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Merge PR 'Persistent `MonitorEvent`s' (#4491)

This commit makes on-chain 'MonitorEvent' notifications durable and replay-safe. Previously, if a node crashed after a ChannelMonitor persisted a block update but before the ChannelManager processed the resulting event, the event could be …

Durability/atomicity fix for async persistence: prevents lost MonitorEvents across crashesNew ack-based event lifecycle with random event IDsArchival gating on unacknowledged events to avoid losing preimage/timeout information
9a324e72by wpaulino+467−45912 files
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Merge PR 'Fix payment attribution edge cases and simplify claiming' (#5021)

This commit refactors how LDK nodes claim incoming Lightning payments. It replaces a separate 'claim with known custom TLVs' method with an options struct passed to the normal claim call, and fixes two edge cases in payment attribution dat…

API change: claim_funds now takes ClaimFundsOptions, consolidating TLV-known behavior into one pathFailure-packet length bound added to prevent oversized onion error messagesIncoming failure packet truncated at 32 KiB before processing
ee7c61c2by Matt Corallo+256−17322 files
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Merge PR 'release utxos from failed splices' (#4973)

This change fixes a wallet bookkeeping problem in rust-lightning's built-in coin-selection wrappers. Previously, when a splice attempt failed or coin selection errored after picking UTXOs, those UTXOs stayed marked as 'reserved' in memory …

Resource exhaustion / denial-of-service via permanent in-memory UTXO reservationIncorrect state tracking in coin-selection wrapperNew API method required for correct lifecycle management (release_utxos)
7220a6fdby jkczyz+295−383 files
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Restore `Wallet` UTXO locks when coin selection fails afterwards

This commit fixes a bug in the wallet's coin-selection code. When the wallet picked UTXOs to spend, it locked them immediately so they couldn't be reused. But if a later step—fetching the change address or the previous transaction—failed, …

Resource lock leak on error pathUTXO lock state inconsistency between selection and confirmationDenial-of-service/funds-unavailability risk from persistent UTXO locks
81afd9caby elnosh+146−331 file
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Merge PR 'tx-sync: Parallelize esplora status queries' (#4913)

This commit rewrites how a Lightning wallet talks to Esplora block-explorer servers so that many status checks happen in parallel instead of one at a time. It is a performance/refactoring change. There is no direct evidence in the commit t…

Concurrency/timing change in transaction confirmation logicNew inconsistency check preserved when a previously-confirmed tx is reported unconfirmedAdded defensive error path for missing pre-fetched block status
c303f515by Matt Corallo+140−371 file
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Merge PR 'Skip Electrum creator transaction downloads' (#4992)

This change stops the Electrum-based transaction sync client from downloading the very transaction that created an output it is watching. Previously, the client could request that transaction from Electrum, even though a transaction can ne…

Avoids unnecessary Electrum transaction.get requests for watched outputsReduces information disclosure to Electrum server about watched outpointsAdds regression test verifying request suppression
c36e50cbby Matt Corallo+142−02 files
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Merge PR 'Use preferred sPK of watched txn in electrum, not rand ones' (#4867)

This change improves how the Lightning Dev Kit's Electrum and Esplora transaction-sync clients track watched Bitcoin transactions. Previously, the code ignored the script pubkey (the 'address' associated with a transaction) supplied when r…

Previously ignored `script_pubkey` argument in `register_tx` for transaction watchersElectrum script-history queries previously used an arbitrary transaction output, which could be OP_RETURN and therefore unindexed by some Electrum serversNew logic prefers caller-supplied script pubkey and falls back to non-OP_RETURN outputs
bfe5ca89by tnull+52−243 files
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Merge PR 'Serialize transient Event variants; move persist decision into ChannelManager' (#4791)

This commit changes how LDK stores pending event notifications. It adds serialization support for several event types that previously were not fully saved to disk, and introduces a helper method so the code can decide which events are wort…

Data-loss prevention: previously non-round-trippable event variants are now fully serialized, avoiding accidental event loss when users serialize Event queues themselvesState-consistency hardening: ChannelManager now explicitly skips events that describe non-surviving restart state, preventing replay of stale eventsDefensive assertion: debug builds assert that every persisted event round-trips to Some(event), catching serialization mismatches
a0d4632eby Matt Corallo+694−818 files
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Merge PR 'Document that funding signing events can go stale' (#4960)

