v0.6.3: The Smallblock Conspiracy

We're pleased to announce c-lightning 0.6.3, named by @molxyz and @ctrlbreak.

We highly recommend you upgrade to this release soon; it fixes a crashing bug which has been plaguing multiple users (reproduced and verified fixed by our intrepid release-namers above).

Highlights for Users

• Private channel creation support.
• option_dataloss_protect temporarily disabled, as it seems incompatible with lnd in some cases.
• Better handling of less common BOLT11 invoices.
• Less crashy!
• Alpha release of plugin support (use ./configure --enable-plugins), so you can extend your node's capabilities (see https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/doc/plugins.md)

Highlights for the network

• We no longer send invalid error messages if you get a peer id wrong.
• We allow update_fee before funding_locked which lnd sometimes does (we used to close channel!).

More details can be found in the https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/v0.6.3/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 0.6.2 we've had 314 commits from 18 different authors, 5 of whom were first-time c-lightning contributors:

• Conor Scott @conscott
• Franck Royer @D4nte
• Michael Hawkins @runcrypto-michael
• Richard Bondi @rsbondi

This is up from last release, despite the holiday break!

Cheers,
Rusty, Christian and ZmnSCPxj.