v3.12.0 🪐 Herbig-Haro 24

• 🧩 Better onboarding for both master key and Nostr key
• 🔋 "Batteries" removed from the extension
• ⚙️ New Wallet Settings menu for easier access and configuration
• 🎨 Improved UI and ✍️ copy for smoother user experience
• 🛠️ Numerous under-the-hood code cleanups and workflow upgrades

v3.11.0 Pleiades over Half Dome
New features include the addition of a separate card specifically for importing Nostr keys and enhancements to locales with the inclusion of Sinhalese, Tamil, and Russian. Additionally, users can now view pending and failed transactions for NWC, improving transaction tracking and transparency.
The latest update includes several fixes and new features for the Lightning Browser Extension. Key fixes address issues with Reddit and Medium battery usage, as well as resolving a UI bug related to blue boxes. You can send bitcoin payments again to users on Reddit and Medium if they have a lightning address in their profile.

v3.10.0 Ice Clouds over a Red Planet
Version v3.10.0 introduces the Alby Hub Connector and a notification banner for upgrading shared wallets to Alby Hub. It also replaces "Citadel" with "Nirvati" and includes multiple translation updates. These updates enhance functionality, usability, and localization.

v3.9.2 Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud
The Alby Lightning Browser Extension v3.9.2 brings several updates and fixes. The optional getRelays method for the Nostr provider was removed, and the product copy for adding new accounts to wallets has been updated. Additionally, the extension now reloads the npub when an account changes, ensuring the correct npub is displayed in the default view. The update also includes copy improvements for the master key setup in the default view cards and enhances the onboarding process for accounts that require a connected node.

v3.9.1 Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud

This release includes several bug fixes, translation updates, and minor improvements:

Fixed dark mode text color, alignment issues, scale animations, and pubkey prompts triggering again.
Improved handling for lnaddress with LNURL prefixes, nwc keysend methods fixes, and avatar positioning.
Added a new identifier for authentication URLs.
Multiple translation updates to enhance localization.

v3.9.0 Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud
The new release includes enhancements such as making account menus more intuitive, extending kind lists, improvements to NWC connector and improving error messages for lndhub. Several bug fixes also include correcting notification amounts and addressing scrollbar issues in the extension popup. Additionally, the update introduces the Alby logo to QR codes used for invoices and implements better error handling for BIP353 DNS addresses.

💥 M78 from the Euclid Space Telescope
TL;DR
🔐 Eliminate Nostr Permissions Inconsistencies + no need to set permissions repeatedly, after being set.
🍎 Introduction to deny permission functionality -> where you can block the permission once or permanent
💵 Now you can use LaWallet via the browser extension
🔀 Massive UI updates to Extension settings Wallet settings and nostr settings for the extension. introduction to lightning address and nostr address settings in the extension

v3.7.0 🪼 The Jellyfish Nebula Supernova Remnant

🔐 Improved permission management for nostr (permission presets & kind-based permissions) — no more annoying nostr requests popups (If you want it!)
🍎 Apple support (Mac & iOS compatibility) — now you can use Alby Extension in Safari on both iOS, macOS and iPadOS
💵 Stablesats integration — view your Blink stablesats balance in fiat
🔀 New onboarding flows (no separate nostr onboarding needed) - we simplified and combined Master Key backup & import flow and "just import Nostr" flow
📨 NIP44 encrypted messages support
🍭 New iconset (Popicons)
🌍 Multi-lingual setup wizard
📱 Optimisations for smaller screens
🐛 Lots of bug fixes and improvements for different connectors (LNC, Core Lightning)

v3.6.0 🌈 Rainbow Aurora over Icelandic Waterfall

New NWC connector that makes it possible to use the Alby Extension with any wallet that supports NWC.
NWC makes it much easier to connect to nodes behind firewalls or private networks - like Umbrel, RaspiBlitz, etc. This is an alternative to unstable and slow Tor connections.

v3.5.0 🌁 The California Nebula Latest
- Firefox Mobile support 📲
- Boostagrams in transaction details 🚀
- Blink connector revamp
- Improved nostr signing screens for encrypt / decrypt
- Support for un-googled browsers 🚧

v3.4.1 🪐 Stereo Jupiter near Opposition - patch 1
Minor UI updates

v3.4.0 🪐 Stereo Jupiter near Opposition Latest
In the v3.4.0 release of the Lightning Browser Extension, several noteworthy features and improvements have been introduced such as overhauled transaction lists & detail views, German translations and various bugfixes & UI improvements.

