Privacy leads with six items, Bitcoin and AI trail
Privacy tooling took the front seat today with six of eighteen items. Delta Chat Android added multi-file sending and missed-call notifications, NewPipe dropped Android 5 support, and Anytype Desktop shipped collection-sorting fixes. Vanadium and Proton Pass iOS both pushed version bumps. The rest split across Bitcoin (five releases including a Cashu database migration and a Wasabi Wallet update), AI infrastructure (four items, notably llama.cpp adding depthwise convolution and Elevenlabs Python shipping HMAC-signed webhook config), and self-hosting (BorgBackup 2.0 beta and StartOS start-tunnel switching to per-device signing keys). Core Lightning patched to 26.06.6 after pypi publishing issues. No Lightning protocol work beyond that. Blockstream published a technical explainer on zero-confirmation infrastructure for Liquid and Elements. OpenAI announced Presence, an enterprise agent platform for voice and chat workflows.
Bitcoin
- Cashu 0.20.3. Includes a database migration for both mint and wallet; backup before upgrading.
- Core Lightning 26.06.6. Fixes pypi publishing issues from 26.06.3 through 26.06.5.
- Stratum v2 SRI 1.11.1. Patch corrects Stratum V1 difficulty conversion and crate versioning.
- Wasabi Wallet 2.8.1. Windows 10 1607+; Windows 11 23H2+.
- 0-Conf for Elements and Liquid: A Technical Explainer. New 0-conf infrastructure for Liquid and other Elements -based deployments is here; As a Blockstream-operated service, it aggregates mempool visibility for Liquid transactions.
Privacy
- Vanadium 151.0.7922. Changes in version 151.0.7922.47.0: update to Chromium 151.0.7922.47 A full list of changes from the previous release (version 151.0.7922.29.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases; –– This u…
- NewPipe 0.29.0. Drops Android 5 support; fixes playback idle state and SecurityException on file opens.
- Proton Pass iOS 1.20.0. Merge branch ‘translations 2026-07-21 141319 43ceadf4’ into ‘develop’ i18n(weekly-mr): Upgrade translations from crowdin (b884a7db); See merge request apple/pass/ios-mac-app!2032.
- Anytype Desktop 0.56.0. Fixes collection sorting, backspace and delete key bugs, and updates invite UX.
- Delta Chat Android 2.56.0. Adds multi-file sending, missed-call notifications, and video-call preview accuracy.
- How to disable location history on Google, Apple, and more. Find out how to disable location history on Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and browsers; Google alone paid $1.5B+ in lawsuits over this.
Self-hosting
- BorgBackup 2.0. Beta release; do not use on production backup repositories.
- StartOS start-tunnel 1.2.0. Replaces session cookies with per-device signing keys for Web UI and CLI auth.
AI
- llama.cpp b10090. Adds depthwise convolution kernel for WebGPU backend, ported from Vulkan.
- Kimi Code 0.29.0. 1735 ce0e3ce Thanks @7Sageer !
- Elevenlabs Python 2.59.0. Adds HMAC-signed post-call webhook config for on-prem conversations.
- Introducing OpenAI Presence. Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.
Other
- The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required. Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post; The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S.
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