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LNbits

FINANCE
Velocity2.5

Lightning Network wallet and accounts system with extensions

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LNbits spends months in release candidates, with the real notes only appearing at the tags in between.

bitcoin-lightningself-hostingmulti-tenantrelease-candidatesopen-source
◆Current state
The feed is dominated by release candidates carrying a single chore commit and no notes — v1.6.0-rc2, and three v1.5.5 candidates stretching from May to June. The only entries with substance are the April tags, where a hotfix for AppImage installs shipped alongside the ability to cap users or extensions per instance, plus routing fee reserve UX work and lightning address sanitisation.
◆Where it's heading
The instance limits are the most telling change here: they exist for people running LNbits as a service for others, not for a single self-hoster. Combined with first-install token resets and lightning address handling, the recent work leans toward multi-tenant operation and the rough edges of running someone else's wallets. The long RC stretch between 1.5.5 and 1.6.0 means the actual feature content of the next release is not yet visible in this feed.
◆Prediction
The 1.6.0 final tag should be where the accumulated work becomes readable — the candidates published so far carry no notes to predict from, which is a limit of the feed rather than of the project.

◆Recent moves

  1. 13d ago

    v1.6.0-rc2

    A release candidate tag with a version-bump commit and nothing else. Whatever 1.6.0 contains is not described here.

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  2. 1mo ago

    v1.5.5-rc3

    The third 1.5.5 candidate, again carrying only a version bump. The RC train has run for over a month at this point without published notes.

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  3. 2mo ago

    v1.5.5-rc2

    A second 1.5.5 candidate with a version-bump commit. No user-visible content.

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  4. 2mo ago

    v1.5.5-rc1

    The first 1.5.5 candidate, same shape as the two that follow it. Contentless by construction.

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  5. 3mo ago

    v1.5.4 - Hanzy

    A minor release built around an AppImage install hotfix, which also adds caps on the number of users or extensions an instance allows. That cap is aimed squarely at operators offering LNbits to others — the multi-tenant thread running through the recent work.

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  6. 3mo ago

    v1.5.2 - Hanzy

    Routing fee reserve settings get a UX pass, lightning addresses are sanitised for casing in lnurlscan, and Docker gains a latest-rc tag. Operational cleanup for people running nodes rather than new capability.

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