The "Bigger Picture" Release
- Support for optional larger displays to vastly improve readibility / user experience!
- 7 NEW LANGUAGES covering huge new regions across the world:
- French (21 nations in Africa!)
- Chinese (1.3bil people, nbd)
- Catalan, Dutch, German, Italian, and Japanese.
Translations road map (updated):
- 🔥 We'll be able to quickly add many more languages in follow-up releases! 🔥
- 🔥🔥 Right-to-left languages (e.g. Hebrew, Arabic) have been unlocked by @alvroble!!!
- We're hoping to have at least Persian and Arabic in v0.9.0!
- Asian languages are ALREADY HERE!!!!
How to volunteer to add YOUR language
- Create an account on transifex.com
- Go to our project: https://explore.transifex.com/seedsigner/seedsigner/
- If your language is not yet in the list, request to add it.
- Note: We're prioritizing new languages over specific dialects. Don't be surprised if we decline -- for now -- requests to add dialects (e.g. "fr-SN").
- Then request to be added as a translator for your language.
- Volunteers are needed but too many in one language creates a mess.
- We will need to identify trusted bitcoin experts in each language to serve as admin-level "Reviewers" in Transifex.
- Figuring out how we guarantee that our translations are high quality will be an evolving process.
Four .img files are included in the release; select the one that is appropriate for your Raspberry Pi hardware:
- "pi0.img" - For Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 & Raspberry Pi Zero W
- "pi02w.img" - For Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W & Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
- "pi2.img" - For Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
- "pi4.img" - For Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
To update your microSD card:
- Download the appropriate .img file
- Verify your download.
- Flash the image to a MicroSD card (64MB or larger)
- Must use a disk-authoring tool like Raspberry Pi Imager, Balena Etcher, or "
dd".
- Must use a disk-authoring tool like Raspberry Pi Imager, Balena Etcher, or "
More Notes:
- Check out our Independent Custody Guide to read more on what our project is all about.
- If you are getting value from SeedSigner, please consider donating to our development fund.
Full release details:
New Features:
- Support for 320x240 displays (st7789, ili9341): @kdmukai; w/@newtonick, @fedebuyito (#741)
- New translations:
- Catalan (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#35)
- Translations: @polespinasa, @1ma
- Lead Reviewer: @polespinasa
- Dutch (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#31)
- Translations: @Dirkson643
- Reviewers: @rachid-o, @Dirkson643
- French (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#33)
- German (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#29)
- Translations: "Seed Mint", "Uggl", @gobrrrme, "abc dev"
- Lead Reviewers: "thisdev", "Uggl"
- Italian (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#23)
- Translations: "Valerio Vaccaro", "M P", @bitcoininvenice
- Lead Reviewer: @bitcoininvenice
- Beta releases:
- Chinese Simplified (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#30)
- Translations: "Ouou Ahah", @tangchang-b
- Lead Reviewer: @tangchang-b
- Japanese (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#36)
- Translations: @mister-1-wizard, "I M"
- Lead Reviewer: @msdrii
- Chinese Simplified (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#30)
- Catalan (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#35)
User-Facing Bugfixes:
- After transcribing a SeedQR an exception shouldn't be raised if unexpected QR type is scanned: @kdmukai; w/@newtonick, @fedebuyito (#677)
Misc / Nerdy Details:
- [l10n] Enable new language code autodiscovery; add Asian fonts: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @newtonick (#686)
- [l10n] Promote zh_Hans_CN to beta: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @newtonick (#755)
- [l10n] New Hardware Settings need to be marked for translation: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @newtonick (#756)
- [l10n] [Bugfix] ToolsCalcFinalWordScreen: adjusts spacing for locales w/larger fonts: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @newtonick (#757)
- [l10n] [Bugfix] TopNav titles not switching language font; misc l10n cleanup: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @newtonick (#745)
- [l10n] [Bugfix] TextArea: Proper detection of chars rendering below baseline on final line of text: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @avroble, @newtonick (#751)
- [Bugfix] Prevent backspace on empty passphrase field: @zappityzap; w/@fedebuyito, @alvroble, @newtonick (#690; 🎉 FIRST PR!)
- [Bugfix] Only apply auto-scroll ButtonListScreen logic for long lists that need it: @kdmukai w/@newtonick (#742)
- [Cleanup] Remove unused fonts: @kdmukai (#687)
- [Tests] Update
coverageto 7.6.12: @kdmukai; w/@fedebuyito, @dbast, @newtonick (#688) - [Tests] Slight enhancement to
coveragecalcs: @kdmukai (#697) - [Release prep] Multi-language 0.8.6 version bump: @bitcoinprecept (#778)
- [Release prep] Update seedsigner-translations submodule for 0.8.6 release: @newtonick (#780)
SeedSigner OS updates:
- Add "external" ccache to speed up builds; preserve caches outside Docker container: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @dbast, @fedebuyito, @newtonick (SeedSigner/seedsigner-os#83)
- [l10n] Increase DOS partition size to 40MB to accommodate I10n changes: @newtonick; w/@kdmukai, @jdlcdl (SeedSigner/seedsigner-os#89)
- Add .buildroot-ccache and .ccache to gitignore: @newtonick (SeedSigner/seedsigner-os#88)
- Remove obsolete docker compose version: @newtonick (SeedSigner/seedsigner-os#85)
seedsigner-translations updates:
- [CI] New Github Action to add screenshot diff report: @kdmukai; w/jdlcdl, newtonick (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#25)
- [CI] [Bugfix] Remove hard-coded kdmukai fork reference; pass in env var instead: @kdmukai (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#24)
- [Release prep] Add compiled mo files for every language translated so far for 0.8.6 release: @newtonick (SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations#42)
seedsigner-screenshots updates:
- Added screenshots for: Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese
- Updated screenshots for: English, Spanish
Team
- Project Lead / Creator: @SeedSigner ("the man")
- Lead Developer: @kdmukai
- Lead Maintainer / SeedSigner OS Lead: @newtonick
- Lead Reviewer/Tester: @jdlcdl
- UX Designer: @easyuxd
- Project Manager: @bitcoinprecept
🎉🎉 1 new dev and 7 new translation teams contributed to this release! 🎉🎉