From rusty at rustcorp.com.au  Thu Jan 21 22:43:15 2016
From: rusty at rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:13:15 +1030
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Lightning C prototype v0.2: "Butterfly Labs' Timely
	Delivery"
Message-ID: <874me6y2nw.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>

Hi all,

        Thanks to Anthony Towns, who as a new contributor got to name
the release.  Future releases will be more regular!

        This release has a daemon which does the crypto handshake and
can connect to other daemons, establish channels, negotiate and fulfull
HTLCs, and close them.

        What it doesn't do: stealing old transactions if they're
published, handling (unilateral) close with HTLCs, nor routing or fee
negotiation.

        In addition, there is very little testing and many known bugs:
110 FIXMEs at current count!

Plans for the next release:
        - Nail down the remaining unhandled inter-node protocol cases.
        - More testing and bugfixes.
        - Revisit crypto and packet format vs. https://github.com/LightningNetwork/lnd

For a guide to the source, see:

        https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/HACKING.md

Cheers!
Rusty.