Desktop release notes

❗ Important Notes for This Release

⚠️ Mandatory Upgrade for v2.31 and Below

This release is a required upgrade for all users on Status v2.31 and below. It includes a breaking change that limits the time range for store queries to 24 hours (🔍 More info: #3170). This change significantly improves performance when the App needs to retrieve community history beyond the 24-hour mark.

💻 MacOS Devices with Intel chips Support Dropped

To focus on the most-used platforms, we’ve ended support for macOS devices with Intel chips.
🔚 The final compatible version for these devices is v2.32.
🛑 Do NOT upgrade to v2.33 or higher on MacOS devices with Intel chips — doing so will result in app crashes due to a known bug (🔍 More info: #15730)

🆕 Release Highlights

This release expands multi-chain support with Binance Smart Chain and the Status Network Testnet, enabling users to send, receive, swap tokens, and interact with dApps. It also introduces a real-time token list, Market Center with live token data and swaps, in-app news updates, and improved visibility for community creation and voting.

🚀 New Features

• 🟡 Added Binance Smart Chain
  The user will be able to see token balance, send, bridge, swap, and interact with dApps on the Binance Smart Chain.

• 📈 Added Market Center with token lists, data, and swaps
  The user will be able to find real-time data (prices, volume, etc.) about various tokens and conveniently access and swap tokens of their interest.

• 🧪 Added Status Network Testnet chain
  The user will be able to see, receive, send tokens, and interact with dApps on the Status Network Testnet.

• ⚡ Implemented the real-time update token list
  The users will be able to see, operate, and swap tokens as soon as they appear on DEXes**.**

• 📰 Added Status News Feed in in-app Notification Center
  The user will be informed about Status app releases and other important Status news and updates.

• 🏛️ Enabling community creation to everyone by default and making voting more visible and accessible for users
  The user will know how to create a community, learn how to do it, and learn how they can make their community visible.

🎯 Improvements

• Improved the logs size generation in Debug mode (#16511)
• Reduced memory usage by caching read-only communities (status-im/status-go#6519)
• Reduced memory usage by improving the looping process watching communities to unmute (status-im/status-go#6517)
• Loosen the rules for community and channel descriptions (more character options available) (#17897)
• enhance fee estimation and sending validation for L2 chains (8829da2)
• fees/custom settings for non eip1559 chains (c558cf8)
• Removed Ramp provider from the list (status-im/status-go@5d200ee)
• swap fees calculation improved (status-im/status-go@fe28e9c)

🔨 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with starting Send flow from saved addresses (status-im/status-mobile#21899)
• Fixed an issue where the ENS name could be put in the Display Name, causing the Display Name to be reset to the pubkey later (status-im/status-go#6474)
• Fixed an issue where your profile image didn’t update on a paired device until restarted (#17953)
• Fixed an issue where some popups would open off-center (#17759)
• Fixed an issue where messages would appear as still sending even if they were really sent (status-im/status-go#6521)
• Fixed some issues with joining communities when using particular types of links (#17906)
• Fixed an issue where deep links were not applied if the app was not opened before (#17908)
• Fixed an issue where you could “Remove rejection” on a blocked user (#18010)
• Fixed an issue where address would overlap in the Token list popup and where the icons might appear empty (#17876)
• Fixed wallet address is not being resolved into a link in chat (4442cff)
• Fixed build paraswap tx error(a88acd9)
• Fixed community token airdrop (7399770)

⚠️ Known Issues

• Users on MacOS with Intel chips should not upgrade to this version due to a critical bug causing app crashes in this release (more details: #15730).