Key facts:
Compatible wallets are Trezor Safe 5, Ledger Stax and Ledger Flex.
Other improvements include connection to Passport wallet via hardware menu.
Sparrow Wallet, the desktop wallet for storing bitcoin, has implemented the 2.0.0 update. Among the highlights of the upgrade are that Sparrow Wallet now supports three modern and newly released hardware wallets: Ledger Stax, Ledger Flex, and Trezor Safe 5.
At the time of writing, the three wallets do not appear on the list of hardware wallets to import into version 2.0.0 of Sparrow Wallet. However, this desktop wallet allows you to scan wallets connected to the computer’s USB portsand in doing so, it recognizes the new wallets mentioned.
This action allows you to create a new account or import the default account from the physical wallet.
In addition to compatibility with physical wallets, the update Sparrow Wallet includes support for recovering a wallet using the standard SLIP39.
This standard serves for the creation of shares mnemonics, which are fragments of a recovery phrase. Ideally, these fragments are spread out in various locations and kept at a safe distance. To recover the original recovery phrase, a minimum number of the shares.
Sparrow allows you to regain access to a wallet this way, although it does not create the phrases or shares for a new wallet.
Other additions with Sparrow update 2.0.0
Importantly, Sparrow now supports importing Passport Foundation multisig wallets from the import menu on air-gapped hardware devices.
The Sparrow team has updated JavaFX to version 22, which now requires macOS 11 or higher and GTK 3.8 on Linux. This update helps make the wallet and its compatibility more efficient on these operating systems.
On the other hand, he added the option of BBQr for displaying QR codes in Krux wallets. BBQr allows larger files than can fit in a single QR to be sent as a series of QR codes (called “animated QRs”). This is especially useful for hardware devices that don’t have much memory to process heavy QRs.
Additionally, Sparrow Wallet will from now on add the missing previous outputs to partially signed transaction, PSBT (Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction). When loading a PSBT into Sparrow, the software will attempt to automatically add them if they are available. This ensures that the PSBT has the necessary information of the chain and the signing process is more reliable.
It also added several warnings when an action in Sparrow could produce critical consequences, such as when a rate exceeds the maximum allowed range. The remaining updates focused on bug fixes and on optimizing the code and user experience.
