The golang version always needs to be in sync between the go.mod, the PR
checklist and the installation instructions.
We also shorten the Pull Request template by removing everything that we
have a CI check for and just refer to those checks instead.
In this commit, we add a new folder within the `docs` directory that will
house the release notes for all versions of `lnd` going forward. Moving to
use `git` for the release notes rather than the normal drafting procedure
lets us keep track of the set of changes more consistency over time, lets
contributors add their release notes over time, and also means we'll no
longer need to do a crunch at the tail end of the release process to fill in
the set of release notes.
For the 0.13.1 release notes, I've done a scan and added anything that has
been merged since the last major version tag. In a follow up change, we'll
add a new Github action that fails the build if an entry in the release
notes linking to the newly added PR isn't committed as well. Until then, any
PRs merged in should ensure that they add an entry within the relevant
milestone.
you must be root to be able to install go on /usr/local/
without "sudo" the command fails with :
tar: go/src/cmd/go/main.go: Cannot open: No such file or directory
To give users an idea how the new auto-unlock flag can be used in a more
safe way than just writing the password to a file, we add a new wallet
management document and describe the unlock feature in detail.
The grpc-gateway library that is used to transform REST calls into gRPC
uses a different method for reading a request body stream depending on
whether the RPC is a request-streaming one or not. We can't really find
out what kind of RPC the user is calling at runtime, so we add a new
parameter to the proxy that lists all request-streaming RPC calls.
In any case the client _has_ to send one request message initially to
kick off the request processing. Normally this can just be an empty
message. This can lead to problems if that empty message is not
expected by the gRPC server. But for the currently existing two
client-streaming RPCs this will only trigger a warning
(HTLC interceptor) or be ignored (channel acceptor).
This commit deprecates/replaces the old field `sat_per_byte` with
`sat_per_vbyte`. While the old field suggests sat per byte, it’s
actually using sat per virtual byte. We use the Hidden param to hide all
the deprecated flags. These flags won't show up in help menu onwards,
while stay valid that can be passed from cli. Thus bash scripts
referencing these fields won't be broken.
Due to a misunderstanding of how the gpg command line options work, we
didn't actually create detached signatures because the --clear-sign
flag would overwrite that. We update our verification script to now only
download the detached signatures and verify them against the main
manifest file.
We also update the signing instructions.
To prevent novice users from running non-release versions, we update the
installation instructions to point them towards our release binaries.
We also document the new Docker build helper that allows you to compile
lnd without needing to install golang.
To finally end the discussion what Dockerfile should be used for what
and whether we should build from local source or check out from git, we
place both Dockerfiles next to each other and explicitly document their
purpose.
