AI week: 15 releases, critical-capability threshold reached

Bitcoin

Aqua Wallet 0.5.3. AQUA can now switch Lightning providers without an app update; Upgraded GDK from 0.77.6 to 0.77.9.
NodeGuard 0.29.0. Adds max HTLC sync and fixes sweep-job error reporting.

Nostr

ngit-cli 3.0.0-rc.5. Automatic PR branch downloads now opt-in; issue edit history exposed; Windows credential writes hardened.
Wisp 1.2.2. NWC connection-string export added to settings; notifications feed expanded by default.
Mostro CLI 0.16.1. Admsetmaintenance / admmaintenancestatus over the daemon admin gRPC; Safe-to-switch needs maintenance ON, bounded timeouts, no cleartext token off-box.
Mostro 0.18.6. Boot node-identity guard for Lightning node changes (Phase 4); Advertise maintenance mode in the info event, republish on change (Phase 3).
Mostro Mobile 1.4.1. Open the chat when a chat notification is tapped (11365d54); Stop one chat conversation from showing as two chat rooms (0381ff85).

Privacy

Tor Browser 15.0.21. Tor Browser 15.0.21 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory; This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
Tailcat 0.3.0. Security update; upgrade recommended.
Nostr VPN 4.1.9. Cashu paid exits connect and bill reliably with manual or automatic selection.
Element Web 1.12.27. Timeline MVVM 2 - RoomTimelineViewModel.
Bitwarden Clients Web 2026.8.1. Validates profileId in Chromium importer; recognizes both Keeper SSO callback forms.
Bitwarden Server Version 2026.8.1. Fixes thread-unsafe StringBuilder in setup helpers; adds open org invite flow support.

Self-hosting

Actual Budget 26.9.0. :link: View release notes Desktop releases Please note: Microsoft store updates can sometimes lag behind the main release couple of days while they verify the new version.
Paperless-ngx 3.1.2. Addresses GHSA-2jhj-xqrq-rmrq; upgrade recommended for all users.

AI

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards. Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet critical cybersecurity capability threshold; stronger safeguards applied.
Ollama 0.33.3. Honors GGUF model-defined default parameters; updates MLX and llama.cpp.
Kimi Cli 1.50.0. Deprecation-aware update flow with one-key migration to Kimi Code.
Cline Desktop 0.0.22. Import history from Claude Code, Codex, and opencode.
opencode 1.18.26. Claude 5 sessions tolerate stale thinking blocks instead of failing after prompt or tool changes.
Elevenlabs Swift Sdk 4.0.0-alpha.1. Redesigns the SDK public API.
langchain== 1.4. Initial release release(langchain): 1.4.0a4 test(langchain): cover mixed-era ClientGroup and group elicitation Update libs/langchain v1/langchain/mcp/adapter.py drive MCP elicitation via member session for fastmcp…
openclaw 2026.8.2. Open Home in right or bottom dock; preview or remove work-context snapshot; attach selected text to messages.
Announcements Aug 27, 2026 Previewing the Model Hardware Standard We're opening a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, to a first group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers.. Research preview of Model Hardware Standard for AI agents to operate physical devices; open to scientific labs and manufacturers.
llama.cpp b10754. Fixes out-of-bounds reads in Adreno OpenCL image kernels; clamps q4 K decode GEMV fetch row on padded grids.
Claude Agent Sdk Typescript 0.3.258. Updated to parity with Claude Code v2.1.258.
Deepseek Harness 0.1.2-alpha.4. Agent Agent send message, report @Dudu-0223; Profile; @LegGasai.
Qwen Code cua-driver-rs 0.20.3. MacOS: codesigned + notarized universal binary + QwenCuaDriver.app; Linux: unsigned (x86 64 + arm64, glibc 2.31 floor).
Kimi Code 0.40.0. 3434 ae7a6dc Thanks @sailist !
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini. Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini