v0.26.1

This public alpha release features:

• Improved security

The bitcoin transactions needed for name registrations are now generated in the browser. (Without a call to the local Blockstack core node) The pre-order and registration transactions are submitted to and queued on a transaction broadcasting service which will broadcast them to the network in the correct sequence. There's no longer a need to keep the browser online for several hours to register names.

NOTE: The new bitcoin wallet is stored in the browser and secured by the same key as your identity. This is a change from prior versions where we were the bitcoins were stored in a separate wallet from your identity. To migrate the bitcoins from the old wallet, follow the instructions here.

Windows Notes

• This release of the Windows installer runs natively, however, it does not support using the bitcoin wallet or performing transactions, however, the next release should enable both.
• Soon, the Windows build will support all of our features, natively
• This release is signed by "Blockstack PBC"
• The installer is a 'multiple-context' installer. If you run it as a user, it will install only for that user. If you run it as administrator, it will install for all users.

Names purchased in a pre-release version prior to v0.10.0 will need to be transferred to the production keychain location with a future tool.

v0.26.0

This public alpha release features:

• Browser name registration transaction generation.
• Bug fix for profiles without usernames: #1228

The bitcoin transactions needed for name registrations are now generated in the browser. (Without a call to the local Blockstack core node) The pre-order and registration transactions are submitted to and queued on a transaction broadcasting service which will broadcast them to the network in the correct sequence. There's no longer a need to keep the browser online for several hours to register names.

NOTE: The new bitcoin wallet is stored in the browser and secured by the same key as your identity. This is a change from prior versions where we were the bitcoins were stored in a separate wallet from your identity. To migrate the bitcoins from the old wallet, follow the instructions here.

Windows Notes

• This release of the Windows installer runs natively, however, it does not support using the bitcoin wallet or performing transactions, however, the next release should enable both.
• Soon, the Windows build will support all of our features, natively
• This release is signed by "Blockstack PBC"
• The installer is a 'multiple-context' installer. If you run it as a user, it will install only for that user. If you run it as administrator, it will install for all users.

Names purchased in a pre-release version prior to v0.10.0 will need to be transferred to the production keychain location with a future tool.

v0.25.0

This public alpha release features:

• Blockstack Core v0.18
• Support for Blockstack IDs with subdomains

NOTE: The new bitcoin wallet is stored in the browser and secured by the same key as your identity. This is a change from prior versions where we were the bitcoins were stored in a separate wallet from your identity. To migrate the bitcoins from the old wallet, follow the instructions here.

Windows Notes

• This release of the Windows installer runs natively, however, it does not support purchasing names or using the bitcoin wallet -- this is a leaner application experience that supports:
  1. creating a profile
  2. adding social verifications
  3. transfering Onename addresses to the Browser identity wallet
  4. authentication with applications that use the newer versions of Blockstack's storage system.
• Soon, the Windows build will support all of our features, natively
• This release is signed by "Blockstack PBC"
• The installer is a 'multiple-context' installer. If you run it as a user, it will install only for that user. If you run it as administrator, it will install for all users.

Names purchased in a pre-release version prior to v0.10.0 will need to be transferred to the production keychain location with a future tool.

v0.23.0

This public alpha release features:

• Fixes for a Blockstack ID address generation bug
• Fixes for an authentication bug that occurred in some apps using multi-player storage
• Increased test coverage
• Improved storage code

NOTE: The new bitcoin wallet is stored in the browser and secured by the same key as your identity. This is a change from prior versions where we were the bitcoins were stored in a separate wallet from your identity. To migrate the bitcoins from the old wallet, follow the instructions here.

Windows Notes

• This release of the Windows installer runs natively, however, it does not support purchasing names or using the bitcoin wallet -- this is a leaner application experience that supports:
  1. creating a profile
  2. adding social verifications
  3. transfering Onename addresses to the Browser identity wallet
  4. authentication with applications that use the newer versions of Blockstack's storage system.
• Soon, the Windows build will support all of our features, natively
• This release is signed by "Blockstack PBC"
• The installer is a 'multiple-context' installer. If you run it as a user, it will install only for that user. If you run it as administrator, it will install for all users.

Names purchased in a pre-release version prior to v0.10.0 will need to be transferred to the production keychain location with a future tool.

v0.22.1

This public alpha release features:

• Support for multi-player storage in Gaia
• New apps

NOTE: The new bitcoin wallet is stored in the browser and secured by the same key as your identity. This is a change from prior versions where we were the bitcoins were stored in a separate wallet from your identity. To migrate the bitcoins from the old wallet, follow the instructions here.

Windows Notes

• This release of the Windows installer runs natively, however, it does not support purchasing names or using the bitcoin wallet -- this is a leaner application experience that supports:
  1. creating a profile
  2. adding social verifications
  3. transfering Onename addresses to the Browser identity wallet
  4. authentication with applications that use the newer versions of Blockstack's storage system.
• Soon, the Windows build will support all of our features, natively
• This release is signed by "Blockstack PBC"
• The installer is a 'multiple-context' installer. If you run it as a user, it will install only for that user. If you run it as administrator, it will install for all users.

Names purchased in a pre-release version prior to v0.10.0 will need to be transferred to the production keychain location with a future tool.

v0.22.0

This public alpha release features:

• Support for multi-player storage in Gaia
• New apps

NOTE: The new bitcoin wallet is stored in the browser and secured by the same key as your identity. This is a change from prior versions where we were the bitcoins were stored in a separate wallet from your identity. To migrate the bitcoins from the old wallet, follow the instructions here.

Windows Notes

• This release of the Windows installer runs natively, however, it does not support purchasing names or using the bitcoin wallet -- this is a leaner application experience that supports:
  1. creating a profile
  2. adding social verifications
  3. transfering Onename addresses to the Browser identity wallet
  4. authentication with applications that use the newer versions of Blockstack's storage system.
• Soon, the Windows build will support all of our features, natively
• This release is signed by "Blockstack PBC"
• The installer is a 'multiple-context' installer. If you run it as a user, it will install only for that user. If you run it as administrator, it will install for all users.

Names purchased in a pre-release version prior to v0.10.0 will need to be transferred to the production keychain location with a future tool.

v0.21.6

This public alpha release features:

• Enables support for authentication with apps that use the new direct to gaia hub storage system on Windows. Windows users will now be able to use new gaia apps!
• Fixes for the invalid hex string error that periodically occurred.

NOTE: The new bitcoin wallet is stored in the browser and secured by the same key as your identity. This is a change from prior versions where we were the bitcoins were stored in a separate wallet from your identity. To migrate the bitcoins from the old wallet, follow the instructions here.

Windows Notes

• This release of the Windows installer runs natively, however, it does not support purchasing names or using the bitcoin wallet -- this is a leaner application experience that supports:
  1. creating a profile
  2. adding social verifications
  3. transfering Onename addresses to the Browser identity wallet
  4. authentication with applications that use the newer versions of Blockstack's storage system.
• Soon, the Windows build will support all of our features, natively
• This release is signed by "Blockstack PBC"
• The installer is a 'multiple-context' installer. If you run it as a user, it will install only for that user. If you run it as administrator, it will install for all users.

Names purchased in a pre-release version prior to v0.10.0 will need to be transferred to the production keychain location with a future tool.

v0.21.5

This public alpha release features:

• 14 new apps added to home screen

NOTE: The new bitcoin wallet is stored in the browser and secured by the same key as your identity. This is a change from prior versions where we were the bitcoins were stored in a separate wallet from your identity. To migrate the bitcoins from the old wallet, follow the instructions here.

Windows Build

• This release of the Windows installer runs natively, however, it does not support purchasing names, using our storage system with applications, or using the bitcoin wallet -- this is a leaner application experience that supports:
  1. creating a profile
  2. adding social verifications
  3. transfering Onename addresses to the Browser identity wallet
  4. authentication with applications that do not use Blockstack's storage system.
• Soon, the Windows build will support all of our features, natively
• Adventurous developers can still use the launcher script to help set up a Docker environment
• This release is signed by "Blockstack PBC"

Linux/Docker Script

• The Blockstack-for-Linux.sh script can be used to start a Blockstack Browser daemon on Linux and other environments supporting Docker
• Using the script requires setting up Docker beforehand
• run ./Blockstack-for-Linux-v0.21.5.sh help for instructions on using the script

Known issues
These will be fixed in an upcoming release:

• Dropbox support is temporarily disabled in this release. It will be re-enabled in a future release. #908

Names purchased in a pre-release version prior to v0.10.0 will need to be transferred to the production keychain location with a future tool.

v0.21.4

This public alpha release features:

• Fixes a Blockstack core bug

NOTE: The new bitcoin wallet is stored in the browser and secured by the same key as your identity. This is a change from prior versions where we were the bitcoins were stored in a separate wallet from your identity. To migrate the bitcoins from the old wallet, follow the instructions here.

Known issues
These will be fixed in an upcoming release:

• Dropbox support is temporarily disabled in this release. It will be re-enabled in a future release. #908

Names purchased in a pre-release version prior to v0.10.0 will need to be transferred to the production keychain location with a future tool.

v0.21.3

This public alpha release features:

• A new app
• Renamed "Trust Level" to "Social Level" to avoid misleading users
• Bug fixes

NOTE: The new bitcoin wallet is stored in the browser and secured by the same key as your identity. This is a change from prior versions where we were the bitcoins were stored in a separate wallet from your identity. To migrate the bitcoins from the old wallet, follow the instructions here.

Windows Build

• This release of the Windows installer runs natively, however, it does not support purchasing names, using our storage system with applications, or using the bitcoin wallet -- this is a leaner application experience that supports:
  1. creating a profile
  2. adding social verifications
  3. transfering Onename addresses to the Browser identity wallet
  4. authentication with applications that do not use Blockstack's storage system.
• Previous Windows builds used an installation of Docker to execute background daemons for the Blockstack Browser, this supported the authentication, name purchasing, and bitcoin wallet features.
• Trying to install docker and the containers automatically resulted in a lot of problems, and we believe that a native experience for Windows will provide a much better overall experience.
• In the future, the Windows build will support all of our features, natively
• Adventurous developers can still use the launcher script to help set up a Docker environment
• This release is signed by "Blockstack PBC"

Linux/Docker Script

• The Blockstack-for-Linux.sh script can be used to start a Blockstack Browser daemon on Linux and other environments supporting Docker
• Using the script requires setting up Docker beforehand
• run ./Blockstack-for-Linux-v0.20.1.sh help for instructions on using the script

Known issues
These will be fixed in an upcoming release:

• Dropbox support is temporarily disabled in this release. It will be re-enabled in a future release. #908

Names purchased in a pre-release version prior to v0.10.0 will need to be transferred to the production keychain location with a future tool.