ElementsProject/lightning v23.11 on GitHub

We're pleased to announce the 23.11 release of Core Lightning, named by @ShahanaFarooqui. For a list of all changes, please see the changelog.

Highlights for Users

The check command just got more powerful. Instead of only checking the parameters of a command, it will do all checks up to the point where something in the system would need to be altered now.
Control all the runes! Runes got an additional restriction field per for even more powerful access control. This also comes with a new field last_used for the showrunes command.
Users can now verify the validity of their existing emergency backups using the decode command.
When the new config option invoices-onchain-fallback is set, Core-Lightning automatically adds a taproot fallback address to all invoices produced by invoice. This allows for onchain payments as a fallback mechanism.

Wumbology for all! The configuration option large-channels is now set by default.
The dual-funding process stores the state when sending commitment_signed now. This allows to continue the funding process after a temporary connection loss.
A new flag --commit-fee-offset allows to set an offset that can potentially reduce disagreements on feerate updates.
Plugins can now allow even unknown messages by registration and also are allowed sending them.
Some stability improvements and bugfixes regarding splices.
A whole lot of cleanups to stay on track with small specification changes. This adds additional stability and reduces disconnects.

Wait a second: The wait and pagination api got extended, one can now also wait for listsendpays and listforwards.
A new recover command can now be used to recover an unused node from a hsmsecret just as the --recover flag would do. This currently only works for sqlite3 backends.
Ever wondered how much space a plugin occupies in your database? The new datastoreusage command will tell you.
The rust bindings got some more coverage.
Core-Lightning can no longer be build with --developer-enabled. To enable developer features use ./configure --enable-debugbuild and set the config option --developer instead.

Since 23.08, we've had 499 commits by 29 authors in 97 days!

A special thanks to the 5 first time contributors: