Dependabot PRs target master and are resolved in batch PRs against the
release branch, but the process was undocumented. Add a "Handling
Dependabot PRs" section covering target collection, pinned in-range
fixes, Angular lockstep, from-scratch lockfile regeneration, artifact
rebuild, verification, and issue-tracking for deprecated packages.
Completes backend coverage of RTL's three implementations in the docker/
dev fixture: an eclair node (polarlightning/eclair 0.13.1) joins the three
LND nodes and the CLN node, wired to RTL over its HTTP API with basic auth,
and the seed opens an eclair->bob channel (3.5M sats, 1M pushed), sends two
direct payments and leaves one open invoice.
Non-obvious plumbing this needed:
- polarlightning/eclair instead of acinq/eclair: the official image is
amd64-only (useless on Apple Silicon) and its newest versioned tag is
years stale; Polar builds the same ACINQ source multi-arch.
- Eclair has no on-chain wallet of its own -- it drives a bitcoind wallet.
A new eclair-wallet-init container creates a dedicated "eclair" wallet
before the node starts; without it eclair attaches to "the default
loaded wallet", i.e. the rtldev mining wallet.
- bitcoind now also publishes a zmqpubhashblock endpoint (28336): eclair's
bitcoind.zmqblock consumes the hashblock topic, not the rawblock one LND
uses. Wired to rawblock, eclair never sees new blocks and channels hang
in WAIT_FOR_FUNDING_CONFIRMED.
- Eclair confirms channels at 8 blocks (channel.min-depth-blocks), not 6,
and 'open' returns before the funding tx is broadcast -- the seed waits
for the mempool and mines 8 blocks for this channel.
Adds a bin/e-cli helper (eclair-cli with the API password), updates the
README, and verified end-to-end: seed completes, the channel reaches
NORMAL, both payments settle, and RTL's /rtl/api/ecl endpoints return the
node, channel and invoice data.
The #1606 fix added 'channel.connected = !!channel.peer_connected' to
server/controllers/cln/channels.ts but the committed compiled artifact
backend/controllers/cln/channels.js was never regenerated, leaving it stale.
Rebuild it so the committed backend output matches its TypeScript source.
RTL resolves peer aliases by calling listnodes once per peer. A prior fix
(1cec7b1) bounded this to 20 concurrent calls plus a cache for the channel
list, but the peers list and route lookup still used an unbounded Promise.all,
firing one request per peer at once. On nodes with many peers this overwhelms
clnrest and fails with 'Resource temporarily unavailable (os error 11)'
(EAGAIN), so aliases fall back to raw node IDs.
- peers.ts and network.ts getRoute now resolve aliases via
runWithConcurrencyLimit(tasks, 20, ...), matching the channel list.
- Harden runWithConcurrencyLimit to call done() immediately for an empty task
list; otherwise an empty peers/route set would never send a response.
- Give the alias cache a 6h TTL and a max size (evicting oldest) so aliases
refresh without an RTL restart and the cache can't grow unbounded.
Several PRs were merged onto Release-0.15.9 before the per-PR release-notes
process was established, leaving them undocumented. Add entries for:
- #1581 Fix page-load error when a channel alias is undefined (Bug Fixes)
- #1601 Fix stale auth options blocking a not-yet-ready node (Bug Fixes)
- #1582 Add Disable Authentication option (Enhancements)
- #1621 Rebuild the regtest docker fixture (Developer Tooling)
Blocks-till-maturity is critical information for a force-closing channel but
was only visible in the per-channel detail modal. The column and its data
binding already existed in the pending force-closing table (and was selectable
via column settings); it was just missing from the default column selection.
Add blocks_til_maturity to the pending_force_closing default columnSelection
and columnSelectionSM so it is surfaced on the list by default on both desktop
and mobile.
A dependency-update commit in the 0.15.8-beta cycle mechanically renamed
the paginator binding [showFirstLastButtons] to [hidePageSize] on every
mat-paginator while keeping the same 'screenSize === XS ? false : true'
expression. The two properties have opposite polarity, so this inverted
the behavior: on desktop the page-size selector was hidden (locking users
to 10 items per page) and the first/last-page buttons were dropped as
collateral. Revert the ~44 affected paginators back to [showFirstLastButtons]
across the LND, CLN, Eclair and shared tables.
Address review F6 on #1625: the LND channel information modal has the same
unguarded selNode.settings.blockExplorerUrl binding as the CLN one, and it is
opened without selNode from the active-HTLCs and channel-backup tables, so it can
blank out the same way. Guard the explorer link (*ngIf + a no-op click when the
url is absent) so a missing selNode can no longer blank the dialog. Eclair's modal
doesn't use selNode.settings, so it needs no change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The channel information modal renders a block-explorer link from
selNode.settings.blockExplorerUrl, but the pending/inactive channels table
opened the modal without passing selNode. With it undefined, that binding threw
during change detection and blanked every field below it — State, Connected,
Private and the balances all rendered without a value. A disconnected channel
moves to the pending/inactive table, so this is what surfaced on View Info for a
disconnected channel (the symptom in the original report).
Pass selNode from the pending table (matching the open table), and guard the
modal's explorer link (*ngIf + a no-op click when the url is absent) so a missing
selNode can no longer blank the whole dialog. Add a regression test asserting the
pending table passes selNode when opening the modal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fixture had only bitcoind + three LND nodes, so RTL's Core Lightning screens
had no backend to exercise. Add a `cln` node (official elementsproject/lightningd
image, multi-arch) wired to RTL over clnrest with rune auth, and have the seed
open a cln->alice channel so the CLN channel/peer screens have real data.
- docker-compose.yml: cln service (clnrest on 0.0.0.0:3010, https), a healthcheck
gated on the rune file so rtl waits for it, and rtl now mounts the cln volume
read-only and depends on cln being healthy. The rtl image is parameterized via
${RTL_IMAGE:-...} so an unreleased build can be tested against the fixture.
- cln/poststart.d/create-rune.sh: once the RPC is up, create a master rune and
write it as LIGHTNING_RUNE="..." where RTL reads it (runePath). Polls for RPC
readiness because the image entrypoint can invoke poststart before the socket
exists.
- RTL-Config.regtest.json: add node index 4 (CLN, rune auth, https://cln:3010).
- seed.sh: fund cln, connect to alice, open a 4,000,000 sat channel, wait active.
- README + release notes updated.
Used to verify the CLN channel connection-status fix (#1606) end-to-end.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduce a release-notes/ folder to collect the changes for each release, and
add Release-notes-0.15.9.md with the entry for the CLN channel connection status
fix (#1606 / #1625). New process: every PR for a release appends its entry to the
respective release notes document.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
