lnd/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.19.1.md

Release Notes

• Bug Fixes
• New Features
  • Functional Enhancements
  • RPC Additions
  • lncli Additions
• Improvements
  • Functional Updates
  • RPC Updates
  • lncli Updates
  • Breaking Changes
  • Performance Improvements
  • Deprecations
• Technical and Architectural Updates
  • BOLT Spec Updates
  • Testing
  • Database
  • Code Health
  • Tooling and Documentation

Bug Fixes

• Fix a serialisation bug that would occur when an attempt was made to write a backup file for a channel peer that has advertised an address that we do not yet know how to parse.

New Features

Functional Enhancements

RPC Additions

lncli Additions

Improvements

Functional Updates

RPC Updates

lncli Updates

Code Health

Breaking Changes

Performance Improvements

Deprecations

⚠️ Warning: The following RPCs will be removed in release version 0.21:

Deprecated RPC Method	REST Equivalent	HTTP Method	Path	Replaced By
lnrpc.SendToRoute routerrpc.SendToRoute	❌ (No direct REST equivalent)	—	—	routerrpc.SendToRouteV2
lnrpc.SendPayment routerrpc.SendPayment	✅	POST	/v1/channels/transaction-stream	routerrpc.SendPaymentV2
lnrpc.SendToRouteSync	✅	POST	/v1/channels/transactions/route	routerrpc.SendToRouteV2
lnrpc.SendPaymentSync	✅	POST	/v1/channels/transactions	routerrpc.SendPaymentV2
router.TrackPayment	❌ (No direct REST equivalent)	—	—	routerrpc.TrackPaymentV2

🚨 Users are strongly encouraged to transition to the new V2 methods before release 0.21 to ensure compatibility:

New RPC Method	REST Equivalent	HTTP Method	Path
routerrpc.SendToRouteV2	✅	POST	/v2/router/route/send
routerrpc.SendPaymentV2	✅	POST	/v2/router/send
routerrpc.TrackPaymentV2	✅	GET	/v2/router/track/{payment_hash}

Technical and Architectural Updates

BOLT Spec Updates

Testing

Database

Code Health

Tooling and Documentation

Contributors (Alphabetical Order)

• Elle Mouton