v0.18.0-beta

New Features

• Loop client now supports optional routing plugins to improve off-chain payment
  reliability. One such plugin that the client implements will gradually prefer
  increasingly more expensive routes in case payments using cheap routes time out.
  Note that with this addition the minimum required LND version is LND 0.14.2-beta.

Bug Fixes

• Loop now supports being hooked up to a remote signing pair of lnd nodes,
  as long as lnd is v0.14.3-beta or later.

v0.17.0-beta

New Features

• Loop in functionality has been added to AutoLoop. This feature can be enabled
  to acquire outgoing capacity on your node automatically, using
  loop setrule --type=in. At present, autoloop can only be set to loop out
  or loop in, and cannot manage liquidity in both directions.

• Use LND's hop hint selector when doing private loop-ins.

Bug Fixes

• Close local databases when loopd daemon is stopped programmatically.

v0.16.0-beta

New Features

• --private flag is now available on the loop in command, meaning users can
  now loop in to private nodes! This was implemented in #415
  and has an implementation of LND's hop hints creation feature for the time
  being. The flag is also available in loop quote in as an extension.
• --route_hints has also been added on the loop in and loop quote in cli
  commands, and was also include in #415.
  While the --private flag autogenerates routehints to assist the payer (Lightning Labs),
  --route_hints allows the user to feed their own crafted versions if they so please.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where loop assumes the mainnet location for lnd.macaroonpath regardless of passed network parameters.

v0.15.0-beta

New Features

• Loop-in quote now asks the server to optionally probe the client to test
  inbound liquidity. The server may use this information to give more accurate
  quotes.

Bug Fixes

• Grpc error codes returned by the swap server when swap initiation fails are
  now surfaced to the client. Previously these error codes would be returned
  as a string.

Maintenance

• Updated compile time dependencies of lnd, grpc-gateway, protobuf and
  grpc.

v0.14.2-beta

Bug Fixes

• Certain versions of the Python gRPC library
  weren't able to connect to
  loopd's gRPC interface, getting the missing selected ALPN property error.
  A server side fix was introduced to get rid of that error message.

v0.14.1-beta

Bug Fixes

• A protobuf warning that was being logged on loopd startup and loop cli calls has been addressed.

v0.14.0-beta

New Features

• The loopd client reports off-chain routing failures for loop out swaps if it cannot find a route to the server for the swap's prepay or invoice payment. This allows the server to release accepted invoices, if there are any, earlier, reducing the amount of time that funds are held off-chain. If the swap failed on one of the loop server's channels, it will report failure location of its off-chain failure. If the failure occurred outside of the loop server's infrastructure, a generic failure will be used so that no information about the client's position in the network is leaked.

v0.13.0-beta

Breaking Changes

A breaking change is required due to poold changes.

• Bumped the minimum required version of lnd to v0.11.1-beta.

v0.12.2-beta

New Features

• If the payment for an LSAT fails, it is now automatically re-tried.

Bug Fixes

• Instead of just blocking for forever without any apparent reason if another
  Loop daemon process is already running, we now exit with an error after 5
  seconds if acquiring the unique lock on the Loop bbolt DB fails.

v0.12.1-beta

New Features

• A new flag, --verbose, or -v, is added to loop in, loop out and
  loop quote. Responses from these commands are also updated to provide more
  verbose info, giving users a more intuitive view about money paid
  on/off-chain and fees incurred. Use loop in -v, loop out -v,
  loop quote in -v or loop quote out -v to view the details.
• A stripped down version of the Loop server is now provided as a
  Docker image. A quick
  start script and example docker-compose environment as well as
  documentation on how to use the regtest Loop server
  was added too.

Bug Fixes

• A bug that would not list autoloop rules set on a per-peer basis when they
  were excluded due to insufficient budget, or the number of swaps in flight
  has been corrected. These rules will now be included in the output of
  suggestswaps with other autoloop peer rules.