now opts out of application CPU throttling
-  ("app nap") during initial blockchain download, when catching up from
-  over 100 blocks behind the current chain tip, or when reindexing chain
-  data. This helps prevent these operations from taking an excessively
-  long time because the operating system is attempting to conserve
-  power.
-
-0.18.1 change log
-=================
-
-### Consensus
-- #14247 Fix crash bug with duplicate inputs within a transaction (TheBlueMatt)
-
-### Mining
-- #14811 Mining: Enforce that segwit option must be set in GBT (jnewbery)
-
-### Block and transaction handling
-- #13310 Report progress in ReplayBlocks while rolling forward (promag)
-- #13783 validation: Pass tx pool reference into CheckSequenceLocks (MarcoFalke)
-- #14834 validation: Assert that pindexPrev is non-null when required (kallewoof)
-- #14085 index: Fix for indexers skipping genesis block (jimpo)
-- #14963 mempool, validation: Explain `cs_main` locking semantics (MarcoFalke)
-- #15193 Default `-whitelistforcerelay` to off (sdaftuar)
-- #15429 Update `assumevalid`, `minimumchainwork`, and `getchaintxstats` to height 563378 (gmaxwell)
-- #15552 Granular invalidateblock and RewindBlockIndex (MarcoFalke)
-- #14841 Move CheckBlock() call to critical section (hebasto)
-
-### P2P protocol and network code
-- #14025 Remove dead code for nVersion=10300 (MarcoFalke)
-- #12254 BIP 158: Compact Block Filters for Light Clients (jimpo)
-- #14073 blockfilter: Avoid out-of-bounds script access (jimpo)
-- #14140 Switch nPrevNodeCount to vNodesSize (pstratem)
-- #14027 Skip stale tip checking if outbound connections are off or if reindexing (gmaxwell)
-- #14532 Never bind `INADDR_ANY` by default, and warn when doing so explicitly (luke-jr)
-- #14733 Make peer timeout configurable, speed up very slow test and ensure correct code path tested (zallarak)
-- #14336 Implement poll (pstratem)
-- #15051 IsReachable is the inverse of IsLimited (DRY). Includes unit tests (mmachicao)
-- #15138 Drop IsLimited in favor of IsReachable (Empact)
-- #14605 Return of the Banman (dongcarl)
-- #14970 Add dnsseed.emzy.de to DNS seeds (Emzy)
-- #14929 Allow connections from misbehavior banned peers (gmaxwell)
-- #15345 Correct comparison of addr count (dongcarl)
-- #15201 Add missing locking annotation for vNodes. vNodes is guarded by cs_vNodes (practicalswift)
-- #14626 Select orphan transaction uniformly for eviction (sipa)
-- #15486 Ensure tried collisions resolve, and allow feeler connections to existing outbound netgroups (sdaftuar)
-- #15990 Add tests and documentation for blocksonly (MarcoFalke)
-- #16021 Avoid logging transaction decode errors to stderr (MarcoFalke)
-- #16405 fix: tor: Call `event_base_loopbreak` from the event's callback (promag)
-- #16412 Make poll in InterruptibleRecv only filter for POLLIN events (tecnovert)
-
-### Wallet
-- #13962 Remove unused `dummy_tx` variable from FillPSBT (dongcarl)
-- #13967 Don't report `minversion` wallet entry as unknown (instagibbs)
-- #13988 Add checks for settxfee reasonableness (ajtowns)
-- #12559 Avoid locking `cs_main` in some wallet RPC (promag)
-- #13631 Add CMerkleTx::IsImmatureCoinBase method (Empact)
-- #14023 Remove accounts RPCs (jnewbery)
-- #13825 Kill accounts (jnewbery)
-- #10605 Add AssertLockHeld assertions in CWallet::ListCoins (ryanofsky)
-- #12490 Remove deprecated wallet rpc features from `bitcoin_server` (jnewbery)
-- #14138 Set `encrypted_batch` to nullptr after delete. Avoid double free in the case of NDEBUG (practicalswift)
-- #14168 Remove `ENABLE_WALLET` from `libbitcoin_server.a` (jnewbery)
-- #12493 Reopen CDBEnv after encryption instead of shutting down (achow101)
-- #14282 Remove `-usehd` option (jnewbery)
-- #14146 Remove trailing separators from `-walletdir` arg (PierreRochard)
-- #14291 Add ListWalletDir utility function (promag)
-- #14468 Deprecate `generate` RPC method (jnewbery)
-- #11634 Add missing `cs_wallet`/`cs_KeyStore` locks to wallet (practicalswift)
-- #14296 Remove `addwitnessaddress` (jnewbery)
-- #14451 Add BIP70 deprecation warning and allow building GUI without BIP70 support (jameshilliard)
-- #14320 Fix duplicate fileid detection (ken2812221)
-- #14561 Remove `fs::relative` call and fix listwalletdir tests (promag)
-- #14454 Add SegWit support to importmulti (MeshCollider)
-- #14410 rpcwallet: `ischange` field for `getaddressinfo` RPC (mrwhythat)
-- #14350 Add WalletLocation class (promag)
-- #14689 Require a public key to be retrieved when signing a P2PKH input (achow101)
-- #14478 Show error to user when corrupt wallet unlock fails (MeshCollider)
-- #14411 Restore ability to list incoming transactions by label (ryanofsky)
-- #14552 Detect duplicate wallet by comparing the db filename (ken2812221)
-- #14678 Remove redundant KeyOriginInfo access, already done in CreateSig (instagibbs)
-- #14477 Add ability to convert solvability info to descriptor (sipa)
-- #14380 Fix assert crash when specified change output spend size is unknown (instagibbs)
-- #14760 Log env path in `BerkeleyEnvironment::Flush` (promag)
