Bitcoin Core 28.1 Release Candidate 1 Available

Binaries for Bitcoin Core version v28.1rc1 are available from:

      https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-28.1/test.rc1/

Source code can be found in git under the signed tag

      https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v28.1rc1

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

Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v28.1rc1/doc/release-notes.md

Release candidates are test versions for releases. When no critical problems are found, this release candidate will be tagged as v28.1.