ElementsProject/lightning v0.8.1 on GitHub

We're pleased to announce 0.8.1, named by @vasild (who last release was a new committer!)

Despite the holiday break and Rusty's month off, commit numbers are only down 20%!

Highlights for Users

We now support gifting msat to the peer when opening a channel, via push_msat, providing a brand new way to lose money!
Invoice routehints can be overridden using exposeprivatechannels: try setting to [] to eliminate all of them to fit your invoice in twitter messages!
Wallet withdraw transactions now set nLocktime, making them blend in more with other wallets.
Preliminary support for plugins hooks which can replace the default bitcoin-cli with other blockchain querying methods (API may change in future releases though!).
listforwards now records the outgoing short_channel_id, even if it wasn't possible to start forwarding.

Plugins can set additional feature bits, for more experimentation.
More than one plugin can register for the htlc_accepted hook: others will become multi-user in future releases.
Documentation updates, which had lagged recent changes.
Prevent a case where grossly unbalanced channels could become unusable.

Thanks to everyone for their contributions and bug reports; please keep them coming!

Since 0.8.0 we've had 257 commits from 17 different authors, with 5 first-time contributors!

Cheers,
Rusty, Lisa, Christian, and ZmnSCPxj.