-- #14646 Add expansion cache functions to descriptors (unused for now) (sipa)
-- #13076 Fix ScanForWalletTransactions to return an enum indicating scan result: `success` / `failure` / `user_abort` (Empact)
-- #14821 Replace CAffectedKeysVisitor with descriptor based logic (sipa)
-- #14957 Initialize `stop_block` in CWallet::ScanForWalletTransactions (Empact)
-- #14565 Overhaul `importmulti` logic (sipa)
-- #15039 Avoid leaking nLockTime fingerprint when anti-fee-sniping (MarcoFalke)
-- #14268 Introduce SafeDbt to handle Dbt with free or `memory_cleanse` raii-style (Empact)
-- #14711 Remove uses of chainActive and mapBlockIndex in wallet code (ryanofsky)
-- #15279 Clarify rescanblockchain doc (MarcoFalke)
-- #15292 Remove `boost::optional`-related false positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings on GCC compiler (hebasto)
-- #13926 [Tools] bitcoin-wallet - a tool for creating and managing wallets offline (jnewbery)
-- #11911 Free BerkeleyEnvironment instances when not in use (ryanofsky)
-- #15235 Do not import private keys to wallets with private keys disabled (achow101)
-- #15263 Descriptor expansions only need pubkey entries for PKH/WPKH (sipa)
-- #15322 Add missing `cs_db` lock (promag)
-- #15297 Releases dangling files on `BerkeleyEnvironment::Close` (promag)
-- #14491 Allow descriptor imports with importmulti (MeshCollider)
-- #15365 Add lock annotation for mapAddressBook (MarcoFalke)
-- #15226 Allow creating blank (empty) wallets (alternative) (achow101)
-- #15390 [wallet-tool] Close bdb when flushing wallet (jnewbery)
-- #15334 Log absolute paths for the wallets (hebasto)
-- #14978 Factor out PSBT utilities from RPCs for use in GUI code; related refactoring (gwillen)
-- #14481 Add P2SH-P2WSH support to listunspent RPC (MeshCollider)
-- #14021 Import key origin data through descriptors in importmulti (achow101)
-- #14075 Import watch only pubkeys to the keypool if private keys are disabled (achow101)
-- #15368 Descriptor checksums (sipa)
-- #15433 Use a single wallet batch for `UpgradeKeyMetadata` (jonasschnelli)
-- #15408 Remove unused `TransactionError` constants (MarcoFalke)
-- #15583 Log and ignore errors in ListWalletDir and IsBerkeleyBtree (promag)
-- #14195 Pass privkey export DER compression flag correctly (fingera)
-- #15299 Fix assertion in `CKey::SignCompact` (promag)
-- #14437 Start to separate wallet from node (ryanofsky)
-- #15749 Fix: importmulti only imports origin info for PKH outputs (sipa)
-- #15913 Add -ignorepartialspends to list of ignored wallet options (luke-jr)
-
-### RPC and other APIs
-- #12842 Prevent concurrent `savemempool` (promag)
-- #13987 Report `minfeefilter` value in `getpeerinfo` RPC (ajtowns)
-- #13891 Remove getinfo deprecation warning (jnewbery)
-- #13399 Add `submitheader` (MarcoFalke)
-- #12676 Show `bip125-replaceable` flag, when retrieving mempool entries (dexX7)
-- #13723 PSBT key path cleanups (sipa)
-- #14008 Preserve a format of RPC command definitions (kostyantyn)
-- #9332 Let wallet `importmulti` RPC accept labels for standard scriptPubKeys (ryanofsky)
-- #13983 Return more specific reject reason for submitblock (MarcoFalke)
-- #13152 Add getnodeaddresses RPC command (chris-belcher)
-- #14298 rest: Improve performance for JSON calls (alecalve)
-- #14297 Remove warning for removed estimatefee RPC (jnewbery)
-- #14373 Consistency fixes for RPC descriptions (ch4ot1c)
-- #14150 Add key origin support to descriptors (sipa)
-- #14518 Always throw in getblockstats if `-txindex` is required (promag)
-- #14060 ZMQ: add options to configure outbound message high water mark, aka SNDHWM (mruddy)
-- #13381 Add possibility to preserve labels on importprivkey (marcoagner)
-- #14530 Use `RPCHelpMan` to generate RPC doc strings (MarcoFalke)
-- #14720 Correctly name RPC arguments (MarcoFalke)
-- #14726 Use `RPCHelpMan` for all RPCs (MarcoFalke)
-- #14796 Pass argument descriptions to `RPCHelpMan` (MarcoFalke)
-- #14670 http: Fix HTTP server shutdown (promag)
-- #14885 Assert that named arguments are unique in `RPCHelpMan` (promag)
-- #14877 Document default values for optional arguments (MarcoFalke)
-- #14875 RPCHelpMan: Support required arguments after optional ones (MarcoFalke)
-- #14993 Fix data race (UB) in InterruptRPC() (practicalswift)
-- #14653 rpcwallet: Add missing transaction categories to RPC helptexts (andrewtoth)
-- #14981 Clarify RPC `getrawtransaction`'s time help text (benthecarman)
-- #12151 Remove `cs_main` lock from blockToJSON and blockheaderToJSON (promag)
-- #15078 Document `bytessent_per_msg` and `bytesrecv_per_msg` (MarcoFalke)
-- #15057 Correct `reconsiderblock `help text, add test (MarcoFalke)
-- #12153 Avoid permanent `cs_main` lock in `getblockheader` (promag)
-- #14982 Add `getrpcinfo` command (promag)
-- #15122 Expand help text for `importmulti` changes (jnewbery)
-- #15186 remove duplicate solvable field from `getaddressinfo` (fanquake)
-- #15209 zmq: log outbound message high water mark when reusing socket (fanquake)
-- #15177 rest: Improve tests and documention of /headers and /block (promag)
-- #14353 rest: Add blockhash call, fetch blockhash by height (jonasschnelli)
-- #15248 Compile on GCC4.8 (MarcoFalke)
-- #14987 RPCHelpMan: Pass through Result and Examples (MarcoFalke)
-- #15159 Remove lookup to UTXO set from GetTransaction (amitiuttarwar)
-- #15245 remove deprecated mentions of signrawtransaction from fundraw help (instagibbs)
-- #14667 Add `deriveaddresses` RPC util method (Sjors)
-- #15357 Don't ignore `-maxtxfee` when wallet is disabled (JBaczuk)
-- #15337 Fix for segfault if combinepsbt called with empty inputs (benthecarman)
-- #14918 RPCHelpMan: Check default values are given at compile-time (MarcoFalke)
-- #15383 mining: Omit uninitialized currentblockweight, currentblocktx (MarcoFalke)
-- #13932 Additional utility RPCs for PSBT (achow101)
-- #15401 Actually throw help when passed invalid number of params (MarcoFalke)
-- #15471 rpc/gui: Remove 'Unknown block versions being mined' warning (laanwj)
-- #15497 Consistent range arguments in scantxoutset/importmulti/deriveaddresses (sipa)
-- #15510 deriveaddresses: add range to CRPCConvertParam (Sjors)
-- #15582 Fix overflow bug in analyzepsbt fee: CAmount instead of int (sipa)
-- #13424 Consistently validate txid / blockhash length and encoding in rpc calls (Empact)
-- #15750 Remove the addresses field from the getaddressinfo return object (jnewbery)
-- #15991 Bugfix: fix pruneblockchain returned prune height (jonasschnelli)
-- #15899 Document iswitness flag and fix bug in converttopsbt (MarcoFalke)
-- #16026 Ensure that uncompressed public keys in a multisig always returns a legacy address (achow101)
-- #14039 Disallow extended encoding for non-witness transactions (sipa)
-- #16210 add 2nd arg to signrawtransactionwithkey examples (dooglus)
-- #16250 signrawtransactionwithkey: report error when missing redeemScript/witnessScript (ajtowns)
-
-### GUI
-- #13634 Compile `boost::signals2` only once (MarcoFalke)
-- #13248 Make proxy icon from statusbar clickable (mess110)
-- #12818 TransactionView: highlight replacement tx after fee bump (Sjors)
-- #13529 Use new Qt5 connect syntax (promag)
-- #14162 Also log and print messages or questions like bitcoind (MarcoFalke)
-- #14385 Avoid system harfbuzz and bz2 (theuni)
-- #14450 Fix QCompleter popup regression (hebasto)
-- #14177 Set C locale for amountWidget (hebasto)
-- #14374 Add `Blocksdir` to Debug window (hebasto)
-- #14554 Remove unused `adjustedTime` parameter (hebasto)
-- #14228 Enable system tray icon by default if available (hebasto)
-- #14608 Remove the "Pay only required fee…" checkbox (hebasto)
-- #14521 qt, docs: Fix `bitcoin-qt -version` output formatting (hebasto)
-- #13966 When private key is disabled, only show watch-only balance (ken2812221)
-- #14828 Remove hidden columns in coin control dialog (promag)
-- #14783 Fix `boost::signals2::no_slots_error` in early calls to InitWarning (promag)
-- #14854 Cleanup SplashScreen class (hebasto)
-- #14801 Use window() instead of obsolete topLevelWidget() (hebasto)
-- #14573 Add Window menu (promag)
-- #14979 Restore < Qt5.6 compatibility for addAction (jonasschnelli)
-- #14975 Refactoring with QString::toNSString() (hebasto)
-- #15000 Fix broken notificator on GNOME (hebasto)
-- #14375 Correct misleading "overridden options" label (hebasto)
-- #15007 Notificator class refactoring (hebasto)
-- #14784 Use `WalletModel*` instead of the wallet name as map key (promag)
-- #11625 Add BitcoinApplication & RPCConsole tests (ryanofsky)
-- #14517 Fix start with the `-min` option (hebasto)
-- #13216 implements concept for different disk sizes on intro (marcoagner)
-- #15114 Replace remaining 0 with nullptr (Empact)
-- #14594 Fix minimized window bug on Linux (hebasto)
-- #14556 Fix confirmed transaction labeled "open" (#13299) (hebasto)
-- #15149 Show current wallet name in window title (promag)
-- #15136 "Peers" tab overhaul (hebasto)
-- #14250 Remove redundant stopThread() and stopExecutor() signals (hebasto)
-- #15040 Add workaround for QProgressDialog bug on macOS (hebasto)
-- #15101 Add WalletController (promag)
-- #15178 Improve "help-console" message (hebasto)
-- #15210 Fix window title update (promag)
-- #15167 Fix wallet selector size adjustment (hebasto)
-- #15208 Remove macOS launch-at-startup when compiled with > macOS 10.11, fix memory mismanagement (jonasschnelli)
-- #15163 Correct units for "-dbcache" and "-prune" (hebasto)
-- #15225 Change the receive button to respond to keypool state changing (achow101)
-- #15280 Fix shutdown order (promag)
-- #15203 Fix issue #9683 "gui, wallet: random abort (segmentation fault) (dooglus)
-- #15091 Fix model overlay header sync (jonasschnelli)
-- #15153 Add Open Wallet menu (promag)
-- #15183 Fix `m_assumed_blockchain_size` variable value (marcoagner)
-- #15063 If BIP70 is disabled, attempt to fall back to BIP21 parsing (luke-jr)
-- #15195 Add Close Wallet action (promag)
-- #15462 Fix async open wallet call order (promag)
-- #15801 Bugfix: GUI: Options: Initialise prune setting range before loading current value, and remove upper bound limit (luke-jr)
-- #16044 fix the bug of OPEN CONFIGURATION FILE on Mac (shannon1916)
-- #15957 Show "No wallets available" in open menu instead of nothing (meshcollider)
-- #16118 Enable open wallet menu on setWalletController (promag)
-- #16135 Set progressDialog to nullptr (promag)
-- #16231 Fix open wallet menu initialization order (promag) 
-- #16254 Set `AA_EnableHighDpiScaling` attribute early (hebasto) 
-- #16122 Enable console line edit on setClientModel (promag) 
-- #16348 Assert QMetaObject::invokeMethod result (promag)
-
-### Build system
-- #13955 gitian: Bump descriptors for (0.)18 (fanquake)
-- #13899 Enable -Wredundant-decls where available. Remove redundant redeclarations (practicalswift)
-- #13665 Add RISC-V support to gitian (ken2812221)
-- #14062 Generate MSVC project files via python script (ken2812221)
-- #14037 Add README.md to linux release tarballs (hebasto)
-- #14183 Remove unused Qt 4 dependencies (ken2812221)
-- #14127 Avoid getifaddrs when unavailable (greenaddress)
-- #14184 Scripts and tools: increased timeout downloading (cisba)
-- #14204 Move `interfaces/*` to `libbitcoin_server` (laanwj)
-- #14208 Actually remove `ENABLE_WALLET` (jnewbery)
-- #14212 Remove libssl from LDADD unless GUI (MarcoFalke)
-- #13578 Upgrade zeromq to 4.2.5 and avoid deprecated zeromq API functions (mruddy)
-- #14281 lcov: filter /usr/lib/ from coverage reports (MarcoFalke)
-- #14325 gitian: Use versioned unsigned tarballs instead of generically named ones (achow101)
-- #14253 During 'make clean', remove some files that are currently missed (murrayn)
-- #14455 Unbreak `make clean` (jamesob)
-- #14495 Warn (don't fail!) on spelling errors (practicalswift)
-- #14496 Pin to specific versions of Python packages we install from PyPI in Travis (practicalswift)
-- #14568 Fix Qt link order for Windows build (ken2812221)
-- #14252 Run functional tests and benchmarks under the undefined behaviour sanitizer (UBSan) (practicalswift)
-- #14612 Include full version number in released file names (achow101)
-- #14840 Remove duplicate libconsensus linking in test make (AmirAbrams)
-- #14564 Adjust configure so that only BIP70 is disabled when protobuf is missing instead of the GUI (jameshilliard)
-- #14883 Add `--retry 5` to curl opts in `install_db4.sh` (qubenix)
-- #14701 Add `CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD` to CFBundleGetInfoString (fanquake)
-- #14849 Qt 5.9.7 (fanquake)
-- #15020 Add names to Travis jobs (gkrizek)
-- #15047 Allow to configure --with-sanitizers=fuzzer (MarcoFalke)
-- #15154 Configure: bitcoin-tx doesn't need libevent, so don't pull it in (luke-jr)
-- #15175 Drop macports support (Empact)
-- #15308 Restore compatibility with older boost (Empact)
-- #15407 msvc: Fix silent merge conflict between #13926 and #14372 part II (ken2812221)
-- #15388 Makefile.am: add rule for src/bitcoin-wallet (Sjors)
-- #15393 Bump minimum Qt version to 5.5.1 (Sjors)
-- #15285 Prefer Python 3.4 even if newer versions are present on the system (Sjors)
-- #15398 msvc: Add rapidcheck property tests (ken2812221)
-- #15431 msvc: scripted-diff: Remove NDEBUG pre-define in project file (ken2812221)
-- #15549 gitian: Improve error handling (laanwj)
-- #15548 use full version string in setup.exe (MarcoFalke)
-- #11526 Visual Studio build configuration for Bitcoin Core (sipsorcery)
-- #15110 build\_msvc: Fix the build problem in `libbitcoin_server` (Mr-Leshiy)
-- #14372 msvc: build secp256k1 and leveldb locally (ken2812221)
-- #15325 msvc: Fix silent merge conflict between #13926 and #14372 (ken2812221)
-- #15391 Add compile time verification of assumptions we're currently making implicitly/tacitly (practicalswift)
-- #15503 msvc: Use a single file to specify the include path (ken2812221)
-- #13765 contrib: Add gitian build support for github pull request (ken2812221)
-- #15809 gitignore: plist and dat (jamesob)
-- #15985 Add test for GCC bug 90348 (sipa)
-- #15947 Install bitcoin-wallet manpage (domob1812)
-- #15983 build with -fstack-reuse=none (MarcoFalke)
-
-### Tests and QA
-- #15405 appveyor: Clean cache when build configuration changes (Sjors)
-- #13953 Fix deprecation in bitcoin-util-test.py (isghe)
-- #13963 Replace usage of tostring() with tobytes() (dongcarl)
-- #13964 ci: Add appveyor ci (ken2812221)
-- #13997 appveyor: fetch the latest port data (ken2812221)
-- #13707 Add usage note to check-rpc-mappings.py (masonicboom)
-- #14036 travis: Run unit tests --with-sanitizers=undefined (MarcoFalke)
-- #13861 Add testing of `value_ret` for SelectCoinsBnB (Empact)
-- #13863 travis: Move script sections to files in `.travis/` subject to shellcheck (scravy)
-- #14081 travis: Fix missing differentiation between unit and functional tests (scravy)
-- #14042 travis: Add cxxflags=-wno-psabi at arm job (ken2812221)
-- #14051 Make `combine_logs.py` handle multi-line logs (jnewbery)
-- #14093 Fix accidental trunction from int to bool (practicalswift)
-- #14108 Add missing locking annotations and locks (`g_cs_orphans`) (practicalswift)
-- #14088 Don't assert(…) with side effects (practicalswift)
