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Bitcoin Core discloses three now-patched bugs, including a high-severity mining flaw
Bitcoin Core publicly disclosed three previously patched vulnerabilities on November 11, including a high-severity bug that could stop affected mining nodes from building valid block templates after a chain reorganization.
Bitcoin Core discloses three node-level bugs, all patched a year ago and sat on until the last vulnerable release died
Bitcoin Core disclosed three vulnerabilities on November 10, 2026 — two medium-severity and one high — all patched in October 2025 releases and held back until the last affected version reached end of life on October 27, 2026.
Bitcoin developers rework security practices as AI makes bug-hunting cheap
Bitcoin Core is revising its security disclosure policy as AI lowers the bar for finding software bugs, while a volunteer group called the Bitcoin Red Team hunts AI-assisted vulnerabilities across the ecosystem.
Bitcoin Core ships v30.3
The Bitcoin Core project published version 30.3 of its reference client on July 23, 2026, posting binaries and release notes to bitcoincore.org.
Bitcoin Core v31.1 released
The Bitcoin Core project announced the release of Bitcoin Core v31.1 on July 8, 2026, a point update to the reference implementation, though the release notes' contents were not detailed in the announcement.
Bitcoin Core ships a test build to fix the privacy feature that leaked privacy
Bitcoin Core has published v31.1rc1 for testing, a minor release whose headline fix closes a privacy bug in the new private-broadcast feature that could leak a sender's IP address to a peer.
Bitcoin Core ships v31.0 as the Core-versus-Knots rift stays raw
Bitcoin Core published its v31.0 node software on April 20, 2026 after a five-week release-candidate cycle; the announcement threads carry no feature detail but are thick with hostile reactions and pitches for the rival Bitcoin Knots implementation.
Bitcoin Core discloses a high-severity node-crash bug, CVE-2024-52911, fixed in version 29.0
Bitcoin Core disclosed CVE-2024-52911, a high-severity use-after-free bug that let a miner crash nodes running versions from 0.14.0 up to 29.0 by broadcasting a specially crafted invalid block.
Bitcoin Core 31.0 ships, with details deferred to the release notes
Bitcoin Core released version 31.0 on April 19, 2026, with a minimal announcement citing bug fixes and directing users to the release notes for details.