Tue, Jun 30, 2026
Seven of fourteen items come from AI projects, all infrastructure. vLLM ships 0.24.0 with 571 commits from 256 contributors. llama.cpp adds DeepSeek V4 conversion support. Open WebUI 0.10.0 introduces team folder sharing. InvokeAI, Checkpoint Engine, and Vla Evaluation Harness each publish maintenance or observability updates. Bitcoin Safe switches to Compact Block Filters by default in 2.0.0. Lightning contributes NodeGuard 0.25.2 fixing rebalance race conditions. Privacy brings Thunderbird for Android Beta 21.0b2, Proton Mail Android 7.10.1 with folder expand-collapse in the sidebar, and a Logseq nightly. EFF publishes a Supreme Court Fourth Amendment ruling on location data. No protocol work, no CVEs.
Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Safe 2.0.0. Compact Block Filters now default; existing users see migration prompt.
- Keystone 3 2.5.0. Improved Dice Roll Entropy Validation; Improved Unlock Passcode Verification.
- Specter Desktop 2.1.10. Deps: bump hwi 2.4.0 - 3.1.0 (drops Python 3.7/3.8); Bump Spectrum to 0.8.0.
Lightning
- NodeGuard 0.25.2. Fixes probe kill races, oscillation, double-pay, and same-peer rebalance attempts.
Freedom Tech
- Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data. Supreme Court rules Fourth Amendment covers short-term location tracking.
Privacy
- Thunderbird for Android Thunderbird Beta 21.0b2. Fixes wrong-account folder management and color-change crash.
- Proton Mail Android 7.10.1. Sidebar folders now collapse and expand; fixes long screenshot and expiration picker bugs.
- Logseq Desktop app Nightly Release 20260629. This is a nightly release of the Logseq desktop app; It’s unstable compared to the official releases, use it with caution !.
- The GPT-5.6 rollout is another example of why European businesses can’t rely on US tech. Commentary on US government restrictions affecting GPT-5.6 release in Europe.
AI
- Vla Evaluation Harness 0.3.0. Adds SQLite recording and experiment tracking for observability.
- vLLM 0.24.0. 571 commits, 77 new contributors; no specific feature called out in summary.
- llama.cpp b9840. Adds DeepSeek V4 conversion, graph input, rope, and state save-load; supports pro model.
- Open WebUI 0.10.0. Adds team folder sharing.
- InvokeAI 6.13.5. Bug fixes and stability; no feature work.
- Checkpoint Engine 0.4.2-rc0. Exposes ParameterServer metadata via HTTP for cross-process join.
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