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 RPC
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-- 'taproot' has been removed from 'getdeploymentinfo' because its historical activation height is no longer used anywhere in the codebase. (#26201)
+- 'taproot' has been removed from 'getdeploymentinfo' because its historical
+  activation height is no longer used anywhere in the codebase.
+  Applications that rely on `deployments.taproot` to detect Taproot support
+  should either assume Taproot to be always active (since Bitcoin Core v24.0),
+  or check for `TAPROOT` in the `script_flags` array returned by
+  `getdeploymentinfo` (since Bitcoin Core v31.0). (#26201)