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# Release 4.3.0 - (not released yet)
This version introduces a set of UX modifications, that aim at
simplifying the use of Lightning. The goal is to abstract payments
from the payment layer, and to suggest solutions when a payment is
prevented by channel liquidity issues.
- Invoice unification: on-chain and lightning invoices have been
merged into a single invoice type. A invoice typically contains
both a lightning invoice and an onchain fallback address. The GUI
has a single 'create request' button.
- The receive tab of the GUI can display, for each payment request,
a lightning invoice, a BIP21 URI, or an onchain address. If the
request is paid off-chain, the associated on-chain address will
be recycled in subsequent requests.
- The receive tab displays whether a payment can be received using
Lightning, given the current channel liquidity. If a payment
cannot be received, but may be received after a channel rebalance
or a submarine swap, the GUI will propose such an operation.
- For outgoing payments, if channels do not have enough liquidity to
pay a lightning invoice, the GUI will suggest available
alternatives: rebalance existing channels, open a new channel,
perform a submarine swap, or pay to the provided onchain fallback
address.
- A single balance is shown in the GUI. A piechart reflects how that
balance is distributed (on-chain, lightning, unconfirmed, frozen,
etc).
- The semantics of the wallet balance has been modified: only
incoming transactions are considered in the 'unconfirmed' part of
the balance. Indeed, if an outgoing transaction does not get
confirmed, that is not going to decrease the wallet balance. Thus,
change outputs of outgoing transactions are not subtracted from
the confirmed balance. (Before this change, the arithmetic values
of both incoming and outgoing transactions were added to the
unconfirmed balance, and could potentially cancel eachother.)
# Release 4.2.2 - (May 27, 2022)
* Lightning:
- watching onchain outputs: significant perf. improvements (#7781)