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+25.1 Release Notes
+==================
+
+Bitcoin Core version 25.1 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-25.1/>
+
+This release includes various bug fixes and performance
+improvements, as well as updated translations.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
+
+  <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
+
+To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
+
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/>
+
+How to Upgrade
+==============
+
+If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
+shut down (which might take a few minutes in some cases), then run the
+installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt` (on macOS)
+or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux).
+
+Upgrading directly from a version of Bitcoin Core that has reached its EOL is
+possible, but it might take some time if the data directory needs to be migrated. Old
+wallet versions of Bitcoin Core are generally supported.
+
+Compatibility
+==============
+
+Bitcoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems
+using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.15+, and Windows 7 and newer.  Bitcoin
+Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not as
+frequently tested on them.  It is not recommended to use Bitcoin Core on
+unsupported systems.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+### P2P
+
+- #27626 Parallel compact block downloads, take 3
+- #27743 p2p: Unconditionally return when compact block status == READ_STATUS_FAILED
+
+### Fees
+
+- #27622 Fee estimation: avoid serving stale fee estimate
+
+### RPC
+
+- #27727 rpc: Fix invalid bech32 address handling
+
+### Rest
+
+- #27853 rest: fix crash error when calling /deploymentinfo
+- #28551 http: bugfix: allow server shutdown in case of remote client disconnection
+
+### Wallet
+
+- #28038 wallet: address book migration bug fixes
+- #28067 descriptors: do not return top-level only funcs as sub descriptors
+- #28125 wallet: bugfix, disallow migration of invalid scripts
+- #28542 wallet: Check for uninitialized last processed and conflicting heights in MarkConflicted
+
+### Build
+
+- #27724 build: disable boost multi index safe mode in debug mode
+- #28097 depends: xcb-proto 1.15.2
+- #28543 build, macos: Fix qt package build with new Xcode 15 linker
+- #28571 depends: fix unusable memory_resource in macos qt build
+
+### Gui
+
+- gui#751 macOS, do not process actions during shutdown
+
+### Miscellaneous
+
+- #28452 Do not use std::vector = {} to release memory
+
+### CI
+
+- #27777 ci: Prune dangling images on RESTART_CI_DOCKER_BEFORE_RUN
+- #27834 ci: Nuke Android APK task, Use credits for tsan
+- #27844 ci: Use podman stop over podman kill
+- #27886 ci: Switch to amd64 container in "ARM" task
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- Abubakar Sadiq Ismail
+- Andrew Chow
+- Bruno Garcia
+- Gregory Sanders
+- Hennadii Stepanov
+- MacroFake
+- Matias Furszyfer
+- Michael Ford
+- Pieter Wuille
+- stickies-v
+- Will Clark
+
+As well as to everyone that helped with translations on
+[Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/).