v6.1.0 (2026-10-07)

What's Changed

feat: rebootstrap peers when the DHT connection pool is starved in #8082
feat(sidechain): transaction commands carry their atom bytes in #8072
feat: display the TIP-004 backoff adjusted target difficulty in #8070
feat(sidechain): commit to a transaction merkle root from protocol version 1 in #8076

fix: blame the block that failed in a reorg and keep the strongest valid chain in #8091
fix: consensus limit on block body bytes in #8079
fix(grpc): bound the cost of GetTokensInCirculation in #8081
fix: keep yamux connections moving when substreams back up in #8089
fix(minotari-utils): fix three dbstats bugs affecting Windows and legacy chains in #7866
fix: name the block, algorithm and peer when proof of work is rejected in #8085
fix: narrow RandomX factory lock scope in #8080
fix: enforce decoder parity across serde, borsh and both protobuf families in #8077
fix: tari script hardening in #8065
fix: tari_common hardening in #8075
fix: tari_hashing audit remediation in #8071
fix: update tari_crypto to 0.24 and return errors instead of Ok(false) from verification functions in #8074
fix(wallet): consistent address and memo sizing in #8068

Full Changelog: v6.0.1...v6.1.0