Wasabi Wallet v2.8.0 Warning

You might want to hold off on the new version of Wasabi Wallet if you use your own node, as the RPC connection requests were failing. I rolled back to the previous AUR Arch version 2.7.2 which worked fine. I haven’t seen a bug report on it yet, but it was just released. Perhaps if I get some free time I’ll reinstall the new version and check logs to report it. I am running Bitcoin Knots 20260508 supporting BIP-110, so could that be the issue? I looked at the PKGBUILD diffs and it was just version and checksum changes for processing the official deb package. If you were content to just use Tor and other peers it still worked, but if I’m doing a coinjoin I want it using my node for maximum privacy.

https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.8.0

Repository: WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi · Tag: v2.8.0 · Commit: 2f849f7 · Released by: github-actions[bot]

Wasabi Wallet is an easy to use, privacy-focused, open-source, non-custodial, Bitcoin wallet.

Download

🪟 Windows
🍏 Apple M1/M2
🍎 Apple Intel
🐧 Ubuntu / Debian
🐧 Other Linux


Release Highlights

⚙️ P2P synchronization for compact filters

🚀 Pay in coinjoin

↘️ Sub-1 sat/vByte transaction fees

♻️ Payment batching

📎 Support for arm64 Linux, Tails, and Whonix

📜 Scheme scripting language

🔑 Signet test network

💀 Forward compatibility for Tor

Release Summary

Wasabi Wallet v2.8.0 is a massive release with P2P synchronization, faster onboarding, improved privacy, lower fees, and expanded device support.

⚙️ P2P synchronization for compact filters

Wasabi pioneered the use of compact block filters for private wallet synchronization. This involved implementing a custom indexer to build the filters, and hosting a server to provide them to clients.

Progress continued on block filters, resulting in standardized BIPs and direct support in Bitcoin node software. This version of Wasabi uses Bitcoin’s P2P network to download compact filters, eliminating the centralized server.

Onboarding new users to Wasabi is now faster thanks to wallet birthday checkpoints. Newly generated wallets no longer waste time and bandwidth downloading old blockchain history since it would be impossible for a new wallet to have previously received any transactions.

🚀 Pay in coinjoin

Sending payments directly inside a coinjoin transaction uses block space more efficiently and improves privacy in several ways:

  • The age of your inputs is not revealed, so the receiver does not learn how long you’ve held your coins.
  • The size of your change is not revealed, so the receiver does not learn the amount of coins you have left over.
  • You can batch multiple payments into one transaction without revealing they originate from the same sender.

↘️ Sub-1 sat/vByte transaction fees

You can now spend coins using fee rates as low as 0.1 sat/vByte, letting you save up to 90% on mining fees. If a low fee transaction gets “stuck”, you can use Replace By Fee (RBF) to speed it up.

♻️ Payment batching

You can now pay to multiple addresses in the same transaction. This significantly reduces the amount of block space used compared to sending each payment individually.

📎 Support for arm64 Linux, Tails, and Whonix

Linux users with arm64 devices are now part of the Wasabi family. Tails and Whonix installations are now automatic and no longer require manual Tor configuration.

📜 Scheme scripting language

The scripting language is an experimental feature that makes Wasabi programmable, queryable, and extensible.

🔑 Signet test network

Testnet3 and Testnet4 use proof of work for generating blocks, just like mainnet. Because testnet coins have no value, low mining difficulty allows an attacker with a small amount of hashpower to flood blocks or create long reorgs.

Signet is another test network that allows a set of signers to create blocks. This reduces the unpredictable behavior so developers can work with a stable environment.

💀 Forward compatibility for Tor

The Tor Project is terminating network support for versions <0.4.9 on September 1, 2026. This release of Wasabi upgrades the bundled Tor dependency to ensure forward compatibility.


Installation Guide

Download the operating system relevant software package and install Wasabi like you would with any other software on your computer.
For a detailed installation guide, including signature verification, see the documentation.

Documentation

🕸️ Website
🧅 Tor onion site
📙 Documentation
FAQ

Advanced Guide

If you want to build or update Wasabi from source code, check out these easy instructions.

Wasabi uses reproducible builds, which you can verify with this guide.

Requirements

  • Windows 10 1607+
  • Windows 11 23H2+
  • macOS 14+
  • Ubuntu 22.04+
  • Fedora 42+
  • Debian 12+

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v2.7.2…v2.8.0

This release has 29 assets:

  • SHA256SUMS
  • SHA256SUMS.asc
  • SHA256SUMS.wasabisig
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-arm64.deb
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-arm64.deb.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-arm64.dmg
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-arm64.dmg.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-linux-arm64.zip
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-linux-arm64.zip.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-linux-x64.tar.gz.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-linux-x64.zip
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-linux-x64.zip.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-macOS-arm64.zip
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-macOS-arm64.zip.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-macOS-x64.zip
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-macOS-x64.zip.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-win-x64.zip
  • Wasabi-2.8.0-win-x64.zip.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0.deb
  • Wasabi-2.8.0.deb.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0.dmg
  • Wasabi-2.8.0.dmg.asc
  • Wasabi-2.8.0.msi
  • Wasabi-2.8.0.msi.asc
  • Source code (zip)
  • Source code (tar.gz)

Visit the release page to download them.


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