From d3194cb8cd81db0d7602fadc9eb71431e7a6c948 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: glozow Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:13:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [doc] update release notes for 28.x --- doc/release-notes.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 97280d5c0da..ffeab2d3c00 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -37,6 +37,22 @@ unsupported systems. Notable changes =============== +### Policy + + The minimum block feerate (`-blockmintxfee`) has been changed to 1 satoshi per kvB. It can still be changed using the +configuration option. + +- The default minimum relay feerate (`-minrelaytxfee`) and incremental relay feerate (`-incrementalrelayfee`) have been +changed to 100 satoshis per kvB. They can still be changed using their respective configuration options, but it is +recommended to change both together if you decide to do so. + - Other minimum feerates (e.g. the dust feerate, the minimum returned by the fee estimator, and all feerates used by + the wallet) remain unchanged. The mempool minimum feerate still changes in response to high volume. + - Note that unless these lower defaults are widely adopted across the network, transactions created with lower fee + rates are not guaranteed to propagate or confirm. The wallet feerates remain unchanged; `-mintxfee` must be changed + before attempting to create transactions with lower feerates using the wallet. + +- #33106 policy: lower the default blockmintxfee, incrementalrelayfee, minrelaytxfee + ### P2P - #33395 net: do not apply whitelist permissions to onion inbounds @@ -45,6 +61,9 @@ Notable changes - #32765 test: Fix list index out of range error in feature_bip68_sequence.py - #33001 test: Do not pass tests on unhandled exceptions +- #30125 test: improve BDB parser (handle internal/overflow pages, support all page sizes) +- #30948 test: Add missing sync_mempools() to fill_mempool() +- #30784 test: add BulkTransaction helper to unit test transaction utils ### Build @@ -70,6 +89,7 @@ Credits Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: - 0xB10C - fanquake +- glozow - Hennadii Stepanov - MarcoFalke - Martin Zumsande