By EZ in Releases — Sep 22, 2023

Alby Extension v3.2.1: Onchain Swaps, Bug Fixes, UI Improvements

Alby is a Bitcoin, Lightning and Nostr browser extension that connects to different wallet interfaces, including personal nodes. It let's users manage their payments and authentication flows on the web.

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"This release contains many amazing new features, bug and security fixes and beautiful UI improvements."
"It is now possible to do onchain swaps and send payments to onchain addresses using deezy.io directly from with in the Extension."
"The injection of the window.nostr and window.webln providers has been greatly improved and is now faster. This makes it easier and faster for web apps to detect if a provider is present."
"Also Alby can now handle parallel calls to those providers using an internal queue (no more "call is already executing" errors for developers of nostr apps \o/)."
"Alby now no longer checks the LNURL description hash in order to make the LNURL pay spec update possible."
"The allowance views have been completely updated with much more useful information.
v3.2.1 also includes a a bugfix in the Liquid get address screen.

Earlier update v3.1.0 also included the following updates:

"Every user is now able to sign transaction on the Liquid Network - a Bitcoin layer-2 with smart contract capability - and pay with bitcoin over the lightning network."
"Web apps are now able to ask users for the wallet balance and display it in their app."

Notable changes

feat: onchain swaps by @reneaaron in #2514
feat: add promise queues for providers by @reneaaron @pavanjoshi914 e.g. in #2679
feat: fast provider injection 🔥 by @reneaaron @pavanjoshi914 e.g. in #2691
feat: implement allowances and sites pages UX/UI improvements by @GabrielSoga in #2617
feat: new receive ui by @reneaaron in #2722
feat: add lightning address to homescreen by @reneaaron in #2739
feat: remove lnurl-pay description hash check by @bumi in #2700
feat: remember permissions by default by @reneaaron in #2704
feat: add logo to prompt header by @reneaaron in #2640
feat: provider onboard by @pavanjoshi914 in #2701
feat: new toasts by @reneaaron in #2729
feat: webln:enabled event by @pavanjoshi914 in #2732
feat: send account changed message to all the valid tabs which has receiving end by @pavanjoshi914 in #2748
security: additionally check message origin by @bumi in #2736
fix: show nsec format in nostr settings page by @rolznz in #2743
fix: remove setInterval, focus window by @reneaaron in #2695
fix: prompt layout by @reneaaron in #2703
fix: webln request supported methods check by @rolznz in #2740
fix: use comment if available for alby invoices by @reneaaron in #2738
fix: set unique keys for routes by @im-adithya in #2593
fix: add the account name to prompt by @reneaaron in #2645
fix: remove obsolete activetab permission by @reneaaron in #2714
fix: zeus link in translations by @reneaaron in #2725
fix: shift the buttons to the bottom in LNURLpay screen view by @Rithvik-padma in #2742
fix: disable the checkbox for budget control during payments by @Rithvik-padma in #2731
fix: Updated "Bitcoin Beach Wallet" connector by @AdarshRawat1 in #2655
fix: change the styling for the galoy connector screen in dark theme mode by @Rithvik-padma in #2760
fix: validate the nostr private key only while saving by @Rithvik-padma in #2769