🆕 Spectrum 🚀
This release contains Spectrum, a plugin for running Specter via an Electrum server instead of a Bitcoin Core node. The plugin is currently in alpha 🧪 and in order to use it, you need to allow alpha plugins. Here is how to activate them (if you use one of the apps):
* Download and start as usual
* Open `Specter` ➡️ `Preferences`
* Open `Advanced`
* Insert `--devstatus-threshold alpha` in `Specterd CLI args`
* It's also recommended to use a different data directory in order to separate the experiment from your normal setup. On Linux/Mac you could do that by also adding `--specter-data-folder YOURHOMEDIRECTORY/.specter_spectrum` to the `Specterd CLI args` from the previous step. For MacOS, for example, `YOURHOMEDIRECTORY` is sth. like `/Users/YOURUSERNAME.`
* Save (Specter closes automatically if you click `Continue`)
* Restart the Specter app
* If you used a different data directory, don't be surprised, as you now won't see your usual wallets & devices. Remove the `Specterd CLI args` changes from above and you are be back to normal.
* Click the left "Get started" button:
Since Spectrum is still in alpha, it is not supported yet to use it alongside a connected Bitcoin Core node. If you are connected to a Bitcoin Core node, you will not see the screen above, so you'd need to do the following:
- Disconnect your Bitcoin Core node (not yet possible via the GUI, we will add this) by either saving it with an incorrect configuration or by stopping the node.
- Again, it's recommended to use a different data directory in order to separate the experiment from your normal setup (see above).
- Restart Specter
- You should now see the screen above.
Binaries
There are two types of binaries:
Specter Desktop
It's a windowed GUI application with Specter server included.
Supported platforms: [Windows](https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/download/v1.14.1/Specter-Setup-v1.14.1.exe), [MacOS](https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/download/v1.14.1/Specter-v1.14.1.dmg), [Linux (x86_64)](https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/download/v1.14.1/specter_desktop-v1.14.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz)
**Note on Linux**: you need to set up udev rules (included in the archive). Check out [readme](https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/blob/master/udev/README.md#usage).
**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](https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop#installing-specter-from-pip).
specterd
It's a command-line program that only runs Specter server.
Supported platforms: [Windows](https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/download/v1.14.1/specterd-v1.14.1-win64.zip), [MacOS](https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/download/v1.14.1/specterd-v1.14.1-osx.zip), [Linux (x86_64)](https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/download/v1.14.1/specterd-v1.14.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.zip)
Signatures and hashes
[SHA256SUMS](https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/download/v1.14.1/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](http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x785a2269ee3a9736ac1a4f4c864b7cf9a811fef7).
Fingerprint of the key is `785A 2269 EE3A 9736 AC1A 4F4C 864B 7CF9 A811 FEF7`
This key has been signed by k9ert's key which you might have used for validating th 1.7.0 release.
Release notes
- Bugfix: Adding migrations to the hidden imports 2007 (k9ert)
- Bugfix: Bump Spectrum for better error_handling (k9ert)
- Chore: better error_handling and tested 2005 (k9ert)
- Docs: Release guide update 2004 (Manolis Mandrapilias)