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@SeedSigner SeedSigner released this 08 Jul 02:22
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The "Summer of SeedSigner" Release

v0.8.7 includes 80 PRs from 20 contributors along with 13 new volunteer translation teams.

This release incorporates work from a wave of new contributors via the Summer of Bitcoin
mentorship program. Nine new devs contributed to v0.8.7! And this is just the first batch
of work; most of the newcomers' more ambitious changes are still in the pipeline for later
releases.

v0.8.7's headline user-facing feature is our expanded localization effort which now covers
22 languages, including our first right-to-left language: Persian. This means that
SeedSigner is now usable by an estimated 4.5+ billion people, roughly 60% of the world!

We've also included some important quality-of-life improvements to resolve some of the
most common issues users run into.

But the bulk of the dev work was focused on behind-the-scenes code refactors to improve and
further professionalize the codebase, our dev processes & releated tooling, and improving the
breadth and reliability of the test suite.

This is a "calm before the storm" release. Significant new features are slated for v0.9.0
while simultaneously the massive work to port SeedSigner to a microcontroller races ahead
towards its first alpha preview.

How to volunteer to add YOUR language

Four .img files are included in the release; select the one that is appropriate for your Raspberry Pi hardware:

  • "pi0.img" - For Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 & Raspberry Pi Zero W
  • "pi2.img" - For Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
  • "pi02w.img" - For Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W & Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
  • "pi4.img" - For Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

To update your microSD card:

  • Download the appropriate .img file
  • Verify your download.
  • Flash the image to a MicroSD card (64MB or larger)
    • Must use a disk-authoring tool like Balena Etcher, Raspberry Pi Imager, or "dd".

More Notes:

Full release details:

New Features:

  • BBQr PSBT decoding: @newtonick; w/@fedebuyito (#601)
  • 13 NEW LANGUAGES!:
    • Fully supported:
      • Catalan / Català
      • German / Deutsch
      • Spanish / Español
      • French / Français
      • Italian / Italiano
      • Dutch / Nederlands
    • Beta:
      • Czech / Čeština (NEW)
      • Chinese Simplified / 简体中文
      • Hindi / हिन्दी (NEW)
      • Indonesian / Bahasa Indonesia (NEW)
      • Japanese / 日本語
      • Korean / 한국어 (NEW)
      • Persian / فارسی (NEW)
      • Polish / Polski (NEW)
      • Portuguese (Brazil) / Português (Brasil) (NEW)
      • Thai / ไทย (NEW)
      • Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt (NEW)
    • In progress:
      • Greek / Ελληνικά (NEW)
      • Norwegian / Norsk (NEW)
      • Russian / русский (NEW)
      • Turkish / Türkçe (NEW)

Improvements

User-Facing Bugfixes:

Misc / Nerdy Details:

Legacy Restoration

  • In honor of SeedSigner's 5th birthday: Minor fixes to make the original v0.0.1 from Dec 2021 runnable again: @kdmukai (#843)

SeedSigner OS updates:

seedsigner-translations updates:

New contributors 🎉

First-ever contributions landed in v0.8.7:

Team

🎉🎉 9 new developers and 13 new translation teams contributed to this release! 🎉🎉

Contributors

newtonick, kdmukai, and 18 other contributors
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