Release Candidate 3 for Core Lightning v25.09
This release has been named by @king-11.
Note: release schedule moved one month: this is v25.09, and all deprecations incremented accordingly
Highlights for Users
- bookkeeper has been migrated into core lightning, allowing visibility into payments, fees and channel activities.
- xpay can now directly pay BIP353 addresses (like ₿user@domain.com) and simple offers without extra steps.
- fetchinvoice is now more reliable.
- Better feedback when channel creation fails due to capacity limits.
- New browser tool for viewing CLN log files.
- Rust-based wss-proxy with better multi-address support.
- Now limiting the number of parts a payment can be split on xpay and askrene
Highlights for Developers
- bookkeeper plugin functionality is now integrated into Core Lightning with native listchainmoves and listchannelmoves commands, unified database storage, SQL query support, and real-time notifications for better financial auditability.
- Reckless now supports the modern uv package manager for Python plugins.
- Speaking of uv, we've transitioned away from poetry, now using uv.
- getroutes now accepts maxparts parameter to limit payment splitting for better route control.
- Flexible API responses - clnrest can return data in XML, YAML, or form-encoded formats beyond JSON.
- libplugin now allows synchronous calls at any time.
- Improvements to the rate of feasible solutions found in the main loop of the solver on askrene
- To increase the runtime, we've refactored the minimum cost flow solver, pruning some network arcs and reducing the internal unit of account.
Protocol Updates
- Splicing improvements allow for better compatibility with Eclair and continuous routing during channel modifications.
- Improve security by ensuring all peers must support channel type.
- Payment secrets now mandatory in BOLT11 invoices for better payment protection.
Since 25.05 we’ve had 300 commits in 64 days by 16 authors
A special thanks to the four first time contributors:
@Chand-ra
@sangbida
@MicahMaphet
@longhutianjie
An enormous thanks to the Core Lightning team:
@rustyrussell, @ShahanaFarooqui, @endothermicdev, @cdecker, @nepet, @Lagrang3, @sangbida and @niftynei