-- #14086 appveyor: Use clcache to speed up build (ken2812221)
-- #13954 Warn (don't fail!) on spelling errors. Fix typos reported by codespell (practicalswift)
-- #12775 Integration of property based testing into Bitcoin Core (Christewart)
-- #14119 Read reject reasons from debug log, not P2P messages (MarcoFalke)
-- #14189 Fix silent merge conflict in `wallet_importmulti` (MarcoFalke)
-- #13419 Speed up `knapsack_solver_test` by not recreating wallet 100 times (lucash-dev)
-- #14199 Remove redundant BIP174 test from `rpc_psbt.json` (araspitzu)
-- #14179 Fixups to "Run all tests even if wallet is not compiled" (MarcoFalke)
-- #14225 Reorder tests and move most of extended tests up to normal tests (ken2812221)
-- #14236 `generate` --> `generatetoaddress` change to allow tests run without wallet (sanket1729)
-- #14287 Use MakeUnique to construct objects owned by `unique_ptrs` (practicalswift)
-- #14007 Run functional test on Windows and enable it on Appveyor (ken2812221)
-- #14275 Write the notification message to different files to avoid race condition in `feature_notifications.py` (ken2812221)
-- #14306 appveyor: Move AppVeyor YAML to dot-file-style YAML (MitchellCash)
-- #14305 Enforce critical class instance attributes in functional tests, fix segwit test specificity (JustinTArthur)
-- #12246 Bugfix: Only run bitcoin-tx tests when bitcoin-tx is enabled (luke-jr)
-- #14316 Exclude all tests with difference parameters in `--exclude` list (ken2812221)
-- #14381 Add missing call to `skip_if_no_cli()` (practicalswift)
-- #14389 travis: Set codespell version to avoid breakage (MarcoFalke)
-- #14398 Don't access out of bounds array index: array[sizeof(array)] (Empact)
-- #14419 Remove `rpc_zmq.py` (jnewbery)
-- #14241 appveyor: Script improvement (ken2812221)
-- #14413 Allow closed RPC handler in `assert_start_raises_init_error` (ken2812221)
-- #14324 Run more tests with wallet disabled (MarcoFalke)
-- #13649 Allow arguments to be forwarded to flake8 in lint-python.sh (jamesob)
-- #14465 Stop node before removing the notification file (ken2812221)
-- #14460 Improve 'CAmount' tests (hebasto)
-- #14456 forward timeouts properly in `send_blocks_and_test` (jamesob)
-- #14527 Revert "Make qt wallet test compatible with qt4" (MarcoFalke)
-- #14504 Show the progress of functional tests (isghe)
-- #14559 appveyor: Enable multiwallet tests (ken2812221)
-- #13515 travis: Enable qt for all jobs (ken2812221)
-- #14571 Test that nodes respond to `getdata` with `notfound` (MarcoFalke)
-- #14569 Print dots by default in functional tests (ken2812221)
-- #14631 Move deterministic address import to `setup_nodes` (jnewbery)
-- #14630 test: Remove travis specific code (MarcoFalke)
-- #14528 travis: Compile once on xenial (MarcoFalke)
-- #14092 Dry run `bench_bitcoin` as part `make check` to allow for quick identification of assertion/sanitizer failures in benchmarking code (practicalswift)
-- #14664 `example_test.py`: fixup coinbase height argument, derive number clearly (instagibbs)
-- #14522 Add invalid P2P message tests (jamesob)
-- #14619 Fix value display name in `test_runner` help text (merland)
-- #14672 Send fewer spam messages in `p2p_invalid_messages` (jamesob)
-- #14673 travis: Fail the ubsan travis build in case of newly introduced ubsan errors (practicalswift)
-- #14665 appveyor: Script improvement part II (ken2812221)
-- #14365 Add Python dead code linter (vulture) to Travis (practicalswift)
-- #14693 `test_node`: `get_mem_rss` fixups (MarcoFalke)
-- #14714 util.h: explicitly include required QString header (1Il1)
-- #14705 travis: Avoid timeout on verify-commits check (MarcoFalke)
-- #14770 travis: Do not specify sudo in `.travis` (scravy)
-- #14719 Check specific reject reasons in `feature_block` (MarcoFalke)
-- #14771 Add `BOOST_REQUIRE` to getters returning optional (MarcoFalke)
-- #14777 Add regtest for JSON-RPC batch calls (domob1812)
-- #14764 travis: Run thread sanitizer on unit tests (MarcoFalke)
-- #14400 Add Benchmark to test input de-duplication worst case (JeremyRubin)
-- #14812 Fix `p2p_invalid_messages` on macOS (jamesob)
-- #14813 Add `wallet_encryption` error tests (MarcoFalke)
-- #14820 Fix `descriptor_tests` not checking ToString output of public descriptors (ryanofsky)
-- #14794 Add AddressSanitizer (ASan) Travis build (practicalswift)
-- #14819 Bugfix: `test/functional/mempool_accept`: Ensure oversize transaction is actually oversize (luke-jr)
-- #14822 bench: Destroy wallet txs instead of leaking their memory (MarcoFalke)
-- #14683 Better `combine_logs.py` behavior (jamesob)
-- #14231 travis: Save cache even when build or test fail (ken2812221)
-- #14816 Add CScriptNum decode python implementation in functional suite (instagibbs)
-- #14861 Modify `rpc_bind` to conform to #14532 behaviour (dongcarl)
-- #14864 Run scripted-diff in subshell (dongcarl)
-- #14795 Allow `test_runner` command line to receive parameters for each test (marcoagner)
-- #14788 Possible fix the permission error when the tests open the cookie file (ken2812221)
-- #14857 `wallet_keypool_topup.py`: Test for all keypool address types (instagibbs)
