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Release Thu, May 14, 2026 2 min read

Sparrow Frigate 1.5.0

Original release notes
  • Add low-latency mempool ingestion driven by Bitcoin Core's ZMQ sequence publisher, including immediate poll on connect/disconnect (C/D) block events and fast eviction from removal (R) events
  • Auto-discover the bitcoind ZMQ sequence endpoint from getzmqnotifications when unconfigured and bitcoind is on the loopback interface
  • Restrict event-driven mempool silent payments scans to newly arrived txids to reduce redundant work
  • Always run non-historical silent payments scans on the CPU backend
  • Add a complementary TLS Electrum server listener configurable via sslPort in the [server] config section, with auto-generated self-signed certificate on first launch
  • Add host to [server] config, advertised in server.features (set to a public hostname for public-facing deployments)
  • Add TLS support for connecting to the backend Electrum server (ssl:// and tls:// URLs)
  • Improve the server.features response and reject malformed server.features from the backend
  • Update blockchain.silentpayments.subscribe to return a subscription JSON object, used as the identity for matching notifications
  • Avoid sending silent payments notifications on confirmations
  • Improve scan lifecycle with scan cancellation and restart on resubscription and block reorg, and handle resubscription to the same silent payments address
  • Ensure the subscribe response is sent before any notifications for that subscription
  • Discard stale Electrum responses with mismatched ids
  • Switch Electrum backend notification detection to a streaming JSON token parser
  • Smooth historical scan progress reporting via ufsecp_scan total_rows
  • Expose DuckDB memory_limit as a scan config setting
  • Update Electrum protocol documentation for clarification and add improved parameter validation
  • Add startup and shutdown log messages, and close connecting sockets and interrupt the read thread on shutdown
  • Update DuckDB ufsecp extension to fix a data race and a scan key clobber
  • Bug fix: Fix highest block height subscription status regression