🥷Under the hood improvements
🛍️ Point of Sale enhancements
⚡ Generate BoltCards at scale through BTCPay directly!
📧 Better email form functionality
🖇️New Smartstore Integration & WooCommerce improvements.
Let's dive into it 🧵
🛠️ .NET 8
In this release, we've upgraded to .NET 8, which brings improved performance and new long term support.
As Postgresql 11 has reached its end-of-life (EOL) status, we will no longer provide support for it in BTCPay Server.
⚠️Plugins
Starting from 1.12.0, plugins are now able to extend BTCPay Server’s lightning support, enabling new integration possibilities.
Some plugins incompatible with the current version of BTCPay may automatically be disabled. Once updated to 1.12.0, BTCPay Server will let you know through notifications and you can update plugins for continued use.
🛍️ Point of Sale - Ability to add and clear amounts.
We’ve added the ability to add up amounts through + functionality, making it easier to calculate the total, and clear out wrongly added amounts.
🛍️ Point of Sale - Transaction history
Cashiers can now see a transaction history of the Point of sale app, ensuring easier invoice troubleshooting and refunding for users with permission to do so. We also improved error messaging on the checkout when using NFC cards and optimized receipts printing.
🛍️ Point of Sale - Categories view improvement
In case of too many categories in the POS cart view, categories are now scrollable. Starting 1.12.0, categories and filters can now be hidden from the main view, but they’re on by default if you’re using categories.
✏️Item editor used in both Point of Sale and Crowdfunding apps got improved, allowing easier adding, drag and drop and editing experience for products.
⚡ Generate BoltCards at scale through BTCPay directly!
Inspired by the success of circular economies using BTCPay on physical POS devices and NFC cards, we’ve added direct integration of BoltCard into our Pull Payment system, allowing anyone to issue physical NFC cards.
Quite simply, any BTCPay user now has the ability to not only generate NFC cards for spending for their local economies and merchants, but also have an easy way to do that at scale, thanks to our BTCPay Vault, it takes only a few seconds.
📧 Enhancing email form functionality
You can now send an email automatically when invoicing a client through a payment request, processing a salary for your employee or issuing a refund through payouts.
Metadata collected through the custom forms is now exposed in the email forms, which means you can trigger emails with customer shipping information or any other custom data you’ve collected through the checkout form.
👛 Wallet improvements
To ensure better fee estimation in BTCPay’s wallet, we’ve set Mempool.space as a default fee estimation source.
Support for BIP129 has been added. We’ve also improved instructions for Passport device import and improved labels.
🖇️A new e-commerce integration for merchants is available - Smartstore.
We’re inviting merchants using this CMS to beta test it and report back how it works. Our integration team has been on fire lately, and you can expect more CMS and eCommerce plugins in the future. Special thanks to Nisaba for leading on the SmartStore development.
https://community.smartstore.com/index.php?/files/file/246-btcpay-server-for-smartstore/
🖇️One of our most popular e-commerce integrations - BTCPay for
WooCommerce has been updated as well. Most notably, the plugin is now fully compatible with WooCommerce cart and checkout blocks.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/btcpay-greenfield-for-woocommerce/
New plugin updates, and once again a reminder to LNbank users to update and patch a critical security bug in that plugin. 🚨
🚨 Beware of scammers!
Despite our numerous warnings in the past months, we’re still seeing that people are falling for a scam called Bitcoin Bonus or similar derivative, which is an ongoing scam that abuses our brand and software.
https://blog.btcpayserver.org/bitcoin-bonus-scam/
🫶 Support BTCPay
If you’re finding BTCPay Server useful, you can support us as an individual donor through our OpenSats page https://opensats.org/projects/btcpayserver
If you're a corporate donor willing to donate, reach out directly to our BTCPay Foundation http://foundation.btcpayserver.org
💚 Thank you
As usual, if you have problems, feedback, feature requests regarding BTCPay Server, feel free to reach out on our community chat (opens new window). We hope you enjoy what this update has to offer. As always, thank you to our invaluable contributors, who directly participated in making 1.12.0 possible.
Besides release contributors, we'd like to thank all of our contributors who're making BTCPay Server better every day, through testing, reporting bugs, providing feedback, documenting, content making and more! BTCPay Server could never rapidly progress without your help!
The BTCPay Server team 💚