v0.8.1 Highlights

Standalone Point of Sale with inventory management
Nostr contact import
Persistent LND (keep running LND even when ZEUS is closed, this enables instant ZEUS PAY zap redemptions, makes zapping faster, and paves the way for NWC) [Android only]
Node/account reordering
Improved expiry display
LND v0.17.3

What's Changed

README: add Start9 links by @kn0wmad in #1894
Bug Fix: 'Proceed' and 'Send Coins' both showing for on-chain transac… by @shubhamkmr04 in #1892
Allow filtering out unconfirmed transactions by @myxmaster in #1861
Update iris.to links by @kaloudis in #1902
Locales: Swahili by @kaloudis in #1911
LND: v0.17.3-beta-zeus by @kaloudis in #1904
Lightning address: add 'lightning:' as prefix to QR by @kaloudis in #1903
Fix size of min/max amount for lnurlpay by @myxmaster in #1910
LnurlPay and Send: Fix cut off text by @myxmaster in #1905
Reworked settings layout by @myxmaster in #1912
Open Channel: toggle off and disable Announce when Taproot Channel toggled by @kaloudis in #1895
Improved UI/UX for LNDhub read-only wallets by @myxmaster in #1781
ZEUS-1898: Fix crash on sort by channel close height by @kaloudis in #1915
Fix adding route hints to invoice when requesting from keypad if enabled in settings by @myxmaster in #1909
ZEUS-1858: Unified QRs: handle LNURLs used as lightning param by @kaloudis in #1859
ZEUS PAY explainer: remove language about LSP if backend doesn't support it by @kaloudis in #1916
Persist chosen units across app restarts by @kaloudis in #1913
ZEUS-1900: In-transit payments: convert to failed payments by @kaloudis in #1917
Contacts V2: Implementing Nostr contacts by @shubhamkmr04 in #1907
Standalone POS by @Talej in #1722
Channels: Filters: Online/Offline by @kaloudis in #1923
ZEUS-1642: Nodes: add ability to reorder list by @kaloudis in #1922
Invoice: Improve expiry display by @myxmaster in #1534
Android: persistent LND service by @kaloudis in #1906
Embedded LND: Settings: DB compaction + Neutrino file deletion by @kaloudis in #1925
Version bump: v0.8.1-beta1 by @kaloudis in #1918
LNC: fix supportsLightningSends permission check by @kaloudis in #1929
Fixed connection errors for old connection attempts being shown by @myxmaster in #1928
Removed unused locale strings by @myxmaster in #1932
Harmonize icon sizes in tab navigation by @myxmaster in #1931
Fix description field layout in AddContact view by @shubhamkmr04 in #1939
Improve Contacts layout by @myxmaster in #1936
Localize POS settings by @myxmaster in #1935
Settings: Improve layout if no node exists by @myxmaster in #1919
Improve activity layout by @myxmaster in #1933
Fixed handling of lndhub payment hashes by @myxmaster in #1920
Transaction details: do not show fee percentage if amount is 0 by @myxmaster in #1945
Contact picker: localize 'To' (recipient) by @myxmaster in #1942
Add functionality to share Contact via QR code by @shubhamkmr04 in #1924
Standalone POS: add optional keypad by @kaloudis in #1949
Send: Margin fix in Contact list by @shubhamkmr04 in #1950
Improve wallet header layout by @myxmaster in #1951
Re-added locales by @shubhamkmr04 in #1952
Temporarily remove new Tor binary by @kaloudis in #1954
Contacts: Saving banner and photos locally by @shubhamkmr04 in #1953
Update clipboard and picker packages by @myxmaster in #1958
ContactDetails: Decrease font-size of name by @shubhamkmr04 in #1962
RNFS: account for changing DocumentDirectoryPath by @kaloudis in #1961
Version bump: v0.8.1 by @kaloudis in #1959

New Contributors

@kn0wmad made their first contribution in #1894

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.8.1

Verifying the Release

In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and hopefully verified that as well), you'll first need to import the keys that have signed this release if you haven't done so already:

gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys 96C225207F2137E278C31CF7AAC48DE8AB8DEE84

Once you have his PGP key you can verify the release (assuming manifest-v0.8.1.txt and manifest-v0.8.1.txt.sig are in the current directory) with:

gpg --verify manifest-v0.8.1.txt.sig manifest-v0.8.1.txt

You should see the following if the verification was successful:

gpg: Signature made Fri Jan 26 12:56:11 2024 EST
gpg:                using RSA key 96C225207F2137E278C31CF7AAC48DE8AB8DEE84
gpg:                issuer "zeusln@tutanota.com"
gpg: Good signature from "Zeus LN <zeusln@tutanota.com>" [ultimate]

That will verify the signature on the main manifest page which ensures integrity and authenticity of the binaries you've downloaded locally. Next, depending on your operating system you should then re-calculate the sha256 sum of the binary, and compare that with the following hashes:

cat manifest-v0.8.1.txt

One can use the shasum -a 256 <file name here> tool in order to re-compute the sha256 hash of the target binary for your operating system. The produced hash should be compared with the hashes listed above and they should match exactly.