Groovy Gluon 7.1.13105 — Desktop — Release Notes

Release date: 9th August

TL;DR Release Highlights:

• The Beam Hard Fork will take place at block 1,920,000. This is expected to take place around the start of September.
• To continue using your wallet and have access to your funds please upgrade your wallets prior to reaching this height!

Improvements:

• The fork puts into place BIP 1 — reducing the cost to mint Confidential Assets to 10 $BEAM as per the prior community vote
• Improved DApp support in wallets for the BANS application
• Added Shader capabilities to verify fork heights (to support fork-dependent features)

Known limitations:

• When using active laser beam channels the CLI wallet should not be offline for over 24 hours
• Once generated, do not offer the same offline address to multiple senders of payments
• One more line was added in known limitations DApp Store — On Ubuntu 22+ apps list will not load icons

Points to mention:

• Upon using Atomic Swaps with ETH, DAI, WBTC, and USDT, users will have to create an account on Infura.
• The sender of funds to a receiver’s Public Offline Address might be able to know that those funds are later being used by the receiver. Beam wallet and Beam explorer do not expose such functionality but it’s possible to derive this information by analyzing the Blockchain.

Verifying release binaries
PGP key: “A6C6 2C9F 5593 1860 AFF8 3BBB 997E AB9F 3DF7 F375”

1. Go to https://keybase.io/beammw and get the Public PGP key.
2. Download the signed binary file (with extension .asc) you want to verify.
3. Verify the signature using PGP Suite or any other PGP verification tools

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