From 2b336bbd6b1aaf5177fd4d68fd70399304c5fd73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 10:08:35 +0100
Subject: post payto news

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-<h1>2020-10: GNU Taler v0.8.0 released</h1>
+<h1>2020-11: RFC 8905: "The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments" published</h1>
 <p>
-We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.8.0.
+We are happy to announce the publication of RFC 8905 by the IETF.
 </p>
 <p>
-We have addressed over 200 individual issues, our bug tracker
-has the <a href="https://bugs.gnunet.org/changelog_page.php?version_id=294">full list</a>.
-Notable changes include:
+    RFC 8905 defines the 'payto' Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
+    scheme for designating targets for payments.</t>
+    <t>A unified URI scheme for all payment target types allows applications
+    to offer user interactions with URIs that represent payment targets,
+    simplifying the introduction of new payment systems and
+    applications.</t>
 </p>
-<ul>
-<li>Improved the HTTP API of the merchant to be more RESTful</li>
-<li>Optional inventory management by the merchant backend</li>
-<li>Product image previews in contracts</li>
-<li>Improved message flow for tipping and refunds to ensure merchant knows
-    exact state and to reduce bandwidth required by the wallet</li>
-<li>Improved security of order claiming by introducing claim tokens</li>
-<li>Simplified development of merchant frontends by having the backend
-    generate HTML pages for wallet interactions</li>
-<li>Implemented long-polling support for refunds</li>
-<li>Packaged merchant point-of-sale and casher Apps for F-Droid</li>
-<li>Various minor bugfixes and documentation improvements</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Download links</h4>
+<h2>Download links</h2>
 <p>
-The wallet has its 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.
+You can download the RFC from <a
+href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8905">here</a>.
 </p>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-0.8.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-0.8.0.tar.gz</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-0.8.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-exchange-0.8.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
-
-<!-- STILL TO BE UPLOADED!
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-0.6.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-0.6.0.tar.gz</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-0.6.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-merchant-0.6.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-bank-0.6.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-bank-0.6.0.tar.gz</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-bank-0.6.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-bank-0.6.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-webex-0.6.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-webex-0.6.0.tar.gz</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-webex-0.6.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-wallet-webex-0.6.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
--->
-
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-0.8.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-0.8.0.tar.gz</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-0.8.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/sync-0.8.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-0.8.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-0.7.0.tar.gz</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-0.8.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/taler/taler-mdb-0.7.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
-</ul>
-You must install GNUnet v0.13.3 to compile GNU Taler 0.8.0.
-
-
 
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