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Core Lightning patches critical security flaws and a Bitcoin payment bug

Core Lightning, software for running Bitcoin Lightning payment nodes, has released v26.06.9 with security fixes and a repair for a regression that could delay channel traffic on busy nodes running v26.06.8. GitHub lists the new release as published Oct. 7, while its versioned changelog carries an Oct. 6 date.…

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