👍 benthecarman approved a pull request: "Revert "gui, qt: brintToFront workaround for Wayland""
(https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/pull/914#pullrequestreview-3496739218)
fixes for me!

🤔 l0rinc reviewed a pull request: "merkle: pre‑reserve leaves to prevent reallocs with odd vtx count"
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32497#pullrequestreview-3496417072)
Latest push:
* rebases against latest master;
* reverts code back to simply change `leaves.resize(block.vtx.size())` constructs before calling `ComputeMerkleRoot` to `.reserve((block.vtx.size() + 1) & ~1ULL)`;
** added godbolt reproducer for each important combination of compiler and architecture
* Separates the test changes to a separate commit explaining the motivation in the commit message
* updated commit messages and PR descriptions.

🤔 hebasto reviewed a pull request: "contrib: Remove brittle, confusing and redundant UTF8 encoding from Python IO"
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33702#pullrequestreview-3496784212)
I've tested fa2fd0ba1fbd4085df24a2c5472636957db28521 on a Windows 11 laptop using VS 2022 17.14.21.

Functional tests work as expected.

🤔 sipa reviewed a pull request: "Cluster mempool"
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33629#pullrequestreview-3496807348)
ACK 17cf9ff7efdbab07644fc2f9017fcac1b0757c38