Beta Release

[benthecarman]

• Upstream paginated kv store (Add PaginatedKVStore traits upstreamed from ldk-server rust-lightning#4347)
• Make CLI output more readable ( Report PaymentStatus using the variant name, not the i32 discriminant of the variant #120 and Use hex-encoded or string representation for user-facing identifiers #14 )
• Config improvements
  • config via environment variables config via environment variables #42
  • config via cli args
• Postgres support
• Docker support Add Dockerfile #154
• Switch ldk-server-client from reqwest to bitreq Switch ldk-server-client from reqwest to bitreq #127
• log rotation
• Channel events Add Channel state change event publishing to rabbitmq #134
• Add capability to import scorer files Add capability to *import* scorer files #114
• End-to-end testing for ldk-server End-to-end testing for ldk-server #113
  • Testing cli→client→server
  • Testing rammbitmq publisher
  • Testing config options Add e2e config startup tests #142
• Telemetry Telemetry #38
• LSP Utilities
  • Forwarding history (Add storage for forwarded payments  ldk-node#772)
  • Accounting / profitability tooling
  • LSP events in rabbitmq publisher
• Documentation
  • Setup
  • Backups
  • tooling
• Release process

[benthecarman]

Stretch goals / longer term:

• LSPS 5 support
• Channel rebalancing tooling (circular rebalances)
• Look into potentially switching to gRPC
• LSPS "risk analysis": Force-close cost estimation, offline channels, etc

[toneloc]

What's the ETA on the beta release? Thank you for your work.

[benthecarman]

Hoping by the end of Q1

[toneloc]

Nice I'll be ready to test! When ready, I am also interested in some Mutintynet or Testnets going on where we can test stuff.