chore: prepare release v1.8.10-alpha

core/Cargo.lock

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "archipelago"
-version = "1.8.9-alpha"
+version = "1.8.10-alpha"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "archipelago-container",

core/archipelago/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "archipelago"
-version = "1.8.9-alpha"
+version = "1.8.10-alpha"
 edition = "2021"
 license.workspace = true
 description = "Archipelago Bitcoin Node OS - Native backend"

neode-ui/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "neode-ui",
-  "version": "1.8.9-alpha",
+  "version": "1.8.10-alpha",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "neode-ui",
-      "version": "1.8.9-alpha",
+      "version": "1.8.10-alpha",
       "dependencies": {
         "@scure/bip39": "^2.2.0",
         "@types/dompurify": "^3.0.5",

neode-ui/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "neode-ui",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "1.8.9-alpha",
+  "version": "1.8.10-alpha",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "start": "./start-dev.sh",

releases/pending/v1.8.10-alpha/manifest.json

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{
+  "changelog": [
+    "**Lightning sends work again — v1.8.9's payment switch lost the fee budget.** Moving payments to LND 0.21's supported route (Router.SendPaymentV2) shipped without a fee limit, and the v2 API treats an absent limit as **zero allowed fees**: every real route carries a routing fee, so the pathfinder rejected them all and the wallet answered \"No route to the recipient\" on every send — all day, on healthy channels with plenty of liquidity. The router debug log made it unambiguous (`fee_limit=0 mSAT` on every failing wallet payment; the same payment succeeded by hand the moment a fee limit was set). Payments now carry lncli's default budget (the payment amount), the wallet's amount handling for zero-value invoices is preserved, and a unit test pins the limit can never be zero again.",
+    "**A channel that drops its peer link now heals itself — on every node.** Restarting LND (an app update, a reboot, container churn) can leave a channel's peer connection down for hours while both endpoints keep the channel flagged disabled in the routing graph: the node looks perfectly healthy, the wallet shows balance, and every payment in either direction fails \"no route to the recipient\". Observed live: a node's only channel sat unroutable for ~17 hours after the LND 0.21.2 update, with no sign of it in any dashboard. The daemon now watches the channel graph as desired state — every open channel should have a live peer — and reconnects any that don't, using the peer's advertised addresses. Nodes without LND are untouched; an unreachable peer is retried gently, not hammered.",
+    "**The Lightning wallet states the node's real funding state instead of \"you have no channel.\"** Trying to send while a freshly opened channel was still waiting for on-chain confirmations — or when all its balance sits on the far side — raised a modal that claimed the node had NO channel at all (the outbound sum is legitimately zero in both states), pointed the user at opening a second channel, and — for payment routing failures — even showed the *receiving* copy. The funding gate now reads the channel list it already fetched: a confirming channel gets \"it unlocks automatically once confirmed, nothing is needed from you\", a far-side balance gets \"you can receive, but there's nothing to send right now\", a routing/liquidity payment failure says so instead of claiming channel problems, and only a genuinely channel-less node keeps the open-one guidance."
+  ],
+  "components": [
+    {
+      "current_version": "1.8.10-alpha",
+      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.10-alpha/archipelago",
+      "name": "archipelago",
+      "new_version": "1.8.10-alpha",
+      "sha256": "6c8bd41fed44cd999cb360c00e1b66a2d19d19812cc2b0c8a1677eec2a9579e6",
+      "size_bytes": 64178056
+    },
+    {
+      "current_version": "1.8.10-alpha",
+      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.10-alpha/archipelago-frontend-1.8.10-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "name": "archipelago-frontend-1.8.10-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "new_version": "1.8.10-alpha",
+      "sha256": "6b25de8a8e1a4f7fe51594f9bbbe21f5820f417af47a8b309c2dbf8f8723b719",
+      "size_bytes": 97736297
+    }
+  ],
+  "release_date": "2026-09-01",
+  "signature": "b69926bcb1851ff7d6a5b24519cd4a8015aab4ed4b588ee989d8ce6e3beaeb2cc0eb38078f522ded0d389fe53b7dbcdbf3f40c534b4bfafa5cf4a2ab2c59e40f",
+  "signed_by": "did:key:z6Mkfu5LT8d4DjETtrkATvHh9Dvcbnr7zBCUwfau8Sw7DLWT",
+  "version": "1.8.10-alpha"
+}