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Privacy beat dominates with seven of fifteen releases

By Freedom.Tech September 26, 2026 · Edited September 26, 2026
Privacy tools claimed seven of fifteen items on the wire. Signal Android 8.29.1 redesigned the media editor for tablets and foldables. Nostr VPN 4.1.16 fixed discovery of private exit nodes on mobile and now auto-collects pending earnings from expired seller channels. KeePassDX, Trilium, Joplin, and Element Android all shipped patches. AI logged five including llama.cpp b11191, which fixes unicode path handling on Windows and corrects directory creation, plus desktop releases from Cline and Qwen Code. Bitcoin posted lnd 0.21.4-beta.rc1 with no migrations. Self-hosting logged n8n and Duplicati canary.
Privacy beat dominates with seven of fifteen releases

Bitcoin

Privacy

  • Nostr VPN 4.1.16. Fixes private exit-node discovery on iOS and Android; auto-collects pending earnings from expired seller channels; adds local wallet transaction history on macOS.
  • Signal Android 8.29.1. Media editor redesigned for tablets and foldables.
  • Joplin 3.7.21. Adds setting to hide AI Chat toolbar button; persists AI conversation history; adds chat switcher.
  • KeePassDX 🐁 Mild Mouse. Fixes history deletion and validation button; adds error message for external database file hash modification.
  • Trilium 0.106.0. Matching; Punctuation-aware exact matching: =sync finds (sync), sync,, “sync”.
  • Element Android 1.6.66. Updates banner for excluding insecure devices.
  • Am I Exposed 0.35.9. Am I Exposed v0.35.9

Self-hosting

AI

  • Qwen Code 0.24.6. Add the Hosted Harness private client; Reconcile UNKNOWN tool executions from Runtime evidence.
  • Cline Desktop 0.0.37. Adds About page in Settings.
  • Claude Agent Sdk Typescript 0.3.282. Adds support for strictKnownMarketplaces and blockedMarketplaces in host-supplied managedSettings; allowlist applies where admin policy sets none, blocklist adds to admin’s.
  • llama.cpp b11191. Fixes unicode path handling on Windows; directory creation now creates last directory when no trailing separator is present.
  • Qwen Code Desktop 0.24.6. Adds managed runtime attestation client; web-shell can select time range on trajectory overview to narrow table.

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