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Weekly Recap Sun, Aug 16, 2026 6 min read

Payjoin reaches its first stable release while wallets and Lightning tooling quietly harden

Patch board

  • Blockstream Green Android 5.6.0. In this release Added - Manual coin selection for Bitcoin and Liquid Bitcoin sends - AMP2 account support backed - Stuck swap recovery actions - Greenlight notification handling in devel
  • Qwen Code 0.21.8. Restored real-time autofix support for pull requests opened from forks review events to credentialed workflows
  • Bitkey App 2026.11.2. Access the Bitkey release notes to view the features included in this release

Weekly threads

Wallet coin control and Lightning recovery hardening

Blockstream Green Android 5.6 and Foundation Envoy 2.3.1 both shipped coin-selection and reliability fixes within 72 hours. Green added manual UTXO picking for Bitcoin and Liquid sends plus stuck-swap recovery actions; Envoy 2.3.1 followed with bug fixes and reliability improvements. The pattern suggests wallet teams are converging on operator-visible UTXO management as a baseline feature for non-custodial flows.

Payjoin graduates, JoinMarket and Cashu continue hardening

Payjoin Dev Kit 1.0.0 marked the first stable release supporting BIP 77 async and BIP 78 sync payjoins. The same week JoinMarket-NG 0.36.0 shipped as a pre-release labeled "security hardening and way more," and Cashu TS delivered two releases (5.0.0-rc.6 and 4.8.0) focused on input validation and parsing fixes. Privacy tooling remains in active hardening across three different architectural approaches to collaborative transactions.

lnd, Lightning Terminal, and ZEUS embed the same beta migration fix

lnd 0.21.2-beta fixed a migration path that could fail on historical routes containing orphaned blinded total-amount fields. Lightning Terminal 0.17.1-alpha bundled that exact lnd version, and ZEUS 13.2.0-alpha1 embedded it alongside LDK 24-word seed support. Operators running any of the three should verify that historical payment data migrates cleanly if upgrading from pre-0.21 lnd.

llama.cpp nightly cadence: nine tagged builds in seven days

llama.cpp shipped b10344, b10356, b10359, b10369, b10375, b10419, b10425, b10434, b10437, b10447, and b10448 between August 11 and August 16. Each tag represents a single merged PR, ROCm 7.14 targeting, Kimi-K3 text model support, MiniMax model variants, Nemotron MTP flags, reasoning-effort template support. The pace reflects continuous integration of model-specific patches rather than coordinated feature releases. Operators self-hosting inference should track the model support matrix, not the build numbers.

Release board

Privacy

  • Thunderbird for Android 22.0. Incognito Keyboard privacy setting disables Google keyboard from learning words - Thundermail interim screen when adding an account Selected sort option now shows an indicator in the sort menu Messages could scroll horizonta
  • Vanadium 151.0.7922. Changes in version 151.0.7922.137.0: update to Chromium 151.0.7922.137
  • uBlock Origin 1.73. Add procedural operator content(...), to lookup elements inside template tags - Improve prevent-clipboard-write scriptlet - Improve json-edit scriptlet - Revisit scriptlets' getExtraArgs implementation ---------- Commits to Master Sinc
  • Signal Android 8.23.2. The media editor has been completely redesigned to better support tablets and foldable devices, and now it looks great on screens of all sizes
  • Thunderbird for Android Thunderbird Beta 23.0b1. Signature field only accepted single-line text in Composition defaults
  • NewPipe Extractor 0.26.5. This is a hotfix release with just one small, but important - Fix media.ccc.de live streams - 1533

Self-hosting

  • authentik 2026.8.0-rc7. See core: Actors (cherry-pick 24353 to version-2026.8) website/docs: document API scope and domain join required authenti
  • n8n beta. 2.35.3 (2026-08-14) Bug Fixes core: Allow details field in continueErrorOutput mode core: Bound workflow publication outbox record processing with an abort deadline editor: Update ready-to-run demo templates to a curr
  • N8n 2.35.3. 2.35.3 (2026-08-14) Bug Fixes core: Allow details field in continueErrorOutput mode core: Bound workflow publication outbox record processing with an abort deadline editor: Update ready-to-run demo templates to a curr
  • Gitea 1.27.2. SECURITY update collaborator access mode and httpsign ( 38894, 38862) external render resolve pull request target reusable workflows at the base commit markup render Fix(deps)
  • Nextcloud iOS Version 34.1.3. Remove bottom inset from direct editing viewer remove placeholder file provider action add media repeat and auto-adv

