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:v2.1.7
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
- Fix floating point rounding in wallet balance properties by @k9ert in #2583
- fix: pass SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION to Docker build by @al-munazzim in #2582
- Replace deprecated distutils usage (removed in Python 3.12) by @abhishek-8081 in #2550
- Add startup warning when SECRET_KEY is a known default by @abhishek-8081 in #2552
- Chore(deps): Bump lodash from 4.17.23 to 4.18.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #2584
- Chore(deps-dev): Bump @xmldom/xmldom from 0.8.10 to 0.8.12 in /pyinstaller/electron by @dependabot[bot] in #2581
- ci: add extension compatibility check workflow by @al-munazzim in #2585
- dep: bump requests 2.26.0 → 2.31.0 (security) by @al-munazzim in #2575
- Update specterext-timelockrecovery to version 0.2.1 by @oren-z0 in #2589
- fix: auto-create BTC node from env vars on fresh install by @k9ert in #2598
- Fix open redirect bypass via percent-encoded characters (issue #2590) by @al-munazzim in #2596
- Fix offline crash in Electron app: guard undefined response in download HEAD request and show user-facing error by @Copilot in #2595
Full Changelog: v2.1.6...v2.1.7