BuhoGO Release Notes v1.9.0

Highlights

• Transaction list & details, redesigned: cleaner fintech-style layout, BTC price shown at settlement time, sender messages on Lightning payments, richer detail for LNbits transactions, and frequent micro-payments grouped instead of cluttering the list.

• Native QR scanning: scanning now runs on the phone's own camera engine behind BuhoGO's own overlay, so it is faster, works better in poor light, and no longer hands you off to a full-screen third-party scanner. Used everywhere you scan: sending, adding contacts, connecting LNbits or NWC, and signing into sites.

• Settings reorganized into Settings / Identity / Spend, with a new floating tab bar. Identity now owns your profile, recovery phrase, and the sites you've signed into. Spend is a new home for the Bitcoin Map, eSIM & VPN, and Spend Online.

• Branta merchant verification now carries onto your receipt: the verified merchant badge you see before sending stays on the transaction details afterward, so you can always look back and confirm who you actually paid.

• Learn & Earn rewards are recognizable in your history, showing the BuhoGO mark and a plain "Learn & Earn reward" label instead of an anonymous incoming payment.

  Arkade wallet support: a new wallet option alongside Spark, LNbits, and NWC.

• Simpler profile editor: flatter layout, plain-language explanations instead of hidden tooltips, and the BuhoGO logo now shows instead of a blank silhouette when no picture is set.

• Lightning success messages (LUD-09): see a note from the sender when one is attached to a payment.

• Local-currency payouts (LUD-21): send in the recipient's own currency where the provider supports it, with delivery verification.

• Phone-number payments now cover Tanzania (ChapSmart), alongside Kenya (Tando) and Zambia (Bitzed), with smarter handling of overlapping number prefixes between the three countries.

• New "About BuhoGO" page, with a link to our Nostr community, and a prompt to restore contacts from Nostr after recovering your identity.

Technical updates & fixes#

• Arkade: migrated to @arkade-os/sdk 0.4.41 + boltz-swap 0.3.46; fixed a balance-lag bug after sends; friendlier errors for swap-minimum limits; on-chain sends from contacts and deep links now route through Ramps offboard.

• Bolt Card: withdraw/redeem amount now pre-fills correctly from both entry points.

• Clearer errors for payment types not supported yet (zero-amount invoices, BOLT12 offers).

• Transaction metadata moved to a dedicated per-wallet store.

• Safe-area and sticky-header fixes on Android (transaction details, Settings hub).

• NFC reader mode hardened against unexpected app launches from stray tags.

• Learn & Earn: blocked reward farming from the web build, fixed a sats-draining bug, simplified the payout store, and fixed a broken image reference plus text line breaks on the summary screen.

• Capacitor iOS project added as groundwork. No iOS release yet.

• German and Spanish translations kept in sync with all of the above.

Contributors#

Thanks to everyone who shipped this release:

• @DoktorShift

• @pratik227: native QR scanner and iOS project groundwork

• @AxelHamburch: Bolt Card pre-fill fix (#194)

Community#

• Telegram: https://telegram.me/+cpmyopRYnKRlOTRi

• Nostr: https://lotus.mybuho.de/join/g/groups.0xchat.com/85016a489c551428a50c339c75b6931a?p=https%3A%2F%2Fblossom.primal.net%2Fd816ffbd78b10591710a1be9deca91700fe278e50250a07f0b1e421f0db03748&a=Public+discussion%2C+support%2C+and+updates+for+the+Buho+GO+Wallet%3A+a+native+wallet+interface+for+Spark%2C+Ark%2C+LNbits%2C+Nostr+Wallet+Connect%2C+and+&n=BuhoGO

Download#

• Homepage: https://home.mybuho.de/buhogo

• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mybuho.buhogo

• Zapstore: https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqxk67tzw45x7tnzw45x7em0qgs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgrqsqqqlstrk2q4u