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Daily Brief Wed, Aug 12, 2026 3 min read

AI dominates: ten releases, OpenAI tests ads in ChatGPT

Bitcoin

  • Blockstream Green Android 5.6.0. Adds manual coin selection for Bitcoin and Liquid sends, plus AMP2 account support backed by LWK.
  • Bitkey App 2026.11.2. Access the Bitkey release notes to view the features included in this release; Emergency Access !IMPORTANT Download Bitkey-app-2026.11.2.apk if you've lost access to the Bitkey app for Android or iOS.
  • JoinMarket-NG 0.36.0. Improve fidelity bond recovery reliability on Neutrino the new forced-rescan server capability (561af745); Verify device signatures when finalizing fidelity bond PSBTs, making pre-funding hardware wallet compatibility...
  • Foundation Envoy 2.3.1. Bug fixes and reliability improvements following 2.3.0.
  • Blockstream Green Desktop 3.5.0. Adds Lightning Network support in beta for mainnet software wallets, plus AMP2 accounts unified with AMP0 in the wallet UI.
  • Ledger Live Desktop 4.15.0. 20280 9fcbe39 Thanks @gre-ledger!

Nostr

  • Mostro 0.18.1. Advertise pow first contact in the info event; Add Nostr trusted-node price provider.

Privacy

Self-hosting

  • N8n 2.35.0. Stops pre-tool-call text leaking into agent responses, applies redaction to Code node console output, and bounds oversized agent tool results.
  • Seafile Client 9.0.21. Add watch error; Fix unicode path compatibility.

AI

  • langchain== 1.3.15. Changes since langchain==1.3.14 release(langchain): 1.3.15 expose trace policy on AgentMiddleware chore(langchain): fix type errors in tests chore: bump h2 from 4.3.0 to 4.4.1 in /libs/langchain v1 preserve h...
  • langchain-core== 1.5.4. Changes since langchain-core==1.5.3 release(core): 1.5.4 compat with pydantic 2.14 stop StructuredPrompt from mutating caller kwargs preserve flat tool args schema for RootModel runnables close int...
  • Maple Proxy 0.3.1. Linux x86 64; Linux ARM64.
  • ComfyUI 0.32.0. Make it easier to debug nested tensors; Update workflow templates to v0.11.37.
  • Anthropic Sdk Go 1.63.0. Api: add output behavior to dream creation (create a new memory store or update the input store in place) ( ba999d5 ); Client: add models ( a662a31 ).
  • llama.cpp b10369. Adds support for pocket-tts, building transposed convolutions as GEMM plus col2im.
  • Client Ts typescript 2.6.2. OpenAPI Doc; Typescript v2.6.2.
  • Kimi Code 0.35.0. 2816 ad12ad8 Thanks @liruifengv !
  • Testing ads in ChatGPT. OpenAI will test ads inside ChatGPT to support free access, with labeled ads and stated privacy protections.
  • Asta Bench Leaderboard Design review attachments. Rendered review evidence hosted outside the source tree and referenced from pull-request metadata.

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