0.2.8 is a small but important update designed to enhance awareness around potential pitfalls of using certain services. It introduces warnings for installing, uninstalling, backing up, and restoring backups of stateful services such as LND or c-lightning. 0.2.8 introduces automatic checks for updates, a setting that can be enabled or disabled in your Embassy config, and it also draws a distinction between services that are designed to be launched inside the browser and those that are designed to run in the background.
If you have LND or c-lightning installed, please update them to the latest versions.
An oversight in Start9’s USB backups system has created a situation where restoring a LND or c-lightning backup could potentially result in permanent loss of channel funds.
To be clear,