- Show the existing spinner and “Preparing payment” status while the custom element creates a Lightning invoice, including Rails integrations. Replace the status with the invoice on success or the existing error on failure.
- Announce Lightning invoice preparation to screen readers in both the custom element and React checkout. Cover delayed creation, duplicate clicks, and failure followed by retry.
- Release the general package family together at 0.4.8. Payment APIs, storage and settlement behavior are unchanged. Rails hosts must update their npm checkout dependencies and rebuild JavaScript to receive the UI fix.
- Keep the BTCPay plugin at 0.4.7. Its version and publication are independent of general releases; submitting or publishing a BTCPay build requires an explicit maintainer request.
The release gate rebuilds the Node/Express, Fastify, Laravel, FastAPI, Django, static HTML, Next.js and Rails demo assets and the standalone checkout with 0.4.8 packages. Live-wallet and manual-payment checks are intentionally skipped for this rendering-only fix.
