What the developer wrote
Authored by Abdullahi Yunus
docs: add release not for pathfinding
What changed, and why it matters
This commit only adds a release note describing a new feature: pathfinding support for routing onion messages. It changes documentation text only and does not modify any code, configuration, or security behavior.
No action required; this is a documentation-only release note update.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The diff adds four lines to docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.21.0.md describing PR #10612, which adds pathfinding for onion messages using feature bits 38/39. There are no code changes, no bug fixes, and no security-relevant modifications in this commit.
Changed components
docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.21.0.mdInspect captured patch +4 / −0
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.21.0.md b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.21.0.md
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@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@
for peer-to-peer communication.
## Functional Enhancements
+* Added [pathfinding support](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10612)
+ for routing onion messages. The router can now find paths through the channel
+ graph specifically filtered for nodes that advertise support for onion
+ messaging (feature bit 38/39).
* [Added reorg protection for channel
closes](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10331). Previously,
Why this scored 15/100
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