ElementsProject/lightning v23.08 on GitHub

We're pleased to announce the 23.08 release of Core Lightning, named by Matt Morehouse.

For a list of all changes, please see the changelog

Highlights for Users

Several pay plugin improvements for better payment reliability.
New setconfig command to change config lines dynamically without node restart: limited now, but more coming in future.
BIP-93 seed backup support thanks to @adi2011's Summer of Bitcoin project.
@Lagrang3 (under a grant from BuildOnLayer2) implemented Pickhardt Payment in a new experimental renepay plugin (and corresponding renepay command) offers a much more sophisticated method of making payments (and much more experimental!).

Per-channel ignorefeelimits setting for getting fee disagreements unstuck.
Taproot address support: now the default for change addresses.
Preemptive failure of incoming HTLCs if the outgoing is stuck due to high fees, to avoid channel loss.
Dual-funding has been tweaked to the latest spec, but it's still experimental.
The new experimental-splicing option implements the new splicing draft to move funds in and out of live channels.

A new wait command supports invoices, along with listinvoices allowing ordering and pagination (with more commands to come!)
pay supports self-payment: you can pay your own invoices.
pay int a bolt11 with a description hash without providing a description has been temporarily undeprecated (but descriptions now work properly with \ in them now!).
Experimental builds are no longer required: all experimental features are now explicit runtime options.
User-defined tracepoints have been added to the a few paths, to help with tracing bottlenecks in production systems.

Since 23.05, we've had 660 commits by 37 authors in 104 days!

A special thanks to the 12 first time contributors: