diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index 3d2baaaae..1b69daf37 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to
-release-notes at release time)
+Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 is now available from:
-Bitcoin Core version *version* is now available from:
-
-
+
This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes
and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
@@ -70,18 +67,6 @@ It is recommended to use this for sensitive information such as wallet
passphrases, as command-line arguments can usually be read from the process
table by any user on the system.
-RPC low-level changes
-----------------------
-
-- `gettxoutsetinfo` UTXO hash (`hash_serialized`) has changed. There was a divergence between
- 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and the txids were missing in the hashed data. This has been
- fixed, but this means that the output will be different than from previous versions.
-
-- Full UTF-8 support in the RPC API. Non-ASCII characters in, for example,
- wallet labels have always been malformed because they weren't taken into account
- properly in JSON RPC processing. This is no longer the case. This also affects
- the GUI debug console.
-
C++11 and Python 3
-------------------
@@ -115,33 +100,6 @@ possible to resolve them.
Note that Android is not considered ARM Linux in this context. The executables
are not expected to work out of the box on Android.
-0.13.0 Change log
-=================
-
-Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
-behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
-the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
-git merge commit are mentioned.
-
-### RPC and REST
-
-Asm script outputs replacements for OP_NOP2 and OP_NOP3
--------------------------------------------------------
-
-OP_NOP2 has been renamed to OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY by [BIP
-65](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki)
-
-OP_NOP3 has been renamed to OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY by [BIP
-112](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawiki)
-
-The following outputs are affected by this change:
-- RPC `getrawtransaction` (in verbose mode)
-- RPC `decoderawtransaction`
-- RPC `decodescript`
-- REST `/rest/tx/` (JSON format)
-- REST `/rest/block/` (JSON format when including extended tx details)
-- `bitcoin-tx -json`
-
New mempool information RPC calls
---------------------------------
@@ -149,24 +107,6 @@ RPC calls have been added to output detailed statistics for individual mempool
entries, as well as to calculate the in-mempool ancestors or descendants of a
transaction: see `getmempoolentry`, `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants`.
-### ZMQ
-
-Each ZMQ notification now contains an up-counting sequence number that allows
-listeners to detect lost notifications.
-The sequence number is always the last element in a multi-part ZMQ notification and
-therefore backward compatible.
-Each message type has its own counter.
-(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7762)
-
-### Configuration and command-line options
-
-### Block and transaction handling
-
-### P2P protocol and network code
-
-The p2p alert system has been removed in #7692 and the 'alert' message is no longer supported.
-
-
Fee filtering of invs (BIP 133)
------------------------------------
@@ -175,12 +115,6 @@ version is bumped to 70013. Upon receiving a feefilter message from a peer,
a node will not send invs for any transactions which do not meet the filter
feerate. [BIP 133](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0133.mediawiki)
-### Validation
-
-### Build system
-
-### Wallet
-
Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation
-----------------------------------------
Newly created wallets will use hierarchical deterministic key generation
@@ -199,9 +133,83 @@ There is no distinction between internal (change) and external keys.
[Pull request](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8035/files), [BIP 32](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki)
+Low-level P2P changes
+----------------------
+
+- The P2P alert system has been removed in PR #7692 and the `alert` P2P message
+ is no longer supported.
+
+Low-level RPC changes
+----------------------
+
+- `gettxoutsetinfo` UTXO hash (`hash_serialized`) has changed. There was a divergence between
+ 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and the txids were missing in the hashed data. This has been
+ fixed, but this means that the output will be different than from previous versions.
+
+- Full UTF-8 support in the RPC API. Non-ASCII characters in, for example,
+ wallet labels have always been malformed because they weren't taken into account
+ properly in JSON RPC processing. This is no longer the case. This also affects
+ the GUI debug console.
+
+- Asm script outputs replacements for OP_NOP2 and OP_NOP3
+
+ - OP_NOP2 has been renamed to OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY by [BIP
+65](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki)
+
+ - OP_NOP3 has been renamed to OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY by [BIP
+112](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawiki)
+
+ - The following outputs are affected by this change:
+
+ - RPC `getrawtransaction` (in verbose mode)
+ - RPC `decoderawtransaction`
+ - RPC `decodescript`
+ - REST `/rest/tx/` (JSON format)
+ - REST `/rest/block/` (JSON format when including extended tx details)
+ - `bitcoin-tx -json`
+
+Low-level ZMQ changes
+----------------------
+
+- Each ZMQ notification now contains an up-counting sequence number that allows
+ listeners to detect lost notifications.
+ The sequence number is always the last element in a multi-part ZMQ notification and
+ therefore backward compatible. Each message type has its own counter.
+ PR [#7762](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7762).
+
+0.13.0 Change log
+=================
+
+Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect
+behavior, not code moves, refactors and string updates. For convenience in locating
+the code changes and accompanying discussion, both the pull request and
+git merge commit are mentioned.
+
+### RPC and REST
+
+### ZMQ
+
+### Configuration and command-line options
+
+### Block and transaction handling
+
+### P2P protocol and network code
+
+### Validation
+
+### Build system
+
+### Wallet
+
### GUI
### Tests
### Miscellaneous
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:
+
+As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/).