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§Bitcoin

• BDK FFI 3.0.0. Release 3.0.0 This is version 3.0.0 of the BDK language bindings!

§Lightning

• lnd 0.21.0-beta.rc3. Database Migrations https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/9861: This migrates the payment store from the KV format to native SQL.

Release candidate only. The KV to SQL payment-store migration warrants attention before production deployment.

§Privacy

• JoinMarket-NG 0.31.0. More improvements about deep wallet scanning.
• Bitwarden Android Authenticator 2026.5.0. Overview Various under-the-hood bug fixes and improvements What’s Changed Community Highlight PM-35700 fix(about): localize Version label with parameterized string resource ( 6824) by @mvanhorn in https://github.com/b…
• Bitwarden Clients CLI 2026.5.0. What’s Changed Various under-the-hood improvements and minor bug fixes Full Changelog : https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/compare/cli-v2026.4.2...cli-v2026.5.0
• Bitwarden Clients Browser 2026.5.0. What’s Changed - Updated warning when autofilling on non-matching URIs - Various under-the-hood improvements and minor bug fixes Full Changelog : https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/compare/browser-v2026.4.1...browse…

§AI

• vLLM 0.22.0. Highlights This release features 459 commits from 230 contributors (63 new)!
• Cline 3.86.0. Added - Add Claude Opus 4.8 provider support, including 1M-context variants where available.

Adds Opus 4.8 including 1M-context variants where available.

• llama.cpp b9414. mtmd: Add DeepSeekOCR 2 Support ( 20975) mtmd: DeepSeek-OCR 2 support, with multi-tile dynamic resolution introduced clip image f32::add viewsep address PR review - drop redundant ggml cpy ops in both deepseekocr vers…

Adds DeepSeekOCR 2 support with multi-tile dynamic resolution.

• llamafile 0.10.2. What’s Changed Add gpu accel probe by @aittalam in https://github.com/mozilla-ai/llamafile/pull/953 Added executable dir to list of dylib valid paths by @aittalam in https://github.com/mozilla-ai/llamafile/pull/959 Up…
• whisper.cpp 1.8.5. Overview Maintenance release + performance improvements all around: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/blob/master/scripts/bench-all-gg.txt What’s Changed ruby : fix dangling pointers, memory leak, and SEGV on pa…
• Kimi Code 0.6.0. Minor Changes 212 2bbea75 - Add a KIMI MODEL environment-variable channel that lets you run Kimi Code against a specific model (provider type, base URL, API key, context size, capabilities, and thinking settings) with…

KIMI_MODEL environment variable now overrides config.toml for provider, base URL, API key, context size, and capabilities.

• Mistral Vibe 2.13.0. Added enable system trust store config flag to switch the shared SSL context to the OS trust store for corporate TLS / private CA setups Changed MCP HTTP transport now uses Vibe’s shared SSL context so it honors SSL C…

System trust store opt-in now available for corporate TLS and private CA deployments.

• Xai Sdk Python 1.15.0. What’s Changed Add grok-build-0.1 to ChatModel by @shawnthapa in 155 Add context compaction support by @shawnthapa in 156 Bump version from 1.14.0 to 1.15.0 by @shawnthapa in 157 Full Changelog : v1.14.0…v1.15.0

Adds grok-build-0.1 model and context compaction support.

§Other

• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #407. This week’s newsletter announces the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability that allowed a remote peer to crash Core Lightning nodes and links to transcripts from a recent Bitcoin Core developer meeting.

Core Lightning operators should check whether the disclosed remote crash vulnerability affects running versions.

Read this brief on the web: https://freedomtech.news/posts/2026-05-30-bitcoin-daily-brief/