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Daily Brief Wed, Jul 29, 2026 2 min read

Privacy leads: seven releases, two Nostr clients, two Bitcoin

Bitcoin

  • NodeGuard 0.27.1. Adds method to retrieve withdrawals by transaction hash.
  • Liana v15.0rc1. Release candidate for version 15.0; test before production use.

Nostr

  • Amethyst 1.13.1. Fixes keyboard state tracking and back-handler race conditions.
  • Sidecar 1.6.0. Adds zap animations, search, two themes, and a confirmation before an app can erase follows.

Privacy

Self-hosting

  • PhotoPrism July 28, 2026. Adds interactive viewer for equirectangular 360 photos and videos.
  • N8n 2.33.0. Fixes workflow verification halting at send-and-wait gates on loops; keeps assistant replies in user language during tool-heavy turns.

AI

  • ComfyUI 0.29.0. Streams video transcode instead of buffering all frames in memory.
  • llama.cpp b10174. Adds NextN and MTP speculative decoding for GLM-5.2; GLM DSA support.
  • Agent Eval 0.1.52. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 noreply@anthropic.com Co-authored-by: gas2own gas2own@users.noreply.github.com.
  • Kimi Code 0.30.0. 2255 67dd031 Thanks @he-yufeng !

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