thunderbiscuit
Aug 27, 2026
Q2 2026 is the quarter the 3.0 line landed. bdk_wallet 3.0.0 shipped in April, 3.1.0 followed in June, and the 3.0 API made its way out to every language we support: Swift, Kotlin, Android, JVM, Python, React Native, and Dart. Along the way we welcomed two new corporate members to the BDK Foundation, added two new grantees to the team, and published the first release of a brand new library.
thunderbiscuit
Apr 20, 2026
Q1 2026 was headlined by the release candidate cycle for bdk_wallet 3.0.0, a major milestone the team has been building toward for over a year. Alongside that, we welcomed two new associate members to the BDK Foundation, saw continued momentum in mobile library development, and formalized maintainership and support tiers across every library in the GitHub org.
thunderbiscuit
Jan 21, 2026
Q4 saw two new feature releases of the bdk_wallet library (2.2.0 and 2.3.0), continued work on documentation, and a strong presence at TABConf where four team members presented talks and workshops. We also had a productive three-day summit in Nashville where a large part of the team met with other Rust + Bitcoin developers.
thunderbiscuit
Nov 6, 2025
Q3 saw a new feature release of the bdk_wallet library (2.1.0), with great new features being added including support for multipath descriptors, more flexible transaction building capabilities, as well as better caching when working with large wallets.
matthewramsden
Jul 2, 2025
The second quarter of 2025 was an exciting one for the Bitcoin Dev Kit. With major releases, new libraries, a YouTube launch, and ongoing contributions from our community of grantees and collaborators, BDK continues to push forward the frontier of building Bitcoin wallets.
thunderbiscuit
Apr 2, 2025
The bitcoindevkit team is hitting cruising speed after the release of the 1.0 bdk_wallet API. We are implementing a new release cadence of 8-week cycles, planning to do a feature release (1.1, 1.2, etc.) on these dates for 2025.
thunderbiscuit
Jan 15, 2025
The bitcoindevkit team was very proud to release the 1.0 stable version of our bdk_wallet API in Q4! It's been a long time coming, and all that testing, reviewing, refactoring, and polishing finally paid off. Onwards! 🎉
thunderbiscuit
Nov 7, 2024
The bitcoindevkit team has been hard at work for Q3 in 2024, polishing the API of our bdk_wallet crate and releasing 4 new beta versions (1, 2, 3, and 4!), and aiming to release a final 1.0 release by the end of 2024. Here are some of the notable changes and upgrades to the software libraries we maintain:
thunderbiscuit
Jul 1, 2024
The bitcoindevkit team has been hard at work for Q2 in 2024, pushing to stabilize the API of its bdk_wallet crate and releasing 4 new alpha versions (9, 10, 11, and 12!), and aiming to release a 1.0 beta in July. Here are some of the notable changes and upgrades to the software libraries we maintain:
Steve Myers
Mar 21, 2024
The majority of BDK rust library work this quarter was towards finishing new and improved electrum, esplora and Bitcoin Core RPC (block-by-block) syncing APIs. Bug fixes and improvements were also completed for the transaction builder and other wallet APIs. Six bi-weekly 1.0.0-alpha releases were made (alpha.3, alpha.4, alpha.5, alpha.6, alpha.7, alpha.8). For the quarter 54 PRs were merged and 55 issues were closed.