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+P2P and network changes
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+- Transactions of non-witness size 65 and above are now allowed by mempool
+  and relay policy. This is to better reflect the actual afforded protections
+  against CVE-2017-12842 and open up additional use-cases of smaller transaction sizes. (#26265)