diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index f5c2deb3ee2..854c7e44a5a 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-v30.3 Release Notes
+v30.x Release Notes
===================
-Bitcoin Core version v30.3 is now available from:
+Bitcoin Core version v30.x is now available from:
-
+
-This release includes new features, various bug fixes and performance
+This release includes various bug fixes and performance
improvements, as well as updated translations.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:
@@ -40,132 +40,33 @@ unsupported systems.
Notable changes
===============
-This release fixes an issue where the chainstate database would repeatedly
-rewrite large portions of itself, causing excessive disk reads and writes
-during normal operation.
-
- BIP 9 bits 5 to 28 inclusive are now ignored for soft fork signaling, as per
BIP 323. We won't warn about unknown deployments when receiving blocks that
set any of those bits in their version. (#34779)
-### Validation
+### Versionbits
-- #35209 validation: correct lifetime of precomputed tx data
-- #35465 coins: compact chainstate regularly
+- #34779 BIP 323: reserve version bits 5-28 as extra nonce space
-### Leveldb
+### P2P
-- #61(bitcoin-core/leveldb): Disable seek compaction
+- #35691 chainparams: delete my DNS seed
+- #35766 p2p: Assume v2transport for addresses from seeds
-### Wallet
+### Fuzz
-- #34358 wallet: fix removeprunedfunds bug with conflicting transactions
-- #34870 wallet: feebumper, fix crash when combined bump fee is unavailable
-- #34888 wallet: fix amount computed as boolean in coin selection
-- #35228 wallet: use outpoint when estimating input size
-
-### Net
-
-- #34093 netif: fix compilation warning in QueryDefaultGatewayImpl()
-- #34549 net: reduce log level for PCP/NAT-PMP NOT_AUTHORIZED failures
-
-### PSBT
-
-- #34272 psbt: Fix PSBTInputSignedAndVerified bounds assert
-- #34219 psbt: validate pubkeys in MuSig2 pubnonce/partial sig deserialization
-
-### Miniscript
-
-- #34434 miniscript: correct and_v() properties
-
-### Build
-
-- #34228 depends: Unset SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in gen_id script
-- #34281 build: Temporarily remove confusing and brittle -fdebug-prefix-map
-- #34554 build: avoid exporting secp256k1 symbols
-- #34627 guix: use a temporary file over sponge, drop moreutils
-- #34713 depends: Allow building Qt packages after interruption
-- #34754 depends: Qt fixes for GCC 16 compatibility
-- #34787 build: fix native macOS deployment
-- #34848 cmake: Migrate away from deprecated SQLite3 target
-- #34956 depends, qt: Fix build on aarch64 macOS 26.4
-
-### Test
-
-- #34185 test: fix feature_pruning when built without wallet
-- #34282 qa: Fix Windows logging bug
-- #34390 test: allow overriding tar in get_previous_releases.py
-- #34409 test: use ModuleNotFoundError in interface_ipc.py
-- #34445 fuzz: Use AFL_SHM_ID for naming test directories
-- #34608 test: Fix broken --valgrind handling after bitcoin wrapper
-- #34690 test: Add missing timeout_factor to zmq socket
-- #34869 tests: applied PYTHON_GIL to the env for every test
-- #34918 fuzz: [refactor] Remove unused g_setup pointers
-- #35080 test: Add missing self.options.timeout_factor scale in tool_bitcoin_chainstate.py
-
-### Util
-
-- #34597 util: Fix UB in SetStdinEcho when ENOTTY
-
-### Doc
-
-- #34252 doc: add 433 (Pay to Anchor) to bips.md
-- #34413 doc: Remove outdated -fdebug-prefix-map section in dev notes
-- #34510 doc: fix broken bpftrace installation link
-- #34561 wallet: rpc: manpage: fix example missing `fee_rate` argument
-- #34671 doc: Update Guix install for Debian/Ubuntu
-- #34702 doc: Fix fee field in getblock RPC result
-- #34706 doc: Improve dependencies.md IPC documentation
-- #34789 doc: update build guides pre v31
-- #35283 doc: mention -DWITH_ZMQ=ON in BSD build guides
-
-### CI
-
-- #32513 ci: remove 3rd party js from windows dll gha job
-- #34344 ci: update GitHub Actions versions
-- #34453 ci: Always print low ccache hit rate notice
-- #34461 ci: Print verbose build error message in test-each-commit
-- #34802 ci: Bump GHA actions versions
-- #34815 ci: bump cirruslabs actions versions
-- #35202 ci: restore sockets in i686, no IPC job
-- #35378 ci: switch runners from cirrus to warpbuild
-- #35408 ci: 35378 followups
-
-### Misc
-
-- #35175 multi_index: fix compilation failure with boost >= 1.91
+- #35679 fuzz: Remove unused DeserializeFromFuzzingInput params overload
Credits
=======
Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
-- ANAVHEOBA
-- andrewtoth
-- brunoerg
-- Cory Fields
-- Daniel Pfeifer
+- ajtowns
- darosior
-- fanquake
-- furszy
- Hennadii Stepanov
-- jayvaliya
-- junbyjun1238
-- kevkevinpal
-- Lőrinc
-- m3dwards
-- marcofleon
-- MarcoFalke
-- mzumsande
-- nervana21
-- Padraic Slattery
-- ryanofsky
-- Sebastian Falbesoner
-- SomberNight
-- tboy1337
-- theuni
-- ToRyVand
-- willcl-ark
+- Martin Zumsande
+- sipa
As well as to everyone that helped with translations on
[Transifex](https://explore.transifex.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/).