Core Lightning Sounds Alarm Over Critical Security Risk in BTC Payment Channels
Core Lightning has issued an urgent update call to operators following a critical security risk. The team will provide fixes in signed binary files and keep technical details private for 14 days.
Users who fail to update are advised to restart their nodes or remain offline until the issue is resolved, as it affects the $BTC payment channel infrastructure.
The latest stable version of Core Lightning is v26.06.6, released in July, with v26.09 planned for September.