LDK Node v0.1 Tracking Issue #45

In this issue we document progress on the remaining items for a 0.1 release:

• Basic functionality in Rust (Initial implementation of LDK Node #11)
  • Provide usage example and readme (Add usage example and check docs #35)
  • Extend test coverage by introducing proptest
  • Add the capability of configuring a seed: [u8; 32]
• Payment store (Initial payment store implementation #13)
  • Add last change timestamp to PaymentInfo
  • Expose method to retrieve recent payments based on timestamp.
  • Expose method to retrieve payments based on filter.
  • Create and impl KVStoreUnpersister trait
  • Create and impl KVStore trait
• Expose connect/disconnect methods (Unify interface types and expose connect / disconnect methods #52)
• Add ChannelPending event (Add ChannelPending event #60)
• Allow spending on-chain funds (Allow for withdrawing on-chain funds #61)
• Impl KVStorePersister KVStore-based SQLite backend (Add SqliteStore backend #100)
• Rethink serialization (Rethink serialization #30)
  • Re-use upstream serialization macros for now (Re-use rust-lightning's serialization macros #23)
  • Figure out compat. guarantees
  • Figure out format/framework to use
• Regularly broadcast node announcements (Regularly broadcast node announcements #93)
• Switch to use NetAddresses (Switch to use NetAddress for peer addresses #85)
• Maybe: Uniffi bindings (UniFFI bindings #25)
  • Expose remaining interface methods (e.g., list_peers, list_channels) (Expose list peers and channels #56)
  • Review and merge in Update generate swift bindings script to create swift package tnull/ldk-node#1
  • Test Kotlin packaging vs local maven
  • Impl Kotlin publishing vs Maven Central (Add Gradle and GitHub Actions tooling to package for Maven Central #59)
  • Test Swift packaging (Get binding generation & publishing ready for 0.1 release #114)
• Maybe: Integrate RGS (Implement configurable GossipSource to allow RGS gossip updates #70)
• 0conf channel support (Allow for trusted inbound 0conf channels #69)
• Non-blocking event queue access (Introduce non-blocking event queue access #91)
• Include non-permanently connected peers in list_peers() (Include non-permanently connected peers in list_peers() #95)
• Only avoid duplicate payments if we didn't fail sending (Only avoid duplicate payments if we didn't fail sending (and expose list_payments) #96)
• Enforce successful initial fee rate update (Update fee rate cache on startup and make sync interval configurable #102)
• Expose easy way to set log level (Improve logging #108)
• Move builder to dedicated module and improve its Rust API (Move Builder to own module, allow for shared runtime reference. #115)
• Don't panic when avoidable (Prefer returning errors over panicking where possible #119)
• Allow to set ChannelConfig (Allow to specify and update ChannelConfig #122)
• Update some config defaults and expose them in bindings (Update config defaults and expose them in bindings #124)
• Expose BIP39 generation (Expose BIP39 Mnemonic generation in bindings #113)
• Remove superfluous SendingFailed status (Remove unnecessary PaymentStatus::SendingFailed #125)

Release prep:

• Switch default network config to bitcoin (Break builder pattern to expose all setters via bindings  #88)
• Go once more over serialization Double-check serialization #76
• Document and enforce MSRV Get binding generation & publishing ready for 0.1 release #114
• Update version number in Rust and all bindings.
• Upload Swift package and update checksum.

Post release

• Update README to include instructions for bindings.
• Publish Python package (Add python packaging #128)
• Publish Kotlin/JVM package