Contribute Bug Reports
If you discover a bug or other problem with Bitcoin Core, please report it. The are two different processes, responsible disclosure for security bugs and public issue tracking for all other bugs.
Please don’t open an issue to ask for support. See the Get Help page instead.
Responsible disclosure
See the Bitcoin Core contact page for reporting security issues.
Public Issue Tracking
For non-security problems with Bitcoin Core, please search for similar issues and, if you don’t find any, open a new issue providing the information listed below.
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A clear description of the problem. If possible, please describe how to reproduce the problem. (For general guidelines on writing steps to reproduce, see Mozilla’s bug reporting documentation.)
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What version of Bitcoin Core you use (if you downloaded from Bitcoin.org) or what commit you built using (
git log -1) plus any extra patches you applied. -
Any relevant entries from your
debug.logfile. Note, this file can contain private information, so review it before posting or ask in the issue to email it directly to a developer rather than posting publicly. You can publicly post logs on a 0bin service. By default, thedebug.logcan be found at the following locations:-
Windows:
%APPDATA%\Bitcoin\debug.log -
OS X:
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/debug.log -
Linux:
$HOME/.bitcoin/debug.log
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The best strategy to get your issue fixed quickly is to make it as easy as possible for the development team to track down the problem and write a fix. Providing more information and organizing it well helps significantly.
