⚙️ Bitcoin Core – Monday, 21 September 2026
**Post-newsletter merges: wallet, RPC, build fixes**
Beyond Thursday's roundup, PR 36230 landed, simplifying the miniscript descriptor backward-compatibility check and improving HasWalletDescriptor performance (Ava Chow). PR 36297 fixed two invalid getopenrpcinfo schema defaults (getdeploymentinfo.blockhash and send.options.include_watching). Smaller build/HTTP fixes (PR 36206, 36198) also merged as v32.0rc1 testing continues toward the October 10 target.
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rpc: Correct invalid OpenRPC defaults by willcl-ark · Pull Request #36297 · bitcoin/bitcoin
getopenrpcinfo emits two defaults that do not satisfy their schemas.
This changes getdeploymentinfo.blockhash to a default hint, since its fallback...
⚙️ Bitcoin Core – Saturday, 19 September 2026
**RC1 window brings incremental merges, not a new tag**
Bitcoin Optech's September 18 newsletter logs several merges landing during the v32.0rc1 testing window: PR 35445 fixed miniscript descriptor wallets with hardened derivation failing to load after v31.0, PR 36076 fixed combinepsbt discarding sighash types, PR 36150 fixed pruning blocking compact-filter and UTXO-set index sync, and PR 36081 added a bestblockhash field to getmininginfo. Separately, Eric Price posted a Delving Bitcoin analysis showing mining-pool difficulty controllers can hold difficulty too high indefinitely for a slowing miner, and NTL drafted a new BIP for unspendable taproot key paths.
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/09/18/
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