diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 6531624f1..adab67a99 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Features:
 - Update: RaspberryOS arm64 base image 2024-11-19 (Debian 12 Bookworm) [details](https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_full_arm64/release_notes.txt)
 - Update: amd64 base image: debian-12.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso [details](https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html)
 - Update: Bitcoin Core v29.0 [details](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-29.0.md)
-- Update: LND v0.18.5-beta [details](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.18.5-beta)
+- Update: LND v0.19.0-beta [details](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.19.0-beta)
 - Update: LNbits 1.0.0 [details](https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/v1.0.0)
 - Update: AlbyHub v1.17.0 [details](https://github.com/getAlby/hub/releases/tag/v1.17.0)
 - Update: Lightning Terminal v0.14.1-alpha [details](https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-terminal/releases/tag/v0.14.1-alpha)
diff --git a/home.admin/config.scripts/lnd.install.sh b/home.admin/config.scripts/lnd.install.sh
index 7d9f8da61..64ff3d53f 100644
--- a/home.admin/config.scripts/lnd.install.sh
+++ b/home.admin/config.scripts/lnd.install.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 ## based on https://raspibolt.github.io/raspibolt/raspibolt_40_lnd.html#lightning-lnd
 ## see LND releases: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases
 ### If you change here - make sure to also change interims version in lnd.update.sh #!
-lndVersion="0.18.5-beta"
+lndVersion="0.19.0-beta"
 
 # olaoluwa
 PGPauthor="roasbeef"
diff --git a/home.admin/config.scripts/lndlibs/README.md b/home.admin/config.scripts/lndlibs/README.md
index 312c98061..2d8fa1646 100644
--- a/home.admin/config.scripts/lndlibs/README.md
+++ b/home.admin/config.scripts/lndlibs/README.md
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ Make sure the first lines (ignore comments) of the `lightning_pb2_grpc.py` look
 ```
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 import grpc
-
 from . import lightning_pb2 as lightning__pb2
 ```