This commit only adds documentation comments to two source files. It explains that certain funding-signing events can become stale if the underlying negotiation fails, and that callers may see specific harmless errors as a result. No code …

26eecf2dby Matt Corallo+15−02 files
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Add `Wallet::release_utxos` to free UTXOs from abandoned transactions

This commit fixes a design flaw in LDK's built-in wallet helper where coins selected for a splice-in (or other unclaimed funding) were permanently reserved in memory if the transaction was abandoned. Over repeated failed splices, all spend…

Denial-of-service via UTXO exhaustion from repeated failed splice negotiationsRisk of inability to broadcast fee-bumping/claim transactions due to lack of available UTXOsNew API surface (release_utxos) introduced to mitigate resource leak
52ab13fdby elnosh+148−43 files
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Drop the honggfuzz version pin from the CI fuzz job

This commit removes a fixed-version pin for the honggfuzz fuzzing tool in a continuous-integration script. The project now uses the current release of honggfuzz instead of an older pinned version. There is no change to the actual Lightning…

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Run the CI fuzz job on the stable toolchain

This commit changes the Rust toolchain used in the continuous integration (CI) fuzzing job from a fixed older version (1.75) to the latest stable release. It is purely a build/test infrastructure change to fix a dependency compatibility is…

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Expose the dummy-hop tail constructor publicly

This commit makes a previously internal helper function public so that outside developers can build dummy-hop tails for blinded payment paths without recreating the logic themselves. It is an API usability change, not a fix for a known sec…

No security-relevant behavior change in the diffAPI visibility broadened from crate-public to publicCLTV expiry overflow check already present and unchanged
c5443353by auto-pr-bot+14−71 file
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Fail commitment sig verification without counterparty params

This change adds a safety check in a Bitcoin Lightning Network library (LDK). Previously, if the software tried to verify a peer's commitment signature before it had learned the peer's channel parameters, it could crash with a panic. Now i…

Defensive check added on peer-driven code path to prevent panicMissing counterparty_parameters could previously cause panic during commitment transaction constructionChannel closure returned instead of panic
de7ecc2fby auto-pr-bot+24−01 file
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Clarify the commitment validation failure message

This commit only changes the wording of an error message sent to peers when a commitment transaction fails validation. It replaces the vague phrase 'Failed to validate our commitment' with the clearer 'Received commitment failed validation…

3284a006by auto-pr-bot+11−114 files
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Merge PR 'Move holder commit sig checks to `InMemorySigner`' (#4885)

This commit moves the checks that validate a counterparty's signatures on the holder's commitment and HTLC transactions out of the general channel code and into the signer module (InMemorySigner). Previously, these signature checks were do…

Moved signature validation from channel state machine into signer moduleAdded new tests that corrupt signatures and verify rejectionChanged error message from 'Invalid commitment tx signature from peer' / 'Invalid funding_created signature from peer' to 'Failed to validate our commitment'
83f5ba55by Matt Corallo+626−31024 files
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Merge PR 'Drop stale splice signature on disconnect' (#4954)

This change fixes a Lightning channel splicing bug: when two peers temporarily disconnect during a splice, any half-finished signature the other side already sent is now discarded. Before the fix, that stale signature could be reused after…

State-invalidation bug in multi-step protocol (splice negotiation)Stale cryptographic signature not cleared on disconnectPotential reuse of old commitment state after reconnect
c9a77251by Matt Corallo+22−12 files
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Drop stale splice signature on disconnect

This fix prevents a Lightning channel from being accidentally force-closed. During a splice (a way to resize a payment channel), one side's initial signature could be kept in memory after the peers disconnected. If the peers later reconnec…

State inconsistency: in-memory buffered message not cleared on disconnectDuplicate message processing after reconnectionForce-close consequence for active Lightning channel
71405b4bby Wilmer Paulino+22−12 files
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Merge PR 'offers: rename matches_invoice_signing_pubkey to key_can_sign_invoice' (#4942)

This commit is a simple rename of a public function from `matches_invoice_signing_pubkey` to `key_can_sign_invoice`, plus matching updates to its documentation, callers, tests, and changelog. No behavior changed. It is not a security fix.

a476cf92by Matt Corallo+13−133 files
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offers: rename matches_invoice_signing_pubkey to key_can_sign_invoice

This commit is a simple rename of a function and its documentation from matches_invoice_signing_pubkey to key_can_sign_invoice. No logic, behavior, or security properties changed. It is a follow-up code-review naming cleanup.

