Privacy and AI each shipped nine releases today. Privacy was all maintenance: Tails and Mullvad Browser moved to Firefox's new two-week cycle, Bitwarden pushed three platform updates, IVPN Desktop now requires macOS Monterey, and Signal Desktop added notification controls. AI remained infrastructure-focused: Anthropic CLI added agent and deployment tooling, llama.cpp hit build 10794, LangChain 1.4.0 introduced an MCP namespace, and Mistral CLI now merges generated files instead of overwriting. Bitcoin saw five releases, including Lightning Terminal 0.17.4-alpha bundling lnd 0.21.3-beta and Coldcard 5.6.2. Self-hosting had four, led by Duplicati's first stable release since 2.3.0.4 and Paperless-ngx 3.1.3. Nostr yielded two: ngit-cli 3.0.0-rc.6 and Primal Android 3.5.27.
Bitcoin
- Bull Bitcoin 6.13.3. Internal release to debug swap issues.
- Lightning Terminal 0.17.4-alpha. Bundles lnd 0.21.3-beta, taproot-assets 0.8.3, faraday 0.2.19-alpha.
- Coldcard Firmware 5.6.2. Coldcard Firmware v5.6.2
- Arkade TS SDK 0.4.68. Fixes exited-vtxo gaps, decodes offer TLV fields from solverd, refactors vhtlc.
- Arkade TS SDK Swap 0.0.11. Fixes exited-vtxo gaps, decodes offer TLV fields from solverd, refactors vhtlc.
Nostr
- ngit-cli 3.0.0-rc.6. Sixth release candidate; unifies Blossom publication, adds CI-gated merges, preserves dirty worktrees.
- Primal Android 3.5.27. Linkifies bare URLs in articles, routes zap poll votes to poll author, rejects mismatched local signer requests, upgrades Breez SDK Spark to 0.23.1.
Privacy
- Tails 7.12. Moves to Firefox's new two-week release cadence.
- IVPN Desktop 3.15.15. Breaking change: now requires macOS 12 Monterey or later.
- Bitwarden Android Password Manager 2026.8.1. Migrates user data to KeystoreEncryptedSharedPreferences, improves phone-number autofill.
- Bitwarden iOS Authenticator 2026.8.1. Renames Folders to My folders, adds date-field picker.
- Mullvad Browser 16.0a11. Updates Firefox to 153.2.0esr, backports security fixes from Firefox 155.
- Signal Desktop 8.27.0-beta.3. Introduces granular notification settings.
- Tuta 357.260901.0. App renamed from Tuta Mail to Tuta; Drive adds basic search, transfer time estimates, file-name conflict dialogs.
- Bitwarden Android Authenticator 2026.8.1. Migrates user data to KeystoreEncryptedSharedPreferences.
- LibreTube Nightly 03-09-2026. LibreTube Nightly build from 03-09-2026 10:39:59 !NOTE Nightly builds include features/fixes before the official release; Therefore, they are generally less stable than normal releases.
Self-hosting
- Duplicati 2.4.0. First stable release superseding 2.3.0.4.
- Paperless-ngx 3.1.3. Fixes header loading indicator, sidebar animation, long-word wrapping in dropdowns.
- Coolify 4.3.16. Corrects internal routing and proxy labels for Docker Compose applications to use each service's configured port.
- N8n 2.37.9. Restores mutating array methods on $json data in expressions.
AI
- Asta Autodiscovery 1.0.0. Published to PyPI: asta-autodiscovery 1.0.0 Release notes, including breaking changes: CHANGELOG.md
- Qwen Code 0.23.0. The branch picker now displays git state hints like '3 origin/main' or 'Up to date' beside Update Project, Commit, and Push actions to help users judge status before clicking.
- HelixML 2.12.10. Preserves server-owned secret fields on PUT, shows project creation errors, always displays new chat action.
- langchain== 1.4.0. Introduces langchain.mcp namespace and MCPAdapter, omits middleware trace inputs for performance.
- langchain-anthropic== 1.7.1. Adds Claude Fable 5.1 support, omits middleware trace inputs.
- Anthropic Cli 1.30.0. Adds ant apply for managing agents, skills, environments, memory stores, and deployments as code; adds Claude Tag category and user breakdowns to usage reports.
- llama.cpp b10794. Build 10794 refactors SYCL to use global var for GGML SYCL ENABLE MKL FA.
- Cli mistral 0.4.1. Apps capability now three-way merges generated files instead of overwriting, preserving manual edits to Helm values and compose overlays.
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