-- #14886 Refactor importmulti tests (jnewbery)
-- #14908 Removed implicit CTransaction constructor calls from tests and benchmarks (lucash-dev)
-- #14903 Handle ImportError explicitly, improve comparisons against None (daniel-s-ingram)
-- #14884 travis: Enforce python 3.4 support through linter (Sjors)
-- #14940 Add test for truncated pushdata script (MarcoFalke)
-- #14926 consensus: Check that final transactions are valid (MarcoFalke)
-- #14937 travis: Fix travis would always be green even if it fail (ken2812221)
-- #14953 Make `g_insecure_rand_ctx` `thread_local` (MarcoFalke)
-- #14931 mempool: Verify prioritization is dumped correctly (MarcoFalke)
-- #14935 Test for expected return values when calling functions returning a success code (practicalswift)
-- #14969 Fix `cuckoocache_tests` TSAN failure introduced in 14935 (practicalswift)
-- #14964 Fix race in `mempool_accept` (MarcoFalke)
-- #14829 travis: Enable functional tests in the threadsanitizer (tsan) build job (practicalswift)
-- #14985 Remove `thread_local` from `test_bitcoin` (MarcoFalke)
-- #15005 Bump timeout to run tests in travis thread sanitizer (MarcoFalke)
-- #15013 Avoid race in `p2p_timeouts` (MarcoFalke)
-- #14960 lint/format-strings: Correctly exclude escaped percent symbols (luke-jr)
-- #14930 pruning: Check that verifychain can be called when pruned (MarcoFalke)
-- #15022 Upgrade Travis OS to Xenial (gkrizek)
-- #14738 Fix running `wallet_listtransactions.py` individually through `test_runner.py` (kristapsk)
-- #15026 Rename `rpc_timewait` to `rpc_timeout` (MarcoFalke)
-- #15069 Fix `rpc_net.py` `pong` race condition (Empact)
-- #14790 Allow running `rpc_bind.py` --nonloopback test without IPv6 (kristapsk)
-- #14457 add invalid tx templates for use in functional tests (jamesob)
-- #14855 Correct ineffectual WithOrVersion from `transactions_tests` (Empact)
-- #15099 Use `std::vector` API for construction of test data (domob1812)
-- #15102 Run `invalid_txs.InputMissing` test in `feature_block` (MarcoFalke)
-- #15059 Add basic test for BIP34 (MarcoFalke)
-- #15108 Tidy up `wallet_importmulti.py` (amitiuttarwar)
-- #15164 Ignore shellcheck warning SC2236 (promag)
-- #15170 refactor/lint: Add ignored shellcheck suggestions to an array (koalaman)
-- #14958 Remove race between connecting and shutdown on separate connections (promag)
-- #15166 Pin shellcheck version (practicalswift)
-- #15196 Update all `subprocess.check_output` functions to be Python 3.4 compatible (gkrizek)
-- #15043 Build fuzz targets into seperate executables (MarcoFalke)
-- #15276 travis: Compile once on trusty (MarcoFalke)
-- #15246 Add tests for invalid message headers (MarcoFalke)
-- #15301 When testing with --usecli, unify RPC arg to cli arg conversion and handle dicts and lists (achow101)
-- #15247 Use wallet to retrieve raw transactions (MarcoFalke)
-- #15303 travis: Remove unused `functional_tests_config` (MarcoFalke)
-- #15330 Fix race in `p2p_invalid_messages` (MarcoFalke)
-- #15324 Make bloom tests deterministic (MarcoFalke)
-- #15328 travis: Revert "run extended tests once daily" (MarcoFalke)
-- #15327 Make test `updatecoins_simulation_test` deterministic (practicalswift)
-- #14519 add utility to easily profile node performance with perf (jamesob)
-- #15349 travis: Only exit early if compilation took longer than 30 min (MarcoFalke)
-- #15350 Drop RPC connection if --usecli (promag)
-- #15370 test: Remove unused --force option (MarcoFalke)
-- #14543 minor `p2p_sendheaders` fix of height in coinbase (instagibbs)
-- #13787 Test for Windows encoding issue (ken2812221)
-- #15378 Added missing tests for RPC wallet errors (benthecarman)
-- #15238 remove some magic mining constants in functional tests (instagibbs)
-- #15411 travis: Combine --disable-bip70 into existing job (MarcoFalke)
-- #15295 fuzz: Add `test/fuzz/test_runner.py` and run it in travis (MarcoFalke)
-- #15413 Add missing `cs_main` locks required when accessing pcoinsdbview, pcoinsTip or pblocktree (practicalswift)
-- #15399 fuzz: Script validation flags (MarcoFalke)
-- #15410 txindex: interrupt threadGroup before calling destructor (MarcoFalke)
-- #15397 Remove manual byte editing in `wallet_tx_clone` func test (instagibbs)
-- #15415 functional: allow custom cwd, use tmpdir as default (Sjors)
-- #15404 Remove `-txindex` to start nodes (amitiuttarwar)
-- #15439 remove `byte.hex()` to keep compatibility (AkioNak)
-- #15419 Always refresh cache to be out of ibd (MarcoFalke)
-- #15507 Bump timeout on tests that timeout on windows (MarcoFalke)
-- #15506 appveyor: fix cache issue and reduce dependencies build time (ken2812221)
-- #15485 add `rpc_misc.py`, mv test getmemoryinfo, add test mallocinfo (adamjonas)
-- #15321 Add `cs_main` lock annotations for mapBlockIndex (MarcoFalke)
-- #14128 lint: Make sure we read the command line inputs using UTF-8 decoding in python (ken2812221)
-- #14115 lint: Make all linters work under the default macos dev environment (build-osx.md) (practicalswift)
-- #15219 lint: Enable python linters via an array (Empact)
