Bitcoin Core 28.0 Release Candidate 1 Available

Binaries for Bitcoin Core version v28.0rc1 are available from:

     https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-28.0/test.rc1/

Source code can be found in git under the signed tag

     https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v28.0rc1

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/28.0-Release-Notes-Draft

Release candidates are test versions for releases. When no critical problems are found, this release candidate will be tagged as v28.0.