Eclair v0.2-alpha8

This release includes a breaking change in local database format, please close all channels before updating

This release is BOLTs compliant.

Caveat: If a revoked commitment tx is published, only the offender's main output will be stolen as punishment, not the HTLCs.

Changelog

• Fixed major bug preventing the claiming of funds in certain local close scenarii (#296) (thanks @AndySchroder @whizz @yogafan)
• Reworked peer management (#316)
• Add support for assisted routes in payment requests (#256) (thanks @btcontract)
• Improved the API (#281, #291, #312, #322)
• Improved announcements pruning (#323)
• Electrum: Use actual tx weight when estimating fees (#321)
• Various GUI fixes (#327)
• Complete commit logs

Installation

See these instructions.

Eclair v0.2-alpha7

This release is BOLTs compliant.

Caveat: If a revoked commitment tx is published, only the offender's main output will be stolen as punishment, not the HTLCs.

Changelog

• Fixed bugs in relayer causing payments to get stuck (#275, #276)
• Implemented change in BOLT11 r field (#277)
• Improve docker build: can now set configuration and expose datadir, added doc (#256) (thanks @NicolasDorier)
• Reduce default fees (#267)
• Set default unit to milliBTC in GUI (#268)
• Complete commit logs

Installation

Check these instructions.

Eclair v0.2-alpha6

This release passes interoperability tests!

This release is BOLTs compliant.

Caveat: If a revoked commitment tx is published, only the offender's main output will be stolen as punishment, not the HTLCs.

Changelog

• Support for electrumx API (#208, #232, #233, #257)
• Rework preimage handling and channel closing logic (#183, #204, #247)
• BOLT 11: Add an optional 'minimum htlc expiry' tag (#202, #210, #253)
• Improved fees management (#216, #237)
• Removed bitcoin-core parent-tx hack and check that all UTXOS are p2sh on testnet (#228, #231)
• Docker support with repeatable build (#255) (Thanks @NicolasDorier )
• Process update_fail_malformed_htlc properly (#168)
• Re-send htlc/sigs after funding_locked (#169)
• Handle update_fail_malformed_htlc in payment FSM (#170)
• Added ACK-based TCP write back-pressure (#174)
• Added check amount>dust on ClaimDelayedOutputTx (#177)
• Reworked handling of shutdown messages (#176)
• Base checks in sendAdd on the last sent sig (#180)
• Support multiple hops in RoutingInfoTag (#185) (Thanks @btcontract )
• Have channels subscribe to blockchain events at creation (#195)
• Support building payments with extra hops (#198) (Thanks @btcontract )
• Lock utxos when creating a funding transaction with Bitcoin Core (#211)
• Delay announcement_signatures when received early (#217)
• Use a separate htlc_key to sign 2nd stage htlc txs (#213)
• Prune stale network announcements (#219)
• Added more checks on open/accept messages (#240)
• and many bugfixes and improvements (Thanks @btcontract, @dinnerisserved, @9kek, @matsjj, @Roasbeef, @fresheneesz)
• Complete commit logs

Installation

Check these instructions.

Eclair v0.2-alpha5

This release is compatible with the BOLTs at commit 024f695bd1b54524e5782a59cf903f25803c75ae with the following caveats:

• BOLT 1: Base Protocol
• BOLT 2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management
• BOLT 3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats
• BOLT 4: Onion Routing Protocol
• BOLT 5: Recommendations for On-chain Transaction Handling
  • If a revoked commitment tx is published, only the offender's main output will be stolen as punishment, not the HTLCs.
• BOLT 7: P2P Node and Channel Discovery
• BOLT 8: Encrypted and Authenticated Transport
• BOLT 9: Assigned Feature Flags
• BOLT 11: Payment Request

Changelog

• now using sqlite as local database (#143)
• added experimental support for spv using bitcoinj (#152)
• improved reconnection logic and fuzzy tests (#123)
• fixed display bugs in gui (#119)
• more compliance to rfc (#127, #136, #161 )
• renamed eclair-javafx-node module to eclair-gui-node (#137)
• bug fixes and improvements (thanks @btcontract, @cdecker, @joemphilips, @Mirobit, @rem0g)

Installation

Installation instructions are here.

