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+Bitcoin Core version 0.17.1 is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.17.1/>
+
+or through BitTorrent:
+
+    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c56c87ccfaa8e6fbccc90d549121e61efd97cb6f&dn=bitcoin-core-0.17.1&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969    
+
+This is a new minor version release, with various bugfixes
+and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
+
+  <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
+
+To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
+
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/>
+
+How to Upgrade
+==============
+
+If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
+shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
+installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt` (on Mac)
+or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux).
+
+If your node has a txindex, the txindex db will be migrated the first time you run 0.17.0 or newer, which may take up to a few hours. Your node will not be functional until this migration completes.
+
+The first time you run version 0.15.0 or newer, your chainstate database will be converted to a
+new format, which will take anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour,
+depending on the speed of your machine.
+
+Note that the block database format also changed in version 0.8.0 and there is no
+automatic upgrade code from before version 0.8 to version 0.15.0. Upgrading
+directly from 0.7.x and earlier without redownloading the blockchain is not supported.
+However, as usual, old wallet versions are still supported.
+
+Downgrading warning
+-------------------
+
+The chainstate database for this release is not compatible with previous
+releases, so if you run 0.15 and then decide to switch back to any
+older version, you will need to run the old release with the `-reindex-chainstate`
+option to rebuild the chainstate data structures in the old format.
+
+If your node has pruning enabled, this will entail re-downloading and
+processing the entire blockchain.
+
+Compatibility
+==============
+
+Bitcoin Core is extensively tested on multiple operating systems using
+the Linux kernel, macOS 10.10+, and Windows 7 and newer (Windows XP is not supported).
+
+Bitcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not
+frequently tested on them.
+
+From 0.17.0 onwards macOS <10.10 is no longer supported. 0.17.0 is built using Qt 5.9.x, which doesn't
+support versions of macOS older than 10.10.
+
+Notable changes
+===============
+
+`listtransactions` label support
+--------------------------------
+
+The `listtransactions` RPC `account` parameter which was deprecated in 0.17.0
+and renamed to `dummy` has been un-deprecated and renamed again to `label`.
+
+When bitcoin is configured with the `-deprecatedrpc=accounts` setting, specifying
+a label/account/dummy argument will return both outgoing and incoming
+transactions. Without the `-deprecatedrpc=accounts` setting, it will only return
+incoming transactions (because it used to be possible to create transactions
+spending from specific accounts, but this is no longer possible with labels).
+
+When `-deprecatedrpc=accounts` is set, it's possible to pass the empty string ""
+to list transactions that don't have any label. Without
+`-deprecatedrpc=accounts`, passing the empty string is an error because returning
+only non-labeled transactions is not generally useful behavior and can cause
+confusion.
+
+0.17.1 change log
+=================
+
+### P2P protocol and network code
+- #14685 `9406502` Fix a deserialization overflow edge case (kazcw)
+- #14728 `b901578` Fix uninitialized read when stringifying an addrLocal (kazcw)
+
+### Wallet
+- #14441 `5150acc` Restore ability to list incoming transactions by label (jnewbery)
+- #13546 `91fa15a` Fix use of uninitialized value `bnb_used` in CWallet::CreateTransaction(…) (practicalswift)
+- #14310 `bb90695` Ensure wallet is unlocked before signing (gustavonalle)
+- #14690 `5782fdc` Throw error if CPubKey is invalid during PSBT keypath serialization (instagibbs)
+- #14852 `2528443` backport: [tests] Add `wallet_balance.py` (MarcoFalke)
+- #14196 `3362a95` psbt: always drop the unnecessary utxo and convert non-witness utxo to witness when necessary (achow101)
+- #14588 `70ee1f8` Refactor PSBT signing logic to enforce invariant and fix signing bug (gwillen)
+- #14424 `89a9a9d` Stop requiring imported pubkey to sign non-PKH schemes (sipa, MeshCollider)
+
+### RPC and other APIs
+- #14417 `fb9ad04` Fix listreceivedbyaddress not taking address as a string (etscrivner)
+- #14596 `de5e48a` Bugfix: RPC: Add `address_type` named param for createmultisig (luke-jr)
+- #14618 `9666dba` Make HTTP RPC debug logging more informative (practicalswift)
+- #14197 `7bee414` [psbt] Convert non-witness UTXOs to witness if witness sig created (achow101)
+- #14377 `a3fe125` Check that a separator is found for psbt inputs, outputs, and global map (achow101)
+- #14356 `7a590d8` Fix converttopsbt permitsigdata arg, add basic test (instagibbs)
+- #14453 `75b5d8c` Fix wallet unload during walletpassphrase timeout (promag)
+
+### GUI
+- #14403 `0242b5a` Revert "Force TLS1.0+ for SSL connections" (real-or-random)
+- #14593 `df5131b` Explicitly disable "Dark Mode" appearance on macOS (fanquake)
+
+### Build system
+- #14647 `7edebed` Remove illegal spacing in darwin.mk (ch4ot1c)
+- #14698 `ec71f06` Add bitcoin-tx.exe into Windows installer (ken2812221)
+
+### Tests and QA
+- #13965 `29899ec` Fix extended functional tests fail (ken2812221)
+- #14011 `9461f98` Disable wallet and address book Qt tests on macOS minimal platform (ryanofsky)
+- #14180 `86fadee` Run all tests even if wallet is not compiled (MarcoFalke)
+- #14122 `8bc1bad` Test `rpc_help.py` failed: Check whether ZMQ is enabled or not (Kvaciral)
+- #14101 `96dc936` Use named args in validation acceptance tests (MarcoFalke)
+- #14020 `24d796a` Add tests for RPC help (promag)
+- #14052 `7ff32a6` Add some actual witness in `rpc_rawtransaction` (MarcoFalke)
+- #14215 `b72fbab` Use correct python index slices in example test (sdaftuar)
+- #14024 `06544fa` Add `TestNode::assert_debug_log` (MarcoFalke)
+- #14658 `60f7a97` Add test to ensure node can generate all rpc help texts at runtime (MarcoFalke)
+- #14632 `96f15e8` Fix a comment (fridokus)
+- #14700 `f9db08e` Avoid race in `p2p_invalid_block` by waiting for the block request (MarcoFalke)
+- #14845 `67225e2` Add `wallet_balance.py` (jnewbery)
+
+### Documentation
+- #14161 `5f51fd6` doc/descriptors.md tweaks (ryanofsky)
+- #14276 `85aacc4` Add autogen.sh in ARM Cross-compilation (walterwhite81)
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+- Andrew Chow
+- Chun Kuan Lee
+- David A. Harding
+- Eric Scrivner
+- fanquake
+- fridokus
+- Glenn Willen
+- Gregory Sanders
+- gustavonalle
+- John Newbery
+- Jon Layton
+- Jonas Schnelli
+- João Barbosa
+- Kaz Wesley
+- Kvaciral
+- Luke Dashjr
+- MarcoFalke
+- MeshCollider
+- Pieter Wuille
+- practicalswift
+- Russell Yanofsky
+- Sjors Provoost
+- Suhas Daftuar
+- Tim Ruffing
+- Walter
+- Wladimir J. van der Laan
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).