Following on the heels of our last major release, Core Lightning’s 26.06  version focuses heavily on paving the way for the future of payments, refining node operations, and polishing the edge cases of liquidity management.

Whether you are running a routing powerhouse or building next-generation Lightning applications, v26.06brings improvements to your node's performance, stability, and control.

The Xpay EvolutionThe Xpay Evolution

If there is a theme to this release, it is the quiet, powerful ascension and future proofing the xpay architecture. 

By default, the legacy pay command will now be handled under the hood by xpay (though you can toggle xpay-handle-pay=false if you need the old behavior). To make this transition seamless, pay now accepts invstring as a parameter name for BOLT11 invoices.

This release introduces a suite of advanced payment commands and protocol enhancements:

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