Dear all, We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler 0.3.0.
GNU Taler is a free software electronic payment system providing anonymity for customers. Payments can in principle be made in any existing currency, or a bank can be launched to support new currencies. Merchants are not anonymous, and--due to income-transparency--the state can perform effective tax audits. This is still an alpha release of the five key components providing logic for running an auditor, bank, exchange, merchant and wallet. What works: * Exchange implements the full Taler protocol, but does not integrate with traditional banking systems (only with Taler's own "bank"). * Wallet can withdraw and spend and refresh coins, but does not yet handle refunding, synchronizing, or export of cryptographic proofs. Some error handling may be insufficient. The wallet works for Chromium/Chrome, Firefox and Opera. * Merchant backend can generate contracts and handle payments, and has basic back-office support for tracking payments received. Frontend examples are available in Python and PHP. * The bank can manage accounts, allows the wallet to withdraw funds and can receive payments from the exchange. * The auditor can verify the cryptographic proofs collected by the payment service provider and calculate the expected balances. It does not yet check with the bank to make sure that the wire transfers match its calculations. Key open issues include: * No integration with "real" banks, so only toy currencies are available for now. * Documentation, testing, error handling and performance still need to be improved. You can download GNU Taler from: * All GNU FTP mirrors ftp://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/taler/ * Our Git repository is at https://www.git.taler.net/ Please report bugs to our bugtracker at https://gnunet.org/bugs/ Documentation can be found at http://www.taler.net/ Additional documentation about the APIs is at https://api.taler.net/ A demo is running at https://demo.taler.net/ Happy hacking! Christian & Florian & Gabor & Jeff & Marcello
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