August brought one Yivi app release and one release of the Go library underneath it. App version 8.2.0 was published on 14 August and reached the App Store, Google Play and F-Droid. Version 1.3.0 of irmago, the Go implementation doing the wallet's actual work, was published on 12 August, and app 8.2.0 pins that version.
Two months ago we announced end-to-end OpenID4VC support in private beta. With Yivi 8.0 and irmago 1.0 shipping today, those protocols reach production — and the foundation underneath them has finally caught up.
This release is the structural moment Yivi stops being an IRMA wallet that speaks OpenID and becomes a credential-format-agnostic wallet that happens to also speak IRMA. It is the single biggest milestone in our transition toward a crypto-agile EUDI wallet.
After shipping OpenID4VP support last year and migrating all Privacy by Design issuers to SD-JWT VCs earlier this year, today we're closing the loop: Yivi now supports both OpenID4VCI and OpenID4VP. Issuers and verifiers can integrate with Yivi entirely using open standards.
We're opening a private BETA and inviting organizations to be among the first to integrate.
A few months ago, we announced our plans to become an EUDI wallet while still retaining our original privacy-by-design technology.
Since that announcement, we've come a long way, and today it's time to announce the release of the first major step towards true crypto agility: the support for the OpenID4VP protocol and the SD-JWT VC credential format in the Yivi app. In this blog, we'll dive into how we did this and what it means for you.