388187caby Vincenzo Palazzo+13−133 files
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Lower-priorityLog structured peer id, channel id and payment hashby Joost Jager · 053933b5 · Nov 17, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 83 · StrongInformational 15Details
Commit message · Joost Jager

Log structured peer id, channel id and payment hash

Since most log messages no longer include the channel ID in their text,
this commit updates the test logger to output the structured channel ID
instead. The ID is truncated for readability. Similarly peer id and
payment hash are logged.

Co-authored-by: Matt Corallo <git@bluematt.me>

83/100 · StrongMessage clarity
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Mentions testing or verification
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit only changes how log messages are formatted. It makes peer IDs, channel IDs, and payment hashes appear more clearly in log output so developers and operators can more easily trace what a log entry refers to. There is no security vulnerability or behavior change to the Lightning protocol itself.

Security candidateRemove redundant channel ID loggingby Joost Jager · 65f7f7f3 · Nov 17, 2025 · 10 filesMessage 78 · AdequateInformational 15Details
Commit message · Joost Jager

Remove redundant channel ID logging

Previously, log messages often included the channel ID both in the
message text and in the structured `channel_id` field. This led to
redundant information and made it difficult to quickly identify which
log lines pertain to a given channel, as the ID could appear in
different positions or sometimes not at all.

This change removes the channel ID from the message in all cases where
it is already present in the structured field. A test run was used to
verify that the structured field always appeared in these log calls.
Some exceptions remain—for example, calls where the structured field
contains a temporary channel ID and the message contains the final ID
were left unchanged.

78/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Mentions testing or verification
Why it was queued
boot or update path
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit is a straightforward cleanup of log messages. It removes duplicate channel IDs from the text of log lines when the same ID is already attached as a structured field. There is no change to program logic, network behavior, cryptography, or access control. It only affects what developers and operators see in logs, making them more consistent and easier to read.

Lower-priorityAlign log levelsby Joost Jager · 3fc5090a · Nov 14, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 43 · ThinInformational 15Details
Commit message · Joost Jager

Align log levels

Makes sure that 4 and 5 character log levels line up.

43/100 · ThinMessage clarity
✓ Subject identifies a change✓ Provides an explanatory body
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit is a cosmetic formatting change to log output. It pads log level names (like 'INFO' or 'DEBUG') so that 4-letter and 5-letter levels line up visually in log files. There is no security relevance.

Lower-priorityUnify test logger outputby Joost Jager · 30715f58 · Nov 14, 2025 · 5 filesMessage 53 · ThinInformational 15Details
Commit message · Joost Jager

Unify test logger output

Now that we have Display implemented on Record, the various
test logger implementations can make use of that.

53/100 · ThinMessage clarity
✓ Subject identifies a change✓ Provides an explanatory body✓ Mentions testing or verification
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit is a minor code cleanup in test-only logging code. It replaces several hand-written log formatting blocks with a single shared Display implementation for log records. There is no functional change to production code and no security relevance.

Lower-priorityImplement Display for Recordby Joost Jager · 621f9097 · Nov 14, 2025 · 3 filesMessage 60 · AdequateInformational 15Details
Commit message · Joost Jager

Implement Display for Record

As a preparatory step for unifying test log output.

60/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit adds a standard way to print log records and updates test code to use it. It is a code cleanup/refactoring change with no security relevance.

Security candidateRemove `check_closed_event` macroby elnosh · 3ec3492b · Nov 13, 2025 · 24 filesMessage 50 · ThinInformational 15Details
Commit message · elnosh

Remove `check_closed_event` macro

Replace calls to `check_closed_event` macro
to the identically-named function.

50/100 · ThinMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
signing or wallet pathboot or update path
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit is a pure code cleanup: it removes a Rust macro used in tests and replaces every call to that macro with an equivalent function call. The behavior of the tests remains the same; no production code or security logic was changed.

