Bitcoin Core Merges Privacy Fix Into v32 While v31 Backport Awaits Release

Bitcoin Core has merged a privacy fix into its v32 branch to isolate private-broadcast connections from standard peer-discouragement handling, preventing external observers from linking private transaction activity to regular node traffic. However, the backport for the v31.x branch remains pending and unreleased under the v31.2 milestone. Users running the current stable release, version 31.1, must wait for an official maintenance update to access the patch. Private transaction broadcasting remains an experimental opt-in feature using Tor or I2P networks to mitigate risk rather than guarantee absolute anonymity.