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Bitcoin Core 0.21.0

Released 14 Jan 2021. 2 threads on the list named it, the announcement among them.

Release notes on bitcoincore.org Release notes in the repository Tag v0.21.0 on GitHub

BIPs first shipped in this version

  • BIP 43 Purpose Field for Deterministic Wallets
  • BIP 44 Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets
  • BIP 49 Derivation scheme for P2WPKH-nested-in-P2SH based accounts
  • BIP 84 Derivation scheme for P2WPKH based accounts
  • BIP 155 addrv2 message
  • BIP 325 Signet
  • BIP 339 WTXID-based transaction relay
  • BIP 340 Schnorr Signatures for secp256k1
  • BIP 341 Taproot: SegWit version 1 spending rules
  • BIP 342 Validation of Taproot Scripts

BIPs changed in this version

  • BIP 157 Client Side Block Filtering
  • BIP 158 Compact Block Filters for Light Clients

Per Core's doc/bips.md: backports, burials, defaults and removals.

On the list

Threads whose subject names this version: release candidates, the announcement, and what followed.

2021 1 thread

  1. Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 released W. J. van der Laan
    1 message

2024 1 thread

  1. 3 messages