Bitcoin Core 27.1 release candidate 1 available

[Michael Ford]

Binaries for Bitcoin Core version v27.1rc1 are available from:

https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-27.1/test.rc1/

Source code can be found in git under the signed tag

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v27.1rc1

This is a release candidate for a new minor version release.

Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v27.1rc1/doc/release-notes.md

Release candidates are test versions for releases.
When no critical problems are found, this release candidate
will be tagged as v27.1.