What the developer wrote
Authored by Jared Tobin
docs: add release note
What changed, and why it matters
This commit only adds a release note describing a previously fixed bug in LND's sweeper logic. It does not change any code, so it cannot introduce or fix a security issue by itself. The described bug relates to fee budgeting for sweeping certain channel outputs, which could in theory affect funds recoverability, but the commit itself is purely documentation.
No action needed for this commit. Review PR #10897 directly if assessing the security relevance of the underlying sweeper budget fix.
Security signals we found
No code changes
Documentation-only commit
References a prior bug fix (PR #10897) in release notes
Evidence from the diff
The commit appends a single bullet to docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.22.0.md describing PR #10897, which fixed a sweeper bug where inputs receiving extra budget from an aux sweeper were filtered against only their own budget. The actual fix is in the referenced PR, not in this commit. The change is +8 lines, all documentation, plus one contributor name addition.
Changed components
docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.22.0.mdInspect captured patch +8 / −0
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.22.0.md b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.22.0.md
index 2f7f0ca..d109c50 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.22.0.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.22.0.md
@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@
regardless of peer connectivity. Uptime is now seeded from the peer's
actual connection state.
+* [Fixed a bug](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10897) in the
+ sweeper whereby inputs that receive an extra budget from an aux sweeper
+ (such as custom channel outputs, whose value is mostly carried off-chain)
+ were filtered against their own budget alone. This could permanently
+ exclude such inputs from sweeping even though their input set could
+ comfortably pay its fees.
+
# New Features
## Functional Enhancements
@@ -116,3 +123,4 @@
* bitromortac
* Boris Nagaev
* Erick Cestari
+* Jared Tobin
Why this scored 15/100
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