Leading Bitcoin Wallet

Electrum 4.5.1 Release

January 19, 2024

Lightning Improvements:

  • Fixed MPP regression affecting small invoice payments (95c55c542)
  • Enhanced data loss protection (#8814):
    • Manual force-close option added for WE_ARE_TOXIC state
    • Resolved timing issues

QML GUI (Android) Updates:

  • Increased minimum Android version requirement to 6.0 (#8761)
  • Improved address deletion handling in imported wallets (#8782)
  • Fixed crashes related to:
    • LNURLp scanning/pasting (#8822)
    • New wallets with hardware wallet cosigners (#8808)
    • Undefined transaction IDs in finalizer (#8807)
  • Various UI enhancements (291f0ce, 3d9996a, ec81f00)

Qt Desktop GUI Enhancements:

  • Extended support for unfinished wallets via File → Open (#8809)
  • Improved OpenFileEventFilter handler (6a28ef5)

General Improvements:

  • Localization: Prevented CLI/RPC translation (0e5a1380)
  • Simplified default language selection process (0e5a1380)