Release announcement
Cardano 1.6 release brings the latest Daedalus (v. 0.14.0), which offers a number of significant updates and improvements to the wallet experience, making it easier and more enjoyable to use. It also adds a number of useful improvements to the support functions for faster diagnostics and issue resolution.
What are the standout features?
The standout features improve the Daedalus UI and user experience, including the following:
- Loading screens now have an animated Daedalus logo, as well as status icons which indicate when core system components are working correctly
- Three new user interface themes have been added to increase user customization options
- An updated design gives all the modal windows a fresher, more unified look and feel
- Improvements to the update system help users having issues with older Daedalus versions to update to the latest version, and resolve their issues
- A new ‘Wallet UTXO distribution’ screen will also help users to understand how their funds are distributed
This release also includes a number of small but important improvements such as a new help menu, new items in the diagnostics window, automatic scrolling to show error messages that are not in view, automatic language selection for fresh installations, links to support articles to help diagnose issues, timestamps for paper wallet certificates, and more.
Watch this Daedalus 0.14 Demo video by Darko Mijić, Daedalus Product Manager:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIVs8o0YSYA
Release notes
Support portal
Cardano versioning
https://iohk.io/blog/how-cardano-releases-are-versioned/
Cardano testnet
https://testnet.iohkdev.io/cardano/