tari-project/tari v5.3.0-rc.0

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5.3.0-rc.0 (2026-04-21)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• sidechain: include epoch_hash in sidechain block header (#7767)
• set epoch length to 10 for all networks (#7725)

Features

Wallet

• add branch and bound as UTXO selection option (#7651) (4e4cec3)
• wire branch and bound into the console wallet (#7671) (5af622e)
• offline signer support (#7663) (d8c76a0)
• payref tracking (#7734) (f247880)
• sparse block header storage for wallet scanner (#7744) (317a59a)
• improved wallet debugging tools (#7755) (af60157)
• improved transaction feedback (#7754) (24011fd)
• export-audit CLI command for wallet transaction CSV export (#7700) (98aebeb)
• remove libtor from console wallet (#7653) (d7da75c)
• install scripts for Ledger (#7694) (9235d76)

Base node

• background database pruning for large prune operations (#7739) (0e5f9ca)
• new node pool management logic (#7728) (f70500d)
• network silence mode (#7696) (8354e8a)
• wait-for-shutdown support (#7666) (e8e9eaf)
• make readiness gRPC a config option (#7678) (6f8f361)
• show -p overrides in print-env and improve unknown-field config errors (#7701) (c99231a)
• add metric to track mempool double spends (#7699) (ba3b103)
• add new reorg metrics (#7697) (bfb007b)

APIs

• exclude_inputs query parameter on the sync_utxos_by_block endpoint (#7723) (363b9fe)
• updated API for deleted block info (#7735) (5eeca3a)

Mining

• allow XMRig to request a block template from a Tari node (#7714) (3b6f685)
• convert merge mining cucumber tests to RxT (#7747) (f75de46)

Bug Fixes

Sync and networking

• better sync (#7774) (11dc8d2)
• seed peer connections kept open (#7687) (01b107f)

Wallet

• branch-and-bound edge case (#7768) (566193d)
• miscellaneous edge cases (#7769) (b32d517)
• legacy transaction status (#7756) (35768f1)
• burn claim flow (#7658) (f42e14d)
• save complete burn proof to file (#7726) (5a278cb)
• correct displayed transaction fee (#7659) (6453d3e)
• user-pays-fee and replace-by-fee behaviour (#7662) (b95e35f)
• fee-per-gram stat call for HTTP calls (#7667) (68ae120)
• kernel Merkle proof fetching (#7665) (20c4672)
• remove blocking base node call in TransactionServiceRequest::FetchUnspentOutputs (#7724) (b44dee8)
• import-paper-wallet when base-dir is absolute (#7720) (394e22d)
• wallet scanning edge case (#7657) (c70542d)
• wallet handling of duplicate blocks (#7656) ([3f0bea1](https://githu