-- #15826 Pure python EC (sipa)
-- #15893 Add test for superfluous witness record in deserialization (instagibbs)
-- #14818 Bugfix: test/functional/rpc_psbt: Remove check for specific error message that depends on uncertain assumptions (luke-jr)
-- #15831 Add test that addmultisigaddress fails for watchonly addresses (MarcoFalke)
-
-### Platform support
-- #13866 utils: Use `_wfopen` and `_wfreopen` on windows (ken2812221)
-- #13886 utils: Run commands using UTF-8 string on windows (ken2812221)
-- #14192 utils: Convert `fs::filesystem_error` messages from local multibyte to UTF-8 on windows (ken2812221)
-- #13877 utils: Make fs::path::string() always return UTF-8 string on windows (ken2812221)
-- #13883 utils: Convert windows args to UTF-8 string (ken2812221)
-- #13878 utils: Add fstream wrapper to allow to pass unicode filename on windows (ken2812221)
-- #14426 utils: Fix broken windows filelock (ken2812221)
-- #14686 Fix windows build error if `--disable-bip70` (ken2812221)
-- #14922 windows: Set `_WIN32_WINNT` to 0x0601 (Windows 7) (ken2812221)
-- #13888 Call unicode API on Windows (ken2812221)
-- #15468 Use `fsbridge::ifstream` to fix Windows path issue (ken2812221)
-- #13734 Drop `boost::scoped_array` and use `wchar_t` API explicitly on Windows (ken2812221)
-- #13884 Enable bdb unicode support for Windows (ken2812221)
-
-### Miscellaneous
-- #13935 contrib: Adjust output to current test format (AkioNak)
-- #14097 validation: Log FormatStateMessage on ConnectBlock error in ConnectTip (MarcoFalke)
-- #13724 contrib: Support ARM and RISC-V symbol check (ken2812221)
-- #13159 Don't close old debug log file handle prematurely when trying to re-open (on SIGHUP) (practicalswift)
-- #14186 bitcoin-cli: don't translate command line options (HashUnlimited)
-- #14057 logging: Only log `using config file path_to_bitcoin.conf` message on startup if conf file exists (leishman)
-- #14164 Update univalue subtree (MarcoFalke)
-- #14272 init: Remove deprecated args from hidden args (MarcoFalke)
-- #14494 Error if # is used in rpcpassword in conf (MeshCollider)
-- #14742 Properly generate salt in rpcauth.py (dongcarl)
-- #14708 Warn unrecognised sections in the config file (AkioNak)
-- #14756 Improve rpcauth.py by using argparse and getpass modules (promag)
-- #14785 scripts: Fix detection of copyright holders (cornelius)
-- #14831 scripts: Use `#!/usr/bin/env bash` instead of `#!/bin/bash` (vim88)
-- #14869 Scripts: Add trusted key for samuel dobson (laanwj)
-- #14809 Tools: improve verify-commits.py script (jlopp)
-- #14624 Some simple improvements to the RNG code (sipa)
-- #14947 scripts: Remove python 2 import workarounds (practicalswift)
-- #15087 Error if rpcpassword contains hash in conf sections (MeshCollider)
-- #14433 Add checksum in gitian build scripts for ossl (TheCharlatan)
-- #15165 contrib: Allow use of github api authentication in github-merge (laanwj)
-- #14409 utils and libraries: Make 'blocksdir' always net specific (hebasto)
-- #14839 threads: Fix unitialized members in `sched_param` (fanquake)
-- #14955 Switch all RNG code to the built-in PRNG (sipa)
-- #15258 Scripts and tools: Fix `devtools/copyright_header.py` to always honor exclusions (Empact)
-- #12255 Update bitcoin.service to conform to init.md (dongcarl)
-- #15266 memory: Construct globals on first use (MarcoFalke)
-- #15347 Fix build after pr 15266 merged (hebasto)
-- #15351 Update linearize-hashes.py (OverlordQ)
-- #15358 util: Add setuphelpoptions() (MarcoFalke)
-- #15216 Scripts and tools: Replace script name with a special parameter (hebasto)
-- #15250 Use RdSeed when available, and reduce RdRand load (sipa)
-- #15278 Improve PID file error handling (hebasto)
-- #15270 Pull leveldb subtree (MarcoFalke)
-- #15456 Enable PID file creation on WIN (riordant)
-- #12783 macOS: disable AppNap during sync (krab)
-- #13910 Log progress while verifying blocks at level 4 (domob1812)
-- #15124 Fail AppInitMain if either disk space check fails (Empact)
-- #15117 Fix invalid memory write in case of failing mmap(…) in PosixLockedPageAllocator::AllocateLocked (practicalswift)
-- #14357 streams: Fix broken `streams_vector_reader` test. Remove unused `seek(size_t)`
-- #11640 Make `LOCK`, `LOCK2`, `TRY_LOCK` work with CWaitableCriticalSection (ryanofsky)
-- #14074 Use `std::unordered_set` instead of `set` in blockfilter interface (jimpo)
-- #15275 Add gitian PGP key for hebasto (hebasto)
-- #16095 Catch by reference not value in wallettool (kristapsk)
-- #16205 Replace fprintf with tfm::format (MarcoFalke)
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-### Documentation
-- #14120 Notes about control port and read access to cookie (JBaczuk)
-- #14135 correct GetDifficulty doc after #13288 (fanquake)
-- #14013 Add new regtest ports in man following #10825 ports reattributions (ariard)
-- #14149 Remove misleading checkpoints comment in CMainParams (MarcoFalke)
-- #14153 Add disable-wallet section to OSX build instructions, update line in Unix instructions (bitstein)
-- #13662 Explain when reindex-chainstate can be used instead of reindex (Sjors)
