Where has Stellar Desktop Wallet gone?

in stellar •  6 years ago  (edited)

If any of you out there are trying to update your version of SDW, or simply have heard it's the best and want to download it for the first time, then there is a small wrinkle.
It has now been renamed Foxlet (from 5th April, granted I'm sure many of you know already, but for those of us that don't....)

I have v3.6, which happens to be the one before they renamed. It still works fine and there have been no update warnings popping up, etc. I intend to update now, and will report if there are any issues.

I read a conversation in which a chap had done a full audit on v3.6, and was very happy to wait a while until changing (as most people know, lots of new features, and even "fixes" themselves can introduce bugs - trust me I'm a developer too and have managed to make things worse on many an occasion, mostly as a youngster in my defence hehe)

Anyway this was 6 months ago now so I think the code will have been sufficiently audited and it seems there are no disasters (at least none I have heard of) so I would go ahead and download Foxlet v4.3 from the website or directly from github which is where it will send you anyway. Notice the file names still refer to "StellarDesktop_something"

Foxlet Wallet.PNG

Remember to copy the SHA-1 orMD5 just to be sure (and I always like to perform a virus check on anything I download, it all takes a couple of minutes but can save you many days/months of frustration (tired, miss a dodgy link with a double "ll", etc)

SHA and MD5.PNG

I use a nice simple little program called MD5 and SHA Checksum Utility 2.1 which the free version covers you just fine.

MD5_and_SHA_Checksum_Utility.PNG

Good luck to everyone out there :-)

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