Latest Release

The "Bigger Picture" Release

Support for optional larger displays to vastly improve readibility / user experience!







7 NEW LANGUAGES covering huge new regions across the world:
French (21 nations in Africa!)
Chinese (1.3bil people, nbd)
Catalan, Dutch, German, Italian, and Japanese.










Translations road map (updated):

🔥 We'll be able to quickly add many more languages in follow-up releases! 🔥
🔥🔥 Right-to-left languages (e.g. Hebrew, Arabic) have been unlocked by @alvroble!!! 
We're hoping to have at least Persian and Arabic in v0.9.0!
Asian languages are ALREADY HERE!!!!


How to volunteer to add YOUR language

Create an account on transifex.com
Go to our project: https://explore.transifex.com/seedsigner/seedsigner/
If your language is not yet in the list, request to add it.
Note: We're prioritizing new languages over specific dialects. Don't be surprised if we decline -- for now -- requests to add dialects (e.g. "fr-SN").
Then request to be added as a translator for your language.
Volunteers are needed but too many in one language creates a mess.
We will need to identify trusted bitcoin experts in each language to serve as admin-level "Reviewers" in Transifex.
Figuring out how we guarantee that our translations are high quality will be an evolving process.


Four .img files are included in the release; select the one that is appropriate for your Raspberry Pi hardware:

"pi0.img" - For Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 & Raspberry Pi Zero W
"pi02w.img" - For Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W & Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
"pi2.img" - For Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
"pi4.img" - For Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

To update your microSD card:

Download the appropriate .img file
Verify your download.
Flash the image to a MicroSD card (64MB or larger)
Must use a disk-authoring tool like Raspberry Pi Imager, Balena Etcher, or "dd".

More Notes:

Check out our Independent Custody Guide to read more on what our project is all about.
If you are getting value from SeedSigner, please consider donating to our development fund.


Full release details:
New Features:

Support for 320x240 displays (st7789, ili9341): @kdmukai; w/@newtonick, @fedebuyito (#741)
New translations:
Catalan (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations/pull/35)

Translations: @polespinasa, @1ma
Lead Reviewer: @polespinasa


Dutch (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations/pull/31)

Translations: @Dirkson643
Reviewers: @rachid-o, @Dirkson643


French (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations/pull/33)

Translations: @jdlcdl, "JeanneDo", "JeannetteDo", @jpph
Lead Reviewer: @jpph


German (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations/pull/29)

Translations: "Seed Mint", "Uggl", @gobrrrme, "abc dev"
Lead Reviewers: "thisdev", "Uggl"


Italian (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations/pull/23)

Translations: "Valerio Vaccaro", "M P", @bitcoininvenice
Lead Reviewer: @bitcoininvenice


Beta releases:

Chinese Simplified (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations/pull/30)
Translations: "Ouou Ahah", @tangchang-b
Lead Reviewer: @tangchang-b
Japanese (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations/pull/36)
Translations: @mister-1-wizard, "I M"
Lead Reviewer: @msdrii



User-Facing Bugfixes:

After transcribing a SeedQR an exception shouldn't be raised if unexpected QR type is scanned: @kdmukai; w/@newtonick, @fedebuyito (#677)

Misc / Nerdy Details:

[l10n] Enable new language code autodiscovery; add Asian fonts: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @newtonick (#686)
[l10n] Promote zh_Hans_CN to beta: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @newtonick (#755)
[l10n] New Hardware Settings need to be marked for translation: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @newtonick (#756)
[l10n] [Bugfix] ToolsCalcFinalWordScreen: adjusts spacing for locales w/larger fonts: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @newtonick  (#757)
[l10n] [Bugfix] TopNav titles not switching language font; misc l10n cleanup: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @newtonick (#745)
[l10n] [Bugfix] TextArea: Proper detection of chars rendering below baseline on final line of text: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @avroble, @newtonick (#751)
[Bugfix] Prevent backspace on empty passphrase field: @zappityzap; w/@fedebuyito, @alvroble, @newtonick (#690; 🎉 FIRST PR!)
[Bugfix] Only apply auto-scroll ButtonListScreen logic for long lists that need it: @kdmukai w/@newtonick (#742)
[Cleanup] Remove unused fonts: @kdmukai (#687)
[Tests] Update coverage to 7.6.12: @kdmukai; w/@fedebuyito, @dbast, @newtonick (#688)
[Tests] Slight enhancement to coverage calcs: @kdmukai (#697)
[Release prep] Multi-language 0.8.6 version bump: @bitcoinprecept (#778)
[Release prep] Update seedsigner-translations submodule for 0.8.6 release: @newtonick (#780)

SeedSigner OS updates:

Add "external" ccache to speed up builds; preserve caches outside Docker container: @kdmukai; w/@jdlcdl, @dbast, @fedebuyito, @newtonick (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-os/pull/83)
[l10n] Increase DOS partition size to 40MB to accommodate I10n changes: @newtonick; w/@kdmukai, @jdlcdl (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-os/pull/89)
Add .buildroot-ccache and .ccache to gitignore: @newtonick (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-os/pull/88)
Remove obsolete docker compose version: @newtonick (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-os/pull/85)

seedsigner-translations updates:

[CI] New Github Action to add screenshot diff report: @kdmukai; w/jdlcdl, newtonick (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations/pull/25)
[CI] [Bugfix] Remove hard-coded kdmukai fork reference; pass in env var instead: @kdmukai (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations/pull/24)
[Release prep] Add compiled mo files for every language translated so far for 0.8.6 release: @newtonick (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-translations/pull/42)

seedsigner-screenshots updates:

Added screenshots for: Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese
Updated screenshots for: English, Spanish


Team

Project Lead / Creator: @seedsigner ("the man")
Lead Developer: @kdmukai
Lead Maintainer / SeedSigner OS Lead: @newtonick
Lead Reviewer/Tester: @jdlcdl
UX Designer: @easyuxd
Project Manager: @bitcoinprecept

🎉🎉 1 new dev and 7 new translation teams contributed to this release! 🎉🎉