diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes.md
index 50560857c..e4e33b110 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes.md
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
# Bitcoin ABC 0.24.4 Release Notes
Bitcoin ABC version 0.24.4 is now available from:
This release includes the following features and fixes:
+
+- Bitcoin ABC will no longer create an unnamed `""` wallet by default when no wallet is
+ specified on the command line or in the configuration files. For backwards compatibility,
+ if an unnamed `""` wallet already exists and would have been loaded previously, then it
+ will still be loaded. Users without an unnamed `""` wallet and without any other wallets
+ to be loaded on startup will be prompted to either choose a wallet to load, or to
+ create a new wallet.
diff --git a/src/interfaces/wallet.cpp b/src/interfaces/wallet.cpp
index c23502f7c..0ad2aa052 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/wallet.cpp
+++ b/src/interfaces/wallet.cpp
@@ -1,575 +1,567 @@
// Copyright (c) 2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
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