doc: elaborate on release notes wrt netmasks #19802

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   vasild commented at 4:39 pm on August 25, 2020: member

   doc: elaborate on release notes wrt netmasks

   A minor followup from #19628 (comment).

2. DrahtBot added the label Docs on Aug 25, 2020
3. doc: elaborate on release notes wrt netmasks 8de51d1513
4. in doc/release-notes.md:144 in 04921cd93f outdated

   140@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ Updated settings
   141 
   142 - Netmasks that contain 1-bits after 0-bits (the 1-bits are not contiguous on
   143   the left side, e.g. 255.0.255.255) are no longer accepted. They are invalid
   144-  according to RFC 4632.
   145+  according to RFC 4632. Netmasks are used in the `-rpcallowip` parameter and
   

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   jonatack commented at 2:02 pm on August 26, 2020:

   • perhaps s/parameter/option|configuration option/ (Usage: bitcoind [options])

   • per bitcoind -help-debug | grep -C3 -i cidr and git grep -ni netmask, maybe verify if netmasks are also used for the -whitelist option

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   vasild commented at 1:29 pm on September 1, 2020:

   Updated, thanks!
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   jonatack commented at 1:41 pm on September 1, 2020: member

   LGTM, thanks for the changes per git diff 04921cd 8de51d1
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   laanwj commented at 12:48 pm on September 10, 2020: member

   ACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19802/commits/8de51d1513ada6d96b80f164da48088e5cdcbe3f The travis lint run error seems like soms kind of unrelated network corruption issue, but running it again just in case.
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   theStack commented at 1:08 pm on September 12, 2020: member

   ACK 8de51d1513ada6d96b80f164da48088e5cdcb Checked where in the code subnet parsing happens via git grep LookupSubNet.
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    practicalswift commented at 6:54 am on September 13, 2020: contributor

    ACK 8de51d1513ada6d96b80f164da48088e5cdcbe3f
11. laanwj merged this on Sep 30, 2020
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