Binaries

There are two types of binaries:

Specter Desktop

It's a windowed GUI application with Specter server included.
Supported platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux (x86_64)

Note on Linux: you need to set up udev rules (included in the archive). Check out readme.

Note on macOS: The current build supports only macOS Catalina (10.15) or higher. If you'd like to run Specter on an older macOS version, you can install Specter from Pip.

specterd

It's a command-line program that only runs Specter server.
Supported platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux (x86_64)

Signatures and hashes

SHA256SUMS file contains sha256 hashes of all binary files and signed with "Specter Signer's" GPG key.
You can get the public key from here.
Fingerprint of the key is 785A 2269 EE3A 9736 AC1A 4F4C 864B 7CF9 A811 FEF7
This key has been signed by @k9ert's key which you might have used for validating th 1.7.0 release.

Release notes

• Feature: adding has_service() method to user #1732 (Kim Neunert)
• Feature: Choose file button for labels import #1682 (Manolis)
• Feature: Customised front end for adding Electrum devices #1622 (relativisticelectron)
• Feature: introducing gunicorn as an alternative WSGI HTTP Server #1721 (Kim Neunert)
• Feature: Message signing via QR code #1567 (Manolis)
• Feature: new extensionpoint specter_persistence_callback #1723 (Kim Neunert)
• Feature: Optimized uncle jim pdf for the Debasafebags. #1706 (f9ert)
• Bugfix: add proper uid to initial config fixes #1714 #1715 (Kim Neunert)
• Bugfix: better error-handling and version checks #1691 (Kim Neunert)
• Bugfix: wrong arguments for requests_session #1719 (Kim Neunert)
• Chore: Adjusted releasing process and adding liquidissuer #1716 (Kim Neunert)
• Chore: Bump ejs from 3.1.5 to 3.1.7 in /pyinstaller/electron #1697 (dependabot[bot])
• Chore: Change Specter compatibility to ">=3.7,<3.10" #1707 (relativisticelectron)
• Chore: Docker #1696 (Aaron Dewes)
• Chore: embit Upgrade to 0.4.13 (ripemd160 replacement) #1702 (relativisticelectron)
• Chore: install_noded.sh support for elements binary #1717 (relativisticelectron)
• Chore: misc changes #1733 (Kim Neunert)
• Chore: Non-standard ports for test-cypress.sh #1729 (Kim Neunert)
• Chore: Refactor UTXO scan (and timeout bugfix for utxo_scan) #1687 (Kim Neunert)
• Chore: Removing HWIBridge initialisation on module-level #1720 (Kim Neunert)
• Chore: Upgrade black version for pre-commit #1708 (relativisticelectron)
• Chore: Introducing an issue template #1692 (Kim Neunert)
• Docs: Added support for other distros (Arch/Fedora) #1713 (Ankur)