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docs: add release note for DNS fallback SRV lookup panic fix 0.21.1

This commit is just a documentation update adding a release note for a previously fixed bug. The actual bug was a crash (panic) in LND's DNS fallback code: when looking up network routing information, the program assumed every answer from …

Denial of Service (daemon panic/crash) via DNS response manipulationUnsafe type assertion in DNS SRV lookup pathOut-of-bounds index access on empty LookupHost result
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docs: remove release note for DNS fallback panic of 0.22.0

This commit only removes a sentence from the release notes document for version 0.22.0. It does not change any program code, so it cannot by itself introduce, fix, or alter a security vulnerability. The deleted text described a previously …

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docs: add release note for DNS fallback SRV lookup panic fix

This commit only adds a release note describing a previously fixed bug in LND's DNS fallback code. The actual code fix is not shown in this commit. The bug could crash the LND daemon (a panic) if a DNS response contained unexpected record …

Denial of Service via daemon panicUnsafe type assertion in DNS SRV lookupOut-of-bounds index access on empty lookup result
2ee49698by Erick Cestari+6−01 file
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discovery: fix panic in DNS fallback SRV lookup

This commit fixes a bug in LND's DNS seed bootstrap code that could crash the node. The code assumed every record in a DNS response was an SRV record, so a non-SRV record (like a normal A or CNAME record) would cause a panic. The fix safel…

Unconditional type assertion panic in DNS fallback pathMissing bounds check on LookupHost result before array indexingMissing network deadline on manually dialed DNS TCP connection
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docs: add release notes for offline peer uptime fix

This commit only adds a release note describing a previously fixed bug. The actual code fix is in a separate pull request. The bug caused LND's ListChannels report to incorrectly show 100% uptime for peers that were actually offline, becau…

No executable code changedDocumentation-only release noteReferenced bug is a reporting/data accuracy issue, not a security flaw
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chanfitness: seed peer uptime from actual online state

This commit fixes a bug in LND's channel-fitness subsystem that made offline peers falsely appear to have 100% uptime. The fix seeds the initial uptime state from the peer's real connection status instead of always assuming online. It is a…

Incorrect telemetry/metric initialization leading to misleading uptime dataNo input validation, authentication, or memory-safety changesNo cryptographic, networking, or privilege-boundary changes
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lint: enable wastedassign linter

This commit simply turns on a code-quality linter called 'wastedassign' in the project's linting configuration. It does not change any application code, fix a bug, or alter runtime behavior. There is no security relevance.

d680013bby Erick Cestari+0−11 file
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lint: enable bodyclose, rowserrcheck and sqlclosecheck linters

This commit only changes the project's linting configuration file. It enables three Go code-quality linters (bodyclose, rowserrcheck, sqlclosecheck) that detect common resource-leak patterns, and reorganizes comments explaining why other l…

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lint: fix wastedassign issues in test files

This commit only cleans up test files by removing unused variable assignments and adding one missing error check. It does not change any production code that runs on real Lightning nodes, so it cannot directly affect live funds, network be…

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lint: enable copyloopvar and remove redundant loop var copies in non-test files

This commit is a routine code cleanup: it removes 53 lines of the form `x := x` inside Go loops and enables a linter to prevent them in the future. Since Go 1.22, loop variables are already scoped per-iteration, so these copies were unnece…

c324b518by Erick Cestari+0−5325 files
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lint: fix wastedassign issues in non-test files

This commit removes unused variable assignments that were flagged by a Go linter. In two command-line handlers, it stops advancing an argument list that is never read again. In a Lightning channel function, it simplifies a swap to only ass…

d9355bbeby Erick Cestari+1−53 files
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lint: remove redundant loop var copies in test files

This commit is a cleanup-only change that removes unnecessary loop-variable copies in Go test files. Since Go 1.22, loop variables are already scoped per-iteration, so the old `x := x` workarounds are redundant. The change affects only tes…

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docs: document tor v2 onion handling in 0.21 release notes

This commit only adds documentation to the 0.21.0 release notes. It describes how LND now rejects old-style Tor v2 onion addresses at configuration and command boundaries, filters them from several internal persisted-state paths, and prese…

Documentation-only changeSummarizes prior Tor v2 deprecation/removal behaviorNo functional code diff
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multi: drop tor v2 onion production, keep wire codec faithful

This commit removes support for obsolete Tor v2 onion addresses from the Lightning Network Daemon (lnd). Tor v2 services were shut down by the Tor network in October 2021, so lnd will no longer create, accept, or dial v2 onion addresses. H…

Removal of deprecated network protocol (Tor v2) reduces attack surface and prevents futile/unsafe dials to unreachable services.Input validation added at operator boundaries (ParseAddressString, parseAddr) to reject v2 .onion addresses with a clear error.On-disk legacy key fallback now validates decrypted key type and rejects non-v3 (RSA1024) keys before passing them to Tor.
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docs: document deprecated RPC and field removals in 0.21 release notes

This commit only updates the 0.21 release notes to document RPC and field removals that had already been announced in the 0.20 release notes. It is a documentation-only change with no code modifications, no security fixes, and no new vulne…

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proto: remove deprecated SendPayment, SendToRoute, TrackPayment RPCs

This commit removes several old, previously-deprecated payment-related API methods from the Lightning Network Daemon (LND). It is a planned cleanup that breaks backward compatibility for clients still using those old methods. There is no i…

Removal of deprecated RPC surface reduces attack/exposure surfaceNo new code paths or privilege changes introducedNo memory-safety, cryptographic, or authorization changes visible
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routerrpc: remove deprecated SendPayment, SendToRoute, TrackPayment impls

This commit removes three old, deprecated payment RPC methods (SendPayment, SendToRoute, and TrackPayment) from the LND Lightning node's router service. These methods were already replaced by newer V2 versions and were only thin wrappers a…

Removal of deprecated RPC surface reduces attack surfaceMacaroon permission entries for removed methods are deletedNo new code paths or logic added
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lnrpc: remove deprecated Send* RPC server implementations

This commit removes old, unused code paths for sending Lightning payments through the main RPC server. These RPCs (SendPayment, SendPaymentSync, SendToRoute, SendToRouteSync) were already deleted from the service definition in a prior chan…

Removal of deprecated RPC handlers and macaroon permissionsDeletion of dead payment-dispatch helper codeNo new input parsing, network exposure, or privilege changes introduced
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itest: migrate deprecated lnrpc Send* calls to routerrpc V2

This commit only changes integration tests for the Lightning Network Daemon (LND). It removes old test helper functions that called deprecated SendToRoute RPC methods and updates the tests to use the newer routerrpc.SendToRouteV2 API. No p…

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routerrpc: remove deprecated outgoing_chan_id field handling

This commit removes backward-compatible handling of an old, single outgoing channel ID field in LND's router RPC. Previously, callers could use either the old field or the newer list field; now the old field is rejected with an error. The …

Removal of deprecated RPC field fallbackExplicit rejection of deprecated field to avoid silent loss of outgoing channel restrictionsBehavior change from fallback/error-on-both to always-error-on-deprecated-field
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