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12 sats \ 17 comments \ @dolu 25 Mar 2022 bitcoin

There have been no updates on Lightning Polar for almost 1 year.
Someone know if there is an alternative or a fork somewhere?

https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xtr 25 Mar 2022

We should probably help Jamal out on updating this, maybe he doesn't have time to follow everything up anymore

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @247bf84fda 25 Aug 2025 freebie

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0 sats \ 13 replies \ @k00b 25 Mar 2022

It might just be doing its job well enough to not need updates.

Are there features you wish it had that it doesn't or you're just concerned about lack of updates?

0 sats \ 11 replies \ @dolu OP 25 Mar 2022

Polar still works great, but LN implementation are not updated. For example, Eclair team has released 0.7.0 in february 2022, but Polar still use 0.6.0
My main concern is about LN implementation version

2 sats \ 9 replies \ @k00b 25 Mar 2022

You should be able to use a custom docker image with an updated Eclair

1 sat \ 7 replies \ @k00b 25 Mar 2022

Here's the dockerfile source: https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar/blob/master/docker/eclair/Dockerfile. It looks like it just takes the ECLAIR_VERSION env var and checks out that branch.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @dolu OP 25 Mar 2022

It's not necessarily enough
To use Eclair 0.6.2, you have to remove 2 lines in the Dockerfile. I made a gist few months ago https://gist.github.com/Dolu89/c193c5491d75d608f83efe4ff08ac778 (thanks https://twitter.com/lounes_kmt for the steps)
That's why I was searching for something which work out of box. But once again, Polar is really awesome, I would love to see more updates