AI

  • Ollama 0.32.9. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open 30B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 3B active parameters built for that execution layer of always-on agents
  • InvokeAI 6.13.8. InvokeAI Version 6.13.8 This is a security patch release Recent versions of InvokeAI through 6.13.7 contain two security holes: 1
  • vLLM 0.27.1. This is a patch release on top of v0.27.0
  • Hugging Face Transformers Release 5.15.0. Release v5.15.0 New Model additions Meta Muse Glimmer Muse Glimmer, released today, is Meta's new multimodal model, especially designed for agentic use cases
  • opencode 1.18.17. Core Bugfixes - Made session compaction keep complete recent turns and produce clearer summaries for smaller models
  • Cline SDK 0.0.75. Added provider-executed web search
  • langchain== 1.3.15. Changes since langchain==1.3.14 release(langchain): 1.3.15 expose trace policy on AgentMiddleware
  • 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

Nostr

  • Amber 6.5.1. Re-encrypt NIP-46 connection secrets stored in the per-account database during Keystore key rotation, so toggling "require unlocked device for key access" no longer leaves connections undecryptable - Fix crash in
  • Lightning.Pub 0.0.35. API - No protobuf or HTTP/Nostr route changes since v0.0.34
  • Citrine 3.1.0. Added NIP-29 relay-based groups support - Added NIP-86 relay management API and settings screen - Added a tool to rebroadcast stored events to selected relays - Offer to purge stored events when banning a pubkey locally -
  • Sprout Buzz Desktop 0.5.14. Desktop and shared changes - None Other repository changes -
  • Vector 0.4.3. Vec(tor)ious A quick follow-up patch to resolve Tor Connectivity on Windows, as well as improved Concord v2 cross-client stability
  • Mostro Mobile 1.3.2. Mostro Mobile v1.3.2 A new version of the Mostro P2P Bitcoin trading app is here!
  • NYM Chat 3.73.520. Hotfix: missed inline script breaking CSP Hotfix: stale messages showing as new
  • Vector Preview channel. Update manifest for Vector preview builds

Bitcoin

  • Payjoin Dev Kit Release 1.0.0. Read the Announcement: The first stable release of the payjoin library supports both synchronous BIP 78 payjoins and asynchronous BIP 77 payjoins
  • lnd 0.21.2-beta. Database Migrations This release introduces no new database migrations, but includes two important fixes to existing migration paths: - The now handles historical routes containing an orphaned blinded total amount, preventing
  • Cashu TS 5.0.0-rc.6. Mostly a hardening release: input validation and parsing fixes across auth, crypto, transport and wallet
  • JoinMarket-NG 0.36.0. Security hardening and way more!
  • RoboSats 0.8.6-alpha. Alpha is now out!
  • ZEUS 13.2.0-alpha1. V13.2.0 Highlights: - LDK: support for 24-word seed phrases - Embedded LND v0.21.2-beta - Cashu CDK upgrade (Minibits compatibility) - Security hardening - Bug fixes
  • Cashu TS 4.8.0. Mostly hardening fixes, a couple of MINOR BREAKING CHANGES to note: Experimental: SigAll ( 1
  • Cashu CDK 0.17.5. 0.17.5 Added - cdk-mint-rpc: Add BDK wallet balance, transaction history, and address balance queries to the management RPC and CLI ( thesimplekid )
  • Lightning Terminal 0.17.1-alpha. This version of Lightning Terminal (LiT) includes lnd v0.21.2-beta and loop v0.34.0-beta
  • Ledger Live Mobile 4.16.0. 4.16.0 Minor Changes - 20278 Thanks @gre-ledger!
  • Ledger Live Desktop 4.16.0. 4.16.0 Minor Changes - 20278 Thanks @gre-ledger!
  • Foundation Envoy 2.3.1. Envoy 2.3.1 is a follow-up release to 2.3.0 focused on important bug fixes and reliability improvements

8 more Bitcoin releases tracked in the weekly totals.

8 lower-priority releases omitted from the board but counted below.

The week in numbers
137Releases
4Security patches
183Sources tracked
148Stories tracked
51Featured
7Days covered
Stories by beat
AI52
Privacy34
Bitcoin33
Nostr13
Self-hosting13
Other3