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0af16e7134459e0820ab95d751093876c1ec4c6d doc: add release note for #25574 (Martin Zumsande) 57ef2a4812f443b2d734f43cebf3ef5038da83f2 validation: report if pruning prevents completion of verification (Martin Zumsande) 0c7785bb2540b69564104767d38342704230cbc2 init, validation: Improve handling if VerifyDB() fails due to insufficient dbcache (Martin Zumsande) d6f781f1cfcbc2c2ad5ee289a0642ed00386d013 validation: return VerifyDBResult::INTERRUPTED if verification was interrupted (Martin Zumsande) 6360b5302d2675788de5c4a28ea77d823f6d809e validation: Change return value of VerifyDB to enum type (Martin Zumsande) Pull request description: `VerifyDB()` can fail to complete due to insufficient dbcache at the level 3 checks. This PR improves the error handling in this case in the following ways: - The rpc `-verifychain` now returns false if the check can't be completed due to insufficient cache - During init, we only log a warning if the default values for `-checkblocks` and `-checklevel` are taken and the check doesn't complete. However, if the user actively specifies one of these args, we return with an InitError if we can't complete the check. This PR also changes `-verifychain` RPC to return `false` if the verification didn't finish due to missing block data (pruning) or due to being interrupted by the node being shutdown. Previously, this PR also included a fix for a possible assert during verification - this was done in #27009 (now merged). ACKs for top commit: achow101: ACK 0af16e7134459e0820ab95d751093876c1ec4c6d ryanofsky: Code review ACK 0af16e7134459e0820ab95d751093876c1ec4c6d. Only small suggested changes since the last review, like renaming some of the enum values. I did leave more suggestions, but they are not very important and could be followups john-moffett: ACK 0af16e7134459e0820ab95d751093876c1ec4c6d MarcoFalke: lgtm re-ACK 0af16e7134459e0820ab95d751093876c1ec4c6d 🎚 Tree-SHA512: 84b4f767cf9bfbafef362312757c9bf765b41ae3977f4ece840e40c52a2266b1457832df0cdf70440be0aac2168d9b58fc817238630b0b6812f3836ca950bc0e
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What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
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Development Process
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completely stable. Tags are created
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and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
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