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+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -1,62 +1,47 @@
-22.0 Release Notes
+22.1rc2 Release Notes
==================
-Bitcoin Core version 22.0 is now available from:
+Vertcoin Core version 22.1rc2 is now available from:
-
+
This release includes new features, various bug fixes and performance
improvements, as well as updated translations.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
-
+
-To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
+To receive upstream security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
-
+
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 Mac)
-or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux).
+installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Vertcoin-Qt` (on macOS)
+or `vertcoind`/`vertcoin-qt` (on Linux).
-Upgrading directly from a version of Bitcoin Core that has reached its EOL is
+Upgrading directly from a version of Vertcoin 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.
+wallet versions of Vertcoin Core are generally supported.
Compatibility
==============
-Bitcoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems
-using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.14+, and Windows 7 and newer. Bitcoin
+Vertcoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems
+using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.14+, and Windows 7 and newer. Vertcoin
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
+frequently tested on them. It is not recommended to use Vertcoin Core on
unsupported systems.
-From Bitcoin Core 22.0 onwards, macOS versions earlier than 10.14 are no longer supported.
+From Vertcoin Core 22.0 onwards, macOS versions earlier than 10.14 are no longer supported.
Notable changes
===============
-P2P and network changes
------------------------
-
-New and Updated RPCs
---------------------
-
-Build System
-------------
-
-Files
------
-
-New settings
-------------
-
Updated settings
----------------
@@ -66,57 +51,83 @@ Updated settings
mean `-persistmempool=1`. Passing `-persistmempool=0`, `-persistmempool=1`
and `-nopersistmempool` is unaffected. (#23061)
-Tools and Utilities
--------------------
+### P2P
-Wallet
-------
+- #211 Reduce getheaders spam by serializing getheaders requests per peer
-GUI changes
------------
-
-Low-level changes
-=================
-
-RPC
----
-
-Tests
------
-
-22.0 change log
-===============
+### RPC and other APIs
-A detailed list of changes in this version follows. To keep the list to a manageable length, small refactors and typo fixes are not included, and similar changes are sometimes condensed into one line.
+- #25237 rpc: Capture UniValue by ref for rpcdoccheck
+- #25983 Prevent data race for pathHandlers
+- #26275 Fix crash on deriveaddresses when index is 2147483647 (2^31-1)
-### Consensus
+### Wallet
-### Policy
+- #22781 wallet: fix the behavior of IsHDEnabled
+- #22949 fee: Round up fee calculation to avoid a lower than expected feerate
+- #23333 wallet: fix segfault by avoiding invalid default-ctored external_spk_managers entry
-### Mining
+### Build system
-### Block and transaction handling
+- #22820 build, qt: Fix typo in QtInputSupport check
+- #23045 build: Restrict check for CRC32C intrinsic to aarch64
+- #23148 build: Fix guix linker-loader path and add check_ELF_interpreter
+- #23314 build: explicitly disable libsecp256k1 openssl based tests
+- #23580 build: patch qt to explicitly define previously implicit header include
+- #24215 guix: ignore additional failing certvalidator test
+- #24256 build: Bump depends packages (zmq, libXau)
+- #25201 windeploy: Renewed windows code signing certificate
+- #25985 Revert "build: Use Homebrew's sqlite package if it is available"
+- #26633 depends: update qt 5.12 url to archive location
-### P2P protocol and network code
+### GUI
-### Wallet
+- #gui631 Disallow encryption of watchonly wallets
+- #gui680 Fixes MacOS 13 segfault by preventing certain notifications
+- #24498 qt: Avoid crash on startup if int specified in settings.json
-### RPC and other APIs
+### Tests
-### GUI
+- #23716 test: replace hashlib.ripemd160 with an own implementation
+- #24239 test: fix ceildiv division by using integers
-### Build system
+### Utilities
-### Tests and QA
+- #210 modernize verthash.dat boost fs calls to support future boost releases
+- #22390 system: skip trying to set the locale on NetBSD
+- #22895 don't call GetBlockPos in ReadBlockFromDisk without cs_main lock
+- #24104 fs: Make compatible with boost 1.78
### Miscellaneous
-### Documentation
+- #23335 refactor: include a missing header in fs.cpp
+- #23504 ci: Replace soon EOL hirsute with jammy
+- #26321 Adjust .tx/config for new Transifex CLI
Credits
=======
Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+- Andrew Chow
+- BlackcoinDev
+- Carl Dong
+- Hennadii Stepanov
+- Joan Karadimov
+- John Moffett
+- Jon Atack
+- Kittywhiskers Van Gogh
+- Marco Falke
+- Martin Zumsande
+- Matthew Cummings
+- Michael Ford
+- muxator
+- Pieter Wuille
+- Ryan Ofsky
+- Saibato
+- Sebastian Falbesoner
+- vertion
+- W. J. van der Laan
+
As well as to everyone that helped with translations on
[Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/).