Skycoin v0.28.4 Released

Skycoin v0.28.4 has been released and is available from GitHub.

This release focuses on Fibercoin support, dynamic branding, and toolchain improvements:

Dynamic ASCII art branding — all help menus (skycoin, skycoin daemon, skycoin cli, skycoin web, skycoin explorer) now display the configured coin’s name in ASCII art when FIBER_TOML is set. CLI defaults (RPC_ADDR, COIN, DATA_DIR) also adapt automatically.
Fibercoin compatibility — empty string overrides in fiber.toml now work correctly (e.g., peer_list_url = "" disables peer list download instead of falling through to Skycoin defaults). Added --legacy-peer-compat flag for connecting to older Fibercoin nodes that don’t send blockchain pubkey during handshake.
newcoin templates subcommand — print the embedded code generation templates to stdout, so users can customize them without cloning the source. The --template-dir flag now works to override embedded templates.
cli halt command — gracefully shut down a running daemon via the CLI.
--gui-dir flag for skycoin web — override the embedded web wallet frontend with a custom GUI directory.
Fibercoin support verified — tested and documented with AIX and Privateness (NESS).
Security fixes — npm audit fixes across all frontend directories, bumped flatted to 3.4.2, removed deprecated protractor from explorer (eliminating 10 vulnerabilities).
Build improvements — updated to Go 1.26, golangci-lint v2.11.3, replaced goreleaser with go install in release workflow, updated GitHub Actions to Node.js 24.

Builds are available for Linux (amd64, arm64, armhf, arm, 386, riscv64), macOS (amd64, arm64), and Windows.

Downloads are available on the GitHub release page.