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diff --git a/template/news/2025-12.html b/template/news/2025-12.html @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +{% extends "common/news.j2" %} +{% block body_content %} +<h1>2025-11: GNU Taler v1.2 released</h1> +<p> +We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.2. +</p> +<p> + This release focuses on a completely new component, the GNU Taler + Donation Authority, or short + the <a href="https://git.taler.net/donau.git">Donau</a>. + With it, tax authorities can give recognized charities + the ability to issue donation receipts to donors. + At the end of the year, donors can combine + their donation receipts into a single donation statement and + submit that with their taxes to receive a deduction. + Following GNU Taler's design principles, + which charities the donor donated to would + remain private, while the income to each charity + would be transparent. +<br> + We are interested in contacts at tax authorities and + charities to roll out this system. +</p> +<h4>About GNU Taler</h4> +<p> + GNU Taler is a Free Software payment system that preserves the privacy of + payers while ensuring that income is visible to authorities. Regulated + payment service providers use the Taler protocol to issue digital cash + denominated in a fiat currency. The digital cash tokens are stored in + electronic <a href="https://wallet.taler.net/">wallets</a> under the full + control of its respective owner. The payment service provider has an escrow + bank account holding the equivalent of all digital cash in circulation. +</p> +<p> + Merchants redeeming digital cash receive aggregate transactions over the + respective amount into their regular bank account. Digital cash transactions + happen basically instantly, and must be performed online to prevent + double-spending. +</p> +<p> + Support exists for <a + href="https://www.taler.net/papers/suerf2023en.pdf">offline + points-of-sales</a> to accept transactions where only the customer is + online. GNU Taler is <a href="">scalable</a> and technologically suitable for + regional currencies (such as <a href="https://netzbon.ch/">eNetzbon</a>), + commercial deployments (such as <a href="https://taler-ops.ch/">Taler + Operations AG</a>) or <a + href="https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/papers/id/working_paper_2021_03">central bank + digital currencies (CBDC)</a>. +</p> +<h4>Changes in GNU Taler v1.2</h4> +<p> +For GNU Taler v1.2 we addressed over 25 individual issues. Our bug tracker +has <a href="https://bugs.gnunet.org/changelog_page.php?version_id=450">the list</a>. +Notable changes include: +</p> +<ul> +<li>NEW: First release of Donau component</li> +<li>NEW: Support for Donau in the merchant backend (but not the SPA)</li> +<li>NEW: Support for Donau in the Android wallet</li> +<li>Various minor bugfixes, user experience and documentation improvements</li> +</ul> +<p> +Our work is co-funded by the European Commission and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and +Innovation (SERI) as part of the <a href="https://ngi.taler.net/">NGI TALER</a> project. +</p> + +<h4>Download links</h4> +<p> +The wallets have their own download site <a +href="https://wallet.taler.net/">here</a>. The exchange, merchant backend, +sync and bank components are distributed via the GNU FTP mirrors. +</p> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-1.2.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-1.2.0.tar.gz</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-1.2.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-1.2.0.tar.gz</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-v1.2.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-1.2.0.tar.gz</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-v1.2.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/libeufin-1.2.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/libeufin-1.2.0.tar.gz</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/libeufin-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/libeufin-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-1.2.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-1.2.0.tar.gz</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-1.2.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-1.2.0.tar.gz</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-twister-1.2.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-twister-1.2.0.tar.gz</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-twister-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-twister-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/challenger-1.2.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/challenger-1.2.0.tar.gz</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/challenger-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/challenger-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/donau-1.2.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/donau-1.2.0.tar.gz</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/donau-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/donau-1.2.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li> +</ul> +<p> +You must first install <a href="https://gnunet.org/">GNUnet v0.25.3</a> or the current Git master to compile GNU Taler 1.2 from source. +</p> +{% endblock body_content %}