commit 94199b951621657640164ee9d30ebbc6fb2b0b65
parent a3cc5ea01992ba82e465d44d58c049b2778ce985
Author: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2026 19:03:57 +0100
prepare v1.5 release announcement
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diff --git a/template/news/2026-03.html.j2 b/template/news/2026-03.html.j2
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Notable changes include:
<li>NEW: PDF generation for AML records</li>
<li>NEW: Periodic report generation in merchant backend</li>
<li>NEW: Tryton backend</li>
-<li>Various user experience improevements, especially in the merchant backend</li>
+<li>Various user experience improvements, especially in the merchant backend</li>
</ul>
<p>
Our work is co-funded by the European Commission and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and
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+{% extends "common/news.j2" %}
+{% block body_content %}
+<h1>2026-03: GNU Taler v1.5 released</h1>
+<p>
+We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.5.
+</p>
+<p>
+ This release focuses on getting everything the system ready
+ for wide-spread use in particular by adding various features
+ requested by merchants and improving the user experience.
+</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="https://www.taler.net/papers/boss2022thesis.pdf">
+ 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 v1.5</h4>
+<p>
+For GNU Taler v1.5 we addressed over 100 individual issues. Our bug tracker
+has <a href="https://bugs.gnunet.org/changelog_page.php?version_id=449">the list</a>.
+Notable changes include:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li>NEW: Support for Cyclos in the wallets</li>
+<li>NEW: Detailed report generation for orders in the merchant backend</li>
+<li>NEW: Support for custom wire transfer subjects on settlement</li>
+<li>NEW: Cleaned up libtalerexchange C API</li>
+<li>Bugfix: Support using the same bank account with multiple merchant instances or backends</li>
+<li>Various user experience 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-1.5.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-1.5.0.tar.gz</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-1.5.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-1.5.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-1.5.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-1.5.0.tar.gz</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-1.5.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-1.5.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-1.5.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-1.5.0.tar.gz</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-1.5.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-1.5.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/libeufin-1.5.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/libeufin-1.5.0.tar.gz</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/libeufin-1.5.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/libeufin-1.5.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-1.3.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-1.3.0.tar.gz</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-1.3.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-1.3.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-1.4.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-1.4.0.tar.gz</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-1.4.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-1.4.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-twister-1.1.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-twister-1.1.0.tar.gz</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-twister-1.1.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-twister-1.1.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/challenger-1.5.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/challenger-1.5.0.tar.gz</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/challenger-1.5.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/challenger-1.5.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/donau-1.4.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/donau-1.4.0.tar.gz</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/donau-1.4.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/donau-1.4.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+You must first install <a href="https://gnunet.org/">GNUnet v0.26.2</a> or the current Git master to compile GNU Taler v1.5 from source.
+</p>
+{% endblock body_content %}
