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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #324 is here:

- newsletter announces three vulnerabilities affecting old versions of the Bitcoin Core full node
- announces a separate vulnerability affecting old versions of the btcd full node
- links to a contributed Optech guide describing how to use multiple new P2P network features added in Bitcoin Core 28.0
- recaps the "Add getorphantxs" PR Review Meeting
- Optech Newsletter #324 Recap on Twitter Spaces

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/10/11/

Niklas Gögge posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list links to the announcements of three vulnerabilities affecting versions of Bitcoin Core that have been past their end of life since at least April 2024...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/10/11/#disclosure-of-vulnerabilities-affecting-bitcoin-core-versions-before-25-0

Antoine Poinsot and Niklas Gögge disclosed a consensus failure vulnerability affecting the btcd full node...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/10/11/#cve-2024-38365-btcd-consensus-failure

Gregory Sanders has written a guide for Optech aimed at developers of wallets and other software that uses Bitcoin Core to create or broadcast transactions. The guide walks through the use of several of the features and describes how the features can be useful for multiple protocols, including simple payments and RBF fee bumping, LN commitments and HTLCs, Ark, and LN splicing...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/10/11/#guide-for-wallets-employing-bitcoin-core-28-0

Add getorphantxs is a PR by tdb3 that adds a new experimental RPC method named getorphantxs...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/10/11/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OwxWNrEWZZJQ