Bitcoin Core feature freeze nears as rebase issues hit unencrypted-connection proposal
Bitcoin Core v32 enters feature freeze on Aug. 20, shifting the release toward bug fixes and the October target. The milestone is about 82% complete, with 17 items still open and 79 closed. After the freeze, new feature pull requests miss the normal v32 path, while fixes can still be reviewed through the release-candidate phase. Translation strings also freeze, with v32.0rc1 planned for Sept. 10 and v32.0 for Oct. 10. Open work includes rebasing issues for rejecting unencrypted v1 outbound clearnet connections and limiting simultaneous HTTP clients. Wallet-related changes aim to preserve access to Miniscript wallets after descriptor-ID mismatches, following a reported upgrade load failure. Other active proposals cover fee estimation, private-broadcast state growth, and a retry-test failure. Consensus-rule activation is outside this release plan.
