Bitcoin Lightning developers sound alarm over security flaws as second patch lands in five days

CryptoSlate · Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:30:34 GMT

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Bitcoin Lightning developers released version 0.14.5, which addresses security issues that malicious nodes could exploit and allows Eclair operators to upgrade without closing their existing channels.

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