Release 1.5.4

Version 1.5.4

Note: This release contains important bug fixes. Users are advised to update as soon as possible.

Added

• descriptor: Add support for elements confidential wallet policies.
• docker: Build amd64/arm64 multi-arch images, migrate to blockstream/wallycore.
• python: Add support and release wheels for Python 3.14.

Changed

• build: Move CI and docker images to Debian Trixie.
• deps: Bump libsecp256k1-zkp to current master branch, update emsdk.
• java: update source version to v17 for supported Java installs.
• js: Move to Node v24, bump fast-uri dependency.

Fixed

• python: Remove internal dependency on distutils (which is now deprecated).
• descriptor: Disallow leading zero in numbers/policy key indices.
• descriptor: Return WALLY_ENONMEM correctly on out-of-memory errors.
• elements: Align unblinding behaviour with elements-core.
• build: Add missing cmake defines.
• build: Various build and test fixes.

Release 1.5.3

Version 1.5.3

Note: This release contains important bug fixes. Users are advised to update as soon as possible.

Added

• bip32: Add updated BIP checks to bip32_key_unserialize().
• build: Add support for fuzzing wally API calls.

Fixed

• psbt: correctly handle allocation failures in psbt_set_global_tx().
• tx: Avoid quadratic behaviour parsing txs with a huge number of witnesses.
• tx: Fix parsing Liquid transactions with short commitments.
• tx: Reject non-corresponding output as per bip341 when signing.
• map: Fix incorrect clear when reinserting an integer after removing bytes.
• js: Pass empty buffers as NULL + length zero.
• js: Bump webpack, serialize-javascript and terser-webpack-plugin dependencies.
• Various minor code and build fixes.

Release 1.5.2

Version 1.5.2

Note: This release contains important bug fixes. Users are advised to update as soon as possible.

Added

• taproot: add bip341_control_block_verify().

Changed

• map: ignore duplicates in map_merkle_path_add() for consistency.

Fixed

• build: Fix building with the Elements ABI disabled.
• tx: Fix BIP118 ANYPREVOUTANYSCRIPT sighash computation.
• psbt: Fix merkle path, witness and buffer length checks when parsing.

Release 1.5.1

Version 1.5.1

Added

• python: Add wheels for Python 3.13, remove support for Python 3.8.

Fixed

• python: Fix source builds for newer pip versions.
• java: Fix tx_get_input_signature_hash to allow passing a null cache to disable caching.

Release 1.5.0

Version 1.5.0

Added

• psbt: add psbt_get_input_signature_type to get the type of signature required by an input.
• descriptor: Add support for Elements el-prefixed descriptor builtins as used in rust-elements.
• descriptor: Add support for parsing Elements ct descriptors with slip77(), elip150() and raw hex blinding keys.
• descriptor: Add support for generating Elements confidential addresses from ct descriptors.
• descriptor: Expose functions to perform ELIP-150 blinding key tweaking.
• crypto: Add ec_public_key_tweak to tweak standard (non-xonly) pubkeys.
• elements: Add asset_blinding_key_to_ec_public_key to compute the blinding pubkey from a blinding key.

Changed

• psbt: Speed up p2tr signing slightly.
• descriptor: Allow U type children for thresh() expressions.
• build: Further extend CI coverage for scan-build/valgrind/asan checks.

Fixed

• tx: Fix taproot cached hashing when using external sha256 implementations.
• wasm: Fixes for es6 and cjs.
• address_to_scriptpubkey: Correctly handle WALLY_NETWORK_BITCOIN_REGTEST.
• amalgamation: Support all supported standard configurations. Minor improvements to make usage easier/more robust.
• Various minor code and build fixes.

Version 1.4.0

Version 1.4.0

Added

• tx: Add caching to signature hash generation/PSBT signing making signing faster.
• tx: Add support for generating Elements taproot signature hashes and signing Elements taproot inputs.
• descriptor: Add support for "tr()/rawtr()" keyspend-only taproot descriptors.
• descriptor: Add support for parsing Elements-core compatible descriptors, including taproot.
• psbt: Add accessors for keypath/taproot related fields.
• pset: Add support for ELIP-101 genesis hash.
• psbt: Add support for serializing/parsing/combining signature-only PSBTs.
• script: Add support for generating Elements p2tr scripts.
• BIP85: Add support for deriving RSA keys via BIP85.
• base64/psbt: Add support for parsing from known length (non-NUL terminated) strings.
• build: Add Debian Bookworm docker build image.

Changed

• tx: Re-implement signature hash generation to use less stack space and CPU independently of caching.
• amalgamation: Provide the amalgamated build as a single source file, make it simpler to use.
• build: CI improvements: New valgrind, scan-build and ubsan/addrcheck/etc builds. Add CI/test runs
  for builds with elements support disabled and minimal (embedded) builds.
• build: Update/extend tests to make it easier to catch errors in the new CI builds.

Fixed

• psbt: Fix detection of expired CSV inputs for v0 PSBTs.
• psbt: Fix finalization of non-optimized CSV inputs (e.g. Green Liquid 2of2).
• tx: Fix incorrect sighash masking for BTC taproot inputs.
• build: Various fixes and test improvements for non-Elements builds.
• Various minor code and build fixes.

Release 1.3.1

Version 1.3.1

Added

• Elements: Add wally_tx_get_elements_weight_discount for computing ELIP-0200 weight discounts.

Changed

• Update JS dependencies.

Fixed

• Minor build/CI fixes.

Release 1.3.0

Version 1.3.0

Added

• script: Add support for fetching the CSV block count for Green CSV scripts.
• psbt_finalize: Add support for finalizing Green CSV inputs.

Changed

• PSBT: Do not serialize witness data for input non-witness UTXOs, in order to match the current behaviour of Bitcoin core.
• Java: Bump source version from 1.7 to 1.8 as 1.7 is no longer supported.

Fixed

• psbt_sign_bip32: Fix signing with parent/master keys. Only already-derived keys would result in signed inputs previously.
• PSET: Allow signing pre-segwit inputs.
• PSET: Allow generating explicit proofs for inputs with only a non-witness UTXO.
• wally_scriptpubkey_get_type: Mark all scripts starting with OP_RETURN as WALLY_SCRIPT_TYPE_OP_RETURN.
• bip32: Fix/generalize Elements pubkey tweaking
• Tx: Allow arbitrarily large transactions when constructing from hex/bytes.
• Build: cmake fixes

Release 1.2.0

Version 1.2.0

Added

• Python: Add Python 3.12 wheels to the binary releases/PyPI.
• tx: expose wally_tx_input_clone/wally_tx_input_clone_alloc for input cloning.
• Build: Add new static analysis CI runs.

Changed

• Javascript: The npm build now uses nodejs 20, as nodejs 16 is end-of-life.
• Android: Update android NDK to version 26b.
• libsecp256k1-zkp: The library has been updated to include the latest
  changes to its cmake infrastructure.
• cmake: Now takes advantage of the new libsecp256k1-zkp cmake files to build
  experimental modules and export the project in cmake style. cmake now also
  builds test and collects coverage data.

Fixed

• Build: Don't use which on Debian as it is now deprecated.
• Various bug fixes from static analysis.
• Various build and documentation fixes.

Release 1.1.0

Added

• PSBT: Allow extracting partially finalized transactions in wally_psbt_extract by passing a new WALLY_PSBT_EXTRACT_OPT_FINAL flag.
• tx: Allow getting the number of items in a transactions input witness via wally_tx_input_get_witness_num_items / wally_tx_get_input_witness_num_items.

Fixed

• tx: tx_input_get_witness now correctly returns 0 bytes written if passed a NULL input.