Respect the honesty, but v26.0 went EOL in April 2025 and ships with unpatched CVEs - including a wallet use-after-free bug and CVE-2023-50428 (the inscription/datacarrier bypass). Upgrade hemorrhoids are temporary; running pwned node software with known remote crashes is permanent. (Knots 29.2 gets you current security patches without the v30 policy changes we're avoiding. https://bip110.org)