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, and as a PyPI package. Additionally, Specter is available as a Docker image via the awesome Chiang Mai LN devs.
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 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
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.
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. For more information about Verifying signatures, see, e.g. this video.
Release notes
What's Changed
- fix: correct macOS artifact name in release workflow by @al-munazzim in #2566
- fix: add _arm64 suffix to macOS specterd binary name by @al-munazzim in #2529
- Fix typos in comments and strings by @al-munazzim in #2542
- fix: replace print(e) with logger.debug in wallet.py by @al-munazzim in #2544
- fix: pin setuptools to 68.2.2 to fix pkg_resources issue by @al-munazzim in #2563
- fix: correct macOS artifact name in release workflow by @al-munazzim in #2566
- fix: Bump spectrum to 0.7.0 (fix SQLAlchemy startup crash) by @al-munazzim in #2528
- Docs: Improve clarity and structure of contribution guide by @inland-taipen in #2508
- chore: Add AGENTS.md for AI contributors by @al-munazzim in #2519
- chore: Fix Black linter CI failure on Python 3.14 by @Copilot in #2521
- chore: Mock external API calls in price provider tests by @Copilot in #2523
- fix: url_for crash in rpcpasswordaspin login when Bitcoin Core is unreachable by @al-munazzim in #2525
- chore: Add GitHub Actions release workflow by @al-munazzim in #2524
- chore: Fix release workflow: macOS artifact glob + pip failure tolerance by @al-munazzim in #2526
- chore: Add auto-generated release notes and lncm Docker trigger by @al-munazzim in #2527
Full Changelog: v2.1.1...v2.1.3