doc: add historical release notes for 26.0 #29023

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   fanquake commented at 12:00 pm on December 7, 2023: member

   Bins are now up, used for GH release etc.
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   willcl-ark commented at 12:29 pm on December 7, 2023: contributor

   We might want to add a release note for -deprecatedrpc=create_bdb as per : #28597 (comment)
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   fanquake commented at 1:22 pm on December 7, 2023: member

   Hmm. Looks like a few things missed out on being added. Generally we don’t change the release notes after they’ve been finalized, and any updates we make here, wont be reflected on the website, in the 26.x branch, on the mailing list etc, but it might still be worth doing.
6. fanquake force-pushed on Dec 7, 2023
7. doc: add minimum required Linux Kernel to release-notes 8df4aaabbe
8. doc: add historical release notes for 26.0 7d4e47d184
9. in doc/release-process.md:111 in 48e0ba9f65 outdated

   107@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ Generate list of authors:
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   109     git log --format='- %aN' v(current version, e.g. 25.0)..v(new version, e.g. 25.1) | grep -v 'merge-script' | sort -fiu
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   111+Check the `Needs release note` label for items that may be missing.
   

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   maflcko commented at 1:49 pm on December 7, 2023:

   nit: This is already mentioned above, no? - Ensure the "Needs release note" label is removed from all relevant pull requests and issues.

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   fanquake commented at 1:51 pm on December 7, 2023:

   Ah, I guess it might be more useful in the section about writing the release notes.

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   fanquake commented at 1:53 pm on December 7, 2023:

   I’ll just remove my addition. I guess the onus is on PR authors to make sure they write release notes for their changes.
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    fanquake commented at 1:55 pm on December 7, 2023: member

    I’ve pinged a few people about writing up notes. I’ll incorporate them here.
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    willcl-ark commented at 2:05 pm on December 7, 2023: contributor

    Here’s one for #28507:

     0Notable changes
     1===============
     2
     3Contrib
     4-------
     5
     6- Bash completion files have been renamed from `bitcoin*.bash-completion` to
     7  `bitcoin*.bash`. This means completions can be automatically loaded on demand
     8  based on invoked commands' names when they are put into the completion
     9  directory (found with `pkg-config --variable=completionsdir
    10  bash-completion`) without requiring renaming.
    

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    darosior commented at 2:46 pm on December 7, 2023: member

    #28587 rules out usage of hybrid public keys in output descriptors. Hybrid public keys are an exotic public key encoding not supported by output descriptors (as specified in BIP380 and documented in doc/descriptors.md). Bitcoin Core would previously incorrectly accept descriptors containing such hybrid keys. This PR fixed that.
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    willcl-ark commented at 3:03 pm on December 7, 2023: contributor

    #28597

    0Wallet or RPCs?
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    3- The `createwallet` RPC will no longer create legacy (BDB) wallets when
    4  setting `descriptors=false` without also providing the
    5  `-deprecatedrpc=create_bdb` option. This is because the legacy wallet is
    6  being deprecated in a future release.
    

15. doc: Missing additions to 26.0 release notes ca5937553b
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    fanquake commented at 3:38 pm on December 7, 2023: member

    Thanks @willcl-ark & @darosior. I’ve incorporated those changes in an additional commit, which can also be backported to 26.x in #29011.
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    willcl-ark commented at 3:49 pm on December 7, 2023: contributor

    ACK ca5937553b4b4dde53995d0b66e30150401023eb
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    achow101 commented at 7:51 pm on December 7, 2023: member

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