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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 30, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York
Core Lightning Ships a Security Release and Withholds the Source Patches for 14 Days
Version 26.06.7 fixes vulnerabilities confirmed during a three-week wave of machine-generated bug reports across open-source Bitcoin projects, and every earlier release is now unsupported.
Blockstream has released Core Lightning 26.06.7 and recommended that every node operator upgrade. The point release fixes vulnerabilities confirmed over the previous three weeks. The team published binaries while keeping the source patches…
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