Please create a full backup before migrating or any major internal changes like switching to an electrum based installation. You can easily create a backup in Settings --> Backup Specter (zip file).
Artifacts
Specter is available in several forms: as a GUI application, as a binary that can be executed like a web app, as a PyPI package, and as a Docker image.
Signed hashsum files are available for all binaries.
GUI Application
This is a GUI application with a windowed interface, which includes the Specter server.
Supported platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux (x86_64)
Note on Linux: you need to set up udev rules (included in the archive). Check out the readme.
Note on macOS: The macOS application is currently not code-signed or notarized by Apple. After downloading the DMG and installing, macOS Gatekeeper will block the app. To fix this, run in Terminal:
cd /Applications
xattr -cr "Specter.app"
The current build supports macOS Catalina (10.15) or higher. If you'd like to run Specter on an older macOS version, you can install Specter from Pip. See #2530 for details.
specterd
Specterd is a command-line program that runs only the Specter server, behaving like a traditional web application.
Supported platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux (x86_64)
PyPi Packages
If you're experienced Python user and/or developer, you might appreciate the pypi-packages which are also available on our github-release-page.
Docker
Official Docker images are published to GitHub Container Registry:
docker pull ghcr.io/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop:v2.1.11
See all available tags at ghcr.io/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop.
For releases prior to v2.1.2, Docker images were provided by the Chiang Mai LN devs.
Signatures and hashes
SHA256SUMS file contains sha256 hashes of all binary files and signed with "Specter Signer 2026" GPG key.
You can get the public key from here.
Fingerprint of the key is 9DC3 3CA8 3058 9DE3 B322 5C26 EEF5 756B 2EA4 2349
This key has been signed by @k9ert's key. For more information about Verifying signatures, see, e.g. this video.
Release notes
What's Changed
- Chore(deps): Bump jinja2 from 3.1.4 to 3.1.6 by @dependabot[bot] in #2670
- fix: restore Ledger udev hidraw fallback by @al-munazzim in #2633
- Chore(deps-dev): Bump electron from 39.8.5 to 39.8.10 in /pyinstaller/electron by @dependabot[bot] in #2680
- fix: dev-server crash in the specter-desktop repo after the project-rename by @k9ert in #2686
- fix: validate active API tokens by @k9ert in #2685
- Warn on ColdCard Mk3 seed-entropy advisory at device setup by @nrobi144 in #2676
- fix(swan): add timeout to remote HTTP requests to prevent hang by @bunlongheng in #2687
- Warn that Specter auth does not encrypt data folder by @al-munazzim in #2683
- Chore(deps): Bump certifi from 2024.6.2 to 2024.7.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #2669
- Chore(deps): bundle 5 green low-risk dependabot bumps by @k9ert in #2689
- Chore(deps): bundle 5 green low-risk npm dependabot bumps by @k9ert in #2690
- Chore(deps): Bump braces and gulp by @dependabot[bot] in #2668
- Protect HWI bridge settings with auth and CSRF by @al-munazzim in #2679
- fix: retry wallet import with widened range on shrink-refusal (#2604) by @ack-chai in #2666
New Contributors
- @nrobi144 made their first contribution in #2676
- @bunlongheng made their first contribution in #2687
- @ack-chai made their first contribution in #2666
Full Changelog: v2.1.10...v2.1.11