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3.0.0 (2022-04-21)

Version 3 of the Beacon SDK brings a couple of important changes. The most important ones are:

Support for multiple blockchains

The Beacon network and SDK have always been primarily focussed on providing a secure and flexible communication method between dApps and wallets. Blockchain specific functionalities have always been kept to a minimum to make sure external changes (eg. blockchain upgrades) don't affect the connection.

In this release, we took this idea one step further. We separated the blockchain specific logic from the commmunication logic. This allows for new blockchains and new types of messages to be added more easily.

The first additional blockchain that was added was Substrate, which will support Kusama and Polkadot, as well as any other substrate based chains.

The next feature that will be added in this context is support for Sapling messages on the Tezos network.

Multipackage architecture

The different parts of the beacon-sdk are now released as separate packages to NPM. This allows dApps and wallets to have more control over which parts they want to include. For example, the @airgap/beacon-wallet package does not contain any dApp specific code.

IMPORTANT: Tezos dApps can update to 3.0.0 without any changes. We made sure that 3.0.0 is backwards compatible and contains no breaking changes. All new features (eg. multi blockchain) are using new APIs. Those new APIs will be described in our docs soon.

The following packages are available:

Packages

Package	Description	Downloads	Links
`@airgap/beacon-sdk`	The backwards compatible version of the `beacon-sdk`, which contains everything needed to run on a Tezos dApp and wallet.		`README.md`
`@airgap/beacon-dapp`	This package contains everything you need to use it on a Tezos dApp.		`README.md`
`@airgap/beacon-wallet`	This package contains everything you need to use it in a Tezos wallet.		`README.md`
`@airgap/beacon-blockchain-tezos`	This package contains code specific to the Tezos blockchain.		`README.md`
`@airgap/beacon-blockchain-substrate`	This package contains code specific to Substrate blockchains.		`README.md`
`@airgap/beacon-core`	Components that are shared between dApps and wallets.		`README.md`
`@airgap/beacon-types`	Type definitions.		`README.md`
`@airgap/beacon-ui`	UI elements that are used in dApps.		`README.md`
`@airgap/beacon-utils`	Utility functions.		`README.md`
`@airgap/beacon-transport-matrix`	Code specific to the P2P transport.		`README.md`
`@airgap/beacon-transport-postmessage`	Code specific to the PostMessage transport.	<a href="htt...