This release significantly simplifies the installation of Liana. It also fixes a number of small bugs and glitches.
- Descriptors created with Liana v2 may not be backward compatible with Liana v1.
- We made it possible to re-use an xpub within a descriptor, so long as it uses a different derivation path.
- We added new RPC commands allowing for updating and querying labels of txids, addresses and outpoints.
- We've made our RPC connection to
bitcoindmore robust. - We now distribute packages for Debian-based and Arch-based Linux distributions.
- A guide on how to recover a Liana wallet backup with Bitcoin Core was added.
- An example config file for running
lianadwas added. - We've worked around the use of prefixed-paths on Windows thereby allowing us to bring back the watchonly wallet at the same location as for other operating systems, under our own datadir.
- The UX for creating a descriptor where a signer is present in different spending paths was significantly improved.
- The installation process, as well as the usage of the wallet, was made more user friendly by
optionally encapsulating the management (download, start and stop) of the
bitcoind.
- We more gracefully stop the Bitcoin backend poller when the block chain is still in the process of being synchronized. This would previously appear to hang and could freeze the GUI.
- The handling of conflicting unconfirmed spend transactions (RBFs) was fixed.
- If paid directly through a coinbase transaction output, the wallet could have previously missed it. This was fixed.
- We now correctly treat immature coinbase deposits as unspendable. They are otherwise treated similarly to unconfirmed coins.
- We now tell
bitcoindto load our watchonly wallet upon startup. Not loading the watchonly wallet on startup could makebitcoindunable to load it without reindexing the block chain, if using an aggressive pruning configuration. lianadwill now print a more helpful message on startup failure (and link to the newly added config file example).
- We now check the network of xpubs when importing a descriptor.
- The GUI would sometimes fail to connect to the Specter DIY signing device.
- We now convey the descriptor registration step on a signing device isn't necessary if none were used.
- We could previously appear to hang during shutdown.
This is the first non-beta release of Liana.
Improvements were concentrated on the GUI. The UI was entirely overhauled.
- The
createspendcommand now allows you to not provide any destination. In this case it will create a send-to-self transaction containing a single change output.
- Overall there is a new layout and color scheme. The "draft transactions" menu was renamed to the more common "PSBTs".
- The homepage now features a list of payments, instead of transactions.
- The spend transaction creation process is now contained in a single screen. It allows you to easily create a send-to-self transaction by not specifying any recipient.
- The homepage will now feature an approximation of the remaining time before the first recovery path becomes available.
- The homepage now features a button to refresh all coins whose recovery path is available (or close to be), if there is any.
- Entries in the coins list now features a button to refresh a coin (create a send-to-self transaction in order to restart the timelock).
- You can now generate multiple receive addresses in a row.
- We now display the alias of signing devices (if any) in the final installer step.
- Send-to-self transactions are now displayed as such instead of being affected a "0.00000BTC" value.
- The installer will not present a step to register the descriptor on the signing device if there isn't any.
- Some wording improvements all around.
- The slider to configure timelocks in the installer now has a step of 144 (instead of 1).
This fourth release brings support for descriptors with multiple recovery path as well as several usability improvements in the GUI around signing devices management, and more.
- We now support having multiple recovery path in a descriptor.
- We now support more general descriptors: multisigs in the primary or any of the recovery paths
henceforth aren't required to use
multi()anymore and the maximum number of keys per spending path is thereby lifted.
- You can now re-register the descriptor on a hardware signing device in the settings.
- You can now change the alias of each of the signers from the settings panel.
- At signing time we now warn you if the descriptor is not registered on the signing device.
- The signer alias is now displayed along with its type when signing.
- You can now connect to a running daemon without having to provide a path to its configuration,
provided it is using the default location for its data directory (or
--datadiris used). - The GUI will now log to a
installer.logfile at the root of the datadir during installation, and to a<network>/liana-gui.logwhen running. In case of crash, this will contain a backtrace. - During installation we now check the connection to bitcoind.
- We won't error when parsing of descriptor with a 1-of-N multisig as primary path.
- We won't error at startup if our watchonly wallet is loading on bitcoind. Instead, we'll wait for completion of the previous loading attempt.
- Blank addresses aren't treated as duplicates when creating a transaction.
A patch release for a serious bug fix in the GUI installer.
- Under very specific conditions the GUI installer would not store the mnemonic words corresponding to a hot key that was used in the descriptor, nor present it to the user for backup.
A small release which brings some fixes as well as the possibility to use Liana as a "hot wallet".
- Hot keys: users can now generate and sign with keys that are stored on the device. It is recommended to be only used for testing for now.
- It is now possible to use multiple signing device of the same type without having to first connect one then the other.
- When used as a daemon the
lianadprocess had its PID and logs file mixed up. This is now fixed. - We fixed the transaction creation sanity check that was overestimating the transaction fee.
- In the installer flow, extended keys are now shared without the
/<0;1>/*suffix.
The second release of Liana brings various fixes as well as the possibility to use a multisig in either, or both, of the spending paths.
- Multisig: we now support descriptors with multiple keys both in the primary (non-timelocked) spending path and the recovery (timelocked) path.
- You can now import and update Spend transaction drafts as PSBTs to collaboratively create and sign transactions.
- When creating a new descriptor you can now set an alias for each key. Those will be displayed when inspecting a transaction's signatories.
- Amounts are now displayed with the sats in bold for better redability.
- We now remove the fixed interpreter and rpath set by GUIX reproducible builds in the
liana-cliELF binary. - We now check the
bitcoindversion before trying to import a Miniscript descriptor. - We now discard unconfirmed incoming payments that were dropped from our mempool.
- Breaking change: the first version of Liana mistakenly accepted extended keys without origin
in descriptors. This meant that unless this extended key was the master extended key of a chain,
it would not be possible to sign with it (since signing devices need to know the origin). Starting
from version 2 Liana forces extended keys to contain an origin (of the form
[a1b2c3d4]) to avoid this footgun. This means that existing descriptors might have to be migrated, but it's very likely only for test configurations where an xpub wasn't gathered from a signing device (which prepends an origin) but generated (probably imported from Coleman's website) and pasted without origin.
- Various wording fixes on the UI.
- Amounts are now updated when moving between steps in the Spend creation flow.
- Coins are now sorted by age when displayed as a list.
- Some flakiness in the connection to a signing device were fixed.
- The descriptor registration on a signing device step in the installer was made clearer.