[28.x] Backport & finalise 28.3 #33613

1. 
   fanquake commented at 4:05 pm on October 13, 2025: member

   Backports:

   • #33581

   Plus the changes to finalise v28.3

2. ci: Properly include $FILE_ENV in DEPENDS_HASH

   $FILE_ENV has a full relative path already, prepending with ci/test/
   results in a non-existent path which means that DEPENDS_HASH was not
   actually committing to the test's environment file.
   
   Github-Pull: #33581
   Rebased-From: ceeb53adcd0a6a87a65c8ebbb20472c15c502dfd

   1c521ae922
3. doc: update release notes for 28.3 da5f5de405
4. build: bump version to 28.3 3590bbffa6
5. doc: update manual pages for v28.3 2dfb3a0690
6. fanquake added this to the milestone 28.3 on Oct 13, 2025
7. DrahtBot added the label Backport on Oct 13, 2025
8. 
   DrahtBot commented at 4:05 pm on October 13, 2025: contributor

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   For details see: https://corecheck.dev/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulls/33613.

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9. fanquake marked this as ready for review on Oct 16, 2025
10. fanquake requested review from stickies-v on Oct 16, 2025
11. stickies-v approved
12. 
    stickies-v commented at 11:21 am on October 16, 2025: contributor

    ACK 2dfb3a06902e9a98e00a422705afa002a3744545

    No changes except for 1 CI change, which I (utACK) verified. And finalization.

13. fanquake requested review from marcofleon on Oct 16, 2025
14. 
    marcofleon commented at 11:43 am on October 16, 2025: contributor

    ACK 2dfb3a06902e9a98e00a422705afa002a3744545
15. willcl-ark approved
16. 
    willcl-ark commented at 1:11 pm on October 16, 2025: member

    ACK 2dfb3a06902e9a98e00a422705afa002a3744545
17. fanquake merged this on Oct 16, 2025
18. fanquake closed this on Oct 16, 2025

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19. fanquake deleted the branch on Oct 16, 2025

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Review Requested
marcofleon

Labels
Backport

Milestone
28.3