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Bitcoin Core version 30.2 is now available for download. See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release.

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We have become aware of a wallet migration bug introduced in Bitcoin Core 30.0 and 30.1. Under rare circumstances, when the migration of a wallet.dat file fails, all files in the wallet directory may be deleted in the process, potentially resulting in a loss of funds. A fix is forthcoming and will be released as 30.2, but out of an abundance of caution we have removed the bin...


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Bitcoin Core version 30.1 is now available for download. See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release.

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Disclosure of the details of a bug on 32-bit systems which may, in a rare edge case, cause the node to crash when receiving a pathological block. This bug would be extremely hard to exploit. A fix was released on October 10th 2025 in Bitcoin Core v30.0.

This issue is considered Low severity.

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Before writing a block to disk, Bitcoin Cor...


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Disclosure of the details of a log-filling bug which allowed an attacker to fill up the disk space of a victim node by faking self-connections. Exploitability of this bug is limited, and it would take a long time before it would cause the victim to run out of disk space. A fix was released on October 10th 2025 in Bitcoin Core v30.0.

This issue is considered Lo...


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