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# Bitcoin Core 29.0 release candidate is available

glozow | 2025-04-02 17:19:52 UTC | #1

Binaries for Bitcoin Core version v29.0rc3 are available from:

https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-29.0/test.rc3/

Source code can be found in git under the signed tag

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v29.0rc3

This is a release candidate for a new major version release.

Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/29.0-Release-Notes-draft

There is also a testing guide here: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/29.0-Release-Candidate-Testing-Guide

Please put your issues or comments here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/32052

Release candidates are test versions for releases.
When no critical problems are found, this release candidate
will be tagged as v29.0

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glozow | 2025-04-02 17:22:03 UTC | #2

Now that a release candidate 3 is available, I have edited the original post to point to v29.0rc3. If you are interested in previous release candidate(s), you can still find them in the 29.0 bins directory https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-29.0 and tagged on github.

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