Security candidateCleanup: Remove redundant (hmac, nonce) from codebaseby shaavan · b18ccb35 · Nov 13, 2025 · 11 filesMessage 78 · AdequateLow 34Details
Commit message · shaavan

Cleanup: Remove redundant (hmac, nonce) from codebase

Now that we have introduced an alternate mechanism for authentication
in the codebase, we can safely remove the now redundant (hmac, nonce)
fields from the Payment ReceiveTlvs's while maintaining the security
of the onion messages.

78/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
access controlsigning or wallet path
AI analysis · Low 34/100

This commit removes an older, now-redundant HMAC/nonce authentication mechanism from LDK's blinded payment paths. The code had already introduced a newer 'ReceiveAuthKey' way to authenticate the same data, so the old (hmac, nonce) fields are being stripped out to simplify the codebase. The change is described by the project as a cleanup, not a security fix, and the diff shows the old verification checks being replaced by reliance on the newer mechanism. There is no direct evidence in the commit of an exploitable vulnerability, but removing a redundant authentication layer is a normal hardening step.

Lower-priorityIntroduce ReceiveAuthKey-based verification in Blinded Payment Pathsby shaavan · b1e884b6 · Nov 13, 2025 · 11 filesMessage 91 · StrongLow 35Details
Commit message · shaavan

Introduce ReceiveAuthKey-based verification in Blinded Payment Paths

Extends the work started in
[PR#3917](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3917)
by adding ReceiveAuthKey-based verification for Blinded Payment Paths.

This reduces space previously taken by individual ReceiveTlvs and
aligns the verification logic with that used for Blinded Message Paths.

91/100 · StrongMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
defensive validation
AI analysis · Low 35/100

This commit changes how hidden (blinded) Lightning payment paths are created and checked. It adds a new 'receive authentication key' used when encrypting the final hop's details, and it makes the receiving node verify that the final hop was encrypted with that key. This is a defensive hardening change that reduces the data sent in payment paths and makes the verification logic consistent with another similar feature (blinded message paths).

Lower-priorityPipe channel node information through to `forward_broadcast_msg`by Matt Corallo · 1d516e61 · Nov 12, 2025 · 6 filesMessage 73 · AdequateLow 29Details
Commit message · Matt Corallo

Pipe channel node information through to `forward_broadcast_msg`

Sadly, the lightning gossip protocol operates by always flooding
peers with all the latest gossip they receive. For nodes with many
peers, this can result in lots of duplicative gossip as they
receive every message from every peer. As a results, some lightning
implementations disable gossip with new peers after some threshold.
This should mostly work as these peers expect to receive the latest
gossip from their many other peers.

However, in some cases an LDK node may wish to open public
channels but only has a single connection to the bulk of the rest
of the network - with one such peer which requests that it not
receive any gossip. In that case, LDK would dutifully never send
any gossip to its only connection to the outside world. We would
still send gossip for channels with that peer as it would be sent
as unicast gossip, but if we then open another connection to
another peer which doesn't have any connection to the outside world
any information on that channel wouldn't propagate.

We've seen this setup on some LSPs, where they have a public node
and then an LSP which only connects through that public node, but
expects to open public channels to its LSP clients.

In the next commit we'll start forwarding such gossip to all peers
by ignoring peer gossip limitations about all of our own channels.
Here we do the final prep work, passing the two sides of each
channel back from `handle_channel_update` calls and into
`forward_broadcast_msg`.

73/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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AI analysis · Low 29/100

This commit is preparatory plumbing for a future fix. It changes how Lightning gossip messages are internally forwarded so that the peer handler knows which two nodes are on each side of a channel. The commit itself does not change any forwarding rules, but the next commit is expected to use this information to ensure a node always forwards gossip about its own public channels, even to peers that have asked to stop receiving gossip. That addresses a real-world routing problem where LSPs could become isolated from the wider network, but it is not a direct security vulnerability and does not introduce one.

Lower-priorityAlways forward gossip for all our channels to all our peersby Matt Corallo · 587e6fc6 · Nov 12, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 73 · AdequateLow 36Details
Commit message · Matt Corallo

Always forward gossip for all our channels to all our peers

Sadly, the lightning gossip protocol operates by always flooding
peers with all the latest gossip they receive. For nodes with many
peers, this can result in lots of duplicative gossip as they
receive every message from every peer. As a results, some lightning
implementations disable gossip with new peers after some threshold.
This should mostly work as these peers expect to receive the latest
gossip from their many other peers.

