Three of five releases landed on the Nostr beat, all client-side stability work. Vector hardened its Concord engine and fixed GPU churn in animated profiles. Sidecar focused on visibility improvements. Rx Nostr cleaned up publish-state logic after OK events. The remaining two stories were maintenance patches: lnd shipped a release candidate fixing the SQL invoice migration path for AMP sub-invoices, and llama.cpp added Vulkan top-k radix sort for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next. No protocol changes, no security advisories, no model releases.
Bitcoin
- lnd 0.21.3-beta.rc1. Fixes SQL invoice migration for AMP sub-invoices.
Nostr
- Vector 0.4.4-2. Concord engine hardening, GPU fix for animated profiles.
- Sidecar 1.11.0. Sidecar 1.11.0 is mostly about seeing things clearly; Twelve themes had outgrown a list of names, so the picker is a gallery now: filter dark or light, and every card is a live preview of the real thing.
- Rx Nostr 3.7.6. Cleans up publish state after OK events.
AI
- llama.cpp b10712. Adds Vulkan top-k radix sort shader for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next.
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