Lightning Network releases emergency update after critical bug on LND nodes

Cointelegraph

Published Nov 01, 2022 06:45PM ET

Updated Nov 01, 2022 08:20PM ET

An emergency update was released to all of Lightning Network's LND node operators on Nov. 1, after a critical bug caused LND nodes to fall out of sync chain. This was the second critical bug experienced by the network in less than a month.

According to Lightning Labs, developer of the Bitcoin Lightning Network, some LND nodes stopped syncing due to an issue with the btcd wire parsing library. The hot fix (v.015.4) was released nearly three hours after the break. The release stated:

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