This appears to be the last legit version of Bitcoin Core before the spam filters are forcefully removed without community consensus.
If you don't want shitcoin lite running on your node I suggest not updating to any version beyond 29.0, or switch to Knots.
headingnorth , would you please tell us more?? What "spam filters" , what are you talking about? Personally, I've heard nothing about it.
There's a big debate about it in Technical Discussion as achow101 mentioned.
Some short videos from Matthew Kratter to get you up to speed on the matter more quickly:
Bitcoin Core Going Rogue?
Bitcoin Core Attacking Bitcoin?
Does Bitcoin Spam Exist?
Satoshi's Secret Cure for Spam
Bitcoin Core Removes the Mask
www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/videosI hope achow101 is right and it won't happen but according to Matt Kratter (Bitcoin Core Removes the Mask)
the announcement was already made a couple days ago by the devs and the PR will be merged. We will see.
But if true then there is no doubt Core has been compromised and must be rejected by all node operators IMO.