Newsletters: add 376 (2025-10-17)

Author: bitschmidty

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+title: 'Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376'
+permalink: /en/newsletters/2025/10/17/
+name: 2025-10-17-newsletter
+slug: 2025-10-17-newsletter
+type: newsletter
+layout: newsletter
+lang: en
+---
+This week's newsletter shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their
+current block template and summarizes a paper outlining a covenant-less vault
+construction. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and
+release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin
+infrastructure software.
+
+## News
+
+- **Continued discussion of block template sharing:** since https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/sharing-block-templates/1906/13
+
+- **User-defined relay policies:** maybe or maybe not (https://github.com/bitcoinops/bitcoinops.github.io/pull/2518#issuecomment-3388045817). https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/o3JZhiOa2PQ
+
+## Releases and release candidates
+
+_New releases and release candidates for popular Bitcoin infrastructure
+projects.  Please consider upgrading to new releases or helping to test
+release candidates._
+
+FIXME:Gustavojfe
+
+## Notable code and documentation changes
+
+_Notable recent changes in [Bitcoin Core][bitcoin core repo], [Core
+Lightning][core lightning repo], [Eclair][eclair repo], [LDK][ldk repo],
+[LND][lnd repo], [libsecp256k1][libsecp256k1 repo], [Hardware Wallet
+Interface (HWI)][hwi repo], [Rust Bitcoin][rust bitcoin repo], [BTCPay
+Server][btcpay server repo], [BDK][bdk repo], [Bitcoin Improvement
+Proposals (BIPs)][bips repo], [Lightning BOLTs][bolts repo],
+[Lightning BLIPs][blips repo], [Bitcoin Inquisition][bitcoin inquisition
+repo], and [BINANAs][binana repo]._
+
+FIXME:Gustavojfe
+
+{% include snippets/recap-ad.md when="2025-10-21 16:30" %}
+{% include references.md %}
+{% include linkers/issues.md v=2 issues="" %}