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23.2 Release Notes

Bitcoin Core version 23.2 is now available from:

https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-23.2/ (https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-23.2/)

This release includes various bug fixes and performance
improvements, as well as updated translations.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues)

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https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/ (https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/)

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 in some cases), then run the
installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on macOS)
or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).

Upgrading directly from a version of Bitcoin Core that has reached its EOL is
possible, but it might take some time if the data directory needs to be migrated. Old
wallet versions of Bitcoin Core are generally supported.

Compatibility

Bitcoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems
using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.15+, and Windows 7 and newer.  Bitcoin
Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not as
frequently tested on them.  It is not recommended to use Bitcoin Core on
unsupported systems.

P2P

• #26909 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26909) net: prevent peers.dat corruptions by only serializing once
• #27608 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27608) p2p: Avoid prematurely clearing download state for other peers
• #27610 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27610) Improve performance of p2p inv to send queues

Build system

• #25436 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25436) build: suppress array-bounds errors in libxkbcommon
• #25763 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25763) bdb: disable Werror for format-security
• #26944 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26944) depends: fix systemtap download URL
• #27462 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27462) depends: fix compiling bdb with clang-16 on aarch64

Miscellaneous

• #25444 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25444) ci: macOS task imrovements
• #26388 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26388) ci: Use macos-ventura-xcode:14.1 image for "macOS native" task
• #26924 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26924) refactor: Add missing includes to fix gcc-13 compile error

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

• Anthony Towns
• Hennadii Stepanov
• MacroFake
• Martin Zumsande
• Michael Ford
• Suhas Daftuar

As well as to everyone that helped with translations on
Transifex (https://www.transifex.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/).