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 (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/issues/16511)
• Reduced memory usage by caching read-only communities (https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/6519)
• Reduced memory usage by improving the looping process watching communities to unmute (https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/6517)
• Loosen the rules for community and channel descriptions (more character options available) (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/pull/17897)
• enhance fee estimation and sending validation for L2 chains (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/commit/8829da2ba7573859620c6f2d69567be7efc0f46f)
• fees/custom settings for non eip1559 chains (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/commit/c558cf81ea5ca68da3299fae2232c536f3ff9057)
• Removed Ramp provider from the list (https://github.com/status-im/status-go/commit/5d200ee1dac6fcc9ec2bb77b0836197e4bb5d16c)
• swap fees calculation improved (https://github.com/status-im/status-go/commit/fe28e9c86c4a40e4051a26f16d9a6fd55f174f94)

🔨 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with starting Send flow from saved addresses (https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/pull/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 (https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/6474)
• Fixed an issue where your profile image didn’t update on a paired device until restarted (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/pull/17953)
• Fixed an issue where some popups would open off-center (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/pull/17759)
• Fixed an issue where messages would appear as still sending even if they were really sent (https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/6521)
• Fixed some issues with joining communities when using particular types of links (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/pull/17906)
• Fixed an issue where deep links were not applied if the app was not opened before (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/pull/17908)
• Fixed an issue where you could “Remove rejection” on a blocked user (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/pull/18010)
• Fixed an issue where address would overlap in the Token list popup and where the icons might appear empty (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/pull/17876)
• Fixed wallet address is not being resolved into a link in chat (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/commit/4442cffdee623e444f33296e1be278e478b76910)
• Fixed build paraswap tx error(https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/commit/a88acd9055f697055e30e738a3f2faa0fefb4536)
• Fixed community token airdrop (https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/commit/73997709fef9faf0b7d79bd32c4a0481c35d44c0)

⚠️ 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: https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/issues/15730).