Bitcoin Core 29.0 release candidate is available

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

This is a release candidate for a new major version release.

Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here: 29.0 Release Notes draft · bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki Wiki · GitHub

There is also a testing guide here: 29.0 Release Candidate Testing Guide · bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki Wiki · GitHub

Please put your issues or comments here: v29.0 Testing · Issue #32052 · bitcoin/bitcoin · GitHub

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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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 Index of /bin/bitcoin-core-29.0/ and tagged on github.

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