ARK is happy to announce the newest version of the ARK Desktop Wallet. Version 1.4.2 addresses a lot of back-end and core components which may not be visible to the everyday user, but will offer a lot of value to developers with more stability to the wallet. Many thanks to all of our core and community developers —you are the best! More than 100 separate code commits by 10+ developers have been made to the ARK desktop wallet since the last version release.

To update, simply start your ARK desktop wallet and click ‘New version available!’ in the upper left corner of your wallet. You will then be taken to the download page where you can choose your OS version, download and install. It will automatically uninstall and overwrite your previous version. Your accounts will still be visible after the upgrade, if not then simply re-enter your passphrase to import it. We have also attached the download link below:

UPDATE (21st November 2017) — we pushed ‘hot-fix’ to address unvoting bug from 1.4.2.

Release / download link: https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/ark-desktop/releases/tag/1.4.3

What was fixed / changed / implemented?

1. ARK News Feed

We integrated a nice pop-up banner in the lower corner of the desktop wallet which shows you the latest blog post from our blog. By clicking on the title it will open it up in your default internet browser and if you click on X it will remember and won’t show you anything until a new blog post is published. With this we wanted to give more users the ability to read our news and always be up to date without constantly visiting our blog or following every social media post.