Pending payments are a common UX problem for LN that users often complain about. While the cause of this problem is not easily unraveled, there have been several issues involving stuck intermediate nodes awaiting revocation and recipients who can’t give timely preimage replies.

Fabrice Drouin proposed a change to address the issue using a faster “proceed/try another route” answer using a probe with a short timeout requirement. The system sends the blank probe request prior to sending the actual payment, via the same route.

Support for Bitcoin and QTUM Bech32 withdrawal addresses is live. Addresses begin with 'bc1' and 'qc1', respectively. Support for Bech32 deposit addresses will be coming shortly. More about Bech32 here: https://t.co/SvGNpJ7yFD

— Kraken Exchange (@krakenfx) November 7, 2018

Blockstream announced the release of the Liquid full node binaries and source code available here.

Now any user can join the P2P Liquid Network by operating a full node, in order to trustlessly self-validate the chain just like they can with the Bitcoin network.

Included in this release are the Liquid full node liquidd and liquid-cli command-line utilities, complete with wallet support which enables users to self-manage L-BTC and other Liquid Assets.

Nayuta, a team currently developing a new Lightning Network implementation called ptarmigan, announced the release of a wireshark plugin for the Lightning Network (BOLT) protocol. The plugin is hosted here.

It’s alpha version, but it can decode some BOLT message. Currently, this software works for Nayuta’s implementation(ptarmigan) and Éclair. When ptarmigan is compiled with some option, it write out key information file. This Wireshark plug-in decode packet using that file. When you use Éclair, this software parse log file.