Merge pull request #1182 from hieblmi/release-notes-34-beta

docs: add `v0.34.0-beta` release notes

Author: hieblmi

docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.34.0.md

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+# Loop Client Release Notes
+
+#### New Features
+
+* Static address deposits are now tracked and shown as soon as they appear in
+  the wallet, including while they are still in the mempool. Static loop-ins
+  can select low-confirmation deposits, with a CLI warning that payment may
+  wait for more confirmations under the server's confirmation-risk policy.
+  Withdrawals and channel opens continue to require confirmed deposits. The
+  selected risk decision and payment deadline are persisted across restarts.
+  [PR #1141](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1141)
+* `loop openchannel` now supports LND's production `TAPROOT` commitment type
+  while retaining explicit support for the legacy `SIMPLE_TAPROOT` type.
+  [PR #1156](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1156)
+
+#### Breaking Changes
+
+* `loop openchannel --channel_type=taproot` now requests LND's production
+  `TAPROOT` commitment type, which was introduced in LND v0.21. Users who want
+  the previous legacy `SIMPLE_TAPROOT` behavior must now specify
+  `--channel_type=simple-taproot`.
+  [PR #1156](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1156)
+
+#### Bug Fixes
+
+* Static address deposit tracking now reconciles against the wallet, preserves
+  deposit identity across RBF replacements, hides replaced or unavailable
+  deposits from normal listings, verifies inputs before HTLC signing, and
+  rejects duplicate outpoints.
+  [PR #1141](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1141)
+  [PR #1161](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1161)
+* Static loop-in lifecycle handling has been hardened across initialization
+  failures, invoice cancellation, HTLC timeouts, shutdown, and restart. Failed
+  swaps remain visible, deposits stay locked while an HTLC timeout path is
+  active, resumable states are preserved, and failed deposit transitions are
+  retried instead of advancing prematurely.
+  [PR #1154](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1154)
+  [PR #1161](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1161)
+  [PR #1141](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1141)
+* Slow notification subscribers no longer block the notification manager.
+  Required notifications are delivered through ordered per-subscriber queues,
+  while optional reservation notifications remain best-effort.
+  [PR #1154](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1154)
+* Standard loop-in abandonment and timeout handling now classifies
+  already-settled invoice errors correctly, reports unexpected invoice
+  cancellation failures, and no longer appends a misleading `<nil>` value to
+  abandonment errors.
+  [PR #1177](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1177)
+  [commit 8716a517](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/commit/8716a517224e1aaf53d9d27d9f7358e9de980fc4)
+* The default `tapd` admin macaroon path now follows the configured Bitcoin
+  network while continuing to honor explicit path overrides.
+  [commit 37882541](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/commit/378825414b4d5df04ff9afbe725cf048c63df9e9)
+
+#### Maintenance
+
+* The Loop Out cost migration now omits payment-hop data that it does not use,
+  reducing LND response size and query cost for nodes with large payment
+  histories. Deprecation checks were also enabled in CI.
+  [PR #1156](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1156)
+* Dependencies were updated to address security alerts, PostgreSQL error
+  handling was migrated to `pgx` v5, and applicable module Go versions were
+  raised to Go 1.25.12.
+  [PR #1175](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1175)
+* Static loop-in fee validation now logs the HTLC weight, fee rates, computed
+  fees, and configured caps to make fee-guard failures easier to diagnose.
+  [PR #1158](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1158)
+* FSM diagram generation is now deterministic. Static address deposit and
+  loop-in diagrams are generated and checked in CI to prevent stale diagrams.
+  [PR #1179](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/pull/1179)