Bitcoin Core 29.2 guide covering witness mutation checks, onion whitelist permissions, TRUC reorg handling, getblock target fixes and safe rollout.
This guide explains Bitcoin Core 29.2 release in plain English. It shows what the command does, what its result means and what it cannot prove.
Bitcoin Core 29.2 release: The release also contains CI, build and miscellaneous maintenance. Pin claims to the 29.2 notes and do not import Core 30 wallet or networking behaviour.
A node operator is checking Bitcoin Core 29.2 release. Verify official artefacts, preserve wallet and configuration backups, snapshot relevant RPC outputs and record peer and mempool baselines before stopping the canary.
FillBlock now checks for witness mutation correctly. Mining and template consumers should retest block-template construction and rejection paths with known vectors.
Inbound onion connections now receive configured whitelist permissions correctly. Review allowlists and verify effective permissions from controlled test peers.
TRUC checks are not enforced while transactions are re-added during a reorganisation. Test mempool reconciliation rather than assuming ordinary admission policy maps directly onto reorg recovery.
getblock header output reports the correct target at the active tip. Monitoring or analytics that calculate difficulty or target state should compare old and new results.
The release also contains CI, build and miscellaneous maintenance. Pin claims to the 29.2 notes and do not import Core 30 wallet or networking behaviour.
Verify official artefacts, preserve wallet and configuration backups, snapshot relevant RPC outputs and record peer and mempool baselines before stopping the canary.
Operators test the command on a non-production node first. They check a normal reply, an invalid request, a timeout and a restart. This shows what the response means and prevents one local result from being mistaken for a network-wide outcome.
Bitcoin Core 29.2 release: The release also contains CI, build and miscellaneous maintenance. Pin claims to the 29.2 notes and do not import Core 30 wallet or networking behaviour.
FillBlock now checks for witness mutation correctly. Mining and template consumers should retest block-template construction and rejection paths with known vectors.
Inbound onion connections now receive configured whitelist permissions correctly. Review allowlists and verify effective permissions from controlled test peers.
TRUC checks are not enforced while transactions are re-added during a reorganisation.
Bitcoin Core 29.2 repairs several narrow but operationally important behaviours. A disciplined rollout maps each fix to a concrete local dependency and proves that dependency on a canary before fleet promotion.
Check the current specification status and the documentation for the exact implementation you operate before moving production funds or changing a mining node.
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