wizardsardine/liana v16.0rc1

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16.0

This release brings internationalisation to liana-gui, enables taproot by default in the installer,
continues the UI rework through the "Drafts & approvals", "Transactions", "Coins/UTXOs" and
"Settings" pages, introduces default labels inherited from addresses, coins and transactions, and
moves the encrypted descriptor backup to bip138.

Breaking changes

Running Liana v16 on an existing installation will migrate its database.
Once migrated the database won't be compatible with previous versions of Liana.
This means you won't be able to open with Liana v15 (or below) any wallet opened or created with Liana v16.

Liana GUI

• The encrypted descriptor backup is now written as a BIP138 v1 .bip138 file instead of a .bed
  file. Liana v15 and below cannot read it. Reading is unaffected: the .bed files and the base64
  text backups written by previous versions still decrypt.

Features

Liana GUI

• Internationalisation: French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese catalogs,
  with a language picker in the settings.
• UI rework: reworked the "Drafts & approvals", "Transactions", "Coins/UTXOs", "Recovery" and
  "Settings" pages and the "Self-transfer", "Payment details" and "Transaction details" panels
  around new foldable card, list entry and label components, reworked the installer template
  diagrams, and reworked the "Coin selection" header and divider of the "Send" screen.
• Default labels: coins, transactions and payments now show the label of a related item when they
  have none of their own, with an info tooltip saying where it comes from. See
  doc/LABELS.md for the whole logic.
• Use bip138 for the encrypted descriptor backup, add a privacy mode to it, and offer the other
  common derivation paths when decrypting a backup.
• Enable taproot by default in the installer: the address type menu now offers "Taproot
  (recommended)" and "Segwit" instead of "Advanced settings" and "P2WSH", and a device that cannot
  do taproot says what to do about it instead of only stating the incompatibility.
• Offer managed Bitcoin Core upgrades on wallet open, and bump the managed Bitcoin Core to 31.1.
• Display the spend status of PSBTs and add a toggle to hide the confirmed ones.
• Page the Liana Connect payment history with a (block_time, txid) cursor.
• Display the recovery warnings, including the new one raised when the recovery transaction sends
  to an address of the same wallet.
• Sanity check the network on descriptor and backup import.

Liana daemon

• Store and serve a default label for transactions.
• Warn when createrecovery recovers to an address of the same wallet.

Dependencies

• Bump async-hwi to 0.0.35.
• Bump reqwest to 0.13.
• Bump electrum-client to 0.24.2.
• Bump rustls-webpki to 0.103.16 and webpki-roots to 1.0.10.
• Require bip39 2.1, and use a vendored bip329.

Packaging

• Distribute the macOS application as a .dmg instead of a .zip.

Fixes

Liana GUI

• Fix the import of test network backups.
• Check the daemon receive addresses against the wallet descriptor.
• Set the descriptor when importing it from a file in the Liana Connect installer, and detect
  encrypted files.
• Close Liana Connect sessions when dropping cached credentials and before pruning the cache, and
  refresh cached tokens from their expiry.
• Fail downloads that stop receiving data.
• Correct the Electrum address placeholder in the settings.
• Hide the edit button in the node settings of a managed bitcoind, and make the node configuration
  non-editable while waiting for the ping.
• Slice tab titles by characters instead of bytes.
• Limit the label length in the coin details view.
• Show a rescan warning when a pasted descriptor is imported.
• Hide the payment section of a PSBT that has none.
• Improve mouseless navigation in the key import flow, and make the select key modal scrollable.
• Fix the node selection view, the imported key tile and badge colors, the key color in the
  decaying multisig template, and the dismiss button icon.

Liana daemon

• Encode the bitcoind wallet RPC path, fixing wallet paths that contain spaces.

Liana

• Recompute the receive and change descriptors on deserialization.
• Reject a key used alongside a k-of-N primary path when k > 1.

What file from the list should i download?

• Liana-16.0rc1.dmg if you are on MacOS,
• liana-16.0rc1.exe if you are on Windows,
• liana-16.0rc1-1_amd64.deb if you are running a Debian-based Linux (such as Ubuntu). Use dpkg -i liana-16.0rc1-1_amd64.deb as root (or preceded by sudo) to install it.
• liana-16.0rc1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz if you use another Linux distribution.

You can verify integrity of the files with:

sha256sum --check liana-16.0rc1-shasums.txt
gpg --verify liana-16.0rc1-shasums.txt.asc