However, in some cases an LDK node may wish to open public
channels but only has a single connection to the bulk of the rest
of the network - with one such peer which requests that it not
receive any gossip. In that case, LDK would dutifully never send
any gossip to its only connection to the outside world. We would
still send gossip for channels with that peer as it would be sent
as unicast gossip, but if we then open another connection to
another peer which doesn't have any connection to the outside world
any information on that channel wouldn't propagate.

We've seen this setup on some LSPs, where they have a public node
and then an LSP which only connects through that public node, but
expects to open public channels to its LSP clients.

Here we finally forward all gossip that is about either side of any
of our channels to all our peers, irrespective of their requested
gossip filtering.

73/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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AI analysis · Low 36/100

This commit fixes a Lightning network gossip propagation bug. Some peers ask nodes not to send them gossip updates. Previously, LDK honored that request too strictly: if a node had only one connection to the rest of the network and that connection asked for no gossip, information about the node's own public channels would not spread to other peers. The change ensures that gossip about channels the node itself participates in is always forwarded to all peers, even those that normally filter out gossip. This improves network visibility of the node's own channels but does not create a direct way to steal funds or crash the node.

Lower-priorityInclude both `node_id`s in `BroadcastChannelUpdate`by Matt Corallo · 0e8d7759 · Nov 12, 2025 · 10 filesMessage 73 · AdequateInformational 22Details
Commit message · Matt Corallo

Include both `node_id`s in `BroadcastChannelUpdate`

Sadly, the lightning gossip protocol operates by always flooding
peers with all the latest gossip they receive. For nodes with many
peers, this can result in lots of duplicative gossip as they
receive every message from every peer. As a results, some lightning
implementations disable gossip with new peers after some threshold.
This should mostly work as these peers expect to receive the latest
gossip from their many other peers.

However, in some cases an LDK node may wish to open public
channels but only has a single connection to the bulk of the rest
of the network - with one such peer which requests that it not
receive any gossip. In that case, LDK would dutifully never send
any gossip to its only connection to the outside world. We would
still send gossip for channels with that peer as it would be sent
as unicast gossip, but if we then open another connection to
another peer which doesn't have any connection to the outside world
any information on that channel wouldn't propagate.

We've seen this setup on some LSPs, where they have a public node
and then an LSP which only connects through that public node, but
expects to open public channels to its LSP clients.

In a coming commit we'll start forwarding such gossip to all peers
by ignoring peer gossip limitations about all of our own channels.
While other gossip has the `node_id`s of both sides of the channel
explicitly in the message, `ChannelUpdate`s do not, so here we add
the `node_id`s to `BroadcastChannelUpdate` giving us the
information we need when we go to broadcast updates.

73/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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AI analysis · Informational 22/100

This commit is a preparatory refactor for a future Lightning Dev Kit change. It adds the two node IDs of a channel to the internal `BroadcastChannelUpdate` message event, but does not yet change any actual gossip-sending behavior. The goal is to later allow LDK to forward gossip about its own public channels even to peers that normally ask not to receive gossip. As it stands, this commit only carries extra metadata and updates call sites; it does not by itself fix or break security.

Lower-priorityln/test: add test vectors for v3 channelsby Carla Kirk-Cohen · c9bd30aa · Nov 12, 2025 · 2 filesMessage 55 · ThinInformational 15Details
Commit message · Carla Kirk-Cohen

ln/test: add test vectors for v3 channels

55/100 · ThinMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
fuzzing or regression evidence
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit only adds new test code. It introduces test vectors for a new Lightning channel type (v3 / zero-fee anchor commitments) and a small helper function for converting hex strings to payment hashes in test utilities. There is no change to production code, no bug fix, and no security patch.

Lower-priorityln: pass preimage into test_commitment_commonby Carla Kirk-Cohen · 4bf71d99 · Nov 12, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 70 · AdequateInformational 15Details
Commit message · Carla Kirk-Cohen

ln: pass preimage into test_commitment_common

In v3 test vectors, we're using real preimages so won't be able to
use the workaround here.

