Core Lightning 26.06 "Quantum-Resistant Lightning Channel" has shipped. Graceful shutdowns, precise send amounts, smarter payment retries, and enhanced payment privacy. Your node runs cleaner and your payments stay harder to observe. ⚡ The big architectural shift in this release is bwatch, a new block-watching plugin that fundamentally changes how CLN interacts with the Bitcoin blockchain. No more 30-second polling loops. Near-instant catch-ups on startup. Crash-resistant and built to scale. Legacy pay is now deprecated. The xpay evolution is here.

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Core Lightning 26.06: "Quantum-Resistant Lightning Channel”

Following on the heels of our last major release, Core Lightning’s 26.06 version focuses heavily on paving the way for the future of payments, re...

--- 42 days. 236 commits. 19 contributors including Sangbida Chaudhuri and @Rusty Russell, who designed bwatch from the ground up. Lightweight, customisable, spec-focused Lightning. That's what this community keeps building. ⚡

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Release v26.06 Quantum-Resistant Lightning Channel · ElementsProject/lightning

This release has been named by @enaples Highlights for Users graceful command to prepare CLN for shutdown... gracefully! Added sendamount command,...

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