Privacy day: five releases, one tablet feature
Privacy tools dominated the wire. Five of thirteen items came from the Privacy beat, led by Signal Android adding tablet linking, Thunderbird for Android shipping an incognito keyboard setting, and maintenance releases for Anytype and NewPipe Extractor. AI projects released three library updates with minimal operational detail. Nostr saw Amber improve multi-request approval grouping and Wisp add tracking-param stripping. Bitcoin releases were routine: Cake Wallet added home-screen upgrades and Zcash updates, Liquid GDK bumped dependencies, and Fedimint Web issued a canary build. No Lightning. No protocol patches. Operators running Signal or Thunderbird on Android gain new privacy controls; the rest is dependency churn.
Bitcoin
- Cake Wallet 6.3.0. Home-screen quality-of-life improvements, core engine refactoring, and Zcash transaction-value handling updates.
- Liquid GDK 0.77.7. Bumps libwally to 1.5.6, Tor to 0.4.9.11; enables OSX and iOS arm64 cross-compile; enforces SMS 2FA number format.
- Fedimint Web Canary Release. Flatten RPC payload and use persistent callback in ReactNativeTr.
Nostr
- Amber 6.3.0. Multi-request approval lists now group by type and kind with collapsible sections; fullscreen layout limited to single bunker requests.
- Wisp 1.2.0. Strips tracking params from note links; adds transaction history as swipe-up sheet and multi-account support.
Privacy
- Thunderbird for Android Thunderbird Beta 22.0b1. Incognito keyboard setting disables Google keyboard word learning; adds Thundermail interim screen for account setup.
- Anytype Android 0.48.7. DROID-4551 Editor | Fix | Make URL-paste action-mode paths placeholder/fork-aware; DROID-4334 Bump version to 0.48.0.
- NewPipe Extractor 0.26.4. Adds isEdited method to CommentsInfoItem for YouTube; fixes YouTube playlist continuation fetching.
- Signal Android 8.20.4. Android tablets can now link as devices.
- How to disable OneDrive: A complete guide. Find out how to disable OneDrive, uninstall it, and more ways to stop Microsoft’s cloud storage if you don’t like how it handles your data.
AI
- opencode 1.18.4. Adds adaptive thinking controls for Kimi models on Anthropic-compatible providers.
- Hermes Agent 0.19.0. Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (v2026.7.20) Release Date: July 20, 2026 Since v0.18.0: 2,245 commits 1,065 merged PRs 2,465 files changed 300,000 insertions 36,000 deletions 3,300 issues closed 450+ community; Hermes is the mes…
- langchain-core== 1.5.0. Adds reasoning effort as standard chat model parameter.
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