The print_suppressions=0 is required to avoid a CI failure when the
suppressions were used. E.g:
```
$ LSAN_OPTIONS="suppressions=$(pwd)/test/sanitizer_suppressions/lsan:print_suppressions=1" ./bld-cmake/test/functional/interface_gui.py
2026-08-08T10:53:45.864160Z TestFramework (INFO): PRNG seed is: 8358096631255493262
2026-08-08T10:53:45.914748Z TestFramework (INFO): Initializing test directory /tmp/bitcoin_func_test_5zx5343v
2026-08-08T10:53:47.029997Z TestFramework (INFO): Test that bitcoin-gui starts up and can be stopped via RPC
2026-08-08T10:53:47.431761Z TestFramework (ERROR): Unexpected exception:
File "./test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py", line 534, in is_node_stopped
raise AssertionError("Unexpected stderr {} != {}".format(stderr, expected_stderr))
AssertionError: Unexpected stderr -----------------------------------------------------
Suppressions used:
count bytes template
2 181 bitcoin-qt
----------------------------------------------------- !=
```
The general suppression of the qt executables is required to avoid CI
failures for i386 builds. E.g:
```
test 2026-08-05T08:54:08.370427Z TestFramework (ERROR): Unexpected exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/ci_container_base/ci/scratch_ ₿🧪_/build-i686-pc-linux-gnu/test/functional/interface_gui.py", line 34, in run_test
self.stop_node(0)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^
File "/ci_container_base/test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py", line 525, in is_node_stopped
assert return_code in expected_ret_code, self._node_msg(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: [node 0] Node returned unexpected exit code (1) vs ((0,)) when stopping
node0 stderr =================================================================
==73449==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks
Direct leak of 386 byte(s) in 17 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x5df28a2d in malloc (/ci_container_base/ci/scratch_ ₿🧪_/build-i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/bitcoin-qt+0x1d0da2d) (BuildId: 496a5df531df278fe395724ae917f266331b3f81)
#1 0xee03c1d1 (<unknown module>)
Indirect leak of 12 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x5df28a2d in malloc (/ci_container_base/ci/scratch_ ₿🧪_/build-i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/bitcoin-qt+0x1d0da2d) (BuildId: 496a5df531df278fe395724ae917f266331b3f81)
#1 0xee03c1d1 (<unknown module>)
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 398 byte(s) leaked in 18 allocation(s).
```
Github-Pull: #35937
Rebased-From: fad9ab714b
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
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.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/license/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled during the generation of the build system) with: ctest. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: build/test/functional/test_runner.py
(assuming build is your build directory).
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is tested on Windows, Linux, and macOS. The CI must pass on all commits before merge to avoid unrelated CI failures on new pull requests.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.