Newsletters: add 355 (2025-05-23)

Author: harding

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+title: 'Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #355'
+permalink: /en/newsletters/2025/05/23/
+name: 2025-05-23-newsletter
+slug: 2025-05-23-newsletter
+type: newsletter
+layout: newsletter
+lang: en
+---
+This week's newsletter includes our regular sections describing changes
+to services and client software, announcing new releases and release
+candidates, and summarizing recent changes to popular Bitcoin
+infrastructure software.
+
+## News
+
+*No significant news this week was found in any of our [sources][].*
+
+## Changes to services and client software
+
+*In this monthly feature, we highlight interesting updates to Bitcoin
+wallets and services.*
+
+FIXME:bitschmidty
+
+## Releases and release candidates
+
+_New releases and release candidates for popular Bitcoin infrastructure
+projects.  Please consider upgrading to new releases or helping to test
+release candidates._
+
+- [LND 0.19.0-beta][] is the latest major release of this popular LN
+  node.  Its contains many [improvements][lnd rn] and bug fixes,
+  including new RBF-based fee bumping for cooperative closes.
+
+- [Core Lightning 25.05rc1][] is a release candidate for the next major
+  version of this popular LN node implementation.
+
+## Notable code and documentation changes
+
+_Notable recent changes in [Bitcoin Core][bitcoin core repo], [Core
+Lightning][core lightning repo], [Eclair][eclair repo], [LDK][ldk repo],
+[LND][lnd repo], [libsecp256k1][libsecp256k1 repo], [Hardware Wallet
+Interface (HWI)][hwi repo], [Rust Bitcoin][rust bitcoin repo], [BTCPay
+Server][btcpay server repo], [BDK][bdk repo], [Bitcoin Improvement
+Proposals (BIPs)][bips repo], [Lightning BOLTs][bolts repo],
+[Lightning BLIPs][blips repo], [Bitcoin Inquisition][bitcoin inquisition
+repo], and [BINANAs][binana repo]._
+
+- [Bitcoin Core #32423][] rpc: Undeprecate rpcuser/rpcpassword, store all credentials hashed in memory
+
+- [Bitcoin Core #31444][] cluster mempool: add txgraph diagrams/mining/eviction
+
+- [Core Lightning #8140][] peer storage enable
+
+- [Core Lightning #8136][] channel gossip rework
+
+- [Core Lightning #8266][] reckless: add update command
+
+- [Core Lightning #8021][] interop with eclair
+
+- [Core Lightning #8226][] signmessage (please mention bip137 -harding)
+
+- [LND #9801][] peer+lnd: add new CLI option to control if we D/C on slow pongs
+
+{% include snippets/recap-ad.md when="2025-05-27 16:30" %}
+{% include references.md %}
+{% include linkers/issues.md v=2 issues="32423,31444,8140,8136,8266,8021,8226,9801" %}
+[lnd 0.19.0-beta]: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.19.0-beta
+[sources]: /en/internal/sources/
+[lnd rn]: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.19.0.md
+[Core Lightning 25.05rc1]: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v25.05rc1