Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release candidate 1 available

Wladimir J. van der Laan confirmed that pruning has been tested for almost half a year and will be included in this release. However, he also noted that users should still backup their wallets as there is always a possibility of issues with syncing between the wallet and blockchain. The user expressed interest in this feature due to concerns about the amount of disk space required to run a full node. Enabling pruning remains the same process as described in the release notes for version 0.11.