The release candidate for the upcoming minor LND release v0.18.4 has been published.

This release is primarily in support of the channel state machine changes required for processing and storing custom Taproot script leaves. This allows for implementation of custom channels which is required to support taproot assets over Lightning.

The release can be found at:
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.18.4-beta.rc1

Detailed release are available at:
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/0-18-4-branch/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.18.4.md

Release highlights:

• Custom channel support for Taproot asset channels
• Compatibility with Bitcoin core version 28
• Fix for an unnecessary size expansion of the payment request
• Fixed a nil pointer issue in route fee estimation for blinded routes

Reports of issues found during the testing will be highly appreciated 🫂

Thanks