lnd/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.15.0.md

Release Notes

Security

• Misconfigured ZMQ setup now gets reported.

lncli

• Add auto-generated command-line completions for Fish shell.

• Add chan_point flag to closechannel command.

• Add private status to pendingchannels response.

• Update description for state command.

Bug Fixes

• Pipelining an UpdateFulfillHTLC message now only happens when the related UpdateAddHTLC is locked-in.

• Fixed an inactive invoice subscription not removed from invoice registry. When an invoice subscription is created and canceled immediately, it could be left uncleaned due to the cancel signal is processed before the creation. It is now properly handled by moving creation before deletion.

• When the block height+delta specified by a network message is greater than the gossiper's best height, it will be considered as premature and ignored. These premature messages are now saved into a cache and processed once the height has reached.

• Fixed failure to limit our number of hop hints in private invoices. When a private invoice is created, and the node had > 20 (our hop hint limit) private channels with inbound > invoice amount, hop hint selection would add too many hop hints. When a node had many channels meeting this criteria, it could result in an "invoice too large" error when creating invoices. Hints are now properly limited to our maximum of 20.

• Fixed an edge case where the lnd might be stuck at starting due to channel arbitrator relying on htlcswitch to be started first.

• Added signature length validation when calling NewSigFromRawSignature.

• Fixed deadlock in invoice registry.

• Fixed an issue that would cause wallet UTXO state to be incorrect if a 3rd party sweeps our anchor output.

Misc

• An example systemd service file for running lnd alongside a bitcoind service is now provided in contrib/init/lnd.service.

• Allow disabling migrations if the database backend passed to channeldb was opened in read-only mode.

• Disable compiler optimizations when building lnd-debug and lncli-debug. It helps when stepping through the code with a debugger like Delve.

• A new command lncli leaseoutput was added.

• Consolidated many smaller docs/typo/trivial fixes from PRs that were stuck in review because of unmet contribution guideline requirements.

• A nightly build of the lnd docker image is now created automatically.

• Add default values to walletrpc.ListUnspent RPC call.

• Add .vs/ folder to .gitignore.

• Chain backend healthchecks disabled for --nochainbackend mode

• The tlv package was refactored into its own Golang submodule.

• The tor package was refactored into its own Golang submodule and a new process for changing and tagging submodules was introduced in a series of 3 PRs (#6350, #6355 and #6356).

• Source repository can now be specified for Docker image builds

• The new btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 and the moved btcsuite/btcd/btcutil modules were integrated into lnd as a preparation for basic Taproot support.

• Make etcd leader election session TTL configurable.

RPC Server

• Add value to the field remote_balance in pending_force_closing_channels under pendingchannels whereas before was empty(zero).

• The graph's diameter is calculated and added to the getnetworkinfo output.

• Add dev only RPC subserver and the devrpc.ImportGraph call

• Extend the HTLC interceptor API to provide more control over failure messages. With this change, it allows encrypted failure messages to be returned to the sender. Additionally it is possible to signal a malformed htlc.

• Add an always on mode to the HTLC interceptor API. This enables interception applications where every packet must be intercepted.

Database

• Add ForAll implementation for etcd to speed up graph cache at startup

• Improve validation of a PSBT packet when handling a request to finalize it.

Documentation

• Improved instructions on how to build lnd for mobile.
• Log force-close related messages on "info" level.

Monitoring

A new flag (--prometheus.perfhistograms) has been added to enable export of gRPC performance metrics (latency to process GetInfo, etc).

Code Health

Code cleanup, refactor, typo fixes

• Refactored itest to better manage contexts inside integration tests.

• Fix itest not picking up local config file or creating directories in home dir of the user.

• A refactor of SelectHopHints allows code external to lnd to call the function, where previously it would require access to lnd's internals.

• rpc-check fails if it finds any changes including new and deleted files.

• The golangci-lint package was updated and new linters were enabled.

• The linting process now runs inside a docker container to fix versioning issues between projects.

• The whitespace linter was enabled to make sure multi-line if conditions and function/method declarations are followed by an empty line to improve readability. Note to developers: please make sure you delete the old version of golangci-lint in your $GOPATH/bin directory. make lint does not automatically replace it with the new version if the binary already exists!

• ChannelLink in the htlcswitch now performs a 2-way handoff instead of a 1-way handoff with its ChannelArbitrator.

• The channel-commit-interval is now clamped to a reasonable timeframe of 1h.

• A function in the gossiper processNetworkAnnouncements has been refactored for readability and for future deduplication efforts.

Contributors (Alphabetical Order)

• 3nprob
• Andras Banki-Horvath
• Andreas Schjønhaug
• asvdf
• bitromortac
• BTCparadigm
• Carla Kirk-Cohen
• Carsten Otto
• Dan Bolser
• Daniel McNally
• ErikEk
• Eugene Siegel
• henta
• Joost Jager
• Jordi Montes
• LightningHelper
• Liviu
• mateuszmp
• Naveen Srinivasan
• Olaoluwa Osuntokun
• randymcmillan
• Rong Ou
• Thebora Kompanioni
• Torkel Rogstad
• Vsevolod Kaganovych
• Yong Yu