Highlights for Users

• bookkeeper has been migrated into core lightning, allowing visibility into payments, fees and channel activities.
• xpay can now directly pay BIP353 addresses (like ₿user@domain.com) and simple offers without extra steps.
• fetchinvoice is now more reliable.
• Better feedback when channel creation fails due to capacity limits.
• New browser tool for viewing CLN log files.
• Rust-based wss-proxy with better multi-address support.
• Now limiting the number of parts a payment can be split on xpay and askrene

Highlights for Developers

• bookkeeper plugin functionality is now integrated into Core Lightning with native listchainmoves and listchannelmoves commands, unified database storage, SQL query support, and real-time notifications for better financial auditability.
• Reckless now supports the modern uv package manager for Python plugins.
• Speaking of uv, we've transitioned away from poetry, now using uv.
• getroutes now accepts maxparts parameter to limit payment splitting for better route control.
• Flexible API responses - clnrest can return data in XML, YAML, or form-encoded formats beyond JSON.
• libplugin now allows synchronous calls at any time.
• Improvements to the rate of feasible solutions found in the main loop of the solver on askrene
• To increase the runtime, we've refactored the minimum cost flow solver, pruning some network arcs and reducing the internal unit of account.

Protocol Updates

• Splicing improvements allow for better compatibility with Eclair and continuous routing during channel modifications.
• Improve security by ensuring all peers must support channel type.
• Payment secrets now mandatory in BOLT11 invoices for better payment protection.