By EZ in Releases — Aug 24, 2023

Core Lightning v23.08: Satoshi's Successor

"We're pleased to announce the 23.08 release of Core Lightning, named by Matt Morehouse."

"The August 2023 release has such an overwhelming array of changes we are splitting the release announcement into three separate blog posts: User Experience, Developer Experience, and Experimental Features. The next two will be shared tomorrow and the following day."
"Since 23.05, we've had 660 commits by 37 authors in 104 days!"
"For a list of all changes, please see the changelog."

Highlights for Users

Several pay plugin improvements for better payment reliability.
New setconfig command to change config lines dynamically without node restart: limited now, but more coming in future.
BIP-93 seed backup support thanks to @adi2011's Summer of Bitcoin project.
@Lagrang3 (under a grant from BuildOnLayer2) implemented Pickhardt Payment in a new experimental renepay plugin (and corresponding renepay command) offers a much more sophisticated method of making payments (and much more experimental!).

Per-channel ignorefeelimits setting for getting fee disagreements unstuck.
Taproot address support: now the default for change addresses.
Preemptive failure of incoming HTLCs if the outgoing is stuck due to high fees, to avoid channel loss.
Dual-funding has been tweaked to the latest spec, but it's still experimental.
The new experimental-splicing option implements the new splicing draft to move funds in and out of live channels.

A new wait command supports invoices, along with listinvoices allowing ordering and pagination (with more commands to come!)
pay supports self-payment: you can pay your own invoices.
pay int a bolt11 with a description hash without providing a description has been temporarily undeprecated (but descriptions now work properly with \ in them now!).
Experimental builds are no longer required: all experimental features are now explicit runtime options.
User-defined tracepoints have been added to the a few paths, to help with tracing bottlenecks in production systems.

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