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* [Preparatory work](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8159) for
forwarding of blinded routes was added, along with [support](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8160)
for forwarding blinded payments. Forwarding of blinded payments is disabled
by default, and the feature is not yet advertised to the network.
for forwarding blinded payments and [error handling](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8485).
With this change, LND is now eligible to be selected as part of a blinded
route and can forward payments on behalf of nodes that have support for
receiving to blinded paths. This upgrade provides a meaningful improvement
to the anonymity set and usability of blinded paths in the Lightning Network.

* Introduced [fee bumper](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8424) to
handle bumping the fees of sweeping transactions properly. A
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add coin selection strategy option to the following on-chain RPC calls
`EstimateFee`, `SendMany`, `SendCoins`, `BatchOpenChannel`, `SendOutputs`, and `FundPsbt`.

* Previously when callng `SendCoins`, `SendMany`, `OpenChannel` and
`CloseChannel` for coop close, it is allowed to specify both an empty
`SatPerVbyte` and `TargetConf`, and a default conf target of 6 will be used.
This is [no longer allowed](
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8422) and the caller must
specify either `SatPerVbyte` or `TargetConf` so the fee estimator can do a
proper fee estimation.

* `BumpFee` has been updated to take advantage of the [new budget-based
sweeper](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8667). The param
`force` has been deprecated and replaced with a new param `immediate`, and a
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whether through gRPC or the REST API, due to the destructive nature of the
operation.

* When paying an AMP payment request, [the `--amp` flag is now
required](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8681) to be consistent
w/ the flow when a payment request isn't used.

## lncli Updates

* [Documented all available `lncli`
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manage the lifecycle of the inputs.

## Breaking Changes

* Previously when callng `SendCoins`, `SendMany`, `OpenChannel` and
`CloseChannel` for coop close, it is allowed to specify both an empty
`SatPerVbyte` and `TargetConf`, and a default conf target of 6 will be used.
This will [no longer be
allowed](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8422) in the next
release (v0.19.0) and the caller must specify either `SatPerVbyte` or
`TargetConf` so the fee estimator can do a proper fee estimation. For current
release, [an error will be
logged](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8693) when no values are
specified.

## Performance Improvements

* Watchtower client DB migration to massively [improve the start-up
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* Marcos Fernandez Perez
* Matt Morehouse
* Mohamed Awnallah
* Olaoluwa Osuntokun
* Ononiwu Maureen Chiamaka
* Slyghtning
* Tee8z
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