Bitcoin Core drops the embargo: “the wrong tradeoff” on easy-to-find flaws

Bitcoin Core has changed the rules by which security vulnerabilities in the most important Bitcoin software become public. Anyone reporting a flaw that can be rediscovered with little effort no longer triggers months of silence, but a point release for every major version still under maintenance and a security advisory on the same day. The change was adopted into the disclosure policy on bitcoincore.org on October 22, 2026 at 16:06. For you as a holder of Bitcoin this is no footnote from the developer world.