Highlights

Static Address Open Channel — This release introduces the ability to open Lightning channels directly from static address deposits. Instead of performing a loop-in to get funds into your Lightning node and then opening a channel as separate steps, you can now combine both into a single operation using the new loop openchannel command.

Use Cases

• Consolidate deposits into channels: If you have one or more static address deposits sitting on-chain, you can open a channel to any peer using those funds directly, skipping the
  loop-in swap and its associated fees.
• Flexible funding: Use the --utxo flag to select specific deposit outpoints, or use --fundmax to sweep all selected UTXOs into a single channel.
• Full channel configuration: The command supports the same options as lncli openchannel — channel type (tweakless, anchors, taproot), private channels, push amounts, fee rates,
  zero-conf, and more.

Example

loop openchannel --node_key <peer_pubkey> --local_amt 1000000
loop openchannel --node_key <peer_pubkey> --utxo txid:0 --fundmax

Breaking Changes

• The content of the commit_hash field of the GetInfo response has been updated so that it contains the Git commit
  hash the Loop binary build was based on. If the build had uncommited changes, this field will contain the most recent
  commit hash, suffixed by "-dirty".
• The Commit part of the --version command output has been updated to contain the most recent git commit tag.Add comment

Breaking Changes

• Autoloop now defaults to a slow publication deadline (30 minutes after
  initiation) to reduce fees. To revert to the previous behavior, users can run
  loop setparams --fast, which causes swap HTLCs to be published immediately
  after initiation.

New Features

• Enhance the
  loop listswaps command by improving the ability to filter the
  response. Use --start_timestamp_ns to return only swaps after
  that timestamp. Use --max_swaps to limit total swap outputs.
  Paging is enabled using the next_start_time field in the response.