TL;DR Release Highlights:
- DAPPs can be installed locally - one of the first ways to enable truly decentralized distribution from any DAPP vendor.
- The regular addresses were fixed to be correctly recognized by some exchanges (such as Binance) without any workarounds.
- For ETH-bound traders, along with BTC and USD, the wallet also shows amounts in ETH from now on.
- Many other smaller improvements and fixes so that BEAM products work even more seamlessly and intuitively than before (~150 tasks in total - see in details here and here).
Improvements:
- Simplified onboarding: download and play with the wallet (getting free small money from the Faucet DAPP) without the burden of verifying the seed phrase - that phase shall surely come when enough BEAM are accumulated in the wallet.
- To allow aligning with exchanges of your choice - the transaction status can become confirmed after enough confirmations are received from the blockchain (0 by default, the parameter is configurable in Settings).
- Refreshed logo and even more eye-pleasing look for the wallet loading screens! Confidential DeFi times are coming!
- Send and Receive screens were reworked yet again to make the wallet usage even more intuitive. We'll keep improving them, bringing the best UX to your fingertips.
- The side menu was redesigned to highlight the most used functionality. In particular, the DAO Core app (the only one to enable staking soon) will be launching straight from the menu bar.
- Added more details to the dialog that automatically asks for manual confirmation when a DAPP sends or receives coins - no DAPP can manipulate wallet funds without explicit approval.
Known limitations:
- When using active laser beam channels the CLI wallet should not be offline for over 24 hours
- Once generated, do not offer the same offline address to multiple senders of payments
Points to mention:
- “Max Privacy” was renamed to “Max Anonymity Set”
- Upon using Atomic Swaps with ETH, DAI, WBTC, and USDT, users will have to create an account on Infura.
- The sender of funds to a receiver's Public Offline Address might be able to know that those funds are later being used by the receiver. Beam wallet and Beam explorer do not expose such functionality but it's possible to derive this information by analyzing the Blockchain.
For a more comprehensive list of the tasks accomplished please see here and here.