Bitcoin ABC 0.20.2 Release Notes

Bitcoin ABC version 0.20.2 is now available from:

https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.20.2/

This release includes the following features and fixes:

• Improved initial block download performance by ~20%.
• Improved initial block download performance during pruning.
• bitcoin-qt -resetguisettings now generates a backup of the former GUI settings.
• Removed features that were deprecated in 0.19.x, including signrawtransaction, fundrawtransaction -reserveChangeKey, parts of validateaddress, use of addresses in createmultisig, and other miscellaneous behaviors.
• Minor logging improvements.
• Introduced submitheader RPC for submitting header candidates as chaintips.