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We are pleased to release Litecoin Core 0.21.3 release candidate. This is a new minor version release, including new features and various bug fixes, and important security updates. Litecoin Core version 0.21.3rc3 is now available from:
https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.21.3rc3/
Please test this release candidate throughly, prior to release. Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/issues
Notable changes
Important Security Updates
This release contains fixes for CVE-2023–33297, which allows an attacker to cause a remote bandwidth and cpu denial of service. This attack has been exploited in the wild.
2170c24
: backported from Bitcoin Core v24.x
New MWEB features
215edcf
—1049218
: add MWEB light client p2p messages. This implements LIP006.4c3d4f2
: adds new NODE_MWEB_LIGHT_CLIENT service flag. Enables BIP157/158 blockfilters by default (opt-out by default).
Build changes
bf355d2
: rename the PID file to litecoind.pid5ac7814
: improve build instructions for unix systems24a0299
: fix building with Boost 1.77+a376e2e
—0698e23
: build changes for macOS. Primarily updates macOS build SDK to Xcode 12.1, increasing minimum macOS version to 10.15.6. These changes fix an issue where Litecoin-Qt UI may not appear as expected on macOS 14+.41b4c16
: fixes builds on Alpine Linux/musl.
Test related fixes
53dbe58
: fix tests, disabling unused test and missing expected values8e16ef3
: fixes macOS test, issue #942.260de84
: run secp256k1-zkp tests. fixes bench test and secp256k1 test.c2a4fc3
: fixes another secp256k1-zkp testc2a4fc3
: disabled run_schnorrsig_tests() in secp256k1-zkp.7e3c1f5
: disable secp256k1-zkp openssl test, fixing `make check` on macOS.
Credits
Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
– The Bitcoin Core Developers
– David Burkett
– Hector Chu
– Loshan
– addman2
– Rafael Sadowski
– rustyx
– NamecoinGithub
– Patrick Lodder
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- Source: https://blog.litecoin.org/litecoin-core-v0-21-3-release-candidate-adb2068f8878?source=rss—-d41bceeb173b—4