Bitcoin Core 27.0 release candidate 1 available

Binaries for Bitcoin Core version v27.0rc1 are available from:

    https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-27.0/test.rc1/

Source code can be found in git under the signed tag

    https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v27.0rc1

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-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/27.0-
Release-Notes-Draft

Release candidates are test versions for releases. When no critical problems are found, this release candidate will be tagged as v27.0.