AI volume drops sharply after sustained run
Ten AI releases today, down from fifteen yesterday. The mix remains infrastructure: SDKs from Anthropic and ElevenLabs, a llama.cpp fix for idefics3 preprocessing, HelixML plumbing, and two DeepSeek harness and Qwen host updates. No model weights. Privacy saw seven items, all maintenance releases. Signal redesigned its media editor for tablets and foldables. Tor Browser alpha continues the 16.x cycle. Bitcoin yielded nine releases, including two security patches: ZEUS 13.2.1 with LDK BOLT 12 fixes and Boltcard hardening, and Nunchuk Android 2.8.5 adding Bitbox Bluetooth and Krux signer support. Bitcoin Knots 29.4.1 ships spam-filter improvements and attack mitigation. Self-hosting had three: umbrelOS 2.0 beta, Radicale 3.8.0 with group-based sharing, and Coolify 4.3.15 with per-domain port overrides.
Bitcoin
- ZEUS 13.2.1. BOLT 12 fixes in LDK Node; Boltcard repairs and additional security hardening.
- Nunchuk Android 2.8.5. Adds Bitbox Bluetooth and USB support, Krux signer support, and emergency push notifications.
- Flint 1.0.4. Resolve the setup-tab store from the request authorisation, not the form model; Release the storage lock when the Spark SDK connect throws.
- lnd 0.21.3-beta. Fix to the SQL invoice migration path for native SQL invoices and AMP sub-invoices.
- Cashu CDK 0.18.0. Moves cdk-mintd to database-authoritative configuration with explicit lifecycle for validating, importing, applying, exporting, and rolling back settings.
- Bitcoin Knots 29.4.1. Mitigates ongoing network attack; includes spam-filter improvements.
- NodeGuard 0.29.1. Adds weekly routing volume, profit, and success rate panel; pessimistic fee calculation in RebalanceRepository.
- Bull Bitcoin 6.13.2. Internal release for swap-related debugging.
- Blink Mobile 3.0.39. Fixes Lightning and onchain send rate copy.
Nostr
- Wisp 1.2.3. Breez SDK updated to 0.23.1; targets Android SDK 36.
- Mostrix 0.3.0. Unify post-restore hydrate orchestrator; Rebuild peer order chat from relay after session restore.
- Ditto 2.37.0. Ditto v2.37.0
Privacy
- IronFox 155.0. Modify CHANGELOG.md to ensure release CI flow is properly trig…
- New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a11. Tor Browser 16.0a11 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory; This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
- Signal Android 8.26.0. Media editor redesigned for tablets and foldables.
- Nym Binaries 2026.17-djibouti. The v2026.17-djibouti release of the Nym Binaries.
- SimpleX Chat 7.1.0-beta.2. Include link to channel in forwarded messages; Show when files stop being available.
- LibreTube Nightly 02-09-2026. LibreTube Nightly build from 02-09-2026 11:08:35 !NOTE Nightly builds include features/fixes before the official release; Therefore, they are generally less stable than normal releases.
- Yubico expands OpenAI partnership to new countries as hardware-backed passkey mandate begins for Trusted Access for Cyber program. Yubico expands hardware-backed passkey partnership with OpenAI for Trusted Access for Cyber program.
Self-hosting
- umbrelOS 2.0. First beta of umbrelOS 2.0; available now for beta program participants.
- Radicale 3.8.0. Adds sharing by group or realm; new group types include htgroup, none, and from-auth.
- Coolify 4.3.15. Per-domain internal port overrides for applications, Docker Compose services, and preview deployments across Traefik and Caddy.
AI
- HelixML 2.12.9. Frontend waitlist routing fix, OpenRouter pricing refresh, and stale sandbox reconciliation.
- Qwen Code Live Host 0.2.0. OpenTUI migration batch covering dialogs, commands, session-rewind; model-proposed Goal approval dialog.
- opencode 1.18.27. Raises default provider header timeout to five minutes to reduce startup failures for slow models.
- llm CLI 0.34. llm logs –usage Markdown output now includes response duration in milliseconds and human-readable form.
- Deepseek Harness 0.1.2-rc.1. ,System prompt @07akioni, @lsdsjy; @yixiangihsiang.
- Anthropic Sdk Typescript 0.123.0. Beta user profiles: adds external user onboarded-at field, replaces relationship with access type; organization compliance settings and user-profile order-by.
- llama.cpp b10775. Fixes idefics3 preprocessing in mtmd module.
- Anthropic Sdk Python 1.3.0. Beta user profiles: adds external user onboarded-at field, replaces relationship with access type; organization compliance settings and user-profile order-by.
- Elevenlabs Python 2.66.0. Adds file IDs to sendMultimodalMessage method.
- Elevenlabs Js 2.66.0. Adds fileIds to sendMultimodalMessage method.
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