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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 29, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York
Core Lightning Ships a Security Release and Withholds the Patches for Two Weeks
The fixes answer three weeks of vulnerability reports produced by a wave of AI-assisted review across open-source Bitcoin projects, and developers say no fund losses have been confirmed.
The Core Lightning team has released version 26.06.7 and recommended that every node runner upgrade. The release fixes vulnerabilities confirmed over the previous three weeks. Source-level detail stays private for 14 days, so that attackers…
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Coordinated volunteer and AI-assisted review keeps exposing large backlogs of undiscovered defects in the open-source libraries that wallets, nodes and protocols depend on, so disclosure waves — not novel attacker research — become a recurring driver of emergency patches and incident risk across the ecosystem.
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