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Daily Brief Wed, Aug 19, 2026 2 min read

Privacy-heavy day: six releases, one security patch

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  • Ride The Lightning 0.15.11-beta. Establishes vulnerability-disclosure channel, closes credential-crossing race in LND controllers, reduces dependency tree.
  • Bull Bitcoin 6.13.0. Removes legacy Hive-storage migration; no impact unless upgrading from pre-v5.

Privacy

  • Tor Browser 15.0.20. Tor Browser 15.0.20 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory; This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
  • Joplin 3.7.12. Adds Markdown editor table translation, chat-panel image reading, word-level conflict diffs.
  • Bitwarden Clients Web 2026.8.0. Community PR hides true password length during masking; macOS SSH agent caller resolution via libproc.
  • Logseq Desktop app Nightly Release 20260818. This is a nightly release of the Logseq desktop app; It's unstable compared to the official releases, use it with caution !.
  • SimpleX Chat 7.0.1. A live message is sent to the chat it was typed in; The draft no longer appears in another chat.
  • Bitwarden Server Version 2026.8.0. Adds v2 UpdateOrganizationUser command with role-escalation validation and admin member-email change.

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