Version 29 has a significant performance improvement.
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this is the newest version available on nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll 😕
Sorry, soon
excluding testing, am i naive to assume that you can pull a newer/tagged commit for the bitcoin repo submodule in the wrapper repo to build a package with the newer build?
Pretty much, plus some metadata for the new version. Bumping the upstream version is not a big lift in most cases.