<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">We're pleased to announce the 0.8.2 release of c-lightning, named by <a class="gmail-user-mention" href="https://github.com/arowser" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;color:rgb(36,41,46);text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap">@arowser</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">This is a minor release and includes a few new and experimental features, as well as bug-fixes and performance wins.</p><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:24px 0px 16px;line-height:1.25;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(234,236,239);color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji"">Highlights for Users</h1><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">New config option <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:13.6px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:3px">--large-channels</code> (also known as 'wumbo') which enables opening channels of any size. (Note that your peer must also support large channels.)</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">This release includes a <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:13.6px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:3px">keysend</code> plugin, which will enable receiving 'keysend' payments, as first introduced by <a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/3795" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;color:rgb(3,102,214);text-decoration-line:none">Lightning Labs</a>. Note that the included keysend plugin is receive only for this release. Nodes which do not want the hassle of spontaneous unrequested payments should add 'disable-plugin=keysend' to their config!</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">We'll now announce multiple connection endpoints for a single 'type', e.g. multiple IPv4 addresses.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">A new <a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/doc/FAQ.md" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;color:rgb(3,102,214);text-decoration-line:none">FAQ</a>!</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Big performance improvment in the <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:13.6px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:3px">pay</code> command (~1s speedup on average)</li></ul><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:24px 0px 16px;line-height:1.25;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(234,236,239);color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji"">Highlights for the Network</h1><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">c-lightning nodes can now participate in creating larger channels (with the --large-channel config option).</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">We now wait until the first payment through a channel before updating the feerate; this should help with some spurious closures at channel open or re-connect that were occurring against older versions of other implementations.</li></ul><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:24px 0px 16px;line-height:1.25;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(234,236,239);color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji"">Highlights for Developers</h1><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">A new command <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:13.6px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:3px">getsharedsecret</code> for getting the BOLT-compliant shared secret finding for a node and a point.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">The API for the 'Bitcoin backend' plugin infrastructure has been documented!</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Facilities for building rendez-vous compatible onions has been added to the <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:13.6px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:3px">onion</code> devtool</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Plugin <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:13.6px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:3px">options</code> will now respect the type they were given in the manifest.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Fixes with plugin cleanups and hangs.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Python2 has been removed as a dependence.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">More details can be found at <a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/v0.8.2/CHANGELOG.md" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;color:rgb(3,102,214);text-decoration-line:none">https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/v0.8.2/CHANGELOG.md</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">Thanks to everyone for their contributions and bug reports; please keep them coming.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">Since 0.8.1, we've had 236 commits from 10 different authors, with 2 first time contributors:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Dr. Maxim Orlovsky <a class="gmail-user-mention" href="https://github.com/dr-orlovsky" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;color:rgb(36,41,46);text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap">@dr-orlovsky</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Dave Scotese <a class="gmail-user-mention" href="https://github.com/dscotese" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;color:rgb(36,41,46);text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap">@dscotese</a></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">Cheers,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px;margin-bottom:0px">Lisa, Christian, Rusty, and ZmnSCPxj</p></div>