70/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
fuzzing or regression evidence
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit only changes test code. It updates a Lightning channel test helper so that test vectors explicitly provide payment preimages instead of the helper guessing them from a hardcoded loop. There is no change to production code and no security risk to users.

Lower-priorityln/test: test_channel_common zero fee commitment anchor handlingby Carla Kirk-Cohen · 0c604dd0 · Nov 12, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 60 · AdequateInformational 13Details
Commit message · Carla Kirk-Cohen

ln/test: test_channel_common zero fee commitment anchor handling

60/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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AI analysis · Informational 13/100

This commit only changes a test file inside the Lightning Dev Kit codebase. It updates how a test macro calculates signature types and output indexes for different channel feature combinations. There is no change to production code, no bug fix, and no security-relevant behavior change.

Lower-priorityln/refactor: remove rustfmt skip from outbound_commitment_testby Carla Kirk-Cohen · 845aa04f · Nov 12, 2025 · 2 filesMessage 50 · ThinInformational 15Details
Commit message · Carla Kirk-Cohen

ln/refactor: remove rustfmt skip from outbound_commitment_test

50/100 · ThinMessage clarity
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AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit is a pure code cleanup in the project's test files. It removes markers that told the automatic formatter (rustfmt) to skip certain test code, then reformats that code and moves a few small helper functions to a shared test utilities file. There is no change to the actual Lightning protocol logic, wallet behavior, or any code that runs in production.

Lower-priorityln/refactor: move hex test helpers from blinded payments to test_utilsby Carla Kirk-Cohen · 9cfd18c3 · Nov 12, 2025 · 2 filesMessage 60 · AdequateInformational 15Details
Commit message · Carla Kirk-Cohen

ln/refactor: move hex test helpers from blinded payments to test_utils

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This commit is a simple code cleanup: it moves three small helper functions used only in tests from one test file into a shared test utility file. There is no change to production code, no security fix, and no behavior change.

Lower-priorityln/test: move commitment check macro out of outbound testby Carla Kirk-Cohen · 2b92b083 · Nov 12, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 75 · AdequateInformational 15Details
Commit message · Carla Kirk-Cohen

ln/test: move commitment check macro out of outbound test

To be used in the commits that follow for zero fee commitment test
vectors.

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This commit is a pure test-code refactoring. It moves a large macro used to check commitment transactions from inside one specific test function to a shared location so it can be reused by upcoming tests. No production code, user behavior, or security logic is changed.

Security candidateRemove `get_htlc_update_msgs` macroby elnosh · 6514200b · Nov 12, 2025 · 21 filesMessage 50 · ThinInformational 15Details
Commit message · elnosh

Remove `get_htlc_update_msgs` macro

Replace calls to `get_htlc_update_msgs` macro
to the identically-named function.

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Why it was queued
signing or wallet pathboot or update path
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit is a straightforward internal cleanup in the rust-lightning test code. It removes a helper macro called `get_htlc_update_msgs!` and replaces every use of it with an already-existing function of the same name. There is no change to production code, user-facing behavior, or security logic.

Lower-priorityReplace quiescence fuzz coverage with splicingby Wilmer Paulino · 1e786282 · Nov 11, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 70 · AdequateInformational 15Details
Commit message · Wilmer Paulino

Replace quiescence fuzz coverage with splicing

Splicing should also have fuzz coverage, and it depends on the
quiescence protocol.

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Why it was queued
fuzzing or regression evidence
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit is a test-only change. It replaces fuzz-testing coverage for the older 'quiescence' protocol with coverage for the newer 'splicing' feature in a Lightning channel consistency fuzz target. It adds test wallets, message handlers, and fuzz actions to exercise splicing, but makes no changes to production code that handles real user funds or network messages.

Lower-priorityBreak up ChannelContext::funding_tx_constructedby Wilmer Paulino · 25264d75 · Nov 11, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 58 · ThinInformational 15Details
Commit message · Wilmer Paulino

Break up ChannelContext::funding_tx_constructed

This method was originally intended to DRY the logic between
`FundedChannel` and `PendingChannelV2` when handling
`funding_tx_constructed`, though it's not very useful anymore.

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This is a routine code cleanup that removes a helper method and copies its logic directly into the two places that used it. There is no security fix or behavior change visible in the diff.

