Change Log

Change Log

v1.2.10-beta - Apr 7, 2021

Changed

• Upgraded the bundled Zend to 2.0.23

• Fix withdraw password check on batch withdraw
• Fix password strength help text on login dialog

Due to a change of the Application ID in v1.2.10-beta, Windows users upgrading from 1.2.5-beta or earlier or setups with multiple user accounts must uninstall Sphere by Horizen first, using the "Programs" utility from the "Control Panel" before running the new installer.

v1.2.9-beta - Mar 12, 2021

Changed

• Security fix

Due to a change of the Application ID in v1.2.9-beta, Windows users upgrading from 1.2.5-beta or earlier or setups with multiple user accounts must uninstall Sphere by Horizen first, using the "Programs" utility from the "Control Panel" before running the new installer.

v1.2.8-beta - Nov 12, 2020

• Upgraded the bundled Zend to 2.0.22
• Change links to new horizen.io domain

• New sidebar icons and other graphics improvements
• Automatic backup of wallet files on saving
• Password protection of send founds action - now is possible to choose a different password from the wallet password
• Trusted setup download and verification using fetch-params.ps1 on Windows

• Editing wallet name and saving changes, didn't allow you to view the seed phrase again
• In full node mode Zend failed to terminate after user log off

Due to a change of the Application ID in v1.2.8-beta, Windows users upgrading from 1.2.5-beta or earlier or setups with multiple user accounts must uninstall Sphere by Horizen first, using the "Programs" utility from the "Control Panel" before running the new installer.

v1.2.7-beta - May 29, 2020

Changed:

• Fix a bug where change addresses generation in full mode was not covered by HD Seed
• Upgraded the bundled Zend to 2.0.21

Due to a change of the Application ID in v1.2.7-beta, Windows users upgrading from 1.2.5-beta or earlier or setups with multiple user accounts must uninstall Sphere by Horizen first, using the "Programs" utility from the "Control Panel" before running the new installer.

v1.2.6-beta - May 5, 2020

Changed:

• Notarize app for MacOS Catalina
• Fix 16x16 Mac icns icon
• Change appId to 'io.horizen.spherebyhorizen'

Due to a change of the Application ID in v1.2.6-beta, Windows users upgrading from 1.2.5-beta or earlier or setups with multiple user accounts must uninstall Sphere by Horizen first, using the "Programs" utility from the "Control Panel" before running the new installer.

v1.2.5-beta - March 27, 2020

Changed:

• Added 'Sign with address' functionality
• New api endpoint for fiat currency conversion
• Upgraded project dependencies and Nodejs version

v1.2.4-beta - February 19, 2020

Changed:

• Upgraded the bundled Zend to 2.0.20

v1.2.3-beta - February 14, 2020

Changed:

• Improvements in the "refresh data from blockchain" functionality:

  • Added a new progress-bar to inform the user on the ongoing process
  • Optimized the http calls to the explorer, to speed up the process and avoid the freezing of the app for wallets with huge amount of addresses.
  • Increased refresh timeout (120 second)

• Performance optimizations in wallet navigation, transaction listing and new address creation

• Improvements in "batch withdraw" functionality:

  • Address list now ordered with the same criteria as the wallet detail
  • Added a check on the total size of the transaction (if exceeded, an error is displayed and the transaction is not sent)

v1.2.2-beta - October 23, 2019

Changed:

• Upgraded the bundled Zend to 2.0.19
• Upgraded project dependencies

Added:

• Better error handling/logging

v1.2.1-beta - September 19, 2019

Upgraded project dependencies

v1.2.0-beta - August 16, 2019

Added two new wallet level features:

• 1. Batch withdraw, used to withdraw funds from multiple addresses in a single transaction
• 2. Batch split, used to deposit funds to multiple addresses in a single transaction

Added Private Key Balance Sweep

In application Tools menu, enabling the ability to sweep all funds from private keys / WIFs 

Added View Wallet's Backup Phrase

Added the ability to view a wallet's Backup Phrase in it's Edit Settings window

v1.1.2-beta - July 19, 2019

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue with handling null data (OP_RETURN) transactions
• Fixed full mode seed restores taking an unusual length of time to complete
• Fixed an issue where some addresses would not be restored

Changed

• Restoring a seed will now search every layer of the BIP39/44 derivation path, providing support for external HD wallets
• Upgraded the bundled Zend to 2.0.18

Added

• User can now specify how many shielded addresses to restore, up to a hard limit of 20
• User can now specify how many transparent addresses to restore, up to a hard limit of 500 per active account & chain on the BIP39/44 derivation path (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki)

v1.1.1-beta - May 15, 2019

Changed

• Fix an issue where some ledger seeds would not fully restore
• Fix an issue handling spaces in Windows account usernames

v1.1.0-beta - April 19, 2019

Due to significant improvements to data handling, users are strongly advised to create new accounts and restore their wallet seeds.

An upgrade mechanism will be included in the next major release to remove the requirement on the user to perform this step.

Added

• Support restoring mnemonic seeds with multiple accounts (e.g. Ledger wallet seeds)
• Terminal restricted to zen-cli commands to enable advanced wallet usage
• Ability to reindex & reindex-chainstate the local node

Changed

• Upgraded the bundled zend to 2.0.17 - version 2.0.16 is scheduled to be deprecated on April 26
• Fix an issue where the application would crash when dealing with large transaction data sets
• Rework data refresh logic to reduce resource consumption and reliance on explorer API calls
• General performance improvements
• Fix an issue connecting to the local node
• RPC credentials are now randomised each time the application starts
• Fix issues with transaction history not displaying as intended
• Fix an issue where some accounts would become corrupted during encryption

v1.0.1-beta - January 17, 2019

• Progress indicator for downloading the proving keys
  
  

• Upgraded the bundled zend to 2.0.16
• Fixed installation issues on Windows systems
• Improved support for Windows 8 systems
• General improvements and bug fixes to the zend installer