This release contains many amazing new features, bug fixes and UI improvements.

For example: it is now possible to send and receive onchain bitcoin by signing with your Alby Master Key (You can try our demo wallet at https://getalby.github.io/bitcoin-wallet/). This is possible with the new Alby window.webbtc provider API. We have improved control over site access by splitting permissions for different providers such as nostr and webLN - therefore you know exactly what functionality you are enabling for the site. We've improved Login with Lightning so now that if you don't have a master key yet, you'll be guided on how to set one up. We've improved the UX for paying HOLD invoices, and added a new method to our extension APIs to check whether providers have been enabled in the past or not without having to launch a popup. There are also many bug fixes and updated translations! 🚀

This release contains many amazing new features, bug and security fixes and beautiful UI improvements.
For example: it is now possible to do onchain swaps and send payments to onchain addresses using deezy.io directly from within the Extension.
The injection of the window.nostr and window.webln providers has been greatly improved and is now faster. This makes it easier and faster for web apps to detect if a provider is present. Also Alby can now handle parallel calls to those providers using an internal queue (a big improvement for developers of Nostr apps \o/)
Alby now no longer checks the LNURL description hash in order to make the LNURL pay spec update possible.
The allowance views have been completely updated with much more useful information.

Every user is now able to sign transaction on the liquid network a Bitcoin layer-2 with smart contract capability and pay with bitcoin over the lightning network.
Web apps are now able to ask users for the wallet balance and display it in their app.

- Introduce mnemonic master seed to derive nostr and lnurl keyse
- Use Alby OAuth connector for easier and faster setup

v2.1.0 🦈 The Shark Nebula
v2.1.0 is a maintenance release with fixes and some minor improvements.
Most notable are the new APIs to make it easier to add accounts to the Alby Extension.

v2.0.1 🌌 Twilight in a Flower

v2.0.0 🌌 Twilight in a Flower
This is the biggest release of the Alby Extension ever!
We're proud to announce that this update has brought on board more contributors than ever before and is packed with countless enhancements and updates. In fact, the changes are so extensive that we've decided it's time for a major version update! 🎉 (and following the semantic versioning idea it has some big changes with the new web extension manifest v3)

v1.28.0 🏃‍♂️ Orion and the Running Man
Small improvements for a safer and more convenient usage of Nostr apps.

v1.27.0 ✍🏿 Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365

This release adds a new window.nostr.signSchnorr function. This allows web apps to request signatures from the Nostr key not only for Nostr events but any data. Opening up a whole new world of possible things that can be connected to user's Nostr key.

v1.26.0 ZTF meets ATLAS

v1.25.1 🤙 Reflections on the 1970s - patch 2

Fixed an issue that prevented users from updating old accounts (accounts that have been added to Alby more than 8 months ago).

v1.25.1 🤙 Reflections on the 1970s
This release contains many amazing updates that it easily becomes one of our favorit releases:

🤙 Nostr
Nostr is now moved out of the hidden "Alby labs"! 🎉 Every account in the Alby extension can now have Nostr keys making Alby the easiest way to manage your Nostr keys and use Nostr web clients. Now you can manage multiple Nostr identities in the extension.
Note: existing accounts will be all configured with the existing Nostr account. Going forward accounts need to be configured individually.

💡Did you know? With a getalby.com account and lightning address you can also get a Nostr address (NIP-05 identifier).

🔗 Lightning Node Connect
Connecting to self-custodial lightning nodes running at home has always been a bit tricky. With the Alby companion app for Tor we already made it possible and managed to allow people to use their nodes running behind Tor (thanks to libtor).
To make it even easier to connect to your self-custodial LND node Alby now supports Lightning Node Connect (LNC). LNC is Lightning Labs' mechanism to create an encrypted connection to a LND node. You can find more details about LNC here.

🛡️ Privacy and Tor Browser
The Alby extension already supported the Tor Browser but you still had to disable some default privacy setting. The Tor Browser is incredibly important tool to protect against surveillance and censorship. We improved our support for the Tor Browser further and you now can easily use lightning and Nostr apps safely with the Tor Browser or with an all-private window in Firefox. This is means also Nostr web clients can be accessed in areas where Nostr apps might be blocked.

💡Did you know? You can also connect your LND node behind Tor to a getalby.com lightning address

Full release notes: https://github.com/getAlby/lightning-browser-extension/releases

v1.24.0 🌕 Moon Enhanced
This release brings bugfixes, UI updates, and improves the responsiveness for a better mobile experience.