v7.0: Welcome to the jungle

7.0

This release introduces support for Liana Connect as an optional backend for the Liana GUI
and Electrum server as an optional node interface for the Liana daemon.

Breaking changes

Running Liana v7 on an existing installation will migrate its database.
Once migrated the database won't be compatible with previous versions of Liana.
This means you won't be able to open with Liana v6 (or below) any wallet opened or created with Liana v7.

Features

Liana daemon / library

• Transactions are now created with fee sniping protection.
• You can now remotely connect to your node using Electrum, as an alternative to running Bitcoin Core locally.

Liana GUI

• The user does not have to select a network at start up anymore, the launcher looks for an installed network in the following order: mainnet, testnet, signet, regtest.
• The launcher reads the settings.json file and provides information about the installed wallet or provides the user with a choice to create or add a wallet.
• When creating or adding a wallet for the selected network, user has the choice to use his local node or an Electrum server or the Liana Connect service as a backend for the Liana GUI.
• User can share his hardware wallets xpubs by clicking on "Share xpubs" from the launcher.
• Wallet policy description was added to the installer and in the wallet settings.
• If using the Wizardsardine servers as remote backend, a user can provide access to a wallet to an other user by sending him an invitation with the invitee email in the wallet settings.
• Coldcard and Specter DIY can now be used with taproot descriptors.
• We now display the software version in the title bar.
• A --help flag was added to display a help menu about the available flags.
• The Bitcoin Core node version to install for managed local nodes was upgraded to 27.1.

Fixes

Liana daemon / library

• We now check the change multipath is not hardened when importing a descriptor (or creating a LianaDescriptor struct).
• We add the minimum feerate requested in the error message of the create spend command.

Liana GUI

• The rendering of amounts superior to thousands now includes space.
• We detect if the descriptor changed before displaying registration status in the installer.
• We fixed some display issues with overlapping text, notably in the transaction panel.
• On reload, new labels are correctly loaded in existing transaction list in the home panel.
• In order to handle flaky connection, the whole hardware wallet list is reset at each step
  of the install process.

What file from the list should i download?

Prefer downloading binaries from our website. You'll be guided on which one to pick there.

If you really want to download them from Github and are not sure what executable below you should download, pick:

• Liana.zip if you are on MacOS,
• liana-7.0.exe if you are on Windows,
• liana_7.0-1_amd64.deb if you are running a Debian-based Linux (such as Ubuntu). Use apt install ./liana_7.0-1_amd64.deb as root (or preceded by sudo) to install it.
• liana-7.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz if you use another Linux distribution. Note you may have to compile the software yourself if you are on Linux. See doc/USAGE.md.