Bitcoin Core 26.2 release candidate 1 available

Binaries for Bitcoin Core version v26.2rc1 are available from:

    https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-26.2/test.rc1/

Source code can be found in git under the signed tag:

    https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v26.2rc1
<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v26.2rc1>

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

Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here:

    https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v26.2rc1/doc/release-notes.md

Release candidates are test versions for releases. When no critical problems are found, this release candidate will be tagged as v26.2.