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

sha256.signed.txt file contains sha256 hashes of all binary files and signed with @ben-kaufman's GPG key.
You can get the public key from here: https://benkaufman.info/ben-kaufman.asc.
It is also available via keys.gnupg.net or keys.openpgp.org.
Fingerprint of the key is 5DF6 A760 1DB8 B78E BDEC 18DB 5D27 DE56 4153 F2BD, short id: 5d27de564153f2bd

Release notes

Bugfix: bump embit version, add secp binary #1031 (Stepan Snigirev)

• Bugfix: consolidations issue #1034 (benk10)
• Bugfix: Default bitcoind timeout to 60s for all platforms #1044 (kdmukai)
• Bugfix: Raspberry Pi check; fixing breaking changes when not using built-in Tor #1037 (kdmukai)
• Bugfix: Remove potentially non-final txid #1011 (benk10)
• Bugfix: auto-escaping of wallet.account_map json in pdf backup #976 (djpnewton)
• Bugfix: typo #1008 (Jan Rothen)
• Bugfix: HWI2 integration issues #1045 (benk10)
• Bugfix: misc Fixes for pre-release, mainly proper tor shutdown (#1048) (benk10)
• Bugfix: fix fill_psbt #1050 (Stepan Snigirev)
• Bugfix: exit cleanup #1053 (benk10)
• Bugfix: Fix Windows pyinstaller typo #1064 (benk10)
• Bugfix: Pre release minor fixes #1055 (benk10)
• Bugfix: Remove scientific notations #1067 (benk10)
• Bugfix: Update Bitcoin Core data dir even when installed and update Cobo Vault instructions #1056 (benk10)
• Bugfix: Remove download attribute from link #1061 (Taylor Helsper)
• Chore: Bump jinja2 from 2.11.2 to 2.11.3 #1033 (dependabot[bot])
• Chore: Some more Cypress tests #970 (benk10)
• Chore: Re-applying config change to pass Black formatting #1003 (kdmukai)
• Chore: Cypress travis #997 (Kim Neunert)
• Chore: Bump HWI to 2.0.1 #1060 (benk10)
• Chore: Refactor node setup state and timeout #1058 (benk10)
• Docs: added signature-verification to FAQ #1042 (Kim Neunert)
• Docs: Update DEVELOPMENT.md for Raspi #1032 (kdmukai)
• Docs: update to specify correct docker tag #971 (kdmukai)
• Docs: Fixed typos in faq.md #1004 (Dimitris Tsapakidis)
• Docs: Add link to RaspiBlitz connection guide #1041 (d11n)
• Feature: Add "Abandon transaction" option for low fee txs that have been purged from the mempool #991 (kdmukai)
• Feature: Add full edit transaction for RBF #998 (benk10)
• Feature: Add mempool.space as an option for fee estimation and block explorer #1020 (benk10)
• Feature: many more currencies to the price provider #1021 (benk10)
• Feature: Move wallets loading process to background #1017 (benk10)
• Feature: Setup Bitcoin Core from Specter #1007 (benk10)
• Feature: Show wallets overview for / , resolves #1018 #1019 (benk10)
• Feature: improved the description of the CLI arguments/options #984 (8go)
• Feature: Logging improvements #1043 (Kim Neunert)
• Feature: Move to HWI v2 #1001 (benk10)
• Feature: Specter-DIY: add sd card support #1047 (Stepan Snigirev)
• Feature: Adding regular logs to core-settings-page #1065 (Kim Neunert)
• Feature: Call the checker more often if IBD #1059 (benk10)
• Feature: Pre download core and tor binaries #1062 (benk10)
• UIUX: changing the background color of that input/output (using colors based on the send/receive svg icons) #989 (djpnewton)
• UIUX: HWI Bridge design improvement #1015 (benk10)
• UIUX: Timeout management and other improvements #1057 (Kim Neunert)
• UIUX: Only tor quicksync warning #1054 (Kim Neunert)