Merge branch 'dev' for the v1.3.0 release

72 commits since 1c3523aac (2026-07-23). Highlights:

  consensus  BLOCK_VALID_CONTEXT no longer overwrites the block validity level
             (6d282db21); dead CBOPRET coinbase price check removed (267e6f7ad);
             PROTOCOL_VERSION 2000000 -> 2000001, MIN_PEER_PROTO_VERSION held.
  sync       DRAGONX checkpoints extended to 3,226,000 -- past the RandomX
             activation at 2,838,976, so the skip-below-checkpoint path finally
             fires (7dc904c96).
  wallet     interrupted rescans no longer hide funds and no longer latch
             fAbortRescan (a6b6f80db); rescan progress is checkpointed when a scan
             is interrupted (c1040028e); salvaged wallets open in a degraded mode
             with hdchain-mismatch detection (5634aed75).
  stratum    stratummine gated behind an explicit flag and hardened (db42091ce);
             low-difficulty shares rejected before spending a RandomX hash
             (fa16e740b).
  release    version bumped to v1.3.0 (af7d9e230) and doc/release-process.md
             corrected -- it previously omitted signing entirely, which is why
             v1.1.0 and v1.2.0 were tagged but never became installable releases.

Soak before merge: ~86 node-hours on c1040028e across all seven seeds, plus the
primary -- the pool's block-template source -- running it in production with the
pool accepting shares. Fleet consensus verified at a common height throughout.

Not included, deliberately: branch audit-fixes-20260901 (two commits, both marked
UNTESTED) stays parked. The ported rpc-tests have never been run green and are not
a gate for this release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FU87LdsJZiZkfq1eXubpeo

doc/man/dragonx-cli.1

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 dragonx-cli \- manual page for dragonx-cli v1.3.0
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-DragonX RPC client version v1.3.0\-af7d9e230
+DragonX RPC client version v1.3.0
 .PP
 In order to ensure you are adequately protecting your privacy when using
 DragonX, please see <https://dragonx.is/security/>.

doc/man/dragonx-tx.1

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 dragonx-tx \- manual page for dragonx-tx v1.3.0
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-hush\-tx utility version v1.3.0\-af7d9e230
+hush\-tx utility version v1.3.0
 .SS "Usage:"
 .TP
 hush\-tx [options] <hex\-tx> [commands]

doc/man/dragonxd.1

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 dragonxd \- manual page for dragonxd v1.3.0
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-DragonX Daemon version v1.3.0\-af7d9e230
+DragonX Daemon version v1.3.0
 .PP
 In order to ensure you are adequately protecting your privacy when using
 DragonX, please see <https://dragonx.is/security/>.

src/version.h

@@ -22,7 +22,13 @@
 
 // network protocol versioning
 // DragonX 1.0.0 - bumped to separate from old HUSH/DragonX nodes with RandomX bug
-static const int PROTOCOL_VERSION = 2000000;
+// DragonX 1.3.0 - bumped for the consensus changes in this release (BLOCK_VALID_CONTEXT
+//                 no longer overwrites the validity level, the dead CBOPRET coinbase
+//                 price check is gone, and pow.cpp lost 157 lines). MIN_PEER_PROTO_VERSION
+//                 is deliberately NOT raised: it currently equals this value, and raising
+//                 it would disconnect every node still on v1.0.3 -- which is all users,
+//                 since no release has ever been installable (unsigned archives).
+static const int PROTOCOL_VERSION = 2000001;
 //! initial proto version, to be increased after version/verack negotiation
 static const int INIT_PROTO_VERSION = 209;
 //! In this version, 'getheaders' was introduced.