Bitcoin Core 29.0 release candidate is available

[Gloria Zhao]

Binaries for Bitcoin Core version v29.0rc2 are available from:

https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-29.0/test.rc2/

Source code can be found under the signed tag

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v29.0rc2

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/29.0-Release-Notes-draft

There is also a testing guide here: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/29.0-Release-Candidate-Testing-Guide

Please put your issues or comments here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/32052

Release candidates are test versions for releases. When no critical problems are found, this release candidate will be tagged as v29.0.