Fri, Jul 17, 2026
AI claimed half the wire, shipping six infrastructure releases spanning model runtimes, CLI tooling, and mobile SDKs. No model weights, no protocol changes. Privacy logged three items: FreeTube shipped feature work, Nostr VPN and Logseq posted routine builds. Bitcoin added two wallet updates. Self-hosting contributed one Nextcloud Android RC. No clustering within beats, no security advisories, no Lightning. Operators running llamafile, llama.cpp, or Transformers have patches waiting.
Bitcoin
- Ledger Live Mobile 4.11.0. 19030 9af0e8a Thanks @mitchellv-ledger!
- Taproot Assets 0.8.1-rc2. Second release candidate for 0.8.1; includes database migration work.
Privacy
- FreeTube 0.25.0. Ships new features and bug fixes; no specifics in release notes.
- Nostr VPN 4.0.95. Nostr VPN for macOS (Apple Silicon): nostr-vpn-v4.0.95-macos-arm64.dmg; Nostr VPN for Debian/Ubuntu (.deb): nostr-vpn-v4.0.95-linux-x64.deb.
- Logseq Desktop app Nightly Release 20260716. This is a nightly release of the Logseq desktop app; It’s unstable compared to the official releases, use it with caution !.
Self-hosting
- Nextcloud Android 34.1.0. First RC for 34.1.0; faster connectivity checks, improved end-to-end encryption support.
AI
- llamafile 0.10.4. Introduces transcribefile, the first transcription utility in the suite.
- Hugging Face Transformers Patch release 5.14.1. Fixes EncoderDecoderCache issue during assisted generation; addresses Inkling model integration bugs.
- Cli 1.0.18. Add npm package metadata; .github/workflows: Migrate workflows to Blacksmith runners.
- llama.cpp b10054. Adds OpenCL note for Adreno 810 GPUs.
- Kimi Cli 1.49.0. Context handling fixes and telemetry additions; no user-facing feature changes.
- Elevenlabs Android 0.11.1. Fixes R8 and ProGuard obfuscation of outgoing event fields.
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