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From what I can see the only platform this drops support for is CentOS 7. CentOS 7 reached the end of it's "full update" support at the end of 2020. It does receive maintenance updates until 2024, however I don't think supporting glibc 2.17 until 2024 is realistic. Note that anyone wanting to self-compile and target a glibc 2.17 runtime could build with --disable-threadlocal. glibc 2.18 was released in August 2013. https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00160.html
Repository Tools
Developer tools
Specific tools for developers working on this repository.
Additional tools, including the github-merge.py script, are available in the maintainer-tools repository.
Verify-Commits
Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the github-merge.py script.
Linearize
Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.
Qos
A Linux bash script that will set up traffic control (tc) to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it.
Seeds
Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.
Build Tools and Keys
Packaging
The Debian subfolder contains the copyright file.
All other packaging related files can be found in the bitcoin-core/packaging repository.
Builder keys
PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core release results.
MacDeploy
Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
Test and Verify Tools
TestGen
Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.
Verify Binaries
This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.