-- #14207 `-help-debug` implies `-help` (laanwj)
-- #14213 Fix reference to lint-locale-dependence.sh (hebasto)
-- #14206 Document `-checklevel` levels (laanwj)
-- #14217 Add GitHub PR template (MarcoFalke)
-- #14331 doxygen: Fix member comments (MarcoFalke)
-- #14264 Split depends installation instructions per arch (MarcoFalke)
-- #14393 Add missing apt-get install (poiuty)
-- #14428 Fix macOS files description in qt/README.md (hebasto)
-- #14390 release process: RPC documentation (karel-3d)
-- #14472 getblocktemplate: use SegWit in example (Sjors)
-- #14497 Add doc/bitcoin-conf.md (hebasto)
-- #14526 Document lint tests (fanquake)
-- #14511 Remove explicit storage requirement from README.md (merland)
-- #14600 Clarify commit message guidelines (merland)
-- #14617 FreeBSD: Document Python 3 requirement for 'gmake check' (murrayn)
-- #14592 Add external interface consistency guarantees (MarcoFalke)
-- #14625 Make clear function argument case in dev notes (dongcarl)
-- #14515 Update OpenBSD build guide for 6.4 (fanquake)
-- #14436 Add comment explaining recentRejects-DoS behavior (jamesob)
-- #14684 conf: Remove deprecated options from docs, Other cleanup (MarcoFalke)
-- #14731 Improve scripted-diff developer docs (dongcarl)
-- #14778 A few minor formatting fixes and clarifications to descriptors.md (jnewbery)
-- #14448 Clarify rpcwallet flag url change (JBaczuk)
-- #14808 Clarify RPC rawtransaction documentation (jlopp)
-- #14804 Less confusing documentation for `torpassword` (fanquake)
-- #14848 Fix broken Gmane URL in security-check.py (cyounkins-bot)
-- #14882 developer-notes.md: Point out that UniValue deviates from upstream (Sjors)
-- #14909 Update minimum required Qt (fanquake)
-- #14914 Add nice table to files.md (emilengler)
-- #14741 Indicate `-rpcauth` option password hashing alg (dongcarl)
-- #14950 Add NSIS setup/install steps to windows docs (fanquake)
-- #13930 Better explain GetAncestor check for `m_failed_blocks` in AcceptBlockHeader (Sjors)
-- #14973 Improve Windows native build instructions (murrayn)
-- #15073 Botbot.me (IRC logs) not available anymore (anduck)
-- #15038 Get more info about GUI-related issue on Linux (hebasto)
-- #14832 Add more Doxygen information to Developer Notes (ch4ot1c)
-- #15128 Fix download link in doc/README.md (merland)
-- #15127 Clarifying testing instructions (benthecarman)
-- #15132 Add FreeBSD build notes link to doc/README.md (fanquake)
-- #15173 Explain what .python-version does (Sjors)
-- #15223 Add information about security to the JSON-RPC doc (harding)
-- #15249 Update python docs to reflect that wildcard imports are disallowed (Empact)
-- #15176 Get rid of badly named `doc/README_osx.md` (merland)
-- #15272 Correct logging return type and RPC example (fanquake)
-- #15244 Gdb attaching to process during tests has non-sudo solution (instagibbs)
-- #15332 Small updates to `getrawtransaction` description (amitiuttarwar)
-- #15354 Add missing `bitcoin-wallet` tool manpages (MarcoFalke)
-- #15343 netaddress: Make IPv4 loopback comment more descriptive (dongcarl)
-- #15353 Minor textual improvements in `translation_strings_policy.md` (merland)
-- #15426 importmulti: add missing description of keypool option (harding)
-- #15425 Add missing newline to listunspent help for witnessScript (harding)
-- #15348 Add separate productivity notes document (dongcarl)
-- #15416 Update FreeBSD build guide for 12.0 (fanquake)
-- #15222 Add info about factors that affect dependency list (merland)
-- #13676 Explain that mempool memory is added to `-dbcache` (Sjors)
-- #15273 Slight tweak to the verify-commits script directions (droark)
-- #15477 Remove misleading hint in getrawtransaction (MarcoFalke)
-- #15489 Update release process for snap package (MarcoFalke)
-- #15524 doc: Remove berkeleydb PPA from linux build instructions (MarcoFalke)
-- #15559 Correct `analyzepsbt` rpc doc (fanquake)
-- #15194 Add comment describing `fDisconnect` behavior (dongcarl)
-- #15754 getrpcinfo docs (benthecarman)
-- #15763 Update bips.md for 0.18.0 (sipa)
-- #15757 List new RPCs in psbt.md and descriptors.md (sipa)
-- #15765 correct bitcoinconsensus_version in shared-libraries.md (fanquake)
-- #15792 describe onlynet option in doc/tor.md (jonatack)
-- #15802 mention creating application support bitcoin folder on OSX (JimmyMow)
-- #15799 Clarify RPC versioning (MarcoFalke)
-- #15890 Remove text about txes always relayed from -whitelist (harding)
 
 Credits
 =======
 
 Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
 
-- [The Bitcoin Core Developers](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/doc/release-notes)
+- [The Bitcoin Core Developers]
 - Adrian Gallagher
-- aunyks
-- coblee
-- cryptonexii
-- EP1JUNE
-- gabrieldov
-- jmutkawoa
-- Martin Smith
-- NeMO84
-- OlegKozhemiakin
-- ppm0
-- romanornr
-- shaolinfry
-- spl0i7
-- stedwms
-- ultragtx
-- VKoskiv
-- voidmain
-- wbsmolen
-- xinxi
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+- David Burkett
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