Blockstream on Nostr: Core Lightning v25.12 "Boltz's Seamless Upgrade Experience" is here! 🎉 New nodes ...
Core Lightning v25.12 "Boltz's Seamless Upgrade Experience" is here! 🎉
New nodes open with BIP-39 12-word recovery phrases. Existing nodes maintain full backward compatibility.
Major performance gains for large nodes and xpay improvements from user feedback. 📊⚡
This release delivers massive performance wins: Postgres reads 30% faster, database latency down 12%, worst-case reduced from 353s to 56.9s.
xpay handles Phoenix payments reliably. New networkevents subsystem tracks peer ping times in real-time.
https://blog.blockstream.com/core-lightning-25-12-boltzs-seamless-upgrade-experience/ 
Since v25.09, Core Lightning has merged 520 commits from 24 authors in 92 days. A warm welcome to 3 first-time contributors helping CLN continue evolving with more stability, usability and developer power. Onward. ⚡
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