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merge-script 8e9801bfc4 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#22818 : test: Activate all regtest softforks at height 1, unless overridden

fa4db8671b test: Activate all regtest softforks at height 1, unless overridden (MarcoFalke)
faad1e5ffd Introduce -testactivationheight=name@height setting (MarcoFalke)
fadb2ef2fa test: Add extra_args argument to TestChain100Setup constructor (MarcoFalke)
faa46986aa test: Remove version argument from build_next_block in p2p_segwit test (MarcoFalke)
fa086ef539 test: Remove unused ~TestChain100Setup (MarcoFalke)

Pull request description:

  All softforks that are active at the tip of mainnet, should also be active from genesis in regtest. Otherwise their rules might not be enforced in user testing, thus making their testing less useful.

  To still allow tests to check pre-softfork rules, a runtime argument can change the activation height.

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Notable changes

P2P and network changes

A bitcoind node will no longer rumour addresses to inbound peers by default. They will become eligible for address gossip after sending an ADDR, ADDRV2, or GETADDR message. (#21528)

Updated RPCs

New RPCs

Build System

Files

On startup, the list of banned hosts and networks (via setban RPC) in banlist.dat is ignored and only banlist.json is considered. Bitcoin Core version 22.x is the only version that can read banlist.dat and also write it to banlist.json. If banlist.json already exists, version 22.x will not try to translate the banlist.dat into json. After an upgrade, listbanned can be used to double check the parsed entries. (#22570)

New settings

Updated settings

Tools and Utilities

Update -getinfo to return data in a user-friendly format that also reduces vertical space. (#21832)
CLI -addrinfo now returns a single field for the number of onion addresses known to the node instead of separate torv2 and torv3 fields, as support for Tor V2 addresses was removed from Bitcoin Core in 22.0. (#22544)

Wallet

GUI changes

Low-level changes

RPC

getblockchaininfo now returns a new time field, that provides the chain tip time. (#22407)

Tests

For the regtest network the activation heights of several softforks were set to block height 1. They can be changed by the runtime setting -testactivationheight=name@height. (#22818)

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

As well as to everyone that helped with translations on Transifex.

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