BEAM(BEAM) Beam Network Upgrade & Hard Fork

Release Highlights

• This version supports the Hard Fork which will take place at block height 1,820,000 (end of June). To continue using your funds please upgrade your wallets!
• Numerous infrastructure improvements so that BEAM wallet (and Dapps in particular) work even more seamlessly and intuitively than before (90+ tasks in total — see in details here and here)

Improvements

Plentiful user-oriented improvements have been implemented, including:

• Clearer notifications/errors/confirmations for users, so you won’t miss anything.
• Implemented IPFS integration. Support Documentation.
• Added support of HFTx (High-frequency transactions).
• Ability to recover a web wallet from a mobile recovery file.
• Wallet API users can now sign user messages correctly.
• Added Drag and Drop for the DApp store page. And lots of other minor interface improvements.
• Added social networks to the Dapp publisher page, now they can be linked to the profile.
• Linux version is now displayed properly on smaller resolutions.

Known limitations

• When using active laser beam channels the CLI wallet should not be offline for over 24 hours
• Once generated, do not offer the same offline address to multiple senders of payments
• One more line was added in known limitations DApp Store — On Ubuntu 22+ apps list will not load icons

Points to mention

• Upon using Atomic Swaps with ETH, DAI, WBTC, and USDT, users will have to create an account on Infura.
• The sender of funds to a receiver's Public Offline Address might be able to know that those funds are later being used by the receiver. Beam wallet and Beam explorer do not expose such functionality but it’s possible to derive this information by analyzing the Blockchain.

Verifying release binaries

PGP key: "A6C6 2C9F 5593 1860 AFF8 3BBB 997E AB9F 3DF7 F375"

1. Go to https://keybase.io/beammw and get the Public PGP key.
2. Download the signed binary file (with extension .asc) you want to verify.
3. Verify the signature using PGP Suite or any other PGP verification tools