BTCPay Server v1.9.0 Released

"We've added some quality-of-life improvements aimed explicitly toward the retail experience of the software, better management features for your stores, and some touch-ups toward checkout V2. Most prominently, we’ve released a wallet integration with exchanges!"

Highlights

• Exchange integration via plugins
• Point of Sale devices, improved NFC experience and better digital receipts
• Checkout v2 gets further improvements
• New recovery seed phrase view
• Wallet labels export - BIP-329 and better label management
• Restructuring how metadata is viewed
• Deprecating MySQL and SQLite
• Bug fixes

Breaking change

As part of our effort to withdraw support for MySQL and SQLite, if you start BTCPay Server with --sqlitefile or --mysql without being in the context of a migration, your server will fail to start.

We introduce another flag, --deprecated, which allows you to start with SQLite or MySQL even if it is deprecated. We will remove this flag in version 1.10.

New features

• Can customize invoice's metadata for payments received through LN Address. (#4855) @Kukks
• The payRequest of an invoice from LNUrl are now saved inside the invoice's metadata (#4855) @NicolasDorier
• NFC: If browser permission is already granted, do not require the merchant to click on the "Pay by NFC" button. (#4807 #4819) @dennisreimann
• Point of Sales bought items will now appear on the receipt (#4851) @Kukks
• Add payment proof to the receipt, such as transaction ID or Lightning preimage (#4782) @dennisreimann
• Checkout v2: Show when the payment still needs confirmation (#4778) @dennisreimann
• Wallet Transactions Export: Add BIP-329 support (#4799) @dennisreimann
• Invoice Details: Improve payments list and print view (#4817 #4783 #4729) @dennisreimann
• Can add labels to destination addresses in the Send Wallet (#4796 #4755) @dennisreimann
• Properly parse an imported wallet's xpub when it contains a fingerprint and keypath (#4781) @dennisreimann
• Forms can include HTML select components (#4726) @Kukks
• Checkout v2: Celebrate payment with confetti (#4727) @dennisreimann
• Checkout v2: Option to display amount in Sats in BIP21 case (#4730) @dennisreimann
• Store Email rules: Can send test emails (#4843) @Nisaba
• Store Email rules: Support HTML/Rich Text emails (#4843) @Nisaba
• Add presets to optimize checkout experience for retail use (#4756) @NicolasDorier
• Dashboard: Add labels for recent txs dashboard widget (#4831) @dennisreimann
• Allow any bolt11 invoice for pullpayments/payouts, regardless of expiry @Kukks

Bug fixes

• If connection to Lightning node was interrupted, payments would be missed. (#4865 #4840 #4525) @NicolasDorier
• LN Address's Max sats payment was ignored. @NicolasDorier
• The preferred currency of a Point of Sale's App was ignored when paying through LNURL. @NicolasDorier
• The payRequest generated by LNAddress wasn't the same as the one generated by the callback (losing information about Min/Max spendable)
• With core lightning, getting payment by paymenthash wouldn't return the successful payment if the first one failed.
• Do not propose Lightning payment if the LN Node is dead (#4795 #3541) @Kukks
• Point of Sale: Fix escaped HTML entities in item title (#4798) @dennisreimann
• Fix: Labels added by payouts to transactions shouldn't show HTML markups (#4790) @dennisreimann
• If store user is Guest, "issue refund" shouldn't be an option (#4595 #3512) @Kukks
• Fix wrong data mapping to store data instead of store user data (#4874) @ndeet

Improvements

• Checkout V2 will be the default for new stores (#4850) @NicolasDorier
• Improve UX for adding/removing labels on transaction view (#4796 #4706) @dennisreimann
• UI: Redesign Recovery Seed view (#4793) @TChukwuleta
• Polishing experimental custodian feature; see blog post soon (#4085) @woutersamaey
• Prevent people from starting with --sqlitefile or --mysql (#4772) @NicolasDorier
• Replace text in copy buttons with icons (#4699 #4764) @dennisreimann
• Plugins will be able to introduce new types of apps in addition to Point of Sale and Crowdfund (#4608) @Kukks
• Dashboard: App stats (#4775) @dennisreimann
• Update price display (#4736) @dennisreimann @dstrukt
• Store branding: Improve complementing text and accent colors (#4746) @dennisreimann
• UI: Improve pagination (#4828) @benalleng @dennisreimann
• Checkout V2: Remove Pay by LNURL Withdraw button if NFC isn't supported by the browser (#4822) @dennisreimann
• Greenfield: Improve documentation of invoice's metadata (#4869) @NicolasDorier

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