doc: add release notes

Co-Authored-By: tdb3 <[email protected]>

doc/release-notes-31583.md

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+Updated RPCs
+---
+- `getmininginfo` now returns `nBits` and the current target in the `target` field. It also returns a `next` object which specifies the `height`, `nBits`, `difficulty`, and `target` for the next block.
+- `getdifficulty` can now return the difficulty for the next block (rather than the current tip) when calling with the boolean `next` argument set to true.
+- `getblock` and `getblockheader` now return the current target in the `target` field
+- `getblockchaininfo` and `getchainstates` now return `nBits` and the current target in the `target` field
+
+REST interface
+---
+- `GET /rest/block/<BLOCK-HASH>.json` and `GET /rest/headers/<BLOCK-HASH>.json` now return the current target in the `target` field

test/functional/data/README.md

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 ## mainnet_alt.json
 
 For easier testing the difficulty is maximally increased in the first (and only)
-regarget period, by producing blocks approximately 2 minutes apart.
+retarget period, by producing blocks approximately 2 minutes apart.
 
 The alternate mainnet chain was generated as follows:
 - use faketime to set node clock to 2 minutes after genesis block