v0.8.2 Scaling the Ethereum Blockchain

We're pleased to announce the 0.8.2 release of c-lightning, named by @arowser.

This is a minor release and includes a few new and experimental features, as well as bug-fixes and performance wins.

Highlights for Users

New config option --large-channels (also known as 'wumbo') which enables opening channels of any size. (Note that your peer must also support large channels.)
This release includes a keysend plugin, which will enable receiving 'keysend' payments, as first introduced by Lightning Labs. Note that the included keysend plugin is receive only for this release. Nodes which do not want the hassle of spontaneous unrequested payments should add 'disable-plugin=keysend' to their config!
We'll now announce multiple connection endpoints for a single 'type', e.g. multiple IPv4 addresses.
A new FAQ!
Big performance improvment in the pay command (~1s speedup on average)

c-lightning nodes can now participate in creating larger channels (with the --large-channel config option).
We now wait until the first payment through a channel before updating the feerate; this should help with some spurious closures at channel open or re-connect that were occurring against older versions of other implementations.

A new command getsharedsecret for getting the BOLT-compliant shared secret finding for a node and a point.
The API for the 'Bitcoin backend' plugin infrastructure has been documented!
Facilities for building rendez-vous compatible onions has been added to the onion devtool
Plugin options will now respect the type they were given in the manifest.
Fixes with plugin cleanups and hangs.
Python2 has been removed as a dependence.

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

Since 0.8.1, we've had 236 commits from 10 different authors, with 2 first time contributors:

Cheers,

Lisa, Christian, Rusty, and ZmnSCPxj