Bitcoin Core Releases Version 32.1 With Privacy Patch and Peer Connection Updates

Bitcoin Core has officially released version 32.1, delivering a targeted security patch for conditional IP-address exposure in private-broadcast fallback configurations. The release followed the tagging of version 32.0, which was withheld from full distribution due to last-minute technical issues. Version 32.1 caps the private-broadcast queue at 10,000 transactions, limits send attempts to 1,000, and raises the default maximum for automatic peer connections from 125 to 200. Maintenance updates 31.2 and 30.4 were also published for operators on older branches, while consensus rules and tokenomics remain unchanged.