Release Notes
This release of Lightning Terminal (LiT) includes a variety of updates including support for off-chain accounts and the ability to customise the permissions of an LNC session through the UI. It also contains an implementation of a rule firewall and a privacy firewall. The rule firewall can be used to verify the parameters of certain calls (for example ensuring that calls only act on a specific set of channels) and the privacy firewall can be used to force privte info (such as pub keys, channel IDs etc) to be mapped out to random values for responses and mapped back to real values for requests. An Autopilot client is added which handles registration of LNC sessions with the Autopilot server. Autopilot calls will be forced to go through the new rule and privacy firewalls.
We'll be continuously working to improve the user experience based on feedback from the community.
This release packages LND v0.15.5-beta, Loop v0.21.0-beta, Pool v0.6.1-beta, and Faraday v0.2.9-alpha.
NOTE that the minimum version of lnd that can be used in --lnd-mode=remote is v0.15.4-beta.
Installation and configuration instructions can be found in the README.
Required changes when running in lnd remote mode (lnd-mode=remote)
When connecting to an existing lnd node, that node must enable the RPC middleware interceptor feature. You can enable that by specifying the --rpcmiddleware.enable command line flag or by adding rpcmiddleware.enable=true to your lnd.conf file. See the remote configuration docs for more information.
Verifying the Release
In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and hopefully verified that as well), you'll first need to import ellemouton's key from the ubuntu key server:
gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 26984CB69EB8C4A26196F7A4D7D916376026F177
Once you have his PGP key you can verify the release (assuming manifest-v0.8.6-alpha.sig and manifest-v0.8.6-alpha.txt are in the current directory) with:
gpg --verify manifest-v0.8.6-alpha.sig manifest-v0.8.6-alpha.txt
You should see the following if the verification was successful:
gpg: Signature made Wed Feb 15 17:45:36 2023 SAST
gpg: using RSA key 26984CB69EB8C4A26196F7A4D7D916376026F177
gpg: Good signature from "Elle Mouton <elle.mouton@gmail.com>" [ultimate]
That will verify the signature on the main manifest page which ensures integrity and authenticity of the binaries you've downloaded locally. Next, depending on your operating system you should then re-calculate the sha256 sum of the binary, and compare that with the following hashes:
cat manifest-v0.8.6-alpha.txt
One can use the shasum -a 256 <file name here> tool in order to re-compute the sha256 hash of the target binary for your operating system. The produced hash should be compared with the hashes listed above and they should match exactly.
Finally, you can also verify the tag itself with the following command:
git verify-tag v0.8.6-alpha
Verifying the Release Timestamp
We have also started to timestamp the manifest file with OpenTimeStamps along with its signature. A new file is now included along with the rest of our release artifacts: manifest-v0.8.6-alpha.sig.ots.
Assuming you have the opentimestamps client installed locally, the timestamps can be verified with the following command:
ots verify manifest-v0.8.6-alpha.sig.ots
These timestamps should give users confidence in the integrity of this release even after the key that signed the release expires.
Changelog (auto-generated)
What's Changed
- Add support for custodial off-chain accounts by @guggero in #363
- build(deps): bump decode-uri-component from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2 in /app by @dependabot in #459
- multi: replay updates for release v0.8.5-alpha by @ellemouton in #462
- multi: change account session type and reserve type 4 by @ellemouton in #464
- tools: fix lint VSC permission error by @guggero in #473
- build(deps): bump json5 from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 in /app by @dependabot in #474
- proto: add generated types for lit-accounts by @jamaljsr in #472
- multi: add RevokedAt field to Session by @ellemouton in #475
- session+litrpc: change RevokedAt tlv and proto number by @ellemouton in #477
- multi: add some litd client helpers by @ellemouton in #476
- Custom user permissions UI by @itsrachelfish in #451
- multi: autopilot firewall and privacy map interceptors by @ellemouton in #487
- build(deps): bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.11.0 to 1.11.1 by @dependabot in #489
- multi: prep for v0.8.6-beta release by @ellemouton in #490
Full Changelog: v0.8.4-alpha...v0.8.6-alpha