ElementsProject/lightning v23.05

v23.05: Austin Texas Agreement(ATXA)

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We're pleased to announce the 23.05 release of Core Lightning, named by @instagibbs

For a list of all changes, please see the changelog

Highlights for Users

• NEW commando-blacklist and commando-listrunes RPCs for blacklisting and listing stored runes.
• NEW feerates added 2 new options as "minimum" and NN"blocks". Use explicit block counts or slow/normal/urgent/minimum.
• listclosedchannels RPC to show old, dead channels.
• reckless added support for node.js plugin installation and for networks beyond bitcoin and regtest.
• Spending unilateral close transactions now use dynamic fees based on deadlines (and RBF), instead of fixed fees.
• More bug fixes and improved logging.

Highlights for the Network

• Blinded payments are now supported by default.
• Now always double-check bitcoin addresses are correct (no memory errors!) before issuing them.
• Allow slight overpaying, even with MPP, as spec now recommends.

Highlights for Developers

• Removed msat suffix from all millisatoshi fields, as deprecated in v0.12.0.
• PSBTv2 support; all APIs now support both v0 & v2.
• NEW methods listpeerchannels, listclosedchannels, decode and decodepay from RPC to grpc mapping.
• Improvements on the python gossmap implementation.
• The mTLS private keys are no longer group-readable.
• Added NEW command makerune in hsmtool to make a master rune for the node.
• NEW setpsbtversion command to aid debugging and compatibility.
• cln-rpc anc cln-grpc can now work with a range of versions.

Since 23.02.2, we've had 265 commits by 17 authors over 59 days

A special thanks to the 2 first time contributors:

Shahana Farooqui @ShahanaFarooqui
Anmol Agrawal @anmode

~ @ShahanaFarooqui :), @endothermicdev, @cdecker, @niftynei and @rustyrussell