Bitcoin Core 0.17.0 Released

Bitcoin Core version 0.17.0 is now available for download containing many new features as well as bug fixes and other
improvements. For a complete list of changes, please see the release
notes.

This release is not vulnerable to the CVE-2018-17144 duplicate
inputs bug.

If have any questions, please stop by our IRC chatroom and we’ll
do our best to help you.

Published at Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400

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