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.

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.

Misc

• 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.

• Update Tor module to allow the option to encrypt the private key on disk.

• 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.

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.

Tooling and documentation

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

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

Contributors (Alphabetical Order)

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