Bitcoin Core 31.0 Privacy Vulnerability Confirmed; Patch Slated for 31.1
A privacy vulnerability in Bitcoin Core version 31.0 has been confirmed. Developers have indicated a fix will be released in version 31.1. No timeline for the 31.1 release was specified.
Bitcoin Core: the privacy bug no one can force a fix on
A privacy vulnerability in Bitcoin Core 31.0 is confirmed. The fix is coming in version 31.1. No release date given.
That last part is the whole story.
With Bitcoin, nobody can be ordered to ship a patch by Tuesday. Developers coordinate voluntarily, nodes upgrade when they choose, and the network moves at the speed of rough consensus — which is to say, slowly. The fix will come. But 'no timeline specified' isn't an oversight in the announcement; it's just how this works.
That's the trade-off you accept. No one can corrupt the release. No one can rush it either.