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Expand Up @@ -97,6 +97,14 @@ repo], [Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI)][hwi repo],
merged this week, updates that implementation to follow this updated
specification.

- [BOLTs #918][] removes the rate limiting of ping messages. `ping` messages
are mainly used to check if the peer connection is still alive. Prior to
this merge `ping` messages were supposed to be sent at most once every 30
seconds. For many nodes it is useful to send heart beat messages via `ping`
more frequently to assure a high quality of service. As other Lightning
messages are not rate limited the 30 seconds rate limit for `ping` messages
was also dropped.

- [BOLTs #906][] introduce feature bit to gate new channel_type feature FIXME:dongcarl

## Holiday publication schedule
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