Daedalus 5.3.0 release notes

Release date: 2023-07-17

The Daedalus 5.3.0 Mainnet release supports the new Catalyst registration process, which requires registering with a regular payment address (and not with staking rewards address).

If you participated in previous voting and wish to participate in Fund 10, please ensure you register again with Daedalus 5.3.0, since old registration formats will not be eligible for voting rewards.

The update improves the stability of the exchange rate conversion feature. It also makes the syncing progress percentage formatting more consistent.

This update brings in numerous dependency updates - cardano-wallet 2023-04-14, Electron 24.2, Node.js 18.14.0, trezor-connect 9.0.8, Cardano Ledger JS app 6.0.0.

The PGP (GPG) key used to sign releases has been changed from

D325 87D4 090F E461 CAEE 0FF4 966E 5CB9 CBFA A9BA

to

53D0 FA8D A2B8 D1FF 4975 AECB F99D 6C70 C2B3 FB43

Please see the updated verification instructions.