By EZ in Releases — Jun 2, 2024

Amethyst v0.87.2: DVMs and Gossip Model

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Amethyst v0.87.2 has been released. "This version adds support for Data Vending Machines for content discovery. You can request a job by simply navigating to the 4th tab and choosing one of the DVMs," announced developer Vitor Pamplona.

"It also starts our support for the Inbox/Gossip model. The relay setup screen has been rewritten to support the many types of relays Amethyst will start to use. Please add your relays as you see fit."

"Our video caching system has been improved. Most of the high-bandwidth use of the app in the last month has been due to a faulty caching system for some video types. The app was just downloading them at every playback. In a similar way, the caching system for encrypted events has been massively improved. The app should feel visibly lighter at this point."

"If you generated your keys from NIP-06 seed words you can now type them on the login screen to start the app. We are not generating seeds yet, but this will be available in the upcoming versions."

"We are also moving to deprecate and remove most of the NIP-04 usage in the app. In the future, users won't be able to send new NIP-04 DMs but the history of past DMs will be available for as long as we can support it," added the developer.

What's new

Adds support for NIP-90, data vending machines.
Adds support for discovery content DVMs in the discovery tab.
Adds support for paid DVMs.
Adds support for NIP-06 seed word key derivation (bip32 and bip39) when logging in.
Adds support for NIP-65 relay lists.
Adds support for NIP-17 private DM relay lists.
Adds support for private relay lists to save Draft events.
Adds support for local relays as a separate relay set, saving locally only.
Adds message + dialog to setup Search relays when searching.
Adds message + dialog to setup DM relays when messaging.
Adds signString method for Amber.
Prefers NIP-65 relays for zap request relay tags.
Prepares for NIP-96 server list integration.
Adds paste from clipboard button to NWC screen.
Moves video compressing quality to medium instead of low.
Adds recommended amounts for the Zap the Devs.
Reduces default zap amounts due to the change of Bitcoin price.
Allows the new post's relay selection dialog to pick any relays (instead of just writing relays).
Improves Zap efficiency for large zap splits.
Adds a queue of commands while the relay connects.
Makes sure only one connection per URL is made when doing splits.
Removes unnecessary Amber calls when decrypting private zaps.
Improves Zap error messages to include the lnaddress of the error.
Displays Zap Split error messages in sequence instead of in multiple popups.