0.6.2: The Consensus Loving Nasal Daemon

We're pleased to announce c-lightning 0.6.2, named by @practicalswift.

We highly recommend you upgrade to this release soon; it will improve overall network health!

Highlights for c-lightning users:

• Invoices now contain an hint on a good incoming channel to use, for more reliable payments ("RouteBoost").
• listforwards command to show all forwarded HTLCs, and getinfo shows total fees (both only from upgrade only)
• Reduced logging spam at debug level.
• A multitude of bugfixes which make things generally much nicer.

Highlights for the network

• We no longer spam our peers with dead channels.
• Redundant gossip updates are completely eliminated.
• We advertise htlc_maximum_msat for our channels as per recent BOLT update.

Internal Improvements

• Significant optimization in JSON command response.
• connectd and hsmd are now part of the growing literate documentation effort.
• Testsuite now uses flask to override bitcoind responses for testing.

More details can be found in the CHANGELOG:

https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/v0.6.2/CHANGELOG.md

Contributions

We're grateful for all the bug reports and suggestions and your patience as we sometimes struggled to address them: please keep them coming!

Since 0.6.1 we've had 239 commits from 13 different authors, 3 of whom were first-time c-lightning contributors:

• @alan8325
• Amin Shah Gilani
• @trueserve

This is down from last release, but it was a much shorter timeline too!

Cheers,
Rusty, Christian and ZmnSCPxj.