Leading Bitcoin Wallet

Electrum 4.5.3 Release

February 23, 2024

Terminology Update:

  • Now using “vbytes” for transaction sizes and “sat/vbyte” for fee rates (#8864)

Key Fixes:

  • Resolved wizard regression for using hardware wallets as cosigners (643fbec)
  • Fixed onchain invoice payment detection with jsonpatch enabled (#8842)
  • Addressed startup issues caused by invalid proxy settings (#8837)

GUI Improvements:

  • Qt Desktop: Added server bookmarking feature (#8865)
  • Qt Desktop: Fixed MAX amount handling for Lightning invoices (#8900)
  • QML (Android): Resolved wallet loading concurrency issue (#8355)
  • Various UI enhancements across both platforms

Hardware Wallet Support:

  • Trezor: Implemented SLIP-19 ownership proofs for Standard Wallets (#8871)
  • Trezor: Fixed multisig transaction signing for Trezor One (#8813)

Lightning:

  • Addressed timing issue in channel re-establishment process (79d88dcb)

Security:

  • Improved wizard logging to protect sensitive data (638fdf11)