lnd/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.0.md

Release Notes

BOLT Specs

• Warning messages from peers are now recognized and logged by lnd.

RPC

The RegisterConfirmationsNtfn call of the chainnotifier RPC sub-server now optionally supports returning the entire block that confirmed the transaction.

• Add macaroon_root_key field to InitWalletRequest to allow specifying a root key for macaroons during wallet init rather than having lnd randomly generate one for you.

• A new SignedInputs field is added to SignPsbtResponse that returns the indices of inputs that were signed by our wallet. Prior to this change SignPsbt didn't indicate whether the Psbt held any inputs for our wallet to sign.

• Add list addresses RPC.

• Add TrackPayments method to the RPC to allow subscribing to updates from any inflight payment. Similar to TrackPaymentV2, but for any inflight payment.

• Catch and throw an error during openchannel if the local funding amount given is zero.

Wallet

• Allows Taproot public keys and tap scripts to be imported as watch-only addresses into the internal wallet. NOTE that funding PSBTs from imported tap scripts is not currently possible.

Build

The project has updated to Go 1.19! Go 1.18 is now the minimum version needed to build the project.

The minimum recommended version of the Go 1.19.x series is 1.19.2 because 1.19.1 contained a bug that affected lnd and resulted in a crash.

Misc

• Fixed a bug where the Switch did not reforward settles or fails for waiting-close channels

• Fixed a flake in the TestChannelLinkCancelFullCommitment unit test.

• Fixed error typo.

• The macaroon key store implementation was refactored to be more generally usable.

• Fixed a bug where cookie authentication with Tor would fail if the cookie path contained spaces. With the module updated, lnd now parses Tor control port messages correctly.

• Add option to encrypt Tor private key, and update the Tor module to pave the way for this functionality.

• Fixed potential data race on funding manager restart.

lncli

• Add an insecure flag to skip tls auth as well as a metadata string slice flag that allows the caller to specify key-value string pairs that should be appended to the outgoing context.

• Fix command line argument parsing for lncli sendpayment.

• Fix mapslice cap out of range error that occurs if the number of profiles is zero.

• A new config option, batchwindowduration has been added to sweeper to allow customize sweeper batch duration.

• Add base_fee_msat and fee_rate_ppm flags to openchannel requests so that the user can specify fees during channel creation time in addition to the default configuration.

Code Health

• test: use T.TempDir to create temporary test directory

• The tlv package now allows decoding records larger than 65535 bytes. The caller is expected to know that doing so with untrusted input is unsafe.

Watchtowers

• Create a towerID-to-sessionID index in the wtclient DB to improve the speed of listing sessions for a particular tower ID. This PR also ensures a closer coupling of Towers and Sessions and ensures that a session cannot be added if the tower it is referring to does not exist.

• Create a helper function to wait for peer to come online.

• test: replace defer cleanup with t.Cleanup

Tooling and documentation

• The golangci-lint tool was updated to v1.46.2

• Tests in htlcswitch will now clean up the temporary resources they create.

• Updated the github actions to use make fmt-check in its build process.

• Database related code was refactored to allow external tools to use it more easily, in preparation for adding a data migration functionality to lndinit.

Contributors (Alphabetical Order)

• Carla Kirk-Cohen
• cutiful
• Daniel McNally
• Elle Mouton
• ErikEk
• Eugene Siegel
• Graham Krizek
• hieblmi
• Jesse de Wit
• Matt Morehouse
• Olaoluwa Osuntokun
• Oliver Gugger
• Priyansh Rastogi