Firo v0.14.13.0

INSTRUCTIONS

This release introduces Lelantus Spark, our new privacy protocol and exchange addresses as well as fixing some bugs in Lelantus and adding proof of transaction to allow users to prove that they made the Lelantus transaction in question.

Please update before block 819300 (approximately 18 January 2024, 8.00 am UTC). Updating after this block will require you to reindex.

Please backup your wallet prior to updating for safety.

After upgrading, you will need to unlock your wallet once to allow the wallet to support Spark.

NEW FEATURES

• Lelantus Spark: Introducing Lelantus Spark, our long-awaited privacy protocol that retains the key benefits of the Lelantus protocol as well as introducing new features that improves user privacy.
• Spark Addressess: Lelantus Spark introduces Spark addresses that allow private holding of FIRO. These addresses are not searchable on the blockchain.
• Exchange Addresses and Lelantus transaction proof of ownership: Allows exchange to have a new type of address that only accepts transparent inputs. Adopted per community consensus. In addition, the Lelantus transaction proof of ownership allows users to prove to exchanges that they made a specific private transaction.

CHANGELOG

• Lelantus Spark #1360
• Extend Spork to cover Spark per community consensus
• Exchange addresses #1356
• Lelantus transaction proof of ownership #1362
• Deal with runaway exceptions #1359 #1365
• Libspark fuzzing harness #1340
• Various housekeeping commits with documentation, workflow, and Docker (thanks to @erciccione @mksdev @PanderMusubi)

BINARIES

• SHA256 Hashes:
  • Linux aarch64: bbf0b8d7ae6490404c01bbb9141f5786844f8678df3cd486cee81e689ba15a1a
  • Linux: cd35291658b7e1f8ed473d5d6d3325fc2b47acc61e787851752d3cfc32b30e3f
  • macOS: a2e407c3ba40f9c36d402f03afe663b4e94afc22b536325d675cfd66939f49a5
  • Windows Installer: 5b625d895a1b5d9d6e2c5c56df8be31bb8726b861f520e2cc34a6bd504a0b4d3
  • Windows zip: b2503f6e7d2f3df6b598339d72501b95b5d533b557f8ef04824d86ea4358635f
• The signatures can be verified using reuben.asc found in root of this repository or on https://firo.org/reuben.asc

Full Changelog: v0.14.12.1...v0.14.13.0