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+Wallet
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+* Address Purposes strings are now restricted to the currently known values of "send", "receive", and "refund".
+  Wallets that have unrecognized purpose strings will have loading warnings, and the `listlabels`
+  RPC will raise an error if an unrecognized purpose is requested.