Eclair v0.2-alpha4

This release is compatible with the BOLTs at commit 80688d79008e9e999dff485f4dc03fcda3300291 with the following caveats:

• BOLT 1: Base Protocol
• BOLT 2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management
• BOLT 3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats
• BOLT 4: Onion Routing Protocol
• BOLT 5: Recommendations for On-chain Transaction Handling
  * If a revoked commitment tx is published, only the offender's main output will be stolen as punishment, not the HTLCs.
• BOLT 7: P2P Node and Channel Discovery
• BOLT 8: Encrypted and Authenticated Transport
• BOLT 9: Assigned Feature Flags
• BOLT 11: Payment Request

It also achieves a fairly good level of compatibility with c-lightning:

• open channels
• send/receive payments
• relay payments
• restart/reconnect (with the following limitation: c-lightning can be disconnected/reconnected to, but not stopped and restarted)

Changelog

• add support for BOLT 11 payment requests (#102)
• implement state-counter retransmission (#105)
• use genesis block hash to identify which chain we're on (regtest or testnet)
• bug fixes (thanks @btcontract, @cdecker)

Installation

Installation instructions are here.

Eclair v0.2-alpha3

This version is compliant with the BOLTs at commit 9cb9eef0dea9b0497e301aa0beaa9151a2e581de, with the following caveats:

• BOLT 1: Base Protocol
• BOLT 2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management
• BOLT 3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats
• BOLT 4: Onion Routing Protocol
  • Including the validated but not yet merged onion simplification (see lightning/bolts#145)
  • Temporary disabling of channels is not implemented (see lightning/bolts#143 and lightning/bolts#149)
• BOLT 5: Recommendations for On-chain Transaction Handling
  • If a revoked commitment tx is published, only the offender's main output will be stolen as punishment, not the HTLCs.
• BOLT 7: P2P Node and Channel Discovery
  • Optional disable flag in channel_update messages is not implemented
• BOLT 8: Encrypted and Authenticated Transport
• BOLT 9: Assigned Feature Flags

Changelog

• updated onion implementation to meet last BOLT 4 iteration (#76)
• added a chainHash field to open message (#69)
• added a receive method to the API to generate payment requests (#63)
• added some tolerance to updated payment amount verification as per BOLT 4 (#72)
• reconnection to existing channels is now automated, reconnect button has been removed (#64)
• added an option in the GUI to open a connection to a node without opening a channel (#68)
• made max-feerate-mismatch configurable and set default value to 500% (#62)
• bug fixes (thanks @btcontract, @djpnewton, @robzon!)

Installation

Installation instructions are here.

Eclair v0.2-alpha2

This version is compliant with the BOLTs at commit f048a2c298448eca7520ccf1d7d61b1860e319b7, with the following caveats:

• BOLT 1: Base Protocol
• BOLT 2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management
• BOLT 3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats
• BOLT 4: Onion Routing Protocol
• BOLT 5: Recommendations for On-chain Transaction Handling
  • If a revoked commitment tx is published, only the offender's main output will be stolen as punishment, not the HTLCs.
• BOLT 7: P2P Node and Channel Discovery
• BOLT 8: Encrypted and Authenticated Transport
• BOLT 9: Assigned Feature Flags

Changelog

• zeromq is now used to receive bitcoind events
• payment are automatically retried in case of a recoverable error (alternate path, channel updated)
• support for ping/pong messages (BOLT 1)
• a two-steps transaction is used to mitigate malleability attacks on testnet
• added an Activity tab in the gui

Installation

Installation instructions are here.

Eclair v0.2-alpha1

This version is compliant with the BOLTs at commit 06a5e6cbdbb4c6f8b8dab444de497cdb9c7d7f02, with the following caveats:

• BOLT 1: Base Protocol
• BOLT 2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management
• BOLT 3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats
• BOLT 4: Onion Routing Protocol
• BOLT 5: Recommendations for On-chain Transaction Handling
  • If a revoked commitment tx is published, only the offender's main output will be stolen as punishment, not the HTLCs.
• BOLT 7: P2P Node and Channel Discovery
• BOLT 8: Encrypted and Authenticated Transport
• BOLT 9: Assigned Feature Flags

Installation

Installation instructions are here.