lnd/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.17.0.md

Release Notes

DB

• Split channeldb UpdateInvoice implementation logic in different update types.

Watchtowers

• Let the task pipeline only carry wtdb.BackupIDs instead of the entire retribution struct. This reduces the amount of data that needs to be held in memory.
• Replace in-mem task pipeline with a disk-overflow queue

Misc

• Ensure that both the byte and string form of a TXID is populated in the lnrpc.Outpoint message.

• Fix Benchmark Test (BenchmarkReadMessage/Channel_Ready) in the lnwire package

• Fix unit test flake (TestLightningWallet) in the neutrino package via version bump of btcsuite/btcwallet

RPC

• SendOutputs now adheres to the anchor channel reserve requirement.

• Enforce provided fee rate is no less than the relay or minimum mempool fee when calling OpenChannel, CloseChannel, SendCoins, and SendMany.

• The UpdateNodeAnnouncement API can no longer be used to set/unset protocol features that are defined by LND.

• Neutrinorpc getblockhash has been deprecated. Endpoint has been moved to the chainrpc sub-server.

  Custom node announcement feature bits can also be specified in config using the dev build tag and --protocol.custom-nodeann, --protocol.custom-init and --protocol.custom-invoice flags to set feature bits for various feature "sets", as defined in BOLT 9.

• OpenChannel now accepts an optional memo argument for specifying a helpful note-to-self containing arbitrary useful information about the channel.

• gRPC keepalive parameters can now be set in the configuration. The lnd configuration settings grpc.server-ping-time and grpc.server-ping-timeout configure how often lnd pings its clients and how long a pong response is allowed to take. The default values for there settings are improved over the gRPC protocol internal default values, so most users won't need to change those. The grpc.client-ping-min-wait setting defines how often a client is allowed to ping lnd to check for connection healthiness. The lnd default value of 5 seconds is much lower than the previously used protocol internal value, which means clients can now check connection health more often. For this to be activated on the client side, gRPC clients are encouraged to set the keepalive setting on their end as well (using the grpc.keepalive_time_ms option in JavaScript or Python, or the equivalent setting in the gRPC library they are using, might be an environment variable or a different syntax depending on the programming language used) when creating long open streams over a network topology that might silently fail connections. A value of grpc.keepalive_time_ms=5100 is recommended on the client side (adding 100ms to account for slightly different clock speeds).

• Fixed a bug where we didn't check for correct networks when submitting onchain transactions.

Misc

• Generate default macaroons independently on wallet unlock or create.

• Restore support for PKCS8-encoded cert private keys.

• Add --unused to lncli newaddr command.

Code Health

• Updated our fork for serializing protobuf as JSON to be based on the latest version of google.golang.org/protobuf instead of the deprecated github.com/golang/protobuf/jsonpb module.

Testing

• Started running fuzz tests in CI.

• Derandomized the BOLT 8 fuzz tests.

• Added fuzz tests for signature parsing and conversion.

• Added a fuzz test for watchtower address iterators.

• Simplify fuzz tests using the require package.

lncli

• Added ability to use ENV variables to override lncli global flags. Flags will have preference over ENVs.

• The lncli sendcoins command now asks for manual confirmation when invoked on the command line. This can be skipped by adding the --force (or -f) flag, similar to how lncli payinvoice works. To not break any existing scripts the confirmation is also skipped if stdout is not a terminal/tty (e.g. when capturing the output in a shell script variable or piping the output to another program).

Bug Fix

• Make sure payment stream returns all the events by subscribing it before sending.

Tooling and documentation

• Add support for custom RPCHOST and RPCCRTPATH to the lnd Docker image main script (/start-lnd.sh).

Contributors (Alphabetical Order)

• Carla Kirk-Cohen
• Daniel McNally
• Elle Mouton
• Erik Arvstedt
• ErikEk
• gabbyprecious
• Guillermo Caracuel
• hieblmi
• Jordi Montes
• Lele Calo
• Matt Morehouse
• Michael Street
• Oliver Gugger
• Shaurya Arora
• ziggie1984