New Stack Wallet and Stack Duo releases.

SW changelog:

- Fix FROST error

- Show XMR private tx key option

SD changelog:

- Above AND

- Monero churn

- View only wallets (both BTC and XMR)

- Node options for tor connectivity

All platforms (Win, Linux, Mac, ios, android, fdroid)

- Updated to latest Coinlib (fixes ios and macos tx creaton bug on taproot inputs)

- Added an advanced option for users to disable auto-generating a new address

- Added XMR and Wownero private key functionality

- Fixed desktop not showing address-type selection for BTC (cont'd)

New Stack Wallet Release (v1.7.20)! Bug fixes mostly. We'll have a big upcoming release soon. 🧅

Release notes:

- Bug fixes for Tezos

- Added Stellar memo field

- Bug fixes for Firo

- General epic cleanup. Should be more stable.

- Fixed epic http error

- Revert auto-next on seed entry

Available now on all app stores. Download desktop versions here: https://github.com/cypherstack/stack_wallet/releases/tag/build_188

🎙️Here we go: StackCast Ep. 13 is premiering NOW over on YouTube at https://youtu.be/M33vL-EIMrA ✨

This week we we speak with @firoorg

's own cryptographer @aramjivanyan

about the (lighter) technical side of the project, from existing tech to everything coming with the upcoming Lelantus Spark upgrade!

$FIRO #FIRO #lelantusspark #crypto #podcast #blockchain #tech #privacy #bitcoin

New Stack Duo release (v1.0.7, build 12) is now available for all platforms!

Release notes:

- Added custom PIN length (change in Security settings). You can now have longer than 4 number PINs!

- Changed how we handled connections to nodes under the hood (changed to sockets from pinging)

- Updated Monero to v0.18.2.2

- Default to 12 word seeds for new BTC wallets

- Themes v2. Now you can update them when we make changes.

Linux desktop available on our Github releases: https://github.com/cypherstack/stack_duo/releases/tag/build_012

End of week report! We didn't get a major release out this week, though a minor one should be coming out in the next 24 hours with bug fixes and UI updates. That doesn't mean we haven't been hard at work though. Here's what we've been up to.

- Tor integration took several strides this week. We're piggybacking off of the great people over at Foundation Devices, who maintain a dart interface for a cross-platform Rust library. But we're not just mooching. We're contributing upstream also. Tor should be in Stack Wallet and Duo very soon, which takes us one big step closer to whirlpool.

- Themes. We love themes, and we know you all do too. We get lots of positive comments about them. But the more themes we add, the more images, the more animations, and more, which bloats the size of the app. We've been working on redoing the way themes are done under the hood to allow for a theme storefront of sorts (don't worry, they'll be free). This means the app will be downloaded with just light and dark, but the user can easily navigate to the storefront in the settings and download only the themes they want. We'll also allow a way to install themes by a file on the device so anyone can download them in a way they think is most secure and import them manually.

- Binary building. Currently, we build everything from source every time we do builds, as is the FOSS way, but some of our submodules take forever to build. 45 min build times aren't conducive to rapid development and the build process can be frustrating for volunteer devs. So we're making the process easier by pushing our self made libraries to a repo and adding additional scripts to pull from those so we don't have to build the submodules all the time. It'll make it super easy for volunteers to contribute also. Don't worry, the normal build-everything-from-source way is still there too, and we'll be doing builds that we're pushing live that way still. Mostly a convenience thing for devs.

- PayNyms. There are a couple small things with paynyms we've found since we've launched. Adding SegWit change addresses rather than just legacy, some sends not showing up without having to do a full rescan, etc. Everything works mostly, but there's a few hiccups. We've made good progress in addressing those, and a fix for those problems should be up by next week.

Stack Duo v1.0.4 build 7 has been released for all platforms (Android, iOS, Linux). Download from Play Store, App Store, F-Droid, or our Github: https://github.com/cypherstack/stack_duo/releases/tag/build_007

Release notes:

- Mnemonic passphrase now taken into account with backup

- Tag color fixes

- Orange theme addition

- Address labeling and management (desktop)

But we're not just twiddling our thumbs while we wait. We've got lots of features and things we're working on that can go live in the meantime.

We're here for the long hall, and are thrilled to march every closer to being a multicoin FOSS wallet that meets a variety of user needs, particularly those of privacy. Thanks for sticking with us on this journey. We've got a lot more in store.

We are currently using the Monero library from the wonderful people at Cake Wallet (who walk the walk and made it FOSS btw). But we do things a bit differently than them under the hood, and the lib isn't meeting our needs. In particular we can't compile for Windows (blocking our release of our desktop app), and we are having a major bug on iOS that causes crashes. Too many open files say the logs (if you're an iOS dev and want to help out, do let us know).

I'd like to take a moment to discuss Stack's current status.

I consider Stack Wallet (and Duo) to be open beta. In particular, there is one major issue blocking us from going into production-ready status. It may be one issue, but it is a big one and has a domino affect on other things. That issue is Monero.