# Bitcoin Core 29.0 release candidate is available

**URL:** <https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-core-29-0-release-candidate-is-available/1536>\
**Category:** Implementation\
**Created:** [March 24, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-core-29-0-release-candidate-is-available/1536 "2025-03-24T16:47:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![glozow](https://delvingbitcoin.org/user_avatar/delvingbitcoin.org/glozow/32/261_2.png) [@glozow](https://delvingbitcoin.org/u/glozow)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-core-29-0-release-candidate-is-available/1536/1 "2025-03-24T16:47:48Z")

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Binaries for Bitcoin Core version v29.0rc3 are available from:

[https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-29.0/test.rc3/](https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-29.0/test.rc3/)

Source code can be found in git under the signed tag

> **[GitHub - bitcoin/bitcoin at v29.0rc3](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v29.0rc3)**
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> v29.0rc3

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](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/29.0-Release-Notes-draft)

There is also a testing guide here: [29.0 Release Candidate Testing Guide · bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/29.0-Release-Candidate-Testing-Guide)

Please put your issues or comments here: [v29.0 Testing · Issue #32052 · bitcoin/bitcoin · GitHub](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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**Author:** ![glozow](https://delvingbitcoin.org/user_avatar/delvingbitcoin.org/glozow/32/261_2.png) [@glozow](https://delvingbitcoin.org/u/glozow)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-core-29-0-release-candidate-is-available/1536/2 "2025-04-02T17:22:03Z")

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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/](https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-29.0) and tagged on github.