v0.7.1: The Unfailing Twitter Consensus Algorithm

We're pleased to announce c-lightning 0.7.1, named by new C-Lightning Core Team member Lisa Neigut.

Highlights for Users

• Gossip (both serving to others and listchannels) is much faster and uses much less memory.
• Infrastructure to fund a channel from an external wallet (probably needs a plugin to make it user friendly).
• listpeers now show how many confirms until channel is open.
• Ability to set a minimum channel size to accept.
• Invoices now default to 7 days, rather than 1 hour.
• fundchannel can now specify exactly what utxos to use, if you want coin control.
• Various JSON API corner cases and bugs have been removed, more information added.
• Lots of new plugin hooks to play with; we expect some more impressive plugins soon!

Highlights for the network

• We no longer ask every peer for all the gossip which ever happened!
• We respect and enforce option_upfront_shutdown_script (mainly for Eclair)
• We no longer allow tiny 1000 satoshi channels: default minimum is now 10,000 satoshis.
• Improved compatibility with corner cases for both lnd (esp. older versions) and Eclair.

More details can be found in https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/v0.7.1/CHANGELOG.md.

Contributions

We've seen a lot more contributions and bug reports coming in: please keep them coming!

Since 0.7.0 we've had 591 commits from 31 different authors, with a record 12 first-time contributors!

• @trueptolemy
• @darosior
• @andrewtoth
• Joe Netti
• Jeff Vandrew Jr
• Billy Garrison
• @thestick613
• Lawrence Nahum
• Kristaps Kaupe
• Hampus Sjöberg
• @dlogemann
• Atis Elsts

Cheers,
Rusty, Christian, ZmnSCPxj and Lisa.