Lower-priorityRemove invalid splice debug assertion in funding_tx_constructedby Wilmer Paulino · a6ed667c · Nov 11, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 73 · AdequateLow 28Details
Commit message · Wilmer Paulino

Remove invalid splice debug assertion in funding_tx_constructed

We incorrectly assumed that both commitments must be at the same height,
but this is certainly possible whenever updates are proposed in both
directions at the same time.

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AI analysis · Low 28/100

This commit removes a debug-only assertion in the code that handles splicing (a way to resize a Lightning channel). The assertion incorrectly assumed two commitment counters would always match during a splice, but they can legitimately differ when both channel peers propose updates at the same time. The change only affects debug builds and does not alter production behavior, so it is unlikely to be directly exploitable. It is a code-correctness fix rather than a security patch for a live vulnerability.

Lower-priorityAvoid returning user error when stfu is not ready to be sent yetby Wilmer Paulino · c2b15c21 · Nov 11, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 85 · StrongInformational 21Details
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Avoid returning user error when stfu is not ready to be sent yet

When we propose quiescence due to a user initiated action, such as a
splice, it's possible that the `stfu` message is not ready to be sent
out yet due to the state machine pending a change. This would result in
an error communicated back to the caller of
`ChannelManager::splice_channel`, but this is unnecessary and confusing,
the splice is still pending and will be carried out once quiescence is
eventually negotiated.

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This change fixes a minor user-experience issue in the Lightning Dev Kit's channel splicing flow. Previously, if a user requested a splice but the internal state machine wasn't ready to send the required 'stfu' (stop, wait for update) message immediately, the code would return an error to the caller even though the splice was still pending and would proceed later. Now it logs the condition and returns success with no message, avoiding an unnecessary and confusing error.

Lower-priorityProperly consider blinded paths in `InFlightHtlcs`by Matt Corallo · dc25a5ba · Nov 11, 2025 · 2 filesMessage 81 · StrongModerate 59Details
Commit message · Matt Corallo

Properly consider blinded paths in `InFlightHtlcs`

When paying a BOLT 12 invoice an amount greater than any one of
multiple blinded paths, we need to track how much is in-flight
across the paths when retrying. Here we do so, tracking blinded
path usage in a new field in `InFlightHtlcs`.

Fixes #2737

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AI analysis · Moderate 59/100

This commit fixes a bug in how the Lightning Dev Kit tracks money that is already traveling along hidden ("blinded") payment paths. Previously, when retrying a payment split across several blinded paths, the software could over-send because it did not count how much was already in-flight on each blinded path. The patch adds tracking for those blinded paths and uses it when scoring routes, preventing attempts to exceed each path's stated maximum.

Lower-priorityAdd method to convert FundingTxInput to Utxoby Jeffrey Czyz · 2330ed98 · Nov 11, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 60 · AdequateInformational 15Details
Commit message · Jeffrey Czyz

Add method to convert FundingTxInput to Utxo

Useful for re-using code producing a FundingTxInput set to implement
CoinSelectionSource.

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This commit adds a simple public helper method that exposes the internal Utxo field of a FundingTxInput object. It is a pure API convenience with no security-relevant behavior change.

Security candidateFix MAX_STANDARD_TX_WEIGHT checkby Jeffrey Czyz · b4803c7e · Nov 11, 2025 · 1 fileMessage 58 · ThinModerate 59Details
Commit message · Jeffrey Czyz

Fix MAX_STANDARD_TX_WEIGHT check

The interactive-tx construction protocol needs to make sure the
constructed transaction does not exceed MAX_STANDARD_TX_WEIGHT. A naive
estimate of the transaction weight after signing was used, but was not
accurate. Specifically, it double-counted EMPTY_SCRIPT_SIG_WEIGHT and
didn't include SEGWIT_MARKER_FLAG_WEIGHT.

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Why it was queued
signing boundary
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This commit fixes how rust-lightning estimates the final size of a Bitcoin transaction during the interactive-tx protocol used to build funding transactions for Lightning channels. The old estimate double-counted a fixed empty-signature weight and forgot to add the SegWit marker/flag bytes, so it could wrongly allow a transaction that is actually too large to be accepted by the Bitcoin network. Such a transaction would not propagate through standard Bitcoin nodes, potentially causing a channel-funding attempt to fail or get stuck.