⚡️LND v0.5.2-beta has just been released! ⚡️

This release is minor release of lnd, which includes several fixes which increase the stability of lnd, and also further increases cross implementation compatibility. There are no new database migrations, or functional RPC changes in this new version. As a result, users should expect a smooth upgrade path with no manual intervention required. 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 the keys that have signed this release if you haven't done so already: curl https://keybase.io/roasbeef/pgp_keys.asc | gpg --import Once you have his PGP key you can verify the release (assuming manifest-v0.5.2-beta.txt and manifest-v0.5.2-beta.txt.sig are in the current directory) with: gpg --verify manifest-v0.5.2-beta.txt.sig You should see the following if the verification was successful: gpg: assuming signed data in 'manifest-v0.5.2-beta.txt' gpg: Signature made Thu Feb 7 13:29:16 2019 PST gpg: using RSA key F8037E70C12C7A263C032508CE58F7F8E20FD9A2 gpg: Good signature from "Olaoluwa Osuntokun <[email protected]>" [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 (which are included in the manifest file): 8c1d4c50847c665ac277bc8a659b8320f8a053d074a05e99c59f52ac87033968 lnd-darwin-386-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz 478833d7d4efbbfe5c04f6ce7f5d69f45a163fcca0d4b83a1cba96556e76b916 lnd-darwin-amd64-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz 8c351581f7887e5eeb9b2fc905e2057e5d1b03d5e58c29acbaeb19fb320cc157 lnd-dragonfly-amd64-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz 29bc87951a65d8541b355cba3600db5439d70720addfb8c194a5e035fd20ff47 lnd-freebsd-386-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz 5dfb7eb58039389f14d0c76a5a54f7d890c80f97ad1be3cb7e39a032b19634b5 lnd-freebsd-amd64-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz 6422cdee33b42b7efcad84fff4c3d6dddd3e6f015057b7b131f6ce262cc2bf61 lnd-freebsd-arm-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz ae2858e8ae7b2cfd9b0901032634056f9839bc26d01edc32e26524d2ba386084 lnd-linux-386-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz d876ffe5f18431cb0ec97c75e3d8b34a8d2c84e36a0114636a92dabe71340a99 lnd-linux-amd64-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz e178ba9aa7b207b5381519c34fd0b24cc74eebb0e1498536cf267988c6946858 lnd-linux-arm64-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz f03401fb24ce7a5d4dc498a6f3c88a766c186ac88d7f52791ecb95b5e983ef5c lnd-linux-armv6-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz 9adf9f3d0b8a62942f68d75ffe043f9255319209f751dee4eac82375ec0a86cd lnd-linux-armv7-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz e8ef8bd34384b8f9c52198a53034c30f162cccb8b31262b822424d640ad5dfaf lnd-linux-mips64-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz 33037ed61c7f0c1939b1233d579fb39aa9261086f75dd24c7172ea3dba1aa63f lnd-linux-mips64le-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz 671bf900995eaa9349e869383397580c9f4d6cbe4d5fbb32673c7b217b4fe10f lnd-linux-ppc64-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz 3d3b4d117594becd19f89c1ed82a6167b53a8b22a3351e85b5d21045ade821e8 lnd-netbsd-386-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz b090505e313a9998d307c06dc340908145167f262746accca6f330f1d74bbfad lnd-netbsd-amd64-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz d720671b9fc253c4e857bb53875daa15a367b21d20e2d9d2e149714315cfb15a lnd-openbsd-386-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz af0db952379a67e40f988eb94261f59fb0173f63de1806eb38c529751dd6c674 lnd-openbsd-amd64-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz f3b601a66fe5a277f8e7600637f15712146971be11adf7074cc01a0edd869be7 lnd-source-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz 64ce298461dae68133823b3b43cfa7cb05e821e7688f29df14fbce02e64e14a9 lnd-windows-386-v0.5.2-beta.zip 9ac0667a877e3884627c019390cc593b5a783777314b2e30121aac76d1c71993 lnd-windows-amd64-v0.5.2-beta.zip 70607224b051c8919090f108669c35f5582c080cc0341ee1fe953b10b82368ca vendor.tar.gz 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 v0.5.2-beta Building the Contained Release With this new version of lnd, we've modified our release process to ensure the bundled release is now fully self contained. As a result, with only the attached payload with this release, users will be able to rebuild the target release themselves without having to fetch any of the dependancies. Note that at this stage, binaries aren't yet fully reproducible (even with go modules). This is due to the fact that by default, Go will include the full directory path where the binary was built in the binary itself. As a result, unless your file system exactly mirrors the machine used to build the binary, you'll get a different binary, as it includes artifacts from your local file system. This will be fixed in go1.13, and before then we may modify our release system to do this automatically. In order to re-build from scratch, assuming that vendor.tar.gz and lnd-source-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz are in the current directory: tar -xvzf vendor.tar.gz tar -xvzf lnd-source-v0.5.2-beta.tar.gz GO111MODULE=on go install -v -mod=vendor -ldflags "-X github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/build.Commit=v0.5.2-beta" GO111MODULE=on go install -v -mod=vendor -ldflags "-X github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/build.Commit=v0.5.2-beta" ./cmd/lncli The -mod=vendor flag tells the go build command that it doesn't need to fetch the dependencies, and instead, they're all enclosed in the local vendor directory. Additionally, it's now possible to use the enclosed release.sh script to bundle a release for a specific system like so: LNDBUILDSYS="linux-arm64 darwin-amd64" ./release.sh The release.sh script will now also properly include the commit hash once again, as a regression caused by a change to the internal build system has been fixed. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ OK, now to the rest of the release notes! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Notable changes Expansion of lncli block size In this release, we increase the gRPC block size from 4MB to 50MB. Recently, the output of lncli describegraph has hit the block size cap due to the expansion of the mainnet graph. Without this attempts to fetch the graph return an error of: [lncli] rpc error: code = ResourceExhausted desc = grpc: received message larger than max (4246753 vs. 4194304) With this commit, we give ourselves some breathing room. It's important to note that the max message size limit is a client side setting. As a result, any developers driving lnd with gRPC will also need to raise their block size limit as well if they wish to fetch the graph over gRPC. With this release, lnd now uses go modules rather than glide to handle our package dependency management. End users and developers should see no functional change, as the Makefile is still the primary interaction point when building and testing lnd. Switching to go modules also preps us for the fully reproducible binary builds for Go which are slated to land in go1.13. Wallet Bug Fixes The wallet will no longer rescan from the seed birthday if a wallet has no UTXOs once it has already been created. Config and Wire Protocol Validation Fixes A node's color is now properly validated when passed in as a config or command line parameter. This fix ensures that we're able to properly parse a hex color before attempting to commit it to the database. With this change, if an invalid color is passed, then lnd will refuse to start. We'll now validate our own node announcement as a sanity check to ensure generated announcements elsewhere in lnd are fully protocol compliant. We'll now properly avoid creating empty buckets within bolt which have been the source of prior inadvertent bugs. We'll now ensure that we don't accept any node announcements with an invalid alias. A bug has been fixed wherein we'd encode an invalid (too long) length for the enclosed ChannelUpdate within an onion error. This didn't affect lnd nodes as we didn't rely on the encoded length when decoding the error payload. However, other implementations did, which rendered them unable to decode a sub-set of our onion error messages. lnd will now reject (by default) requests for funding confirmations that we deem are too large. A bug related to the FeeUpdate message has been fixed which could at times cause two channels to de-synchronize. lnd, will no longer send the IncorrectHtlcAmount error. Instead, it will now use the new UnknownPaymentHash error that includes the amount of the HTLC. Network Level Channel Advertisements All channels created by lnd will now properly have the new max_htlc field set. This is a prep for our upcoming AMP implementation. Payment splitting heuristics can use this value as a guide when determining payment chunk size, and nodes can use this value to control the largest payment shard they'll accept. In a future release, we'll make this value configurable over the RPC interface. Payment Path Finding and Retries We've modified our retry and search space pruning code when routing payments to be more consistent. The following issues has been fixed: If the channel update of FailFeeInsufficient contains an invalid channel id, it is not possible to properly add to the failed channels set. FailAmountBelowMinimum may apply a channel update, but does not retry. FailIncorrectCltvExpiry immediately prunes the vertex without trying one more time. A bug has been fixed to ensure that we get passed a non-nil route. Previously with unchecked usage of the SendToRoute API, this may have caused a panic. A change has been made to decouple the disabled bit from our local path finding. This is a preparatory step for an overhaul w.r.t the way we enable/disable channels, which is expected to land in 0.6. RPC Interface Bug Fixes We'll now properly validate the ChannelPoint argument for the CloseChannel RPC call. The lncli command validates this field already, but a check was lacking in the main RPC pipeline as it assumed lncli was being used. Invoices that were created with hop hints will now show up as "private" within the output of lncli listinvoices. Additional validation has been added to ensure that it's no longer possible to attempt to force close a channel twice over the RPC interface. The second time wouldn't generate any new changes, but could at times unnecessarily block this second call. Channels that are waiting to be opened, but which also have an unconfirmed closing transaction will now properly show up within lncli pendingchannels. The UnsettledBalance field in the PendingChannels field will now properly be set. False positives related to to showing a channel as active have been located and patched. HTLC Forwarding Fixes We'll now properly return FinalFailExpiryTooSoon rather than FinalFailIncorrectCltvExpiry when the final hop of a route receives an HTLC expiry that's too soon. Switch from bolt to bbolt. In this version, we've made a full switch from bolt to bbolt. bbolt is the maintained fork of the original bolt project. As it's maintained by CoreOS it actively has bug fixes land it in, which should increase the stability of our primary database. Optimizations We'll now scan backwards from the latest height back to the height hint when a sub-system needs to query for the unspentness of an output. This speeds up routine scans of recent channel closes as we no longer need to start from potentially months back in the past. Rather than create a thread pool to generate/check signatures for the commitment updated protocol, we'll now use a global signature thread pool. This serves to reduce the total number of goroutines, idle CPU usage, and memory usage of lnd for larger nodes. Changelog The full list of changes since 0.5-beta can be found here: Contributors (Alphabetical Order) Chris Coverdale (ccdle12) Conner Fromknecht ErikEk Federico Bond Johan T. Halseth Joost Jager Olaoluwa Osuntokun orbitalturtle Valentine Wallace Wilmer Paulino Xavi Soler